#Jonah Goldberg

[alanfromrochester]

and some of MAGA likes saying that this was a setup to embarrass the administration, related to deep state arguments about members of the executive branch not falling in line with the executive

For anyone who hasn't been up to date on the clown show that is the American news, I'll give a quick recap because oh boy.

So Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. One day, he gets a notification on his phone from the messaging app "Signal". He sees that he's been added to a group chat called "Houthi PC small group". He thinks nothing of it at first, until a couple days later he sees on the news that the U.S. is bombing Yemen. He takes a look and sees that he has been added to a group chat by the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

Plenty of government officials including vice president JD Vance were in this conversation, and they were discussing their bombing on Yemen. And Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was added by mistake.

So Goldberg approached the White House, who confirmed that he had been accidentally added to the chat. He then posted part of the conversation in a news story on the front page of his news website, omitting any classified information as to not get arrested for that level of security breach.

The response from the administration has been wild. They're all smearing the journalist, obviously, but their responses at first varied from "he made it all up" to "he must've hacked is way in" to "big deal, people add people to group chats on accident all the time". Eventually, they were put in front of Congress to testify under oath, where they said that nothing in the conversation was classified information like military hours or types of weapons used.

In response, Goldberg said "Oh, so it's not classified? Okay then! That means I can do this," and then he released the full unedited conversation. The conversation was nothing but classified information like military hours and the types of weapons used.

Not only are they communicating on private phones on third party apps as a way to circumvent the Presidential Records Act (the chat was interestingly set to auto-delete messages after 4 weeks), but it really kinda highlights the incompetence of America's leadership right now.

They're not going to win.

[nosferdoc]

“[I]f you believe in social justice, you should want cities to be run well, with very low crime, robust housing markets, and thriving businesses. Why? Because those kinds of cities are good for poor people. Crime is a regressive tax on poor people.”

— Jonah Goldberg, Urban Dismay, January 10, 2025.

[filosofablogger]

'Conservative'???? 🤣 Don't Make Me Laugh!

Let’s talk for just a minute about ‘conservatives’.  Now, for the past several years, I’ve said that to call Republicans ‘conservative’ is a misnomer.  Merriam-Webster defines the word ‘conservative’ as … Tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions : TRADITIONAL Marked by moderation or caution Marked by or relating to traditional norms of taste, elegance, style,…

[tomorrowusa]

Everywhere I look these days, I see young conservatives believing they should behave like jerks or like the body parts they cover with those red ties. Because they have no frame of reference, no meaningful political experience or memory of politics prior to this shabby era, they think being shabby is normal and smart.

– Veteran conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg commenting on twentysomething conservatives who act and even sometimes dress like Donald Trump. Quoted at The Dispatch. (archived)

The effect Donald Trump has had on conservatives who are too young to remember politically the pre-escalator era is appalling even to a lot of more mature conservatives.

There is now a sizeable and still growing number of MAGA babies who totally equate being an immature asshole with being conservative. And these people will be on the political scene for the next half century.

About the only bright spot is that there's a chance their kids will rebel against them. In 20 to 25 years perhaps we'll hear those offspring retort: "Okay zoomer."

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[isthereanaudiocommentary]

Superbad (2007) dir. Greg Mottola

Yes, there is an audio commentary

Audio Commentary with director Greg Mottola, writer/producer Evan Goldberg, writer/producer/actor Seth Rogen, producer Judd Apatow, and stars Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse

[adoredawn]

why are my favorite men never written for :’(

[jhsharman]

Star Struck

Archie and Reggie mocking Betty and Veronica over their cooing over Tom Jones -- uh, Tom Jones, the Screeching "Sex Symbol".

Comeuppance for their response to Anne Maggot, er, Ann-Margret -- and the whole thing of "look at me, ain't I" "sexy"? Or is it "cute"?

[mourning-again-in-america]

think i've triangulated my media bias fairly well with my main news podcasts being the dispatch (conservative largely-anti Trump), the new statesman, the council on foreign relations, and bloomberg

[argumate]

I've made this post before -- I've made every post before -- but I keep being reminded of the way that back in 2005 there was bipartisan consensus that nazis were the bad guys, specifically I'm thinking of how the centre right coalition in favour of invading Iraq (and ultimately Iran) with the goal of reshaping the Middle East justified their vision as a continuation of America's Greatest Hits winning WWII and then the Cold War (*cough* don't mention Vietnam) and that involved portraying an amorphous Plot against the West on the scale of the nazis, which ranged from incoherent (is Saudi Arabia an enemy or ally?) to kinda insane (Eurabia) but the contradictions were papered over by the impact of 9/11, so it held together ideologically for a few years until the grinding reality of failed counterinsurgency made the whole thing unfun and then the Bush administration ended as the global financial crisis began.

obviously there was a whole lot of bigotry lurking behind the idea of invading Iraq, anti-Arab racism and anti-Islamic prejudice mostly, which complicated attempts to identify with the side that beat Hitler; there was a pro-Jewish aspect that was sufficiently vocal to drown out the antisemitic paleocons, although if you looked closer most of them turned out to be pro-Israel specifically, or more accurately pro-IDF, who they felt was doing a better job of bombing the Arabs than the US was at the time.

still, in 2005 there was consensus that the nazis were bad guys, "Bush = Hitler" was laughed off as coming from the lunatic hippy fringe, and right-wing idiot Jonah Goldberg could write shitty books about how "liberals are the real fascists" as it was generally understood that being a fascist was a bad thing.

but a decade later things had shifted: there were enough alt-right haha-only-serious shitpost supporters of I Can't Believe It's Not Nazism that it became mainstream to critique the centre right generally as nazis, and more worryingly for the centre right to defend those accusations instead of laughing them off, to the point that nazism became a partisan thing intertwined with MAGA generally.

clearly not every Trump voter is a nazi in the literal sense, or even a supporter of nazi policies, but it's striking how the role of nazis in the discourse could shift so dramatically and so quickly, an extreme example of how everything is contingent in politics, sadly.

[nosferdoc]

In my book, Liberal Fascism, I called this phenomenon the “liberal Gleichschaltung.” Gleichschaltung is a German word (in case you couldn’t have guessed) borrowed from electrical engineering. It means “coordination.” The German National Socialists (Nazis) used the concept to get every institution to sing from the same hymnal. If a fraternity or business embraced Nazism, it could stay “independent.” If it rejected Nazism, it was crushed or bent to the state’s ideology. Meanwhile, every branch of government was charged with not merely doing its job but advancing the official state ideology.

Now, contemporary liberalism is not an evil ideology. Its intentions aren’t evil or even fruitfully comparable to Hitlerism. But there is a liberal Gleichschaltung all the same. Every institution must be on the same page. Every agency must advance the liberal agenda.

— Jonah Goldberg, One Giant Leap (Backward), July 07, 2010.

[leyenra8]

Why are you so in love with fascists and pretendy Xian extremists?

Can You Handle The Truth And Face The Facts?

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History Of The American Left

Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original Fascists were really on the Left, and that Liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies, and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism, and Mussolini's Fascism.

Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent Socialists (hence the term “National Socialism”). They believed in free health care, and guaranteed jobs. They confiscated inherited wealth, and spent vast sums on public education. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook, and cranny of daily life. 

The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities – where campus speech codes were all the rage.

It is hard to deny that modern Progressivism, and classical Fascism shared the same intellectual roots. Many Fascist tenets were espoused by American Progressives like John Dewey, and Woodrow Wilson, and FDR incorporated Fascist policies in the New Deal.

In Germany, Fascism appeared as Genocidal Racist Nationalism. In America, it took a “friendlier”, more Liberal form. The modern heirs of this “friendly Fascist” tradition include the New York Times, the Democratic Party, the Ivy League professoriate, and the Liberals of Hollywood.

In this angry, funny, smart, contentious book, Jonah Goldberg turns our preconceptions inside out, and shows us the true meaning of Liberal Fascism.

[weclassybouquetfun]

Post-Oscars blathering.

-Host Conan O'Brien had treats for attendees.

-I felt bad for Jeremy Strong who lost out on Best Supporting for his incredible job as Roy Cohn in THE APPRENTICE. But I had far greater sympathy for the poor dog during the SNL 50th skit who just wanted petting from Adam Driver's huge paws. I mean, I yearn for Anora/Ani and Igor

but the dog really yearned for those huge mitts.

-Rumoured divorcé Dan Stevens made the rounds with Natasha Lyonne, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hari Neff and his CUCKOO costar Hunter Schafer. I'm hoping he sloppily made out with Hunter and Hari.

He has great taste, ladies.

-Oscars night was a time for reunions

Last year Best Actor winner Cillian Murphy was able to present to his one-time PEAKY BLINDERS costar Adam Brody.

Cillian was so happy to escape the press line and just present!

Little did he know that Brody would give the longest speech in Oscar history.

At least you looked good, Cillian.

GHOST costars Whoopi Goldberg and Demi Moore.

THE SOCIAL NETWORK costars Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg.

Garfield and rumoured paramour Monica Barbaro afterwards.

THE LITTLE MERMAID's Halle Bailey and Jonah Hauer-King.

CONCLAVE's Carlos Dietz with Isabella Rossellini (and Laura Dern).

Oscar presenters WHEN HARRY MET SALLY costars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan.

Brady Corbett and his THE BRUTALIST composer Daniel Blumberg.

Blumberg looking like the twin cousin of ANORA's Yura Borisov.

Isabella Rossellini reuniting with her potion prop from DEATH BECOMES HER.

Isabella Rossellini is a "nepo" baby, but here are some of the latest scions.

Milo Manheim - Son of Camryn, star of Paramount+'s SCHOOL SPIRITS.

Charlie Foster - Son of Jodie Foster. He will appear in the upcoming Amazon Prime series SCARPETTA starring classic nepo baby Jamie Lee Curtis and Nicole Kidman.

Kidman recently worked with the daughter of her MOULIN ROUGE costar Ewan McGregor in the film BABYGIRL. Esther McGregor played Kidman's oldest daughter. Esther can also be seen in Pedro Almodovar's THE ROOM NEXT DOOR.

THE WHITE LOTUS S3 star Sam Nivola (son of Alessandro (The Brutalist) and Emily Mortimer (Paddington in Peru). He is dating Iris Apatow (daughter of Judd and Leslie Mann). Sam and his sister May were also in Noah Baumbach's WHITE NOISE playing the children of Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig; and Sam played son of Bradley Cooper's Leonard Bernstein in MAESTRO (which also starred Maya Hawke, son of Ethan and Uma Thurman).

There's also Asa Germann of Amazon Prime Video's GEN V (son of Gregg German (Grey's Anatomy, Ally McBeal). The series also featured Patrick Schwarzeneggar.

A sure entry to the entertainment industry for many a celebrity child is modeling. That's the path Deva Cassel (the eldest daughter of Vincent Cassel (who has just had his latest child; a boy, with partner Narah Baptista) and Monica Bellucci) forged after years of spending time with her mother on photo shoots.

Now she is acting. She can be currently be seen Netflix's IL GATTOPARDO/ THE LEOPARD; a six-part adaptation of the classic Italian novel, which was made into a three-hour film starring Burt Lancaster.

[helslastangel]

Scorpio Venus Celebrities

Some of these surprised me, I must say.

Aimee Garcia

Aisha Tyler (Lana Kane)

Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore)

Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy)

Alfred Enoch (Wes Gibbins)

Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes)

Anne-Marie Duff (Fiona Gallagher)

Anthony Mackie (The Falcon, Marvel)

Brie Larson (Carol Danvers)

Bruce Lee

Carly Rae Jepsen

Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister)

Chrissy Teigen

Christina Milian

Cicely Tyson

Dakota Johnson

Damon Wayans Jr.

Danielle Brooks

David Schwimmer (Ross Geller)

Denzel Washington

Diplo

Drake

Eden Sher (Sue Heck)

Ella Mai

Ellie Goulding

Ellen Pompeo (Meredith Grey)

Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen)

Eugene Levy

Frank Ocean

Gerard Butler (Clyde Shelton)

Gordon Ramsey

Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth)

Halsey

Hugh Jackman (Wolverine)

Ian Somerhalder (Damon Salvatore)

Jamie Foxx

Janelle Monáe

Jason Derulo

Jeffree Star

Jim Caviezel

John Krasinski

John Legend

John Sanford (Sanford and Son)

Jonah Hill

Kaley Cuoco (Penny, Big Bang Theory)

Katherine Heigl (Izzie Stevens)

Kirk Douglas

Kit Harrington (Jon Snow)

Kris Jenner

Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister)

Louis Tomlinson

Luke Goss

Tyrese Gibson (Roman Pearce)

Matt Damon

Mayim Bialik (Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler)

Milla Jovovich

Nia Long

Ne-Yo

Penn Badgley (Dan Humphrey; Joe Goldberg)

Regina Hall

Russell Peters

Sia

Stefanie Scott (Lexi Reed)

Steven Yeun (Glenn Rhee)

Taraji P. Henson

Tyler James Williams (Everybody Hates Chris)

Tyson Beckford

Usher

Winona Ryder

Zac Efron

Zoë Kravitz

[progressivepower]

#Facebook is using a Conservative magazine ‘The Dispatch’ as the “fact check” on the Project 2025 memes. They are nuking “Project 2025” content. Founded by Jonah Goldberg, Stephen F. Hayes, and Toby Stock, affiliated with the same billionaires behind Project 2025.

http://dlvr.it/T9TZ6Y

[plasticfangtastic]

My Masterlist

Howdy my name is Kay and I write fics for the boys (mostly just Homelander centric) this is a directory of my old and new fics, any projects am working on have worked on can be found here.

I hate short stories and I write long Chapters, I love Butchlander and Butchie content.

I'm currently on a writing hiatus

Old pin post with the following works can be found here:

Of The same Poisonous Ilk (A Butchlander/self-cest fic-- on hiatus)

Building Blocks (a Butchlander fic-- on hiatus)

Anybody Else Won't do (An Ashlander fic-- on hiatus)

Can We be Lonely Together (A HL x reader fic or Homelander x Joe Goldberg from YOU fic-- completed)

American Royalty (A dadlander x reader fic with a homelander daughter OC-- completed)

Carnivorous Lamb (A Homelander x Male! OC priest kink/ntr fic-- completed)

Thicker than Water (A Soldier Boy x Homelander fic-- one-shot)

No Codiciaras los bienes ajenos (A HL x Ashley x Butcher fic-- one-shot)

Behind the Scenes (A Hometek fic)

When the Lion loved the lamb (A HL x Male oc prequel to Carnivorous lamb one-shot)

This wasnt in the job description (An Ashlander fic one-shot)

My current fics:

Quiet Room-- A Homelander fic about him and Jonah Voguelbaum going to see Shrek.

A Garden Without Impurity-- Homelander X GN Reader fic, he is a polygamist and reader is his favorite spouse

Lemon Scented Messes-- A Butchie fanfic (my first one ever)

Charred Steaks-- A Butchlander fic short and sweet involving a partially depowered Homelander

Thank you for reading!