Magellan is a lot cooler than Justin Bieber. Former reporter, current healthcare guy, misanthropic DC sports fan. Amateur griddler.

Peoria, AZ
Joined December 2008
It's weird that the modern, feminist (?) answer to some perceived gender-based power/social-standing imbalance is for women to act like the worst caricatures of men.
I wish there was a podcast for women as popular and influential as Call Her Daddy, but one that treated women as capable of more than maximizing casual sex and “knowing their worth” through selfish behavior.
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I like how after 12 years of lawfare, weaponizing intelligence agencies against their domestic political opponents, and trying to put their primary presidential political opponent in JAIL, the left is calling investigating a Congresswoman for a long list of federal crimes “a bad precedent”.
“The GOP is setting a bad precedent by investigating and possibly deporting Ilhan.” Ok, well next time we have a congressional member whose father is a warlord who allegedly claimed false refugee status and who may have lied about her birthday and married her gay brother to get him citizenship too, we will keep this warning in mind.
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Is this supposed to be a bad thing? Why wouldn't you want young conservatives in government roles?
Story time! Guess who got JD Vance into the Claremont scene and inspired the founding of American Moment, which is led by Nick Solheim and Saurabh Sharma, with Vance's direct involvement to this day! That's right, Mr. Piggy himself, Matthew "WAGTFKY" Peterson! That's why I felt it necessary to write 9,000 words about his NatCon Jerusalem speech. You might not know who he is, but he's been working to create this WAGTFKY-Right monstrosity for years. If we roll back to 2021, the backstory starts with WAGTFKY Peterson and other Claremonsters seeing JD Vance on Twitter dumping all over the anti-lockdown movement in March/April 2020 and claiming it was really a distraction from his war on "globalism." Their brand of "anti-globalism," which is also intrinsically anti-MAGA (but in a hidden, parasitical way that works in hiding from within) needed a champion. JD fit the bill, and his well-heeled buddy who was making him a thing (P. Thiel) was aligned enough to make it work. See, most of these guys (not sure about Peterson) liked COVID lockdowns initially because it was a pretext to shut the borders, limit international travel, and rant against free trade (which they blamed for the American medical supplies industry having insufficient capacity to make COVID masks, etc.), and blame the pandemic on "globalism" carrying a foreign virus into their fantasy Autarkic Fortress America. That is, they had a goal to "fundamentally transform America," and COVID lockdowns were in line with that goal, even though they were working inside the Republican Party and conservative movement. Then Fauci came along and stole their thunder in a way no Republican or conservative could countenance for long, so they all reinvented as anti-lockdown, just like Tucker Carlson did after talking Trump INTO the lockdowns in March 2020 (look it up, he's the one who talked Trump into it). Up until that point Claremont (and Thiel) had been using "dark elf" corporatist-monarchist weirdo Curtis Yarvin to make similar arguments. "Auron MacIntyre" (nhrn) appeared weirdly on the scene literally out of nowhere behind an impenetrable pseudonym to boost Yarvin in this effort before later being hired by Peterson to work at Blaze Media, where he remains today (although Peterson left last year). Meanwhile Peterson recruited Vance to do it. Before long, Vance wrote an infamous piece in 2020 about the utility of the lockdowns, demanding we use them to "End the Globalization Gravy Train." He went on to call it one of the most important things he ever published, speaking two years later at the 2022 Steubenville conference. So, what is American Moment (funded both by "Maximum Leader" Charles Haywood and the Hewlett Foundation that these guys all insist are funding a "Neocon surge")? It's a DC staffing agency dedicated to producing copies of JD Vance (and now also Stephen Miller, whatever you think of that) and filling the U.S. federal apparatuses, including Cabinet staffers, with young (under 30) New Right radicals. That is, it's a Woke Right entryism program meant to fill our federal government apparatus with a new permanent bureaucracy (counter-Deep State) operating as a JD Vance surrogacy and patronage network with real power. The point here is that Matt "WAGTFKY" Peterson was behind that effort, in addition to the internal transformations of Claremont and Blaze Media he oversaw (while also co-founding New Founding, a bizarre Christian Nationalist investment firm run by Nate Fischer and Joshua Abbotoy, to great and many controversies). That is, Peterson, who you don't know beyond WAGTFKY fever dreams, has been a primary operator in constructing the institutional apparatuses of the New Right that are now ruining everything at this most crucial moment. Stay tuned for more story below.
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Lol, maybe she can curse on Twitter about it.
BREAKING: Democrat Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas has been arrested charged with racketeering and a money laundering conspiracy in a public corruption case
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Well well well, as the turntables turn......
NEW: @FoxNews Digital reports via two sources, including law enforcement, that Ilhan Omar is not the real name of the Minnesota Congresswoman. It is Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, as referenced in the Feds’ motion seeking to prevent the search warrant for her home from being unsealed.  foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-o…
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Yep. This is true of other epithets that get bandied about, like "facism," "socialism," "racism," etc. For instance, a politician claiming they are a Socialist should definitely face some scrutiny from the Media, based on the particular claims and goals of Socialism.
This is a terrible intellectual habit-- using vague slogans to conceal your claim. What does "Christian nationalism" and "the codification of Christianity" mean? Answer: "anything a debater wants them to mean". The governments we call "theocracies" do a bunch of precise things.
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Like, it really won't do for a politician to claim to be a Socialist, but then hide behind vague hand-waving about Nordic social welfare or Cuban literacy programs. Do you want to abolish private property? That's what Socialism says, after all.
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Well, one of you is.....
he's too dumb to know this is unconstitutional
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I am once again asking @elonmusk to buy the bioware IP so non-crazy game execs can create great games in these universes
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If it turns out to be true you basically have to believe every Twitter/X rumor forever.
Replying to @redsteeze
Look, I've always been borderline "maybe" Larry David on the whole Omar marrying her brother and have mostly just made it another punchline, but holy shit, the people who told us the laptop wasn't real and the virus didn't come from a lab and Joe Biden wasn't senile are all looking the other way one now and her responses, brother, aren't helping. And they all know it. It looks bad.
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It was a medieval fantasy world with no other kinds of surgery at all. You heal literally by magic. Who does the "top surgery"? The wizards? The dwarves?
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If AI actually does cure cancer we should go back to smoking. We were a better country when everyone smoked.
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"Not to my knowledge."
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) when asked by MS Now tonight if she married her brother: "Not to my knowledge."
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It would mean that the Dems have become the monsters everyone has been warning they'd become. An "America deserved 9/11" Senator in 2026 is like a "Hitler was the good guy" Senator in 1966.
I cannot stress enough what a El-Sayed victory would signal here. It would mean that discourse is dead in American politics. I mean, what more is there to talk about if you can literally campaign with a guy who said America deserved 9/11 and still get elected to the US Senate? It would mean that moral outrage does nothing to change the outcome of an election. We already saw this in 2025 with Jay Jones’ victory, and it makes sense if you think about it. Why would moral outrage swing an election if we no longer share the same moral alignment?
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Shattered, yes, but not by Trump. That norm got shattered in 2016 when DOJ spied on the Trump campaign and then investigated him based on his trolling of Hillary during a debate and a book of fake Dem oppo.
50 years ago, the Attorney General went to prison for covering up the criminal actions of the President of the United States. Watergate's fallout led to the building of a wall of independence at DOJ that lasted half a century. That wall has been shattered by Trump's people.
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Stop thinking about my triangles, pervert.
"temporarily turned off the WiFi in Ukraine" where does information go when your brain can't hold anything beyond an oversimplification of reality. can't even imagine what the world looks like for you. just a one color triangle everywhere, and even that feels generous
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We're not at war with Russia, though I'm sure you guys would like us to be.
Replying to @MattCover
Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. Your edgelord's fucked...
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So what you're saying is that there's serious demand for manufacturing jobs in the US? If 1/3 of the country wants a factory job, why do we keep sending them overseas?
70% of Americans want more factory jobs, but only 33% of them want to work their, per Cato Institute.
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Elon isn't nearly fashionable enough to be a Bond villain.
Replying to @MattCover
He’s a bond villain. And he’s been welcome here way too long.
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Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer.
You're not, he quote tweets bc he wants to make it look like he's not getting dogpiled Super easy to see through
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