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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Strictly speaking, no one needs to do anything.  But a candidate who doesn't bother to respond or explain at all why they disappeared for two weeks with zero planned events until election day should certainly expect a lot of speculation.  That's "know you're cooked and giving up on the campaign" behavior.  It reminds me of Kamala, and her internal polling that never showed her in the lead even once, no matter what the public polls said.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


While Obama and GWB have fired some high-ranking generals, under Trump 10% of the top brass was fired or sidelined. I surmise this is not conductive to an atmosphere of honest feedback. "Mr Hegseth, I think engaging Iran on this scale will not result in regime change, but drag the US into a long-winding and unpopular war" is unlikely to be received very well -- probably he would tell you to get your testosterone levels checked because you are lacking the Spartan warrior spirit or something.




They already lied to Trump during his first term to keep doing shit they wanted to do in the Islamic world (Syria and Afghanistan).  I sincerely believe the Afghanistan pullout was deliberately sabotaged to punish Biden for taking away their medal farm.


And the fundamental question that the Hegseth shakeups are attempting to address is "Are these generals good at war, or are they good at slide decks that brownnose the right people and don't rock the boat"?  The core criticism is that for the last 20 years, the top levels of the military have, in fact, been running on vibes.  Directly disagreeing with your boss is, in fact, high-T behavior.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


John Mulaney earned a BA in English lit from Georgetown.




Doesn't he have a bit where he specifically cracks jokes about how he didn't do the work?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
They literally had a blueprint.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Doctor's notes are magical bureaucratic talismans, but politics is a street sport. People are too cynical for that nowadays.




Compared to "A journalist said that these stillshots of surveillance footage of a backyard that they say match the satellite images of Talarico's backyard show a non-birthing person with brown hair acting like they don't have the flu so he definitely wasn't in Ohio"?


A doctor's note isn't proof-positive, but it's more normal than whatever the hell that is.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Honestly what kind of middle aged adult even gets the flu for a week?




I actually did last January.  Maybe 3 days really bad, another two of "fuck it, I never do this, I'm calling out of work" and then a weekend lying low while my body finished recovering.  A week of feeling crappy is pretty unusual, but not unbelievable.  12 days and you didn't go to a hospital is the weird thing.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The thing is, he didn't even need to go that far.  A signed note from his PCP("James Talarico was in my office on this day") would have been enough, and providing a doctors note to an employer (AKA the People of Texas) for an extended absence is normal and could have been easily been played into a positive moment.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


That's just how twitter has always been. Show me the group and I'll show you the lies.




Remember when Netenyahu died?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


There is a demand for bad news and conspiracies about Talarico, but there just isn't enough supply to match




Brother, the man actually did disappear for two weeks in the home stretch of a Senate campaign with, at one point, not a single event planned until election day, and his campaign only offered a very late and very unbelievable cover story about the flu.  The NYT claims to have seen home video proving that.  You don't get to, though.  Nothing suspicious about that.  The screen shots of security footage have, since first shown to the NYT on Monday, been shared a bit more widely with the journalist nomenklatura, including CBS.




The eight timestamped images — which include watermarks from home security camera company SimpliSafe — appeared to have been taken from a camera in the backyard of Talarico's house in the state capital of Austin. CBS News matched features in the backyard to recent satellite imagery of Talarico's address. Though low resolution, the photos show a male figure with brown hair at various times of day and wearing different outfits.




So, he was sick as a dog with the flu, so sick that he couldn't even make Zoom calls or plans for future events, but he was up to puttering around in the garden at random hours in various outfits?  Well, at least some male with brown hair was.  He's willing to share home video footage, but not a statement from the UrgentCare he claims he went to, or a note from the PCP he claims he saw?


That's weird, bro.  Weird as fuck.  So obviously weird that you wrote all those words of Republican Pounce distraction.


Hey, speaking of partisan idiots leaping to conclusions that were too good to check, did you see MSNOW reporting that Kash Patel was secretly in Russia while he was literally on camera in Virgina?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


But the extreme left has a lot of high-T psychos like Hasan Piker or Che Guevara who would happily stand you up against a wall and pull the trigger.




Anyone who won a war before 1970 is a free space.  Piker though... every clip I see of the man he's whining and bitching and defensive and generally seems to be having a miserable time about it.  I would not call him high-T.  Not quite low either, though.  If I had to guess, it would be that he's been on a Clavicular-style famous rich kid cocktail of controlled supplements for so long that his endocrine system is just a disaster.


Plattner was the actual obvious choice.  God, I miss him.  I mean, good for the Democrats, it was the right call both for the country and for their party.  But he was the most fun candidate since OG Trump.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


but I do not think most leftists hate themselves




I honestly do think this is a major factor.  A significant number of the devoted leftists I have known personally seemed to be clearly using the ideology as a tool to displace their own self-loathing.  The general form goes something like "Whatever my flaws, I can't be a bad person because I support this noble cause.  My flaws are actually caused by this war and that lying son of a bitch Johnson systemic issues beyond my control.  Becasuse I'm one of the special Elect who sees that, not like the rest of the sheeple, I deserve absolution and near-total moral authority to judge others."


To be clear, I am talking here about the rarer group of proper leftists, people who would embrace a label at least as extreme as DSA.  I don't think I've observed that phenomenon in any regular old Parks&Rec progressives.


But there is a meme on the right that "leftism is a biological phenomenon", and I wonder what would happen if some of those guys went on T-therapy.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Nowhere here does the idea of replacement comes in.




It does when you consider how much they hate white people.  Your pitch here is the steelman in autarky.  They also think "less white people" is a good thing, and "less say in politics for white people", and other less savory things besides.




It is thus impossible to argue that changing the ethnic distribution of the population could be bad.




I predict that approximately 100% of leftists would say it was bad if an ethnic distribution became more white.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Trump voters would probably assume the guy is not a liar.




I don't dispute the term.  He lies to position people where he wants them, he lies to protect his ego, he lies to embelish accomplishments, he lies for pure showmanship.


The thing is, none of that is as bad as "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" style lies, much less the Kremlinist coming from actual leftists.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Under English law, republishing defamatory gossip and speculation without checking it is one of the main things reporters have to be taught not to do - there is a whole family of legal jokes about various ways of saying "I didn't say it was true, I just said other people were saying it" - none of which hold up in court if the defamatory statement turns out to be false. The 2013 Defamation Act which codified British libel law and removed most of the objectionable aspects did not change this.




Has any American journalist ever suffered legal consequences (criminal or civil) for false statements made under the guise of "sources say"?  AI search overview provides a handful of journalists from the early 00's who were fired.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


How do they have lower evidentiary standards than the average media outlet?




I would be interested in seeing someone argue that this is worse on an evidentiary basis than the Israeli rape dogs story.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


I don't think he's gay




Girllllllll...


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I talk a lot of crap about the other side (and sometimes MKC when I think he's being a dip), but the reason I feel justified in doing so is a willingness to call fair strikes.


MKC is completely right here.  There is a large swath of that group that is just utterly truth-indifferent.  They'll say, boost, retweet, any insane shit as long as it gets engagement and clicks and ElonBucks.  Candace Owens is the poster child here.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The problem is finding one of those people who a. wants to be a Democrat and b. can slide through the treacherous reefs of Identity Politics Primary Season.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
"We evaluated him and he received treatment at a legally different subsidiary organization in the same building" is the kind of thing I half expect whenever I read the news.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I feel like gas is a bit different from inflation in the general understanding.  Gas prices are a thing that fluctuates.  It gets higher in the summer, or for geopolitics bullshit, but it can also come back down.  Gas prices are a thing that is capable of getting better.  OTOH, everyone understands that "inflation" means "everything is now more expensive forever".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I don't see how that counters my position at all.  I didn't say Trump's Boomer Common Sense was infallible, just that it's a more reliable predictor his actions than "cartoon super genius" or "cartoon baby villain".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


While it was psychologically important for Trump to negotiate a better deal with Iran than Obama's deal, he will not sacrifice his presidency on the alter of keeping Iran from having nukes.




I honestly think he would, under my "Boomer Common Sense" model of Trump.  "Sacrificing the presidency" is talk for nerds writing papers in college.  It's entirely the wrong framing.  Do you, or do you not, act to stop an avowed mortal enemy that is currently much weaker than you from getting the city-destroying superweapon?


Yeah.  Duh.  Common fucking sense.  Even arguing about it is the province of bloodless dorks and proof of why they should never have any real power.


I understand that framing may be difficult to process for someone who has contorted themselves into pretending that "Western leaders" have only come to disdain Trump since Iran, but I think it explains his actions much better than either the "8-D Chess" stuff MAGA used to argue or  whatever iteration of "screaming chicken dumb dumb poopy pants" projection that the libs are on these days.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


whether your claim is that this constituted my consent "in sound mind" for said friend to horse-tranquilizer me, call his buddies to gang-rape me, then brag and make fun of me after.




Rephrase as "offer me a party drug and ask if I want to have group sex with some guys whom I've already had group sex with".


Let me ask a slightly different question.  Let's say a friend invites me to Gay Halloween.  Imagine I go and get shitfaced.  At someone point someone asks me if I want to try a fun party drug.  Sometime after that, some real gay shit happens.


I honestly don't think anyone in the world would have any sympathy for me.  I think most of the women who are outraged about Cornell would laugh and call me a suppressed faggot.




I'm processing this case as Doe thinking she was in #2 and was willing to forgive/comfort the offenders for the harm of that night; then found she was actually in #3 and got mad. It sounds like you might think it was #1 and that she was an absolute idiot to click the link, but then isn't the conclusion "Girls, treat all men like Nigerian scammers, even the ones you think are your friends"?




Many of the scams these days involve a high degree of investment and emotional manipulation.  I have a friend whose mother keeps trying to send money to her boyfriend, Keanu Reeves, who she regularly meets and falls in love with online.  I know another guy who met and fell in love (online) with the daughter of a Congolese mining magnate, and he only needed to send her $10k to cover the customs fees so she could ship back a trunk of gold for them to build their lives together.


As a person in the real world, you do in fact have an obligation to be wary about who you trust.  It sucks.  It's life.  My own daughter is going to college soon, and I've tried to arm her with a mix of fun and horror stories.  "Drinking with friends is fun.  I've also seen people make terrible, humiliating, and/or life-ruining decisions while drunk at college.  Be smart, be wise, know your limits, and don't trust anyone telling you that all that matters is that something feels good."


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 5, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Oh, so you think that if he doesn't consider himself an American, then he's not? Interesting. Do people get to pick whatever citizenship they want, now? Does this mean that someone who does consider himself an American is?




You have this backwards.  Hasan not considering himself an American isn't a positive point of evidence, it's counter-evidence (and a damning finisher) against the Propositional Nation position.


And yes, that's the fundamental absurdity.  He's legally an American, yet clearly holds no bonds of brotherhood and fellowship for the rest of us.  Instead, his true tribe is co-ethnics and co-religionists from the other side of the world, to the point where he was willing to commit mass murder about it.