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This was one of the more fun premium episodes we've recorded in a while. After we talked basketball for a bit, we turned to some recent reporting in Politico. It's the latest in a series of stories detailing the enormous sums of money being spent to astroturf online political content.
There is no viable successor to Trump’s status atop the GOP. This ship goes down with Trump, and I’m getting the sense that the admin is increasingly scared of that possibility. Trump’s old! He’s at that age where things start breaking down and anything can happen.
Haven't seen the online white supremacist space get this amped up in a minute. Makes total sense, though: the racist riots in Belfast are the exact sorts of scenes that appear in their daydreams. They're hoping things escalate further, believing it'll trigger a racist "awakening" they get to lead.