Interesting re MAGA for the post Trump era

Axtremus

What is "Globalist"?

Horace

The idea that nations should not be competing with one another. And presumably that there would be a mechanism by which this cooperation between nations would be enforced.

bachophile

AI Overview
The term "globalist" is widely recognized as an antisemitic dog whistle or coded word when used in certain political and conspiratorial contexts. The idea that Jews act as "globalists" is a modern manifestation of long-standing conspiracy theories alleging a secret international Jewish circle plotting for world domination or control over global finance, governments, and media.

That’s AI not me, I’m more of flat earther myself.

Horace

That's a far cry from what chatGPT said. It did acknowledge that in certain contexts it can carry the implication of antisemitism, but that was a corner usage. Perhaps not so corner in certain places in punditry.

jon-nyc

Vivek chimes in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opinion/republican-identity-divide.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.AV4v.kVMldQaLG0T2&smid=url-share

Doctor Phibes

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Doctor Phibes

said in Interesting re MAGA for the post Trump era:

@jon-nyc said in Interesting re MAGA for the post Trump era:

Vivek chimes in.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/opinion/republican-identity-divide.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U8.AV4v.kVMldQaLG0T2&smid=url-share

Good for him. More people need to say this stuff very clearly, and stop this growing trend toward the Fuentes-brigade.

jon-nyc

Megyn replied too. Putting it back here to keep the topic consolidated.

jon-nyc

When your conspiracy theory is too much for Alex Jones.

jon-nyc

Best comment on the above:

‘When your dealer says you have a drug problem’

jon-nyc

The ‘op’.

jon-nyc

Wishing it will all go away before the primary in 2027. I’m not so confident it will.

jon-nyc

Megyn with more opinions.

Horace

@jon-nyc I guess you sniffed something about a defense of Tucker in there and immediately found it laughable and ridiculous. But the points surrounding that whiff of Tucker defense were reasonable IMO.

jon-nyc

Im just enjoying the scrum.

Horace

That's certainly fair enough.

Horace

I appreciated today's VDH show. He spends the first 15 minutes going over Israel's value to the US, beyond "just another foreign country". The idea that it's "just another foreign country" underpins all of Tucker's or Dave Smith's rhetoric against US support of it. If I had ever bought into that notion, I would have agreed with them, but I never did. VDH provides some details of why it's not reasonable to think of Israel as just another foreign country.