Politico: The Media Has Got Ron DeSantis Nailed

Jack Shafer writes:

There’s another recent candidate who was dressed by the press in unflattering garb who overcame the representation to win the presidency: Donald Trump. According to a thousand news bulletins, Trump was a narcissistic bully, a misogynist, a racist, a xenophobe, a Putin toady, an authoritarian, a con man, a cheat, a liar, an egomaniac, a fraud and a sexist. But instead of contesting these nasty effigies, Trump shrugged them off. Oh, he quarreled now and again with some of the assessments, like boasting about being the least racist person in the room, but by and large, he slept soundly in the bed the press made for him, wearing the insults like a toga and the descriptions like a wreath.

Could DeSantis make a similar bounty out of his straitjacketed personality? Could he pretend his straitjacket was a royal robe and welcome the abuse? Stranger things have happened in campaigns than organizing a presidential run around the politics of joylessness, even if it has proved successful in Florida.

If the straitjacket fits, maybe DeSantis should wear it proudly.

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Pundits & Gurus (6-2-23)

01:00 I’m bathed in love
04:00 I woke up at 11pm filled with resentment
22:20 Elliott Blatt joins to talk about his alcoholic friend in recovery
23:40 He got on modafinil and feels great
27:30 Ethan Ralph’s redemption arc
30:00 Self-hatred
35:00 Changing mores in the work place
40:00 God’s suffering servant, https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2053&version=NASB
43:00 Chuck Johnson, Richard Spencer, Laura Loomer
44:00 ​I don’t think I’ve listened to TRS in more than five years
46:30 Ann Coulter on overturning abortion, https://anncoulter.substack.com/
47:00 With the overturning of Roe v Wade, democracy is working says Mickey Kaus
48:30 Ron DeSantis v Disney, Covid
53:30 Will Tucker Carlson succeed on Twitter? https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/
54:20 Steven Crowder
55:00 Decoding the Gurus, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/
58:00 How do you react to kindness?
1:04:00 The dull environment vs the thriving environment
1:08:00 Heterodox podcasters do a $200 Youtube course and establish rituals, nick names to establish parasocial relationships
1:10:00 Michael Shermer as a guru
1:12:00 Will Misogyny Bring Down The Atheist Movement?, https://www.buzzfeed.com/markoppenheimer/will-misogyny-bring-down-the-atheist-movement
1:17:10 Letters from The Rav (Part 12) || Dr. Marc Shapiro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZ-1e-pDhg
1:18:00 If Jews had Christmas trees

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Wild & Crazy Videos From 2018 II

Baked Alaska Goes Hollywood (4-16-18):

Fatherhood – A Panel Discussion (5-3-18)

Matt Forney Interview (5-6-18)

I Ran So Far Away, I Just Ran (5-7-18)

A Convert To Orthodox Judaism Talks With A Lutheran Pastor (5-14-18)

Kebab Shop (5-16-18)

The Bronze Age Mindset (6-22-18):

Hotep Jesus, Hotep Nation & Alt Blacks (6-3-18):

Kevin Michael Grace Book Club: Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Skin in the Game (6-8-18):

Greg Cochran Interview (5-25-18)

Kevin Michael Grace Returns (5-28-18)

Kevin Michael Grace Interview (5-17-18)

Patrick Little, Kevin Michael Grace, Tom Kawczynski (June 1, 2018)

Parsha Korach (Numbers 16–18) 6-10-18:

Kevin Michael Grace Vs Lexi Transexual (CV Vitolo-Haddad) 5-24-18:

#7: 6-11-18 Kevin Michael Grace: Witchcraft in Hollywood: Real or Not?:

#11 6-18-18 Kevin Michael Grace On The World Cup, Marijuana Legalization:

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Wild & Crazy Videos From 2018

Torah Talk: Parasha Balak (Num. 22 – 25) 7-2-17:

Analyzing Kevin MacDonald’s ‘Culture Of Critique’ (4-17-18):

The Friend-Enemy Distinction (4-23-18):

Vice & Consequence (4-26-18)

Styxhexenhammer666 Interview (4-29-18):

Schools Impose Diversity & More | TPS #2 with Luke Ford (4-30-18)

Post-Game – Schools Impose Diversity (4-30-18)

Jewstreaming: Jews & The Right (6-18-18)

Lack Of Power – That Was Our Dilemma (4-12-18):

Frame Game On The Ashkenazi Discussion Style (4-11-18)

Halsey English On The JQ (4-15-18)

I May Not Get There With You (4-14-18)

Rage & Resentment In Right-Wing Politics (4-12-18):

Mike Enoch, Eric Striker Critique The Nathan Cofnas Critique Of KMAC’s Culture Of Critique (3-22-18):

Here are some of my better posts:

* My Rules For Life (5-7-23)
* Pittsburgh Jews Praised For Faith As They Double Down On Left-Wing Activism (4-23-23)
* Dennis Prager: ‘The Bigger the Government, the Smaller the Citizen’ (4-20-23)
* Could it happen here? (4-20-23)
* Dennis Prager: ‘Could It Happen Here? It Is Happening Here.’ (4-9-23)
* News is a stress test (3-15-23)
* LA First Impressions After Nearly Three Months Down Under (1-26-23)
* The Bright Side Of Fame (1-24-23)
* What Should You Expect From The News? (1-21-23)
* The New Fascism (1-2-23)
* Should You Interview Nazis? (12-27-22)
* Overthrowing The System (12-7-22)
* Travel Clarifies (11-12-22)
* Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives) (10-23-22)
* Wired: The High Cost of Living Your Life Online (10-3-22)
* The Nihilism of Illness (8-16-22)
* Dearly Beloved (7-30-22)
* NYT: How Streaming Stars Pay the Price of Online Fame (7-29-22)
* How The News Differs From Reality (7-28-22)
* Rabbis & Rapists: A New Novel Exposes California Judaism (7-9-22)
* Death Be Not Proud – A Celebration of the Life & Work Of Musicologist Robert M. Stevenson (7-1-22)
* Is The Washington Post Hinting That Cassidy Hutchinson Was Sleeping With Mark Meadows? (6-29-22)
* When Did Intellectuals Stop Supporting The Free Market Of Ideas? (5-29-22)
* Vouch Nationalism (5-28-22)
* American Fear (5-22-22)
* Blacks Ride Free (5-22-22)
* When Your Options In Life Dwindle (5-22-22)
* Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? (1-4-22)
* Translating Inspiration Into Perspiration (11-25-21)
* Running Towards My New Life (11-21-21)
* Like Many Right-Wing Pundits, Dennis Prager Has Been Consistently Awful With Regard To Covid
* How did the American Right react to Covid? (8-12-21)
* HBO’s Small Town News & That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ (8-3-21)
* Dennis Prager Biography
* My Dennis Prager story
* Antonio Villaraigosa (2007)

Vlogs:

* WP: In wake of Ralph Yarl shooting, Black teens face fear and resignation (4-23-23)
* If I Am Right About Life, Then I Have No Importance (4-17-23)
* The Lowdown On Right-Wing Influencers (4-14-23)
* Examining Hero Systems & Conservative Claims Of Cultural Oppression (4-2-23)
* Why I No Longer Listen To Dennis Prager (4-2-23)
* It is more adaptive to be sheep than an individualist (3-19-23)
* How come we can’t have nice things? (1-25-23)
* Australian Fatalism v American Exuberance (1-28-23)
* It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (1-12-23)
* Analyzing Christian Nationalism (1-12-23)
* Dissident Critiques Of Christian Nationalism (1-12-23)
* The woke, the true and the sacred (12-30-22)
* Do You Optimize For Truth? (12-29-22)
* Ideas That Changed My Life (12-28-22)
* The Game: Undercover in the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (12-28-22)
* Christianity as an Identity (11-28-22)
* Day 12 Down Under – Life on the Island Prison (11-15-22)
* Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives) (10-23-22)
* People Never Say What They Mean (10-21-22)
* Kanye West and the Rise of Christian Nationalism (10-20-22)
* Kanye West is not a Political Philosopher (10-19-22)
* Two Live Jews Discuss The Rise Of Christian Nationalism (10-6-22)
* What If Social Media & Universities Prohibited Christ Denial? (9-22-22)
* Fordy’s Great Leap Forward In Moral Thinking Begins Now (9-21-22)
* A voice and character analysis of Alt Right livestreamers (9-19-22)
* The Ballad of Richard Spencer (9-18-22)
* How do we spread multi-culturalism to uncontacted peoples? (9-4-22)
* Pain, Fear, Stigma: What People Who Survived Monkeypox Want You to Know (8-31-22)
* Dearly Beloved (8-1-22)
* TRS Exposed (7-28-22)
* Dispelling The Ugly Myths About Orthodox Judaism (7-10-22)
* The Sinister Path (6-27-22)
* The Monster Inside (6-19-22)
* Biodiversity Crisis Drives Eradication Campaign Against Super-Predators (6-10-22)
* Where can marginalized losers get self-esteem? (6-3-22)”>
* What Unites Opposition To Nationalism? Disdain For Individual Dignity (6-1-22)
* The Media Are The Lapdogs Of The Experts (5-31-22)
* The Market for Goods and the Market for Ideas (5-29-22)
* A Solution To Social Media Censorship (5-27-22)
* Can you change your personality? (5-22-22)
* I Want To Break Free (5-21-22)
* How Do Republicans Build A Counter-Elite? (5-19-22)
* Should we bring souls out of hiding? What’s our right level of visibility and responsibility? (5-19-22)
* Don’t trust anyone under 25 (5-13-22)
* What’s The Purpose Of Politics? (5-12-22)
Competing for your attention — Baked Alaska declares himself innocent (5-11-22)
* Fame and Friends (5-10-22)
* Please Respect My Rebrand: The Mia, Nick & Richard Story (5-10-22)
* My chat room is not a public toilet (5-9-22)
* What if cults and livestreams are our only hope? (5-1-22)
* Only the Lonely (5-1-22)
* Why Do Entrepreneurs Embrace Woo-Woo Ideas? (4-19-22)
* The Alt Right Hagadah (4-14-22)
* Checking out of the national project (4-14-22)
* Teal Swan – The Suicide Catalyst (4-13-22)
* Tucker Carlson Talks To Amy Wax About Saving Western Civilization (4-11-22)
* Ordinary World (4-7-22)
* The Flight 93 Election Reconsidered (4-3-22)
* How Did Russia Vs Ukraine Become A Battle Of Good & Evil? (3-31-22)
* Historian Matthew Ghobrial On Russia Vs Ukraine (3-29-22)
* Will Smith, Chris Rock and the downward spiral of the dissidents (3-28-22)
* The Energy Stars (3-20-22)
* Putin Seems Disrespectful Of Human Rights, Bro (3-1-22)
* What is Fascism? (2-20-22)
* Dr. Fordy Will See You Now: Be Quiet And Accept Reality (2-9-22)
* Saturday Night Right: Joe Rogan’s apology, the rise and fall of internet blood sports (2-5-22)
* Deconstructing Holocaust Denial With Graduate Student Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill (1-22-22)
* Living by principles in an unfair world (1-25-22)
* The One Study That Changed JF Gariepy’s View On Vaccines (1-2-22)
* The Lies We Tell Ourselves: How to Face the Truth, Accept Yourself, and Create a Better Life (12-31-21)
* Walkabout Guru: Decoding Joe Rogan, Jocko Willink & Life After Youtube (12-29-21)
* The magic key vs the situational key (12-28-21)
* Self-verification theory (12-24-21)
* Shabbat on Christmas (12-26-21)
* Why Are Americans Bowling Alone While Aussies Bowl Together? (12-7-21)
* Sometimes You Need Less Faith (11-19-21)
* The Structure and the Situation (11-8-21)
* America is not a hell hole – the hole is in your soul (10-18-21)
* How talk radio makes people worse (10-18-21)
* What are the spiritual lessons of Covid? (10-7-21)
* Pompous Luke (9-27-21)
* It’s easy to dismiss information you don’t understand (9-3-21)
* You can’t pray your way out of a problem you behaved your way in to (9-3-21)
* Greg Cochran interview (5-25-18)
* Post-Game – Schools Impose Diversity (4-30-18)
* Schools Impose Diversity & More | TPS #2 with Luke Ford (4-30-18)
* Styxhexenhammer666 Interview (4-29-18)
* Vice & Consequence (4-26-18)
* The Friend-Enemy Distinction (4-23-18)
* Analyzing Kevin MacDonald’s ‘Culture Of Critique’ (4-17-18)
* Halsey English On The JQ (4-15-18)
* I May Not Get There With You (4-14-18)
* Lack Of Power – That Was Our Dilemma (4-12-18)
* Rage & Resentment In Right-Wing Politics (4-12-18)
* Frame Game On The Ashkenazi Discussion Style (4-11-18)
* Mike Enoch, Eric Striker Critique The Nathan Cofnas Critique Of KMAC’s Culture Of Critique (3-22-18)
* Torah Talk: Parasha Balak (Num. 22 – 25) 7-2-17

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Decoding Dennis Prager (5-29-23)

01:00 Decoding Dennis Prager, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=148127
12:30 If you let go of old wounds, you don’t need gurus
1:34:40 DTG: Interview with Renée DiResta: Online Ecosystems, Disinformation, & Censorship Debates, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/interview-with-renee-diresta-online-ecosystems-disinformation-censorship-debates
2:10:00 Dennis realized that his instincts are the same as the Torah’s instincts
2:16:40 John J. Mearsheimer on Ukraine

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