Angus Schaller
@angusschaller
Victory does not vindicate the system, but does provide an opportunity to reform it.
This isn’t exactly true. I was on the deal team that sold Gawker to Univision through the BK that resulted from the lawsuit. All employees were at least offered jobs.
Organ donation horrors reminded me of this disparate impact application to science under the Biden admin.
The formula for who gets a kidney was changed in 2022 in the spirit of recognizing “race as a social construct, rather than a biological one”.
This may be grounds to exercise the “do-over” clause of 22A.
.@DNIGabbard: “We had, in President Obama and his leadership team, people who did not want to accept the will of the American people in electing Donald Trump in 2016 — and therefore cooked up this treasonous conspiracy to… effectively launch a years-long coup against the sitting…
If this doesn’t get you stoked, you’re not gonna make it.
Major news for @Monumental_Labs dropped in Fast Company today. 1/ We raised some money! Over $8m, most recently in a $7m seed round led by @alexisohanian's 776 (details below). 2/ We’ve secured our new HQ! Almost 40k sq ft in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that will become the largest…
I don’t know where Elon’s foray into politics will lead but… There’s a 0% chance the philosophy of a man of extreme intelligence and historical accomplishment and ambition ultimately lands anywhere close to “vox populi vox dei”.
VOX POPULI VOX DEI 80% voted for a new party
For my part, I look forward to demanding the removal of the artificial constraint on real democracy that is presidential term limits.
More and more people are recognizing the Constitution’s role in our current political crisis. Next year’s US semiquincentennial is as good a time as any to demand real democracy. Read: jacobin.com/2025/07/indepe…
Russia hoax, election interference, J6 committee, lawfare, assassination attempts, importing millions of foreigners in an attempt to FOREVER alter the electorate… And yet, 👑.
How does he do it
Setting the agenda is of utmost importance - that’s how you get incrementalism / slippery slopes / slowly boiled frogs working in your favor. Trump is usually exceptional at it. In this case, it seems like Israel set the agenda.
The people saying war w/Iran will be easy, limited & contained don’t care if they’re wrong. They’ll say anything to get us involved, as long as their lies are exposed after the shooting starts. Then they’ll laugh in your face and say, “Well, it worked didn’t it?”
Individualized ad creative is coming and is going to one-shot a large percentage of consumers. Imagine Facebook serving up a baby outfit ad to a grandmother and the ad is an AI generated video of her grandchild wearing the outfit and smiling. She’s converting 98% of the time.
“I stand with” should also be avoided by the self-respecting.
Grown men using the “[letter]-word” construct is humiliating.
“No Kings” is interesting evolution from previous focus on “dictator” or “Nazi” accusations. I could see it accelerating a re-embrace of monarchy on the right. Leftists previously attacked caricatures. But open online discourse has destroyed their power to define caricatures.…
Orchestrated protests make strange bedfellows.
I've already begun to see Ukraine flags at the Anti-ICE protests. That isn't a coincidence
Regarding the LA lawlessness and discussion on the degree of astroturfing, I'll offer some personal anecdotes that might be interesting context for those not from California. I grew up in Southern California in the 90s. My elementary school was 80%+ 1st or 2nd generation…
They want you to think the choices are (i) infinity rules / policies / procedures or (ii) chaos / inefficiency / entropy. They don’t want you to remember that culture can do a lot of the heavy lifting, because they can’t just hand anyone a culture handbook and have them ready…
It’s little things like this that make life in America feel Soviet. My mom recently had an appointment with Mayo. It was a pretty serious neurological issue. She arrived 20 minutes early for the appointment, and checked in on the little kiosk. She patiently sat in the waiting…
Heard some pop song lyrics “you don’t know you’re beautiful, and that’s what makes you beautiful, girl” walking by an ultimate frisbee (🤦♂️) tournament today. Became enraged. Same energy as “I just want a boring cash flowing small business - nothing glamorous.” Desiring the…
