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The first time I heard Robert Johnson it was like receiving an otherwordly transmission from a different planet. The crispness of this recording is just mind-blowing.

I don’t think anyone reputable in the field still believes it, but in the general populace it’s still quite common

Niece Joanna probably has a 20 minute prog-harp opus full of grandiloquent words about what a loser he is that she busts out at family get togethers after he leaves

The only people who think he’ll be the nominee are weird leftist wreckers on Bluesky and Gavin Newsom himself

I wouldn’t put any bets on his immediate family even thinking it’ll be him

Yeah, it’s a great book. Nixon was a really fascinating guy from so many angles

No I’m sure Biden coordinated secretly with Democrats in Congress to significantly weaken the signature legislation that he’d campaigned on & wanted to be his major presidential legacy

Glad I’m not the only one that’s excited about this lol

Questions are entirely sincere!

I’m always a little nervous about tone on here & afraid those could sound a little snide/sarcastic if read from a place of grumpiness

Yeah?

Do you think the Iranians were trying to screw Carter of their own volition?

Or the hostage release was based on internal Iranian discussions that weren’t connected to our presidential election at all?

Also the Child Tax Credit was a separate piece of legislation that was killed by Manchin I believe entirely alone. The majority of Democrats voted for it and Biden certainly supported it, so multiple errors in that one post

How the fuck do you get to “Biden killing Build Back Better” from that set of facts?

Then a large portion of the stuff cut from the infrastructure bill getting passed under a different name, the Inflation Reduction Act?

Funny thing is I remember joking with her about “sending dick picks” in one of our first texting sessions after probably the second date and the pictures were of Nixon from Nixonland

lol awesome

I’m such a dork, I’m totally stoked to get a reply, I’m gonna go home & tell my partner it was the a high point of my day & she’s gonna say “Rick who again?”

5:14 € Post 잉 ك ... confirmed? Long shot but l'll see if the author of the book I got most of what l know about the man from, Nixonland, @rickperlstein.bsky.social can weigh in 1 ₴1 01 Rick Perlstein @rickperlstei... • 3h I'm blocked from seeing the post you're responding to, but, yes: it is. In both secret recordings and contemporaneous notes. 1 My Cat's Alt Acco... @erma... • 3h Thanks, that what I thought. And thanks for the reply! Loved Nixonland and the ~half of the Reagan one I got through. Some day l'll do the series! ^ Write your reply

Sounds like you might be blocked from seeing it but Perlstein did reply to confirm the truth of the Nixon story, wanted to make sure you heard in case you can’t see it

Less gullible than someone believing some silly conspiracy theory that is contradicted by all publicly available information

Less gullible than the person who falls for silly conspiracy theories that require believing in people behaving in ways that people in the real world don’t behave

They’d been told by someone that the story about Nixon’s secret negotiations was false

Or the immediate post 9/11 period…

If you want to be pedantic and say that’s just saying covid is to blame I guess you can but it’s the media piece that makes it different than how eg ww2 affected the broad public’s sense of the world outside their immediate experience even though there was presumably heightened anxiety the too

COVID obviously, the point being it induced a change in media consumption that is what led to the untethering of sentiment & the economy

When Biden killed Build Back Better? LMAO okay bro

how we consume & process information about both our immediate & broader social environment.

So QAnon really taking off in 2020 though it had been percolating for several years already at that point

People did suddenly start spending much more time online, in a state of heightened arousal/hypervigilance & without a lot of the IRL interactions that would normally have helped keep them—us I should say, I wasn’t immune—grounded. I think that created a fertile ground for longer term changes in

Yes! I know you’ve posted about working in the mental health field in some capacity, which I do as well, and a lot of people believe very strongly in repressed memories that can return, sometimes suddenly, in great detail and I just don’t believe it really at all

Is this for real? Like I can see it being bad if they’re destroying the Salmon stock in the Columbia, but enough to be a factor in food costs over all? Seems sus & she’s such a weirdo

A lot of the Satanic Panic was just that period’s iteration of the same lurid tales of ritual abuse & murder at the hands of some “other” from the antisemitic pogroms that would sweep through Europe from the medieval period culminating in the Holocaust, to Q-Anon & Haitian refugees eating your pets

My college educated mainline Protestant parents, surrounded by Fundamentalist Evangelicals in a tiny little town 3 hours from “the big city” (Albuquerque lol) fully bought in to Satanic Panic in the ‘80s. There was so much music I wasn’t allowed to listen to because of back-masked satanic messages

One exploit that people don't remember is that a pope is only allowed to serve one term.

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