Dionysus at Plato's

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

[Dionysus at Plato's @at_plato]

1,200 Scientists and Professionals Declare: “There is No Climate Emergency” https://t.co/PGr2HCLwGG

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

Exactly.
"These elections are designed to allow fraud that cannot be detected and will not be prosecuted. And that's really the thing that we must focus on."

[Dionysus at Plato's @at_plato]

@joelpollak Ballot harvesting, whether it’s legal or not, is a fraudulent act. Is designed to encourage fraud. Republicans are much more law abiding generally.

[Dionysus at Plato's @at_plato]

So you’re pointing out the Democrats are hypocrites. Do you honestly believe Democrats or their voters care at all. if it’s in their interest and serves Ability to advance a narrative, they will run back to their “me too” standard. Their media will cover up any kind of flips and their voters will go right along with it.

[Dionysus at Plato's @at_plato]

@curtis_yarvin True. But unrelenting cynicism is its own kind of foolishness and laziness.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello, Mr. Desiderio,

Punchbowl News sells access to Capitol Hill for corporate clients. Their senior Senate reporter is you, Andrew Desiderio.

Here's how the access works: Punchbowl has a weekly show called "Fly Out Day," taped at the Punchbowl News Townhouse and described on their own site as an "exclusive first look" for Premium subscribers. Those Premium subscribers are the K Street corporate government affairs staff and trade association officials whose legislative interests depend on what Senate leadership decides to schedule… or kill.

The second-ever guest was Senate Majority Leader John Thune, on September 11, 2025. This is documented in your own webste.

Now let’s go over your post carefully.

You say Mike Lee "primed the GOP base to believe" something. That’s manipulative framing, the language of a man working a crowd. But Thune "pointed out" something. That’s the language of a man correcting the record, establishing fact.

This is not a one-off phrasing choice on your part.

Your Punchbowl coverage consistently frames Thune's positions as institutional reality and conservative alternatives as base management. Thune "declared" that the talking filibuster is dead. Lee and his allies "captivated Trump's base." Thune "had enough." The SAVE Act push is "a self-inflicted wound." These are not neutral verbs. They are a point of view… and it's Thune's point of view, delivered with a byline.

There's a structural reason this happens.

Jake Sherman described Punchbowl's business model in his own words on The Rebooting podcast (January 2022): nearly 90% of the outlet's revenue comes from corporate sponsorships… "trade groups and companies looking to get their public affairs messaging in front of those making public policy." The sponsors documented at Punchbowl include PhRMA, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Facebook, JPMorgan, Blackstone, the American Investment Council (private equity lobby), and others.

These sponsors need the goodwill of the Senate Majority Leader, who controls which of their legislative priorities come to the floor. Thune controls the floor. Thune sits in Punchbowl's townhouse. You reports Thune's framing as conventional wisdom.

When Desiderio writes that the talking filibuster "will ultimately fail" ... not might fail, not Thune argues it will fail, but when it ultimately fails ... is that journalism? Or is it the view from Thune's Fly Out Day chair?

You are busted, Mr. Desiderio.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@POTUS bodies @kwelkernbc on California's pathetic excuse for an election system:

"Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later they're nowhere close to picking a winner!? They're crooked — just like you're crooked."

[Jeanne Ives @JeanneIves]

Happened in 2020, too, for all you folks just waking up to the cheat-by-mail scam.

[cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander]

We have reached the point that no objective, serious person can say that there is acceptable election integrity in California. Nothing about this state’s procedures are inside the lifelines of internationally accepted norms for election integrity.

As a federal republic, we as a nation have to consider the fact that our largest state’s election results are corrupt, and as such, the results of their elections and the representatives they send that impact the other 49 states at the federal level are suspect.

It has to be fixed, not just for the citizens of California, but for the integrity of the rest of the republic.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The ethnicity most likely to be on welfare in each country.

USA: Somalia #1
Denmark: Somalia #1
Netherlands: Somalia #1
Norway: Somalia #1
Finland: Somalia #1
Sweden: Somalia #1

Somalis are most likely to be on welfare and are responsible for the highest crime rates per captia.

[Dionysus at Plato's @at_plato]

@curtis_yarvin Evil cannot be ended, not in this world. The best that can be done is restrain and contain it.

[John Sailer @JohnDSailer]

Interestingly, the report immediately narrows its scope down to that last complaint, that scholarship has been overrun by political goals, distorting disciplinary standards and producing bad research.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Liberals will ask, "Why can't you just enjoy it?" at the same time other Liberals post, "Everything I do in life is with the intention of making you miserable".

People are not angry because they can't enjoy things. They are angry because they correctly understand that the things they once loved are being converted into weapons for an ideology that hates them.

There is a very obvious sadistic side to Progressivism's hijacking of things like movies and video games. These people do not love the media they're destroying. They're not trying to make something good. They just want revenge against the normal world.

They want the actual fans to feel alienated and dispossessed. That's the entire point.

And every so often, someone is bold enough to admit it.

[Dionysus at Plato's @at_plato]

@boriquagato What exactly are you proposing? How specifically do we get from where we are to wherever you want to be?

[Dionysus at Plato's @at_plato]

Scott Pelley Was A Highly Paid Propagandist https://t.co/wTTyXNMoiL

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Pentagon Reporting

Please realize that every bit of reporting you see coming from major legacy media sources about anything Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon or Department of War is doing is butthurt propaganda.

I’ll explain.

You see, for years and years the major legacy media outlets such as the NYT, WaPo, Reuters, etc. have had privileged, largely unfettered access to the Pentagon—access other news outlets never enjoyed. This worked great in Democrat administrations, because the media was totally onboard with the DEI destruction of our nation’s military, and the Democrats knew the media would never abuse its access to undermine them. However, when a Republican is in office, that access was wielded against the administration via unauthorized leaks of classified and other controlled information, not to report the news, but to destroy policies those media members disagreed with.

And Pete Hegseth put a stop to that leftist gravy train. No more uncontrolled access. No more ability to get meaningful, unauthorized info from “sources familiar with the issue.” Zip. Nada. Nothing. He didn’t stop the legacy media from writing what they want—they always have had that right. No, he simply stopped the ability for certain members of the legacy press to undermine national security via privileged access that was denied the rest of the media.

And boy oh boy are they butthurt over that. So butthurt that they have lost whatever residual ability they may have once had to report honestly, and now everything they write is a character assassination piece sourced by anonymous “sources.”

Put simply, they are lying liars lying lies because they got their feelings hurt.

Couple this with the fact that the Gen Z “journalists” doing this reporting tend to have as deep an understanding of warfare as does my cat, and I just explained why any time you read Pentagon reporting from a legacy news outlet, you should assume the opposite of what you are reading is the truth.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Finally getting over the asthma - and here's the org chart of the Newark protests, as promised. A few are missing, particularly the Catholic NGOs. But this is the basic template for how mass protests are coordinated so quickly.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Her name was Dominique Moody.

She was 6 years old.

She was locked in a dog crate and starved for over a year in Charlotte NC.
She was bound in duct tape.
Wrapped in plastic.
She was bitten by rats in a home with no heat and feces in every room.
She weighed just 27 pounds when she passed away.

Her "caretakers" forced little Dominique to watch them eat, while starving her.

They made her sit in her own urine and feces until she had open wounds.

When police found her, she had multiple broken bones. Burns. Open wounds and scars across most of her body.

She lived like that for OVER A YEAR.

Police were called to the house 50 TIMES before she died.

Nothing happened.

The women who were her "caretakers" were arrested 10 PREVIOUS TIMES.

WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dionysus at Plato's @at_plato]

@AuronMacintyre Allies can be dangerous history is full of examples. But, your well thought out position is that Israel wants war at any cost?

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Go @elonmusk!!!

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

The Democratic Party wants to erase America’s unique culture through mass migration, because it’s easier to rule over a people that are culturally balkanized.