Joseph Schuster

Your home for mid takes, bad MTG decklists, and a good Trek podcast.

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

@marten_sorby @GarrettPetersen You mean like how the show sets up this interesting dynamic of a huge part of the crew being a bunch of avowed terrorists serving on the ship sent to hunt them down , and then they just decide to wrap it up with some friendship is magic BS at the end of season 1?

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

This man has been running the most entertaining deep cover troll op I've ever seen, and if you knew what his banner picture was you would have never been fooled by it.

10/10 sir, absolutely have loved your work.

[Brad Cool Unlimited @bradcooluncut]

Thanks but no need! I'm less than a couple hours from his house so I'll probably just drive there instead

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

The past couple years have shown that the pillars of mainstream journalism will never reckon with their own failures.

Bari Weiss isn't doing anything particularly dramatic at CBS News or 60 Minutes. She is no Trump acolyte, and not even nominally right wing. What she does understand is the systemic ideological rot that has captured the institutions and driven away half or more of the potential consumer base for the product these organizations create. Her theory of the case has always been that you have to pay some kind of attention to balance in reporting, otherwise you are only speaking to the converted tribe, and your obsolescence is assured.

The problem with reforming this is that it only works if the people in the building agree with your theory. No matter how firm your control, no matter how many people you are allowed to fire and replace, if the ideological capture has become so total that your employees see balance to both sides an anathema, you can't fix it. Sure you could fire everyone in the building, but that means you just close the doors entirely. Institutions maintain themselves partially from cultural inertia, and to willingly sacrifice that means the death of your remaining relevancy.

Bari thought, with power in hand and an open mind, she convince CBS journos to see things her way while making a point of eliminating dissidents. The reasonably believed that the combination of terror of losing a plum position in a contracting market and the reasonable nature of the ask on the table would naturally lead to the outcome she envisioned. Given her experience at NYT it makes sense - she saw the ideological capture there as a failure of leadership to simply lead and say no. The problem is that her theory is six year out of date - the crazies own the building now, and they will destroy themselves out of spite for you.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Link🇻🇦 @ZeldaZealot]

We’re so fortunate the democrats are all in on third worldist Palestinian shit and will never nominate him for president

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

You know it's a good thing if this creature is this mad.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

THE LEAK IN AXIOS WAS A VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW AND PROVIDED SUPPORT TO THE IRANIAN REGIME AND ITS HEZBOLLAH PROXY

Whomever leaked that story to Barack Ravid at Axios did a grave disservice to our country, to our president, to Israel, and to Israel's prime minister.  The Iranian regime will benefit from that leak, viewing us as weak and desperate for a deal -- even coming to Hezbollah's defense. The Israeli people will also be furious.  The missiles are aimed at them, not Washington.  And for 100 other reasons, what was thought to be a devasting political hit on Netanyahu by the leakers about a private call between heads of state has done much damage to us and our military and our diplomatic strategy.  And if the leakers or others believe Israel should abandon its survival for some deal, they will have a very hard lesson to learn.  If the substance of the call is accurate, it is bad enough in my view.

Will there be an FBI investigation to determine who leaked?  If not, why not?

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

Someone didn't watch Death by Lightning it seems.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

One of the big reasons for the current lack of patriotism and pride in our nation’s history is that about 40 years ago our most prominent storytellers in Hollywood just basically stopped telling stories about American history altogether, unless it has something to do with WW2, civil rights, or slavery. I mean they just released a movie about the meteorologist who did the weather report for D-Day. They’ll give WW2 weathermen their own movies before they tell a story from any other era of American history.

The Right has attempted to counteract this a little bit, but “conservative” attempts at American history films and TV shows are invariably hokey and kid friendly, the kind of thing you can watch with your grandmother and your 5 year old, and you’ll all be equally informed and bored by the experience.

We need R-rated adult-oriented American history stories. Daniel Boone should have his own series. It would be gritty and violent and not for children, but it would also be phenomenally entertaining and put an American legend back on the cultural map, so to speak. The fact that Daniel Boone hasn’t been depicted on screen at all since like the 60s is a travesty. Throw a dart at that guy’s Wikipedia page and you’ll land on something that could be its own feature length trilogy.

That’s just one example. How is there not a great R-rated movie or series about Antietam? Or Kit Carson? Or the Panama Canal? How does Theodore Roosevelt not have like 10 movies about different periods of his life?

You could go much farther back to pre-American history. A movie about Cortes’s conquest of Tenochtitlan would be tremendous and horrifying and fascinating, and it would introduce into the public consciousness one of the world’s most incredible stories that most Americans know next to nothing about. And on and on.

The possibilities are literally endless. All of these movies, if they’re executed to even a B+ level, could make hundreds of millions of dollars and transform the culture in a way that a million podcast monologues never could. If the Right actually wants to reclaim the culture, this is the place to start.

[Josh Holmes @HolmesJosh]

Come on.

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

@U_arctos I appreciate you proving my point so perfectly.

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

@ryanvaughan78 @CincinnatiNews_ You can't lie about how you feel. You can disdain the feelings of others, but when they take their money and jobs elsewhere, that disdain becomes costly. Addressing their concerns seems much cheaper.

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

The urban progressives will never learn, but its useful to understand why.

First, let's assume one thinks the reported numbers are reflective of reality, and even in that case moving from 13,660 reported serious criminal incidents in 2024 to 13,073 in 2025 is a decline so small, it's qualitatively meaningless. Approximately the same amount of people were killed, assaulted, strangulated, and robbed as the year before. In your best case, the city is just as dangerous as it was before in every way it matters.

But of course, the numbers are not reflective of reality. Crimes by juveniles are routinely not reported as a consequence of Hamilton County not seriously pursuing prosecution or punishment for said criminals. Not only does this mean the reported crime figures are artificially low, it adds to the general feeling of disorder and lawlessness in the urban core.

The urban progressive cannot see this. They cannot acknowledge it. They cannot admit to the truth in front of them as money, residents, and jobs flee the area. To do so would be to admit that their policy choices led to this slow moving ruin, and such and admittance is heresy. Instead they will retreat to lying with statistics, attribute the consequences to 'fear mongering', and refuse to do anything differently to change it.

I don't like that this will be the outcome. I've lived in the city most of my adulthood. I was so happy to see the slow revival of our urban fortunes, and gladly played my part. However, I cannot help but be a realist.

[Brad Thomas @bradleywthomas]

Unfortunately fear mongering works. Crime is down

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

If only he didn't have that secret info on Hillary...RIP buddy.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

Racer on N64 was one my all time favorites. Also got a ton of mileage out of Jefi Outcast on GameCube and Republic Commando on PC. It was a blessed time.

[Darth Thunder ⚡ @XDarthThunderX]

The 2000s were the golden age of Star Wars gaming.

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

@bkpark I don't put a lot of stock in bronze age myths as a general principle, but considering Christ's whole ministerial philosophy was 'the chosen people have lost the forest for the trees' I feel vindicated in my belief.

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

Im going to go out on a limb and say God isn't in to this kind of dumb religious legal wrangling.

[Rorik Wanka @RorikWanka]

So here's my situation:
- We had a wedding 23 years ago in the Episcopal Church.
- I was Catholic, she was not
- Was assured at the time that the marriage would be "valid, yet irregular"
- She converted to Catholicism 12 years ago
- No one cared or found a problem at Catholic Churches we attended with our marriage which produced four children
- Move to a traditional Church
- Marriage found to be invalid
- Ordered to cease marital relations until marriage can be convalidated.

Am I allowed to kiss my long-term live-in girlfriend?

[Denzel Rust @AdemLuz]

Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

@camhardy513 A $28 million increase is approximately 15% higher YoY, not 20%.

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

I caution anyone of thinking of 'government employees' a a unified voting block. The majority of those city employees are cops, firefighters, and utility workers. All of those skew more conservative by nature.

[Adam from Price Hill @still_hustling]

Cincinnati’s poverty rate sits at 25.5% and government dominates the local economy:

City of Cincinnati: 5,000–6,000+ employees

Hamilton County: ~4,500 workers

Cincinnati Public Schools: 6,000+ employees

University of Cincinnati: 15,000+ staff + 53,682 students

Add public transit, hospitals, nonprofits, pensions, and grant-funded groups. A huge share of voters are tied to government spending.

Tens of thousands of UC students can register and vote locally. Young people (18-29) lean heavily Democratic and get mobilized through campus drives, professors, and party efforts.

Public-sector unions (teachers, city/county workers, AFSCME, etc.) run disciplined GOTV programs. It’s even worse in some other Ohio cities like Cleveland and Columbus.

The core problem for conservatives is how do you win on lower taxes, smaller government, auditing waste, and private-sector growth when so many voters depend on the current system for jobs, benefits, grants, or assistance?

It’s not personal, it’s incentives. Big public footprints naturally build a self-protecting voter base. The more money that passes through the system opens up your tax dollars to fraud. That fraud is protected by voters who rarely even pay into the system.

This playbook repeats in cities nationwide. Breaking it takes economic growth outside government, sharper messaging, and serious turnout focus. If we can’t accomplish that we are doomed to democrat theft of our hard-earned money, redistributed back into the pockets of progressive candidates, who then turn our cities into degenerate social laboratories.

Thoughts? Realistic path for conservatives in blue cities? Do we just all leave and let them go broke and force the whole system to collapse in on itself? Leave them to deal with their own bad policies, which of course leads to social decay?

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

CoCo Ichibanya would be incredibly popular in the midwest US, I wish they would expand out of the west coast.

[🇯🇵星空音夢🇯🇵🧀Cheese police 👮 @hoshizorarock]

アメリカ人とは恐ろしい人種である🇺🇸

写真は日本全国で1500店以上店舗のあるカレーショップのCoCo壱番屋だ。

日本の人口は約1億2000万人。

一番人口が多いのが東京で1400万人だ。

しかしCoCo壱番屋で一番売り上げを叩き出してる店舗が人口146万人の沖縄の店舗だ。

理由は米軍基地のアメリカ人達が1人で複数皿を食べるオーダーが日常的だからである。

もう一度言うアメリカ人とは恐ろしい人種である🇺🇸

[Joseph Schuster @internofdoom]

@ChrisCinciBiz If only they did.