Nick Mortensen

I’m the guy behind “Resist Autocratic Despair”. Using Blue Sky more these days - same username. Also here at the username @ResistDespair.

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This all ends when enough of us decide that it’s over.

Never doubt that.

Never forget that.

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🎧 New "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" is live!

Dr. Craig gets Francesca Hong-pilled & we get into "Sluggish Schizophrenia" — the fake illness the USSR used to institutionalize dissidents.

That couldn't happen here, though.

Right?

https://t.co/08u76Ejq6b

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On this week's "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" Dr. Craig - & I dish the dirt about our recent run-ins w/Curtis Yarvin & Mike Gallagher - the guy who quit Congress to become Head of Defense at Palantir & also works out at my gym.

It's a fun one

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https://t.co/yTXKcLCx8X

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F*ck you Hunter Biden

Can't believe I thought you were cool.

You get into close physical proximity with America's most prominent Nazi and you ALMOST come to blows with him.

🎧 https://t.co/8zBDjbvBf7

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This week's "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" has the estimable Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton sitting in for Dr. Craig Johnson who was on assignment* this week.

*Turkish Hairline Surgery

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After careful consideration Dr. Craig & l have filed paperwork to declare a beef between "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" & @BulwarkOnline over the framing of the Prairieland Case they allowed David French to promulgate on their flagship podcast.
https://t.co/hP8xHkwRtR

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New Autocratic Despair: The Podcast!

This week: Freedom 250 isn't a fuck up so much as corruption-worn-openly, & for "Dr. Craig is Fun At Parties" we talk about the strange language of TikTok.

🎧 https://t.co/XCRliTmnsF

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This week on "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" - Dr. Craig & I reacted to the news of the Prairieland sentences + we note how much it rhymes with that the DOJ did in Minneapolis last week.

-A good podcast that you will like with zero ads

🎧 https://t.co/3jDTAgYGcE

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New "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" Musk is just a smol boy, Talarico's trans rights concession & I tell you how I went to jail in my 20's for defenestration (barely). 🎧

https://t.co/K6VlBEbjkw

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Planned a whole show. Then James Talarico said the thing on Monday, and the episode became "OOPS: All Talarico Talk" — the betrayal, the trans-rights reckoning, and one genuinely furious Dr. Craig l this week on "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast"

https://t.co/JPFodXYBVl

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New episode of "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" is up. We talk Delaney Hall and about how the baseline stress of the Trump era makes every personal calamity 20-30% worse.

https://t.co/8zspZFPwi1

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@SG3neris Could you spell it out for those of us a little slower on the uptake? Was the whole Be Water protest fake?

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This week on "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" we've got S-tier Autocracy-knower @DaveTroy sitting in for Dr. Craig who is on assignment this week.

(Turkish hairline restoration surgery, but you didn't hear it from me)

https://t.co/bgP3FmybG5

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New Episode of "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" with Dr. Craig Johnson & myself is out!

This week, we learn James Talarico has been getting it on & Dr. Craig ties Circus Peanuts back to Fascism in 2 hops in our "Dr. Craig is Fun at Parties" segment

https://t.co/lOyTin1iaf

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New Episode of "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast" is up.

A Comedian from Green Bay and a PhD in Global Fascism from Berkeley have a smart conversation that is also entertaining each week. No ads at all

https://t.co/rjGAaGbTty

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New episode of "Autocratic Despair" the podcast is up!

Stare into the abyss each week with me & Dr. Craig Johnson - host of the "15 Minutes of Fascism" podcast & author of 2025's most important book: "How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism"

https://t.co/fbuoq8kf3U

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@SG3neris I would like to understand this better to simplify it in order to introduce it to the listeners of my show. It's just so much to take in.

So far I've got: The first psychographic sort is: "receptive to Egalitarian/Authoritarian" messaging.

https://t.co/AbCVynIU1Z

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New Autocratic Despair Podcast is up!

I decided not to edit out the lengthy aside Dr. Craig went on about how Chicago Style is the only method of academic citation that matters

I honor it instead by flagging & then placing it at the end of the podcast.

https://t.co/S0qpN1YYl1

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I still have a Twitter Account so I can maintain the username, so I suppose I should post here to tell the bots about the new podcast I have launched called the "Autocratic Despair podcast"

https://t.co/AbCVynIU1Z

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Have you listened yet @davetroy @s3generis, @jimstewartson, @sarahkendzior?

You'll love it. I mean it. A perfect blend of comedic idiocy from me and PhD level analysis of Fascism - from Dr. Craig - who wrote "How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism".

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New Autocratic Despair Podcast with Dr. Craig Johnson is up!

This week we talk about why we talk about James Talarico. Then we talk Talarico.

I make some trenchant commentary about becoming a better Uncle by mastering the art of nicknaming as well.

https://t.co/AbCVynIU1Z