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Say what you will, Trump definitely did not steal the midterms.
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I mean this entirely sincerely when I say that @Douthat60 is easily the best Catholic fantasy novelist to ever interview a sitting president
🚨 Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it?
TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest ove our country far more...the answer is no. I want to be honest.
Q: In judgement before God?
TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.
REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?
TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.
Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.
He COULD just say "yes" and get out of the question, but he didn't
One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.
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Stephen Kent retweeted
There's a double standard at the core of the "books for boys" discourse that's so severe yet unchallenged that it's making me feel crazy.
When mostly boys like a book, that means the book is bad/oppressive to girls. When mostly girls like a book, the fact that boys don't like it is proof that something is wrong with the boys.
When mostly boys like a book, that means the book is bad/oppressive to girls. When mostly girls like a book, the fact that boys don't like it is proof that something is wrong with the boys.
The first novel I ever loved was the survival classic Hatchet, but recently I’ve learned that a *lot* of women despise this book, and see it is as something they were forced to read in school to entice the idiot illiterate boys in their English class. I dove into that tension!
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Stephen Kent retweeted
I guess Chinese models really were the biggest threat…
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What an incredible exchange. Perfectly done by Douthat and while the President needs to discover grace…I value his candor when asked a serious question by a good faith interlocutor.
🚨 Q: You're entering the next life [before God], all you have to do to enter paradise is feel love and forgiveness for James Comey, Nancy Pelosi, etc...can you do it?
TRUMP: Then I wouldn't be real, would I? The easy answer is, yes, I could forgive. They are extremely dishonest ove our country far more...the answer is no. I want to be honest.
Q: In judgement before God?
TRUMP: I do hate some of my enemies. Look what they put me through.
REPORTER: You had the most charmed and remarkable life of any American in my entire lifetime, and you can't find it in your heart to forgive some of your enemies?
TRUMP: All I have to do is say yes, I can. Can I be honest? I probably cannot do that. Because I do hate some of my enemies — and I always will.
Never heard Trump get asked such a deep question like that before.
He COULD just say "yes" and get out of the question, but he didn't
One thing you have to admit is this man is brutally honest.
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Stephen Kent retweeted
>Gets absolute power
>Does nothing for 7 years but build a tacky castle and threaten his enemies without actually doing anything to them
>Gets defeated by a roblox kid and his liberal gf
Ganon is a Republican politician
>Does nothing for 7 years but build a tacky castle and threaten his enemies without actually doing anything to them
>Gets defeated by a roblox kid and his liberal gf
Ganon is a Republican politician
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Stephen Kent retweeted
Dear X, here's 1,400 words on Anakin Skywalker, Gen Z post-liberalism and the politics of waiting. Personally, my favorite thing I’ve written in a long time. Do the kids really want a benevolent despot? Or is this just more algorithmic pro-Jacobin, Jew-skeptical memery?
dailywire.com/news/why-gen-z…
dailywire.com/news/why-gen-z…
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Stephen Kent retweeted
“Do you sell Malfoid funko pops?”
“We sell bombs here kid”
“We sell bombs here kid”
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While folks discuss Hatchet and boys not reading—books are in competition with all other media, not just other books. Yes, some more Percy Jackson and Harry Potter would be good, but video games like The Legend of Zelda, Halo, and Red Dead fill a narrative void. Literacy matters, I know, and I want boys to read, but if we're talking about exposure to heroism and virtue, acts of courage, etc etc—they do get that nourishment elsewhere. Certain games enter the imagination and never leave—like a great fairy tale or YA novel.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake hit me right in the feels. Someone said to me, "It's more of a memory than a game." With age, it feels like you actually went to these places. The animation didn't feel crude in 1999—it was—but in the imagination, it was all very real.
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1.) The 'representation matters' people have nothing to say about 3-1 protagonist ratios if it concerns a demographic they hold in contempt.
2.) Boys don't decline to read because of this—books are in competition with all other media, and boys mostly experience male heroism in games (which is why the feminization of the gaming industry and characters is so explosive online)
3.) If you don't care about the principle of representation based on demographics (I don't), it is hypocritical to get too incensed about this in publishing. The market reflects what sells most reliably, but there is somewhat circular logic to the idea that creative choices increase demand.
4.) The Atlantic isn't the bad guy for reporting a phenomenon that can be observed in plain sight. But the hatred they're getting for it is revealing of how vicious the insular publishing-bookworm community is towards the interests of adolescent boys.
5.) If you refuse to accept that boys and girls are intrinsically different, and think the differences can be "fixed", everything in this report and the world generally will confuse you.
2.) Boys don't decline to read because of this—books are in competition with all other media, and boys mostly experience male heroism in games (which is why the feminization of the gaming industry and characters is so explosive online)
3.) If you don't care about the principle of representation based on demographics (I don't), it is hypocritical to get too incensed about this in publishing. The market reflects what sells most reliably, but there is somewhat circular logic to the idea that creative choices increase demand.
4.) The Atlantic isn't the bad guy for reporting a phenomenon that can be observed in plain sight. But the hatred they're getting for it is revealing of how vicious the insular publishing-bookworm community is towards the interests of adolescent boys.
5.) If you refuse to accept that boys and girls are intrinsically different, and think the differences can be "fixed", everything in this report and the world generally will confuse you.
Young boys are being discouraged from getting into reading—and it’s because more books are missing one key element, @sophiah_n reports: theatlantic.com/culture/2026/1…
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