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Nov 4, 2024 | 
matriarchyreport.substack.com | Lane Anderson |Justin Rosario |Gabrielle Blair |Amanda Montei
Thank you for joining thousands that read MR every month! You can subscribe here. Paid subscribers get access to subscriber chats, all our interviews and thoughtful essays, book club, and other paid content that helps keep us sane in these times. A paid subscription gives you access to every post, every time, starting at just $4.50 a month!Look, I don’t know who will win this election. I’m hopeful that it will be Harris, for reasons I’ll get to below.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Bob Cesca |Justin Rosario
by Bob CescaWASHINGTON, DC – Despite all of the most horrendous Donald Trump things that should have prevented him from ever showing his face in public, much less getting this dangerously close to the presidency again, the 2024 election will be decided on the perception of the economy. Prices, specifically. I don’t mind saying: it’s keeping me up at night. I’ll explain why.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Bob Cesca |Justin Rosario
by Bob CescaWASHINGTON, DC – Every once in a while, a movie or streaming series appears and it’s so perfect that it makes you wonder how it got made in the first place. How did something of such quality manage to navigate the gauntlet of hack studio executives and insufferable focus groups? But every now and then, truly great things slip under the radar in spite of all the usual impediments. It’s similarly inconceivable that someone like Gov.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Justin Rosario
by Justin Rosario When the Republican-controlled Supreme Court handed down its 2010 Citizens United ruling, not a lot of people understood what it meant at the time. Corporations could spend money on campaigns. Don’t they already do that? What’s the big deal? 14 years later, we all understand that Citizens United opened a floodgate of money into our political system. We understand how damaging that has been. We understand the level of corruption that has been unleashed.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Bob Cesca |Justin Rosario
by Bob CescaWASHINGTON, DC – I should probably be more panicked about the presidential election. Don’t get me wrong, I’m both disillusioned and completely stressed out about the prospect of too many delusional, amnesiac voters prioritizing the price of eggs over the avalanche of chaos Donald Trump will unleash in a second term. But as of right now, I have reason to believe the president can beat Trump again.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Justin Rosario
by Justin RosarioHumans use narratives to frame and understand traumatic events. We use these stories to preserve those events for future generations so they do not become dry facts in history books. In modern times one of our major vehicles for creating powerful storytelling is through film. The more traumatic the event, the more movies we make about it. Unsurprisingly there are a lot of movies about the terrorist attacks on New York on September 11th, 2001.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Justin Rosario
by Justin Rosario “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country” - Donald Trump speaking in New Hampshire, November 11th 2023For most of the last several years, I’ve written an article around Thanksgiving or Christmas asking whether or not it was possible to forgive your Trump-supporting friends or family.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Bob Cesca |Justin Rosario
by Bob CescaWASHINGTON, DC – Mike Johnson might not be a familiar name in the rogues gallery of Republican crypto-fascists, but is now. This week, the entire Republican conference, every last one of them, elected Johnson to be the new Speaker of the House. Johnson is the kind of Republican we’ve been worried about – he’s not a berserker Trump-style screecher who deliberately blurts shocking things to manufacture headlines and social media engagement.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Bob Cesca |Justin Rosario
by Bob CescaWASHINGTON, DC – During the first season of AppleTV’s streaming series The Morning Show, Billy Crudup’s network executive character, Cory Ellison, muttered something that not only described what was happening in the series but also what’s happening with our politics in real life. “Chaos is the new cocaine,” he said with a devilish smile.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
thebanter.substack.com | Bob Cesca |Justin Rosario
by Bob CescaWASHINGTON, DC – Looks like Jack Smith managed to get his hands on Donald Trump’s Twitter account even though Elon Musk put up a hell of a fight to stop Smith from succeeding. We’ll get into the details presently, but before we do, let’s talk about Elon’s fascination with the one term loser ex-president and why his man-crush on Trump matters. First, as a matter of style, I will not be referring to Twitter by its stupid new name.
