Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let’s finish the job.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

T R E 4 5 O N

I really should read my own blog.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

After roe, women are no longer free.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

No one could have predicted…

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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Twilight of the Elites: We Have A Winner!

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The Gods of Randomness have spoken, and the signed hardback of Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy goes to Comment #23 — geg6. Congratulations!
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If you are one of the other entrants, Twilight of the Elites is also available for Kindle, audiobook or Audible. Amazon’s even offering a special deal with Maddow’s Drift…

Thanks to everyone who commented, and I hope to post my review within the week.

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  8. 8.

    beltane

    Congrats to geg6. Nice to see the book go to a frequent commenter.

    The book must be excellent since it made David Brooks all pissy.

  12. 12.

    Baud

    @beltane:

    The book must be excellent since it made David Brooks all pissy.

    I expect Brooks will write his own book in response. Possible titles include Dawn of the Elites, Revenge of the Elites, and The Elites Strike Back.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Yutsano:

    I can’t pout for her.

     Don’t pout for me, dear Yutsano
    The Hayes book  , I never read it. 

  16. 16.

    Bizono

    Off topic – where did the phrase “Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed” originate?

  17. 17.

    Valdivia

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    OMG. So funny.
    And I hate that song because of all the Evita papers I had to read when I was teaching freshmen Lat Am history, that song played in my head over and over. SO you made it the impossible possible, making me like that.

  18. 18.

    dmsilev

    @Bizono: It’s an adaptation of an older phrase about communism. I don’t know who is to thank for the adaptation, but thanks are definitely due to that person.

  19. 19.

    Warren Terra

    If it had to go to someone other than me, at least it went to a longtime commenter. Congratulations to Geg6.

  22. 22.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    the signed hardback of Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy goes to Comment #23

    Bloody Illuminati.

  23. 23.

    mclaren

    The random number generator was only pseudorandom, with a strong bias. I can prove it with calculus.

  28. 28.

    BGinCHI

    I assume that geg only has 10 minutes to respond.

    Release the next random number!

    /Chicago-style politics

  30. 30.

    gbear

    Twilight of the Elites is also available for Kindle, audiobook or Audible

    Yeah, but those involve money.

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Phoenician in a time of Romans:

    Ah jeez, I came THISCLOSE to saying something about Robert Anton Wilson and for some reason didn’t think anyone would know what I was talking about.

    I was forgetting for a minute there that this is BALLOON JUICE, BITCHEZ and that pretty much everyone here would get the #23 reference.

    I’m too old for this.

  35. 35.

    jayackroyd

    The book’s really great. I’ve got about a dozen pages to go. Chris really clearly makes the case for the pursuit of an unachievable meritocracy is a death spiral.

  36. 36.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Well played Geg6!!! Oh by the way message from David Rockefeller from the CFR, you buy the first round at next week’s CFR’s Kegger at George Soros’ estate!

  39. 39.

    IrishGirl

    It’s so unfair…Hayes has a TV show and a book and he looks like he’s only 12 years old. But I’m not old and bitter….lol

    Actually I have a great deal of respect for his intellect and insight…am off to purchase the kindle version now.

  40. 40.

    geg6

    OMG! Seriously? I NEVER win ANYTHING!

    Gotta get ready for work, but I’ll email you my address, Anne Laurie. You’ve made my day!

  41. 41.

    Riilism

    Hayes has such pretty eyes. I wish he’d loose the glasses more frequently. Sigh….

  42. 42.

    Tokyokie

    Drat! Missed by 14. But if you convert “GeG” to numerals and subtract “6,” then eliminate the post itself since it’s obviously a fake, then I WIN!!!!!!!!! You can send me the book via book rate mail.

  45. 45.

    latinist

    When is the sequel, “Twilight of the Elites: New Moon of the Elites,” going to be coming out?

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