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Amalgamation of 8 polls. Farage Fatigue = RILL Tories have - as beneficiaries of Reform’s multiple scandals - clawed back polling from some who abandoned them Quite why they’d trust a party who presided over 14Y of colossal failure with no demonstrable improvements to anything is still a mystery.

Btw don’t overlook extent to which they have (or haven’t) truly regained a threatening position to Burnham’s Labour. Burnham gaining at signif speed. Much more than Badenoch. The lift the Tories have experienced merely puts them at 40-50% of where they were. Same as Jan 2025.

Nicky Minaj is in the news again. If you’re not familiar she’s a Trinidad-American rapper who grew up in NYC, married a rapist, then her brother got 25y for child sexual assault. Before that she was a Dem🤣. A Black Lives Matter activist. She publicly rebuked Trump 1.0 for border policy.

As an oberserve of Far-Right Disinfo i get a lot of this stuff on my feeds. It doesnt do anything to be, radicalisation-wise, because i'm not a fucking idiot. But it's worth highlighting that this is what your Dad or hometown mates are both being fed *and* consuming.

But to the Right that is savagery. You simply must show weeping sorrow, even for your political opponents, you must show sorry that they can misrep as "regret" or you dont fit the "The Left Must Be Better" higher-standards-stereotype they've made up for you in their heads.

As an oberserve of Far-Right Disinfo i get a lot of this stuff on my feeds. It doesnt do anything to be, radicalisation-wise, because i'm not a fucking idiot. But it's worth highlighting that this is what your Dad or hometown mates are both being fed *and* consuming.

It's like "The left are the REAL psychopaths because of an imagined street party i made up in my head, after Widdecombe. But no one on the Right is a psychopath because if you're offended by any of that you're a snowflake." but your Dad will read that and go "oh yeh, the Left ARE psychos"

As an oberserve of Far-Right Disinfo i get a lot of this stuff on my feeds. It doesnt do anything to be, radicalisation-wise, because i'm not a fucking idiot. But it's worth highlighting that this is what your Dad or hometown mates are both being fed *and* consuming.

Nobody should be killed for their political beliefs. If that's what happened to her, the guy she be prosecuted accordingly. I'm assuming that's a process in play right now.

As an oberserve of Far-Right Disinfo i get a lot of this stuff on my feeds. It doesnt do anything to be, radicalisation-wise, because i'm not a fucking idiot. But it's worth highlighting that this is what your Dad or hometown mates are both being fed *and* consuming.

Some thoughts on the Ethan & Hila Klein shit from a non judgey purely Media/Politics perspective: 1. He’s a massive internet celebrity. Whether his popularity waned in recent years is a bit moot. Channel was still BIG, their following reasonably loyal. All of that will be in the toilet now.

Ethan Klein is Jewish of course which complicates matters. But he wouldn’t be the first Jewish guy to align with MAGA so 🤷‍♂️

Some thoughts on the Ethan & Hila Klein shit from a non judgey purely Media/Politics perspective: 1. He’s a massive internet celebrity. Whether his popularity waned in recent years is a bit moot. Channel was still BIG, their following reasonably loyal. All of that will be in the toilet now.

Wait sorry this was supposed to be NOT judgey wasn’t it? Fuck. Okay, so I think there’s at least a half chance Ethan Klein moves to Alt Right now, knowing his conduct won’t go particularly harshly punished in that world.

Some thoughts on the Ethan & Hila Klein shit from a non judgey purely Media/Politics perspective: 1. He’s a massive internet celebrity. Whether his popularity waned in recent years is a bit moot. Channel was still BIG, their following reasonably loyal. All of that will be in the toilet now.

Hanna’s channel became a toxic shit-heap of blamey bitter attack videos, drama, her calling out other YouTubers, getting called out herself; she seemed to spiral into self-obsession, ppl said “narcissistic personality disorder”; others did exposes on what a garbage person she was IRL…

Some thoughts on the Ethan & Hila Klein shit from a non judgey purely Media/Politics perspective: 1. He’s a massive internet celebrity. Whether his popularity waned in recent years is a bit moot. Channel was still BIG, their following reasonably loyal. All of that will be in the toilet now.

The idea that when all else fails and you can’t fool the Guardian readers, Newsnight or hipster crowd you came up with: just “go-God”. Go Alt Right. Honestly they’ll take anyone. They made a paedophile rapist fraudster President.

Some thoughts on the Ethan & Hila Klein shit from a non judgey purely Media/Politics perspective: 1. He’s a massive internet celebrity. Whether his popularity waned in recent years is a bit moot. Channel was still BIG, their following reasonably loyal. All of that will be in the toilet now.

Suspect that would be significantly less popular than H3. Fewer people will want to work with him, guest on his shows, subject matter will be more bitter because adulation/authority will be gone.

Some thoughts on the Ethan & Hila Klein shit from a non judgey purely Media/Politics perspective: 1. He’s a massive internet celebrity. Whether his popularity waned in recent years is a bit moot. Channel was still BIG, their following reasonably loyal. All of that will be in the toilet now.

(Sidenote: Personally I’d like to see Christina P and Hila team up. Probs early days for that while everything works itself out. But they’re both funny, engaging; they both have the public rooting for them. Just a thought)

Some thoughts on the Ethan & Hila Klein shit from a non judgey purely Media/Politics perspective: 1. He’s a massive internet celebrity. Whether his popularity waned in recent years is a bit moot. Channel was still BIG, their following reasonably loyal. All of that will be in the toilet now.

Which brings me onto point 2. If Hila continues on her own (+ staff/other contributors) the dynamic will obv shift. Unclear how that dynamic will achieve what would essentially have to be lightning striking twice. Possible? Yes. Probable? No.

Some thoughts on the Ethan & Hila Klein shit from a non judgey purely Media/Politics perspective: 1. He’s a massive internet celebrity. Whether his popularity waned in recent years is a bit moot. Channel was still BIG, their following reasonably loyal. All of that will be in the toilet now.

Why? His following - largely millennial men, maybe older Gen-Zs - more likely to lean Left. Less likely to tolerate his conduct. *Their* following (which is to say: people who are interested in them as a married couple OR Hila’s content) = significantly fewer than him.

EP475 | Prepping For "Hope" ...was gr8 fun last nite. Covers Reform fallout & why ITV absolutely WON'T be going to jail, Zia ALSO: the internet fucked itself this week, why that's a dry-run for Wes Streeting's apocalypse. AND: meet the Florida cop who pretended to be a dead guy & stole his house.