Dougan is a former deputy sheriff from Florida who gained political asylum in Moscow in 2016, and is allegedly a disinformation purveyor supported by the Kremlin. His phony media outlets have been cited in news articles or social media posts thousands of times, and both the US Treasury and Washington Postallege connections between Dougan, the Moscow-based Center for Geopolitical Expertise (CGE), and the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU).

Florida man.

Especially works well on the uneducated. And is just another arm of a propaganda hydra.

Kirk wasn’t showing up to campuses to “talk with anyone who would talk to him.” He was showing up armed with a string of logical fallacies, nonsense talking points, and gotcha questions specifically designed to enrage inexperienced college students so he could generate viral social media clips of himself “owning the libs.”

Klein is eulogizing not a practitioner of good-faith political discourse, but one of the most successful architects of “debate me bro” culture—a particularly toxic form of intellectual harassment that has become endemic to our political discourse. And by praising Kirk as practicing “politics the right way,” Klein is inadvertently endorsing a grift that actively undermines the kind of thoughtful engagement our democracy desperately needs.

The “debate me bro” playbook is simple and effective: demand that serious people engage with your conspiracy theories or extremist talking points. If they decline, cry “censorship!” and claim they’re “afraid of the truth.” If they accept, turn the interaction into a performance designed to generate viral clips and false legitimacy. It’s a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose proposition that has nothing to do with genuine intellectual discourse.

Hell yeah he does cat stuff.

Come over here he’s got some cat stuff with your name on it!

Awesome.

Yeah the “misrepresented facts” are obviously missing from the article.

This is the judge that decided he should be deported because, apparently reasons.

Jamee Comans was appointed as an Assistant Chief Immigration Judge in January 2023. Judge Comans earned a Bachelor of Science in 2005 from St. Leo University and a Juris Doctorate in 2008 from Mississippi College School of Law.

Oh that’s nothing did you see that reporter ask him an actual question?! Oh! He sued Australia for Eleventy Quadrapillion dollars over that.

Oh it’s real simple. They go in through your nose . . . and they let you keep the piece of brain they take out.

Well obviously that’s a metaphor. The answer used to be Fox News, now it’s some unholy conglomeration of podcasts and YuKKKTube channels along with Fox News.

When Dunlap was asked by a rancher to investigate leaking wells owned by Chevron Corp., he expected state regulators to help. Instead the commission that oversees oil and gas operations in Texas directed the ranch’s concerns to its lawyers. Relations with Chevron deteriorated into an acrimonious lawsuit. And after the rancher captured drone footage of wastewater spewing high into the sky, the regulatory commission made the area a no-fly zone, citing safety concerns.

Hawk Dunlap Photographer: Mark Felix/Bloomberg

“They don’t want to know about it, and they don’t want anyone else to know about it,” he said on a sweltering afternoon in West Texas, pausing to spit chewing tobacco into an empty Topo Chico bottle. “But I don’t back up too easy.”

Yeah, we heard.

He’s a felon, and a demented rapist. Start there.

Feel free to mention him losing in 2020 and staging a coup.

Our corporate news sewers sure won’t.

Unilever the never-left-russia-still-there-today Unilever?

Who would have thought that these anti-intellectual ivermectin-chugging undiagnosed brain trusts would crap out before tHeStOrM or whatever the fuck they’ve been screeching about for seven/eight years.

Pretty sure most of them ate it during the covid.

Yeah but James Donald Bowman knew that when he said it. Of course his demented rapistness’ has instructed them all to break the law. Its what he does, and as cult members who aren’t very competent at their jobs of course they’ll do it.

So you think they won’t try it at the FBI or some shit?

There is no bottom, y’know. It’s this all the way down.

Other news we’re following: 

• Vance urges speech crackdown over Kirk killing

AP, uh, there’s no such thing as a “Speech crackdown”. It’s blatantly unconstitutional and means nothing. Stop helping them.

Maybe if we take them seriously and act like everything’s normal?

Wait, no - what if we act like everything’s normal and take them seriously?

No, shit, wait. Well, I’m out of ideas.

Okay Qanut MAGATs. This is your fuckin’ mess. Well?!

I kinda hope they lose. They’ve only ever enabled him and hobbled his opponents. Minus the Op-Eds which. *eyeroll*