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Brain Fade
and democracy
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Updates, essays, and new releases from Burnt Ground. Straight from Joe Zeigler—sharp, clear, and unflinching. Politics, war, technology, and the culture unraveling in real time.
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Pumping Gas
Back When Gas Was 34 Cents a Gallon
Ignorance
is a requirement
An Old Story
I didn't write
Republicians
I may have been one
Grift
and Autocracy
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The Premise
The strategy is simple: start with a lie so big, everyone else ends up debating inside it. We’ve hit the part of the American story where facts are quaint, and punchlines pass for wisdom. And we oblige, gamely making jokes based on setups we didn’t write about, about
Destroy the Country
in order to save it
Robin Hood
reinvented
Ukraine is a Swindle
benefiting Russia
DOGE
the Quislings
Ink by the Barrel?
old news