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TikTok is on a Pathogenetic Path

Joe Zeigler

Joe Zeigler

23 Sep 2025 — 3 min read
TikTok is on a Pathogenetic Path

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Friend of the Working Man

Friend of the Working Man

Really? Summary: Support for Donald Trump is not about policy; it’s a transaction born from 40 years of economic and cultural humiliation by both parties. Trump successfully channeled the resulting rage, selling a narrative where his supporters are forgotten heroes whose anger is righteous. Believing he is their weapon

By Joe Zeigler 03 Oct 2025
Fools and Power

Fools and Power

Summary for the time-constrained reader They give up power to retain power, it sounds crazy—it is. Our politicians are not just fools. They’re traitors. Trump didn’t take the GOP, the party surrendered. Democrats let Mitch McConnell steal the Court and called it “norms.” Biden promised to fight

By Joe Zeigler 30 Sep 2025
Fox Lighted the Match

Fox Lighted the Match

Fox News and the Industrialization of American Collapse Summary: Fox News didn’t invent collapse—it monetized it. By 1996, the country was primed: racism repackaged as “law and order,” wages flat, towns gutted, trust shattered by Vietnam and Watergate. Reagan’s 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine stripped truth

By Joe Zeigler 28 Sep 2025
It Wasn't Me

It Wasn't Me

First it was Colbert, but it wasn’t me. Then it was Kimmel, but it wasn’t me. A joke cut, a contract torn, a stage gone dark. The answer is always the same: a shrug, a technicality, a coincidence. It wasn’t me. It’s never me. Say it

By Joe Zeigler 26 Sep 2025
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