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Ben Shapiro is the Uniparty Right's Rachel Maddow. Rachel Maddow is the Uniparty Let's Ben Shapiro. I know it hurts, but it's better if we just admit it.

I wanted to expand on a point I made on the podcast today. I posted this as a Twitter thread as well.

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Uniparty Left, Uniparty Right.

Rachel Maddow and Ben Shapiro are the bizarro world versions of the same thing.

These two play the exact same role on opposite sides of the Controlled Opposition paradigm.

They portray themselves as extremely committed to their opposing cultural beliefs and they will argue the minutiae of completely fictional scenarios.

Sometimes their opposing positions end up with a "compromise" position where the Uniparty Left and Right work together to advance their common cause - power for the Uniparty and themselves.

Otherwise, they are on the exact same page about 'what is really happening' and they will arrive at the same conclusion about 'what we must do' on every issue that truly matters to the Regime.

They agree that @realDonaldTrump and his supporters are stupid, evil, reckless, unprincipled, unrefined, uneducated, violent, cult members who are so dangerous to society that they must be kept from ever holding power. In that, they're leading a hate movement together.

They were on the same page about the seriousness of covid, trusting the Data and the Experts. They both encouraged their audience to inject themselves with a toxic, experimental substance that can't protect them from a disease that can't kill them. Throughout the Very Deadly Pandemic, they said Trump and his supporters were all wrong about everything, and irresponsibly wrong at that - putting the lives of others at risk.

They were on the same page about the Very Violent Insurrection. Trump and his supporters were violent extremists. It was appropriate for their rights to be violated and for them to be imprisoned. It was okay that we were censored.

They both agreed that Biden won the election in 2020 and ignored and denied all claims otherwise. They did the same thing in 2022. They both blamed the losses on Trump and his supporters. They said MAGA candidates couldn't win. They both know our elections are rigged. But it's worth lying to keep the bad people out of power.

Again, it's a hate movement.

They're both fantastically wealthy for their efforts.

Their fan bases both refer to Trump supporters as cult members and describe them in the exact same terms mentioned above. Most of them are vaccinated, some heavily. All of their audience members are election fraud deniers, like them.

Ben and Rachel have been wrong about virtually everything that matters for years on end. Their audiences still trust them and think they are brilliant. They will argue in favor of every position put forward by Ben and Rachel.

Members of their audience legitimately poisoned themselves based on their advice, prodding, and shaming and those audience members shrugged and kept listening.

So the infallible, rich, famous people can be forgiven for endless incompetence and dishonesty...

... but Trump supporters are in a cult?

We were the ones who made the right decisions on all of the important stuff. Because he told us what we needed to know and told us to make our own decisions.