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Orson Welles' contempt for Woody Allen
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Orson Welles' contempt for Woody Allen
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WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, May 27, 1856. SIR: I have received your letter of the 21st instant. The delay for which you make a hypocritical apology has strengthened you to resume the labor of vituperation; but, having early in this correspondence stamped you with falsehood, and whenever you presented a tangible point convicted you, by conclusive proof, I have ceased to regard your abuse; and as you present nothing in this letter which requires remark, I am gratified to be relieved from the necessity of further exposing your malignity and depravity. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War
-- Final letter from Secretary of War (and future Confederate President) Jefferson Davis to General Winfield Scott, Commanding General of the U.S. Army, in a vicious, petty, disrespectful back-and-forth correspondence full of insults and accusations as they openly feuded throughout the Administration of President Franklin Pierce.
I'm trying to find the best way to break down this entire correspondence between Davis and Scott because it's incredibly entertaining as the two (insufferable) men spent the better part of two years of President Pierce's term trading a voluminous amount of hate mail that got extraordinarily personal and probably would have led to a duel had General Scott been younger and healthier. And, of course, one of the best parts of the feud is that, since this was the 19th Century, they write these pages and pages full of thousands of words of nasty attacks on one another and then dutifully sign each letter with "Very respectfully..."
Going into this year, I never would have guessed that one of my biggest sources of joy in 2026 would be a white snake named Tofu having massive and legendary one-sided beef with Markiplier. But I am overcome with joy that it's nonetheless the case!! š #TeamTofu
Special emergency Triad: In chaos there is opportunity.
Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark:
1. Strategery
Weāll get to the schadenfreude in a minute, but letās start with two big-picture thoughts:
This could all go away tomorrow. It is possible that by the time you read this, Musk and Trump will have brokered a peace. Then they say, āHa-ha, you shitlibs fell for it. We were trolling you for the lulz. That was all kayfabe.ā There areĀ a lotĀ of stakeholders who desperately need Trump and Musk to end hostilities. Their incentives are strong enough to expend resources making it worth both partiesā whiles to sign a ceasefire.1
If it doesnāt go away tomorrow, the Trump-Musk rift creates peril for both Trumpās authoritarian project and the tech oligarchy.
Letās walk through the strategic implications for all of the players.
Donald Trump.Ā There is a scenario in which he emerges from this fight stronger than he is now. If Trump is able to break the richest man in the world, he will have demonstrated a new level of power. There are reasons to think Trump will subjugate Musk. For starters, Trump may be addled and doddering, but Musk is a man going through a multi-year, drug-fueled nervous breakdown. He is not a canny adversary. He isnāt even all that smart about power. Muskās singular genius is for leveraging his public-market chip stack in a ZIRP environmentānot an applicable skillset for this battlespace. Also: Trump has tremendous leverage over Musk. Musk made his primary source of wealthāTesla stockāhostage to Trump by destroying the company as a consumer product brand. If Trump unpersons Musk, the available consumer market for Tesla goes from terrible to zero. Trump also has all of the levers of the federal government at his disposal to hurt Tesla: He can rig tax credits against the company; cancel government contracts; reward competitors. This chart might as well be the battleplan ofĀ Operation Barbarossa. [...] Thereās more. Muskās second largest source of wealth is the private market valuation of SpaceX. SpaceX is heavily dependent on state-level international customers. Musk has been using his relationship with Trump to strong-arm governments into contracting with SpaceX. That dynamic could now run in the opposite direction, with Trump threatening countries who do business with SpaceX. Even more dangerous: SpaceX should not be a private company. Under multiple administrations, the U.S. government essentially privatized the aerospace industry, which runs counter to our national interest. A sovereign government cannot allow a private company to own the top of a gravity well.2
[...]
Mind you, Trump has skin in the game, too. His project is supported by the tech oligarchy. He is (theoretically) term limited. He knows he cannot trust anyone outside his own family. If he is unable to subjugate Musk, and Musk succeeds in creating an independent power base around which MAGA can rally, then Trumpās entire project could unravel. And quickly.
[...]
Elon Musk.Ā He has made the mistake of believing that he can target Trump the same way he targeted Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: With utter impunity. Heās a little likeĀ John Daggett, thinking that his money gives him controlābut not realizing that money only gives him control in aĀ liberalĀ system. In the illiberal context, his money is muchĀ less useful than he understands. Musk stands to lose everything in this fight, which is why the rational version of him would sue for peace and eat whatever shit-sandwich was required. But Musk isnāt rational. Heās a middle-aged man with an alleged drug problem and a personal life that has spiraled into depravity.
[...]
JD Vance.Ā No one has more to lose than the VC Hillbilly. Even in the worst-case scenario, Musk is worth a few billi. If Vance falls off the tiger he spends the rest of his days hustling to keep a roof over his head. Vanceās patron has long been Peter Thiel, who made him into the darling of the techno-feudalism set. But today Vance lives in Donald Trumpās house. In order to remain viable after 2028, he has to please not just his president, but Donald Trump Jr., too. Vance will do everything possible to avoid taking sides here, but that wonāt be possible in the long run. Which is why Vance is incentivizedāmore than anyone elseāto broker a peace.
The Trump v. Musk feud has escalated all of a sudden, and this has a Celebrity Deathmatch-like feel to it. Who is gonna emerge on top? Or will it be a truce?
Stay tuned.
See Also:
The Guardian: Impeachment, Epstein and bitter acrimony: Trump and Musk joust in astonishing social media duel
HuffPost: Donald Trump Says Heās āVery Disappointedā In Elon Musk As Rift Grows
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reading about edmund curll, an important figure in erotic literature, and didn't know i was about to stumble across the most chaotic wikipedia page ever... i love historical literary drama
critics have always been the same
and of course where there is 1700s literary drama, alexander pope is always involved. no wonder byron idolized him and was involved in a seven-year long public debate concerning him... honoring him the way he'd like to be remembered (see: the pope-bowles controversy). don juan rly was a tribute to him. we need a series about the restoration era (behn/wilmot/dryden/etc) & of course the young romantics (byron/shelleys/keats/etc) and now we also need the augustan era (pope/montagu/now curll, etc.). someone please pplease please let me do an anthology series (in the vein of ahs or black mirror) about literary communities throughout history already!
cartoonish levels of opportunistic behavior. manipulating every situation to work in his favor like a sitcom character...
the most informative thing i've learned from edmund curll's wiki page is that in the 1700s, the name of the U.S. state "maryland" inspired a whole genre of erotica novels based on puns of the idea of a "[woman's name]-land," as evidenced by "bettyland." staples of the genre included colonization as a metaphor for patriarchal sexual conquest, & erotic descriptions of the female body which borrow from descriptions of natural landscape. much to think about re: postcolonial feminism - this quite literally proves the idea that colonization is inherently patriarchal
NICKI AND CARDI
I just wrote all of that up about Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, and it just disappeared. So what do you think about these 2 whose side are you on? Because i'm definitely a cardi more not for her music or anything like that.I would pick nicky for the music but for her personality.I d pick cardi because she's just so funny and out there and doesn't give a shit like she will come for you.And she will do the research as she will work hard.They both, will.That's a thing they have these things in common.If we did their charts together, their opposite mars, so that's gonna like. So nicki minaj has a mars in capricorn, which is where it's really comfortable in being which is funny because obviously she must have other afflictions in her chart.And that virgo moon is making her crush out right now.I'm telling you, look it the diddlerHe's a virgo moon too my father is too and he does a lot of talking. But not a lot of words, not even that it's like, there's a lot of talking. But there's nothing behind the talking, like their messy, messy queens, and he loves gossip, too. I was saying in the previous post that I had just lost that men. Straight, men love it more than anybody more than anyone along the spectrum they love it. It absolutely loves it. They love the drama, and I was looking at someone put up like the astrology of each social media platform. And it was so funny because I hate facebook, and it's a gemini, and it's so a gemini, because think of like how it acts like it's always people arguing on the comments and people spying, and that is what gemini does. It's funny that pinterest leo, sun and rising because it's my favourite one, and I am that both them placements. And it is funny that tumblr, the anonymous secretive fan fiction of a worldly kingdom, of all kinds of kingdom.And tabooz is a pisces āļø. But we have to talk about nicki minaj and always having drama with other people in the industry.And she went on the wendy williams show once, and never went back.And she wendy said, when she was still about she was like, you go on ellen, and you talk about this.When she was talking about the harper's bazaar, where cardi b comes out with that massive bump on her face. But then it's all about the motor sport. This is where it started, and it is a song with the migos. Which one of them is cardi's partner, and Nikki isn't in any of the video with Hardy? She's only in it with one of the migos, and she changed her whole verse, and you can find the real verse like she was comparing her to being the coach and Nicky being someone who is on the team. Which isn't really that offensive? Come on, like if she's been in the rap game longer. It's not that bad, and nicky didn't like her doing that, like coming out and saying that and making her look bagged again. But let me just say both these women have come for each other. Children Partners, etc. But let's talk about the fact that Nicky comes from a family where her brother literally raped a 10-year-old girl repeatedly. Her husband is a sex offender who raped a young girl who is around the same age as him at the time, and he's not even allowed. To go places with her, he has to sign the. Register obviously and if a woman like that. Who's high up? He's with someone like that. What does it say for the rest of humankind women? It really fucks it up and makes it sad. That's what I think anyway.