Trygve's Seven Rules for Fighting Autocrats Pt. 2: Speak Truth to Power
Every little truth builds to a tipping point, so keep speaking them
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Here’s a quick hit for your drive back from the ocean, or the pool, grill, what have you. This is Trygve Olson’s second rule for taking on autocrats, Speak Truth to Power. (Read
writeup of Trygve’s second rule here, which he posted a few months ago, with some good advice on the How of speaking truth to power.)And if you haven’t already, make sure to sign up for Trygve’s own Substack,
here, read his reasoning and his motivation, he has lived these fights and knows a bit about them.Call this rule the Beatles’ 10,000 Hours rule, every little truth builds to a tipping point, and it’s impossible foresee what that may be. So keep piling on.
Make sure to listen to our first episode in this special series, Rule #1: Play the game you’re in. And look for an alert soon for our third episode the series.
The Madman Theory
In case you missed my Substack LIVE with
, catch it here:
The feudal system of meeting with Trump at the White House, come bearing a goat, some gold, maybe three daughters
What’s the corollary for Trump taking gifts from foreign countries (like a Boeing 747) - in American history, or around the world? Probably Muammar Gaddafi, the former Libyan dictator.
What is the fallout from the gruesome murders of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington last week? A lengthy discussion of the rise and proliferation of
In this era of social, it’s almost like hatred and vitriol is normalized now. While Trump supports Israel, a lot of his supporters are white nationalists and anti-semites. (We didn’t talk about Kanye “Ye” West, who brought a neo-Nazi to dine with Trump a few years ago, releasing song praising Hitler. Which, ya know, is yet another thing happened in our time.)
The latest on Ukraine and Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin (we taped before the latest weekend bombing of sleeping families in Ukraine by Putin.) Is Trump starting to catch on that Putin is stringing him along?
Up this week
Stop by 24sight Substack LIVE today at 1p ET for the latest from the Virginia races (early voting is already well under way and primary day is June 17) with the great
of Virginia Scope. Brandon’s wicked plugged in and great at explaining what matters and why in some truly strange statewide races.Then stop in Thursday at Noon ET for my Substack LIVE with the great
.Posting this week, my interview with bestselling author Laurence Leamer on his newest book, “Warhol’s Muses”. We dissect the lure of power, the similarities and differences between Warhol and Trump, and spend a good bit of time talking about John F. Kennedy (with a few surprises you’ll hear in the interview.)
If you miss a LIVE, you can catch it here at the Super Secret Members Page, including last week’s interviews with
and . I was chatting with a friend over the weekend and reminded of something Pablo, an excellent immigration reporter, mentioned in our chat: Immigrant communities change and adapt to help each other. In our video, he mentions this re: expecting latinos to begin adjusting to the new Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions of the second Trump term.
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"She said while she was there she was gonna try to get more information out of his phone," he said in the deposition. "And I told her that she needs to contact the authorities, and she asked me why. And I said, 'Because, Nancy, as your campaign consultant, if it ever comes out that you knew of women being harmed and you didn't do anything about it, your career is over.'"
Former Nancy Mace political consultant Wes Donehue, in his deposition, obtained by
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Love the feudal system parralell.