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  • Subpar Thinkers Implode in Coinci-density

    David Cole - Jun 27th 2023 1:07am EDT

    Readers often ask, “Dave, why you always pickin’ on the right?” Nick Land, a rather well-known bloke, commented back in January: “Cole’s basic, consistent thesis is that the Left is just way better at politics than the Right. It’s not that he’s wrong, but if he’s right, can incessantly scolding the Right for being a […]

  • The Devil Is the Details

    David Cole - Jun 19th 2023 10:33pm EDT

    Two weeks ago I wrote about the folly of viewing “I’m fleeing to a red state” as a panacea rather than a postponement, and last week I dealt with the right’s disdain for details and fondness for “paint with a wide brush” worldviews. Those themes are interconnected. “Wide brushism”—clinging to simplistic outlooks and seeking simplistic […]

  • The Right’s Big Brush-Off

    David Cole - Jun 13th 2023 12:00am EDT

    Here’s a fun fact: My cousin was one of the attorneys who got silicone breast implants banned in the 1990s. As regular readers know, my biological dad killed Elvis. So my bloodline took away Elvis and boobies. That’s why I never had kids—Lord knows what manner of villainy they’d inflict upon mankind. After Big Mammary […]

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  • Should White Fight the Blight or Take Flight?

    David Cole - Jun 6th 2023 12:00am EDT

    All last week, something seemed…off. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but something wasn’t right. Like there was a void. Then it hit me! As Texas Republicans were slaughtering each other in the statehouse, “red state Twitter” had gone silent! You know, those rightists who arrogantly boast, “Gyuck gyuck I dun lives in a […]

  • Six Feet Undergroundhog Day

    David Cole - May 29th 2023 2:46pm EDT

    Well, so much for last week’s experiment with a race-and-politics-free column about the entertainment industry; it landed with a thud so loud I checked my roof for Eric Clapton’s son (I did that joke years ago and it provoked a furious email from a deeply offended reader. So I’m repeating it…just for him). From now […]

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  • Hollywood: America’s “Big Steal” Industry

    David Cole - May 23rd 2023 5:10am EDT

    It sounded like a manatee dropped from a skyscraper; a wet, squishy, yet earth-shaking thud. The commotion scared the hell out of me as I was at my desk, in my comfy chair, expecting anything but the sound a manatee landing outside my front door…which I ran to, no thought given to the potential dangers […]

  • Writers Gulled

    David Cole - May 23rd 2023 4:51am EDT

    My friends (and one or two foes) have informed me that my past few columns have been downers. “Can’t you do something a little lighter?” they ask. “Also, what’s your take on the WGA strike?” Happy to oblige, friends and foes who for once are not an imaginary opening-paragraph device to assist in justifying a […]

  • Tijuana Bris: A Jew Stirs the Beans

    David Cole - May 19th 2023 4:25pm EDT

    As many of you know, a few months ago Media Matters pressured YouTube into banning me from the site. 6,600 subscribers, 3.5 million views. All gone! I have no idea if Substack is a good venue for video rants; I just know that my old YT base wants me to start doing them again, and […]

  • Brown Shirts ’n’ Skins

    David Cole - May 16th 2023 2:09am EDT

    Last week a clip from something called “Timcast” went viral. Some round-faced, beady-eyed stoner (I think that’s “Tim”) was debating a manic Robert Downey Jr. look-alike (I guess that’s “cast”) about trannies. Robert Downeysyndrome was telling Tiny-eyed Tim that the massive uptick in young people declaring themselves tranny isn’t due to some “fad” or the […]

  • Pessimistic River

    David Cole - May 9th 2023 4:38am EDT

    Call it prescience…or bad timing. The moment I finished last week’s column, Pew released a poll proving my point about the difference between 1970s urban blight and that of the present; how it comes down to optimism back then (the belief that “the powers that be” opposed the rot) vs. pessimism today (a belief that […]

  • Shirkling the Drain

    David Cole - May 2nd 2023 5:52am EDT

    “Circling the drain.” It’s a phrase I first heard in a non-plumbing context when a doctor said it in reference to my elderly father’s condition. It basically means dying, but not yet dead. The end seems certain, but the patient clings to life. It’s a terribly brutal phrase to use regarding a person. Or a […]

  • Third Reicher’s Island

    David Cole - Apr 25th 2023 12:29am EDT

    Continuing with last week’s theme—the decennial of my “outing”—let’s talk about the Holocaust. Because I’m never going to be allowed to not talk about it. Lord knows I’ve tried. I stopped speaking about it publicly after 1995. Returning from a monthlong gig at Waseda University in February ’95, where I’d lectured Jap kids who had […]

  • Counter-Currents Calls Me Out for Denying Denial

    David Cole - Apr 24th 2023 9:01am EDT

    This is supposed to be a supplemental piece that this week’s Takimag column links to, but I’m new to Substack and I don’t think you can do an “unlisted” column that doesn’t get blasted to your subscribers immediately upon link generation, so in order to get the link for my column, I gotta publish this […]

  • Notes on the Ten-Year Anniversary of My Cancellation

    David Cole - Apr 20th 2023 8:15pm EDT

    (This week’s post is purely anecdotal, just ol’ Dave observing a milestone. I’ll try to make the next one more substantive) Hard to believe it was ten years ago. See, back then we didn’t use the term “canceled.” Indeed, by and large, there was little censorship on Facebook or Twitter (the latter, at the time, […]

  • Thank You for Your Disservice

    David Cole - Apr 18th 2023 12:30am EDT

    Christians and Jews have had their Holy Week; now it’s my turn. Ten years ago, April 20, 2013, I was “outed” as David Cole. April 20, as you likely know, is a loaded date—the birthday of a terrible, terrible man. But enough about George Takei. The outing’s the reason you’re reading me right now. Love […]

  • RIP Dave’s YouTube

    David Cole - Apr 11th 2023 3:58pm EDT

    Some lessons you learn the hard way, and some hard ways the lessons learn you. Okay, that sounded better in my head. For 14 years I had a perfectly fine little YouTube channel. During my David Stein “Republican Party Animal” years I used it for wholly uninspired rah-rah GOP! viral videos. Crap that would run […]

  • Pyromaganacs

    David Cole - Apr 11th 2023 12:00am EDT

    Dave: “Let’s talk about Doug Mackey, the guy convicted of posting memes!” Readers: “Oh crap, I bet Dave’s gonna be contrarian and scolding, like a broken fucking record.” Dear readers, you shouldn’t cuss so much. That said, maybe I am becoming a tad predictable. So before I started writing this column, I reached out to […]

  • Postgame Update: Quoth the Dave’n

    David Cole - Apr 6th 2023 2:03pm EDT

    (Dave’s Substack is free and always will be. But you can show your appreciation via Buy Me a Coffee!) My apologies for not posting here for the past few weeks; four months of nonstop storms (the one last week being perhaps the most violent yet) kicked the livin’ crap out of my creaky old house […]

  • The Genocide Strikes Back

    David Cole - Apr 4th 2023 3:58am EDT

    That tranny genocide is something, huh? It’s like the Yakov Smirnoff of genocides: “In Trannyland, genocide victims kill you!” In light of last week’s Christian school massacre, I wanna revisit something I wrote a year ago regarding female influence in trannyism. I pointed out that “groomer” doesn’t explain why so many trannyism-in-school propagandists are women. […]

  • This Week’s Column: Postgame Update

    David Cole - Mar 30th 2023 8:40pm EDT

    Tuesday’s Takimag column about James O’Keefe prompted a half-dozen private emails from people in the O’Keefe circle. And those emails carried the same message, which I’ll relate without violating the confidence of those who sent them. I won’t waste space recapping Tuesday’s piece; read it here if you haven’t already. One thing I didn’t have […]

  • Dr. Michael Shermer: Phony “Skeptic,” Book-Banning Fraud

    David Cole - Mar 30th 2023 8:40pm EDT

    Okay, this here’s a saga. Regular readers know that Takimag has a strict word limit. 1,840 words per column, no more! As an author prone to self-indulgence, I like that; it keeps me disciplined. But having no limit on Substack, every now and then I’m gonna do something longer. Don’t bitch about it, okay? I […]

  • Dave on Holocaust Revisionism & Denial, Ideology, Jews, Hollywood, the Casting Couch, and His “Legacy”

    David Cole - Mar 30th 2023 8:40pm EDT

    Here’s a two-part interview I did with Counter-Currents’ Travis LeBlanc. I really enjoyed it because it was all over the map, in the best possible way. Very unique, creative questions, and I had a lot of fun with it. I’m making a Substack post of it because, as you may know, Facebook doesn’t allow Counter-Currents […]

  • I’m Sick of the 6th (Why Aren’t You?)

    David Cole - Mar 28th 2023 2:00am EDT

    Here’s a brainteaser: Was Samuel Byck a would-be assassin? To refresh your memory, here’s his story: Sam Byck was a miserable failure. Born to a Philadelphia Jewish family, Byck was the child they didn’t brag about. A failure at business, a failure at marriage, a failure at life in general. In 1974, after being rejected […]

  • A Smear of Cole, a Schmear of Truth

    David Cole - Mar 21st 2023 4:56am EDT

    As a schoolkid, Media Matters scribe Eric Hananoki was the Asian student in no danger of throwing off the curve. With a face that screams “Godzilla is attacking the city; we must run!” Hananoki-san has the cushiest job ever: He watches TV for material to cancel rightists. And last week Hananoki thought he had the […]

  • Little Miss Information

    David Cole - Mar 14th 2023 2:07am EDT

    Dear Biden administration: Please treat us like China. In 2020 I contacted Michael Posner (Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor) with a simple question: Ten years on, do you have any proof that your China strategy worked? See, back in 2010, Posner hatched a plan to make the Chinese “come […]