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  • NEW VIDEO: Dave Answers YOUR Questions!

    David Cole - Aug 29th 2023 3:03pm EDT

    September sekkint is my birthday! Buy me a beer! Buy me a beer! Buy me a beer! And leave your questions in the comments for the next video. Also, holy crap that shirt is billowy! Makes me look “end-stage Brando” fat. It was the only shirt I had on-hand that didn’t clash with the green […]

  • The Gathering Fog (A Horror Story)

    David Cole - Aug 29th 2023 10:43am EDT

    Recently I’ve been thinking about James Herbert’s 1975 book The Fog, which I read when it was first published (I’ve been a horror fan since childhood; as a kid there wasn’t a horror film or book I didn’t voraciously consume). The novel tells of a (spoiler alert) fog that warps the mind of all who […]

  • Exalted Failures Part II: Slow-Motion ‘Downfall’

    David Cole - Aug 22nd 2023 4:12am EDT

    This will conclude my apparent “Hitler Trilogy” (I say “apparent” because I didn’t plan it; it just kinda happened that way). I’ll lead off with a few observations from my youth. I realize that Ron Unz tells you that “the Jews” only invented the Holocaust in the 1970s because by then everyone involved in WWII […]

  • Exalted Failures Part I: Führer Furor

    David Cole - Aug 15th 2023 9:21am EDT

    Hitlers, I get Hitlers. Lotsa hubbub following last week’s column about the far-right’s Hitler fetish. Nick Fuentes stopped pleasuring himself to videos of Ali Alexander curb-crawling a Boy Scout fun-run just long enough to wail on Telegram about how mean ol’ Cole THE JEW defamed the Führer. Another target of my column, Elijah Schaffer (the […]

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  • C’mon, Republicans, Let’s Get Hitlerized!

    David Cole - Aug 8th 2023 4:04am EDT

    Simply everyone’s talkin’ about Hitler! Let’s join the fun. Remember in 2015, when leftists called Trump a Nazi and we were like, “Nice try! You called Romney a Nazi! You called McCain a Nazi! Everyone’s a Nazi to you.” Yeah, those were fun times. Until we got actual Nazis. Richard Spencer was that first cockroach […]

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  • The Curse of the Checkersuckers

    David Cole - Aug 1st 2023 12:00am EDT

    Yes, another parable! You guys liked the burning balcony one so much, I’m doin’ it again. In Paul Schrader’s 1978 film Blue Collar, there’s a scene in which Richard Pryor confronts two checkered-suit-wearing pension-fund-thieving UAW goons. In the theatrical cut, he calls them “motherfuckers.” For the 1980s edited-for-TV version, some genius dubbed in “checkersuckers.” That […]

  • The Right’s Ideological Dysgenics

    David Cole - Jul 25th 2023 4:52am EDT

    I don’t care much for Ron Unz. While I certainly appreciate anyone who publishes “forbidden” content, I do feel quite vehemently that Unz is emblematic of a major problem facing the right. Like most Californians, I knew Unz as a failed politician and successful businessman who, in the 1990s, scuttled the state’s Spanish-only “bilingual” education […]

  • Davel Gazing

    David Cole - Jul 20th 2023 1:18pm EDT

    I’ve neglected this Substack for three weeks now, and that foolishness stops here. I’ve just been distracted by a lot of petty personal stuff…home repairs, a bout of dysentery, residual paperwork from my ugly divorce from Judi Dench (we tried to keep it amicable for the kids, but when I found out she was seeing […]

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  • Covid’s Original Sins

    David Cole - Jul 18th 2023 12:00am EDT

    At the request of those who think the Covid origin lab leak theory is “settled,” here’s the response you asked for. All studies/articles mentioned are linked. If this topic matters to you, read the links, don’t just rely on my overview. Recap Animal-to-human spillover would be the expected route for a disease like Covid. It’s […]

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  • Washed-Up Parabolic

    David Cole - Jul 11th 2023 1:49am EDT

    Life is full of surprises. Two weeks ago, a professor from Ben-Gurion University publicly called me out on Twitter. That’s not surprising; I expect Jewish academics to dislike me. I have a rep, justified or not (spoiler alert: not). The surprising part was that the prof was angry that I’d yet to address new “developments” […]

  • Breitbart’s Frog of War

    David Cole - Jul 4th 2023 12:00am EDT

    I was gonna do a piece about Covid’s origin, as it’s been in the news again and readers have asked me to address it, but I’m putting it off for a week. Because the Pedro Gonzalez thing is stuck in my craw. Disclaimer: I have no idea where my “craw” is, but if it’s where […]

  • 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, […]