• 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 […]

  • The Trumpbart Primary

    David Cole - Mar 7th 2023 3:25am EST

    I was gonna open this column with “One of the questions I’m frequently asked about the Holocaust,” but that would’ve been dishonest. I’m never asked questions about the Holocaust. Oh, I hear from Holocaust deniers. Lots of ’em. But they never ask questions; they just issue idiotic declarations disguised as questions. “Isn’t it terrible how […]

  • The Night Baby Put Herself in a Corner

    David Cole - Feb 28th 2023 5:16am EST

    In recent months I’ve written several pieces that mention my Friends of Abe years. It’s pure coincidence; stories in the news that piqued my interest just happened to contain angles that relate to my time with the “secret” org of Hollywood conservatives. I’m not trying to be self-indulgent; honest, I ain’t. But if you wanna […]

  • Rightists Drown in Steve Bannon’s Flood

    David Cole - Feb 21st 2023 12:00am EST

    Actor Michael Landon, born Oygenglayben Schmuelowitz (memo to self: Confirm that before press time), was the handsome star of Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie (I just lost every millennial reader). Landon’s mother was severely schizophrenic, and his father was emotionally ill-equipped to handle it. Landon’s childhood was marred by traumatizing incidents. One in […]

  • “I’d Like to Thank the Blackademy”

    David Cole - Feb 14th 2023 2:14am EST

    ]It’s Oscar season! Which of course means only one thing: White people are evil. Of course, to be fair, that also applies to rainy season, holiday season, baseball season, football season, blueberry season, duck season, and wabbit season. In “de facto apartheid” America, it’s a given that every season somehow means whites are bad. “A […]

  • Dinner Bell for the Right’s Last Supper

    David Cole - Feb 6th 2023 6:00pm EST

    In February 2007, 24-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Holocaust denier Eric Hunt had an idea: He’d kidnap Holocaust survivor/author Elie Wiesel and make him admit that the Holocaust never happened. Hunt tracked Wiesel to a speaking gig in San Francisco. His plan was to accost the old man, force him in front of a camera, and make […]

  • Light Skin Atone

    David Cole - Jan 31st 2023 4:16am EST

    Well, I warned her. September 1992. I was in Munich for the only reason I ever went to Europe, the sonofabitchin’ Holocaust. My traveling companion Tina and I had just concluded two weeks in Poland, and now we were in the heart of Bavaria, where I was scheduled to give a talk. I was in […]

  • Hidden Hand Job

    David Cole - Jan 28th 2023 1:30pm EST

    You know who probably got more tail than anyone in history? The first dude who was able to predict a solar eclipse. Think about it. “Today I shall blot the sun from the sky! If you wish to escape eternal darkness, send me all your virgins to favor me with pleasure! And a few older, […]

  • Special-Needs Nation

    David Cole - Jan 28th 2023 1:30pm EST

    When I’m asked why I never had kids, my standard answer is, I’ve spent my life in mortal fear of being tethered to another human in a manner from which I can’t legally walk away if I choose. That’s an honest answer, but it’s not the complete one. The second part, which I always leave […]

  • Purge and Cleanse, No Loose Ends

    David Cole - Jan 28th 2023 1:30pm EST

    It’s a tradition ’round these parts (and by “these parts” I mean my desktop, comfy chair, and rum bottle) to end December by cleaning house of interesting bits and pieces I didn’t get to use during the year. Normally, this housecleaning consists of unused back-and-forths with journalists and academics. But this year’s different: I had […]

  • Dave Drinks Again (and answers your questions)

    David Cole - Jan 28th 2023 1:30pm EST

  • Give Thanks…No Green Screen, Video’s Under Two Hours, and I’m Wearing a Shirt!

    David Cole - Jan 28th 2023 1:30pm EST

  • BOO! I’m Back for Halloween!

    David Cole - Jan 28th 2023 1:30pm EST

  • Oh, What a Tangled Weave We Weld

    David Cole - Jan 23rd 2023 6:00pm EST

    Autumn 1986 I attended an exhibit at the California Institute of the Arts. I wasn’t there for the “art”; CalArts exhibits were (and are) for the pretentious hipster crowd, not for guys like me who love mocking the pretentious hipster crowd. But a former high school friend invited me, and I kinda fancied one of […]

  • Hidden Hand Job

    David Cole - Jan 16th 2023 6:00pm EST

    You know who probably got more tail than anyone in history? The first dude who was able to predict a solar eclipse. Think about it. “Today I shall blot the sun from the sky! If you wish to escape eternal darkness, send me all your virgins to favor me with pleasure! And a few older, […]