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| Sarah Hoyt: The Strategic Dinosaur |
| 2025-09-20 |
| People have been baffled as to why Jimmy Kimmel didn’t just apologize and avoid being fired. Also why a lot of the left is doubling down on what’s obviously the 20% side of an 80-20 issue, like.... Oh, standing for illegal immigration. or the 10 side of a 10-90 issue, like outright standing for more criminality. What you’re failing to understand is that there is a strategy to it. It’s a defective strategy that no longer works, but it was such a good move for so long that it got deep-embedded in the left’s culture and they no longer know the reasons behind the action. They just do it because it always worked before. At the same time that people were coining "Get woke, go broke" to show that wokeness was not in fact a bottom-up movement, I was coining "Roll left and die" but it actually should be more appropriately named "Roll left TO die." They’re not the same thing, but since they happened at the same time they’ve gotten conflated and the first kind of massively took over, because it’s a caution. Roll left to die is more a description of what I saw happen over and over, primarily n publishing. Someone who was hard left would take over a magazine. Over the course of his (or more commonly her) tenure, the magazine would decline to the point of dying. Just on the point of death, the person in charge would roll even harder left. The magazine would, of course, go down in flames. BUT before the ashes had cooled, this person would be offered a bigger, better job, with a bigger, better magazine. Where the process repeated. This was also true of writers whose career was dying. Make sure your next book is redder than Mao’s Red Book, and even though it sells almost nothing, people will line up to give you big advances/support your future endeavors. Because I don’t like things that make no sense, I analyzed the phenomenon and realized while it was a bad strategy for magazines/institutions, it was a great individual career strategy. How? Well, the first thing you have to understand is that the left doesn’t give a d*mn about "the thing" whatever "the thing is": science, industry, endeavor, institution, art. They don’t care about "the thing" that they just took over. The only thing they care about now and forever is revolution. Add to that that by the fourth generation of dominating certain fields and hiring only on ideological compliance ALL OF THEM ARE ARRANT INCOMPETENTS. Sure, sometimes, by accident, they find one of their true believers who has talent and sometimes even genius. But they tend to destroy those, because well, because their ideology views envy as a cardinal virtue. Be too talented and suddenly there will be rape accusations, or someone will have heard you mutter a slur, or... (These might even be true. As we learned this last week, the left are the most amoral sh*theads in existence. They don’t even know what morality is and can’t find it with two hands and a seeing eye dog.) So the fact that you just destroyed the magazine/enterprise/institution doesn’t matter to them. They do that all the time themselves, often without meaning to. What matters is that before the thing died, you virtue signaled as hard as you could to the left. That means that they MUST support you and give you a bigger position. They can’t allow people to think you might get fired for being hard left. So they have to do whatever they can to make you BIGGER. This strategy worked for close on to a 100 years which is why people did the roll left to die as hard as they could. Signs it was breaking down came when people like Keith Olberman or Don Le Lemon started having to "go to vlogging from their basement" to obviously no attention whatsoever. And now a days it’s a crap shoot whether rolling left to die will get you more money, or just ignored. But people like Kimmel whose career was dying anyway instinctively do it, because it worked so well so long that it just became "the thing to do" like some sort of deranged ritual. They do it because the strategy solidified into ritual. And because they don’t know what else to do. This btw explains the Biden administration too. Everything they did was a disaster and they knew it, so they rolled left as hard as they could, so they’d be seen as martyrs of the revolution and have cushy jobs/donations after. The fact that the Biden library is not getting funded at all and that Kamala is giving up on political — crazy cakes — aspirations, like governor of California, tells you it’s not working there either. However, watch for it to happen more. The dying dinosaur rolls hard left to die. Because its walnut-sized brain tells it that it always worked before! |
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| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-09-20 10:53 |