A Neoliberal Nightmare at OZY Fest 2018
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July 24, 2018 at 10:35AM
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«"You're all a bunch of marks!" yelled Christman, "What the fuck is wrong with you people?!" at which point his friend and colleague Menaker beseeched him for the first of many times to calm down. "Be quiet," he said, grinning and looking into the throngs of cops and secret service. "We're gonna get kicked out."
As the acid took its position at our mind-podiums, we were treated to the unique pleasure of watching newly-appointed DNC Chair-bot 3000, a.k.a. Tom Perez, run through his litany of pre-programmed phrases until the well was so dry he had to repeat some of them: "Distracting Donald," "Putin's poodle," "hope vs. fear" and, of course, "alternative facts." When CNN's Dana Bash asked him about the growing left-right split within the Democratic Party, he responded, "I see enthusiasm everywhere" before attempting to co-opt the New York Congressional primary victory of insurgent left-populist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with whom he's apparently on a first name basis.»