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Parthian Shot
by GLENN WRIGHT
A rant-ish daydream where bullshit is excluded, except when it is necessarily spread as fertilizer. I talk about Tarot cards from time to time as one additional means and filter of assessing the world and the possibilities. You don't have to believe anything. Better to know than believe. Better to release than enslave. Better to open than to close. Better to run than to sit. Better to stop than to harm. Generally. parthianshot.substack.com
Episodes
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Perimeter Experiences
The point of the exercise was to argue in favor of dumping the bucket-list lifestyle, and on that I am still an advocate. No, you cannot feel the stones on your soles by sitting in your attic imagining the feeling. But you won’t do that reading Plato in Greek either. Still, you might get an...
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Not a president
No shame to reach out for help when you need it. Comforting to know our leaders are big enough to meet in dark alleys and be told what they need to hear from people who know a lot more than they do. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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Preach It Pete
When you realize this is actually what the god of these people wants to happen, the path to your conversion to atheism will be much easier. LETHALITY!—it's really all the regime has to offer. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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Pointy Parts
Another in our series of short, bitter bonus bits where people you may recognize say what they mean instead of what they want you to think. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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Reality, camels, and sinking battleships
Why is this Al-generated war policy debate so much more interesting than all the tired old completely discredited eggspurts telling you Trump has totally saved the day in spite of being a horrible person? In part it is because the brazen artificiality does not get in the way of the fun stuff—the...
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Questions and answers in the time of tyranny
Earlier today I posted the text of this podcast as a note, and I decided it might be useful to speak it for those who cannot or will not read. As I say in the note and podcast: “If the state does not fear the people, the state will do anything to the people that it wants.” That raises many...
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Fearless Leader does what must be done
Happy Trump Hump! Trump makes an audacious announcement and fixes the Jesus problem! Just being liberated from ever having to say the words “Merry Christmas” ever again is a real blessing, huh? Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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The Boat Thing
Fearless Leader explains the boat thing to all of you who clearly do not understand how government works. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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100% Truth
Another in a series of compassionate clarifiers. It is the least we can do. Fearless leader explains the Holocaust and other things he says people just don't understand. 1933 is already here. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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PolClar
PolClar provides an exciting and encouraging update in the ongoing effort to clarify the political intentions of Fearless Leader. For those who feel it is way past time for the White House to put its cards on the table, so the American people know what is going on, this should be very helpful.…
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The collapse of American education and American minds—and you of course
Reflections on the failure to educate the people. Rusty old democratic republics barely run just anyway, but they have no chance to get the people anywhere good, when the nation keeps saying "good luck" getting the job you are not educated to do, and oh by the way the USA is all about taking care...
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Brief dates and stochastic pastries
Nobody reads or writes poetry anymore, and when they do, they shouldn’t. So there is always risk in doing things you shouldn’t. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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Fresh off the vine
This statement from Fearless Creeper is I agree a little short for a podcast, so I am not calling it that. Let us call it an audio bubble-gum wrapper. Smells very pink. Very sweet. The message is so deliciously simple, don’t you think? In my experience, as I have diligently tried to show you all,...
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Texas Flood
Thoughts on privilege and storms and risks when it goes floodin' down in Texas. Stories always have more to 'em, huh? Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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Trump’s big beautiful mechanized masturbation was some boring bullshit
The kind of anti-fascist schlepping in Trump's big, beautiful parade was at least a little encouraging, except what with the world rapidly descending into chaos and war, maybe it woulda been better to look like you could at least march down the street in step. Or you know, maybe just not do the...
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Saturday
Fearless leader tells you what the idea really is. I tell you what your level of moral outrage oughta be, but you're probably too exhausted to do anymore oughta-shoulda's. A boy and his tank send their regards. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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Big Beautiful ICE
While I do not drink anymore, I appreciate some good advice about beverages. It’s getting really hot. And crushing some ice sounds like a really good plan. Good luck out there. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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Exclusive—What they are really saying about each other!
So sad, right, when good friends break up. Poor Elon. His little world is crumbling all around him. And DT is being so mean to him. But I think somewhere in all this maybe not so completely real melodrama is a lot of truth. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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Blight and Light
When things don't go so great for you, when you get the very lamest Tarot card of all—which is not even Death—it is "Failure", what do you do? I don't know. Why are you bothering me about it? Oh right. I read Tarot cards. Yep, I do. Guess you'd better listen to the podcast. Get full access to...
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If we could take all the hot air spewed by all the blowhards of Substack
Why doesn't the enormous spew of words on Substack and all over social media actually change anything politically? The world doesn't work like that. People want soma, not solutions. And you know, they can't even agree about the problems that need solving. But beyond all that, I will tell you...
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When one finally decides to sober up from fantasy it can be quite a cold turkey
Reflections on the role of and addiction to fantasy in our lives. We may be strongly pulled at times like this in the direction of unreality, where better happier worlds may be found. But is that where we need to be? Well, unless you're really into pain and El Salvador, maybe so. Because that…
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A Sunday J for you freshly rolled from Pope Donny
After Stephen Miller said some crazy shit last week, Gandalf rolled a joint of Sauronic Palantir and got some folks to confess what we all know is the truth. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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The Rewards of Being Wrong
On the morality of synaptical reserve versus launching your ambush on your own vanity. The reason the world refuses to change is because you do. That, unfortunately, does not make you a bad person. It makes you perfectly normal. Overwhelmingly so. OK. Go back to sleep. Get full access to Parthian...
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I just think the Constitution is too hard for Americans today
Some thoughts on the operational integrity of "constitution", as the Founders and some 18th-century political philosophers thought about that idea. Just having a constitution is not good enough. It has to be both respected as a document with continuing relevance to the people, and it has to have...
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The 10 of Wands world in which you find yourselves depends upon your fear and self-loathing
There is a Tarot card that describes your (and our) current dilemma. It is a card about desperately being afraid to overthrow oppressive regimes and circumstances, because who knows what that will cost and what that will bring? As I will explain to you, there is a mechanism at work that will...
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Cleaning up DEI at the Smithsonian requires an ethnic cleansing of anything intelligent
Wherein I come at the problem of aggressive stupidity installed as the arbiter of excellence from a number of perspectives. This is more a pie in the face than a critical rebuke. Well, there is a rebuke in the pie too of course. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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Pete Hegseth and Anders Behring Breivik share a common worldview
In this podcast, I explore what exactly it is Pete Hegseth believes and what he is trying to do, and why you should be trying to do everything you can to stop him. But for example, there is just way too much in common between the thinking of Pete Hegseth and another guy with a Norwegian…
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Poetry Break 1
This is not really an official podcast. It is a poetry break. And make whatever you want of the alleged or imagined difference. It is just a poem plus some comments on the hard political reality. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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What kind of Nazi is Elon Musk?
What kind of Nazi is Elon Musk. Just a cosplay swaggerer, seeking tech-nazi cred with his Junior Injustice League incels? Or is Elon Musk more like the kind that totally gets and supports the underlying assumptions of the German political party, AfD? That is what this podcast seeks to answer....
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Trump tells USA to burn to ashes as he denounces climate science and amps up massive carbon pollution
A look at the insane energy policy of Donald Trump, as he revealed in executive orders yesterday, showing among other things his love of coal. Yep, with Trump in charge, the skies will fill with filth, the atmosphere will clog up with even more carbon, the climate will spike with heat, and the...
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All that time Trump spent reading “Mein Kampf” is really paying off, huh?
I discuss the Trump-Hitler doctrine, or Trump's foreign policy. Whether it is a joke or not, it is a further effort by Trump to normalize fascism and criminal conduct on the part of the USA, like the USA needs any more help on that count. Get full access to Parthian Shot at...
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Certifying Idiocy
Time for the 10th episode of the Parthian Shot podcast. Yay! Too bad it is about such a dreadful topic. And too bad I am so unkind, because I don’t care about anybody’s feelings. Y’all chose this. And the Pillar of Severity and Sarcasm is what you rate. But you know, if you were a good person you...
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Beating the same old drum—getting the same old outcome
Well, it’s Sunday, so we had to have a sermon about Zion and trumpets and complaining to the manager because where the hell is God anyway? And also, did you know Jimmy Carter said he was gonna make America great again long before Donald Trump said that? It is never a good sign when some asshole...
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“Content” and identity—the problem of vanishing web content
So, today’s little sunflower is kind of a critique of somebody else’s stuff, but I prefer to think of it as merely having grown out of that compost. I did not and do not intend to pick on that person or construct particularly. But her tone and concerns about how her identity is being erased as…
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Jesus and the black light of the Moon
Oh it’s Christmas again. The day of hope. The day of cosmic reset. A chance perhaps. But that does not really seem to working or happening, huh? Many Christmases have come and gone in times of utter darkness and hopeless despair. People could look all about at their world and their evil...
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1.5% Mandate claimed as call for “revolution” by Elon Musk
So, a lot of what you’re seeing going on in Mar-a-Lago and Washington DC is because the Republicans and their elected and unelected fearless leaders have been claiming the election is a big mandate to overthrow the republic and set up the kind of country the oligarchs have been hankering for—like...
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New Grammar
I mean, were you the asshole who came up with the grammar rules? I have never met that asshole. That’s because all those assholes are dead. I don’t know. I think there’s an arc in my salad of binary assumptions. Because the people are declining into their uneasy chairs and falling for the...
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Needs
A poetic riff or a riffy poem or just another ill-tempered and sarcastic rant about the absurdities of our political and cultural prospects. Get full access to Parthian Shot at parthianshot.substack.com/subscribe
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Joe Biden's big 'BUT' pardon of his loser son Hunter
My first reaction to hearing this news was visceral—even though it was certainly no surprise. I think everybody expected this. But then Biden goes and does it and he does it in the expansive way he did it and he does it while still pathetically and stupidly bragging about how when he lies to the...
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The Idiocy of Identity
What can we say about the importance of identity that has not already been said? Well, I made an effort to explore answers to that question. And so this podcast. As always, do not blame me. You are totally responsible for choosing to listen to this. I mean, the show notes do not sound very fun....
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Your Other Eyes
This is the first podcast of Parthian Shot. I spontaneously jabber about one of my favorite aphoristic commandments. And I arrive at the strong suggestion you use your other eyes to obediently perform the trick. I do not know what good this will do you. But the soundtrack just totally rocks,...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A rant-ish daydream where bullshit is excluded, except when it is necessarily spread as fertilizer. I talk about Tarot cards from time to time as one additional means and filter of assessing the world and the possibilities. You don't have to believe anything. Better to know than believe. Better to release than enslave. Better to open than to close. Better to run than to sit. Better to stop than to harm. Generally.
parthianshot.substack.com
HOSTED BY
GLENN WRIGHT
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A rant-ish daydream where bullshit is excluded, except when it is necessarily spread as fertilizer. I talk about Tarot cards from time to time as one additional means and filter of assessing the world and the possibilities. You don't have to believe anything. Better to know than believe. Better to...
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