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Trump’s Reign Created Right-Wing Slop… This is How Progressive Media Fights Back

Hysteria | December 11, 2025



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CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro
04:36 – What is “slop”?
08:05 – What has progressive media fumbled from the past decade
11:54 – Why we need to broaden what we think of as “slop”
14:33 – Bringing people into the political conversation from different audiences
17:36 – Ad break
21:47 – Social media being mainstream media/we need to hold mainstream media accountable
30:20 – How do we compete with the money that is being throw at right wing creators?
38:24 – Ad break
42:31 – How to spread a progressive message without talking about the news
46:02 – What is the responsibility of politicians on the left to engage with diverse media
52:04 – How do we navigate sexism in our current media climate
01:01:09 – How to we expand the big tent

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  1. @MrJohnShamelessaxe

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    I have always loved your content and look forward to new posts. That being said, you might want to look at a problem with your audio as right around 22:20 I heard a weird and extremely irritating noise coming through that as best I can tell, sounded like a human voice saying, "Ex-cetera," which we all know is not a word.

  3. @heyjude1587

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    The repulsives are almost exclusively men, often bots from other countries, always have guns, flags and crosses. The delightfuls are mostly women but also men, they're funny, smart and nice. I truly believe the delightfuls far outnumber the repulsives. One reason I'm so feisty is I'd rather die fighting the repulsives than be stuck with nothing but repulsives around me. We need to put women in fucking charge of everything forthwith💙🗽

  4. @ApuliaGrove

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    Here in Australia, we're in the relatively happy position of having recently elected a centre-left national government, after giving the cardboard cut-out GOP we have here a proper shellacking back in May. In fact they've never had fewer seats in our equivalent of Congress, and since we have a UK style system, that is where the Prime Minister (President in your language) comes from. We call our government the Labor Party ('goddam commies' in your language), but they are actually harmless social democrats, just pledged to maintain stuff like access to abortion, government-funded healthcare and education, and other Soviet-style interference with Free Markets.

    This is despite the right-wing space cadets here trying to use every trick from the playbook of the criminals and lunatics you have in charge over there. This did not play with Australian voters. In fact it alienated lots of people, including long-time supporters of the rightist coalition, who deserted it in droves and elected centre-right independents in unprecedented numbers.

    Why this difference? We have about the same proportion of right-leaning voters here, but the hard right option proved very unattractive. Luckily, the blockheads in charge of it still do not get it, and are leaning further to the right than ever. They will be out of government for a generation at this rate.

    I should also add that King Donald had been in power for four months at that point, and it was shortly after 'Liberation Day'. Far from surfing the rightist wave, which was what the conservatives were hoping, there was a far stronger element of 'WTF, we don't need that s**t here'.

    I suggest that five basic reforms might improve the situation. We have three of these things here; one does not apply to us; one we could use here too.

    1. Compulsory voting. The people who won't accept this are the ones you don't want to vote anyway. At the moment, with your system, about 65% vote, even fewer in the mid-terms, so the group that propelled King Donald I into power represent no more than 33% of the people. If you can mobilise enough highly-motivated crackpots, you can hijack the Whitehouse. Since we have 90+% turnout here, no-one can claim that the government has no mandate, and there's no excuse to mentally opt-out. it also means that anything that veers too far from the consensus simply won't get up. There is division here, but nothing like over there, and there is still pretty strong consensus in significant areas of public policy.

    2. Move election day to the weekend so you don't have to ask the boss for permission to vote. Ours are always on a Saturday and we usually have a barbie (BBQ in your language) afterwards.

    3. We have an independent Australian Electoral Commission which oversees ALL electoral boundaries for all levels of government, and which supervises all elections, both activities under strict rules and with lots of scrutiny invited from all the contestants. It is not left to local jurisdictions which in the past has led to gerrymandering of the sort now being undertaken over there. Any attempt to mess with the Electoral Commission is very badly received indeed. Anyway, it has a track record so good that neither side complains about it. The AEC sets up voting stations in thousands of schools across the country, such that just about no-one is more than 15 mins drive from one. This is one of its mandated functions. Again, not left to local bosses or partisan entities. The AEC is one of the most trusted institutions in the country.

    Furthermore, the only eligibility requirements for voting are that you're a citizen, over 18, not in jail for three years or more (and you can still re-enrol when you've done your time), and have an address. Even there, we have special arrangements for the homeless and other special needs people. Not going into the weeds there, but you get the idea. We do everything we can reasonably do so people CAN vote, not so they CAN'T. Quite different over there I gather.

    4. Ditch the electoral college. Does not seem to perform any useful function, adds needless complexity, utterly incomprehensible to us outsiders, and, I suspect, many over there too. States do not have rights (appears to be why it exists?); people have rights. This is 2025, not 1776. It doesn't matter any more.

    5. Do something meaningful about campaign finance regulation. Also a problem over here, but in view of points 1-3 just having loads of cash isn't quite enough. This was quite spectacularly demonstrated by a local billionaire (maybe; there are suspicions he's actually broke, just dancing very fast) who threw $110M at the last election, which for us is a lot, and didn't win anything.

    This would of course would require some highly contentious constitutional changes, and there are no magic bullets, but it might be worth attempting it.

    In the meantime, if any of you want to emigrate, or even just hide out until 2028-9, I think you'd be most welcome. Enquire at your local Australian Embassy.

    PS If King Donald knew what just about everyone outside America thought of him, he'd nuke the lot of us immediately. Luckily, this seems to be well outside his cognitive reach.
    PPS Vance will probably be worse. And there is every indication you'll find out sooner rather than later.

  6. @karenklein953

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    Don't shame them??? They should be shamed They brought this horror upon us all if they voted for Trump. Don't shun them but a little bit of shame never killed anybody They should be ashamed That's the best way to learn. Little too liberal and I'm a liberal but you got to draw a line or they'll walk all over you like they're doing now.

  7. @VINDIC8OR

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    It would be so nice if Jon Stewart had Erin on The Daily Show 😺 and this is serious, because this way you might be able to reach the targets you spoke about in this talk. It would be nice, and very good for everyone to see you there 💜

  10. @VINDIC8OR

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    52:47 Erin, you know how you navigate that? By educating the unwashed masses. It's a problem with the system. A woman is a complex being, therefore education is of the utmost importance, but please do it with love, or at least without spite… 💜

  11. @VINDIC8OR

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    I mean, guys, you probably can't see this, but Canada is blushing red red now, and this is an observation from over the pond. It's just too silly what's going on. This is what I was always afraid of: the idea of "leftism/liberalism/whatever" being wiped out by too much acceptance. Like the stuff that we have accepted so far is insane… Why is the situation so horrible? And it is absolutely horrible… And we still let them get away with everything? We don't even slap on the wrist anymore… ❤‍🩹 💜

  12. @VINDIC8OR

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    I see the US as this glorious, huge, beautiful fountain, but, sadly, sewage is flowing instead of water… I hope you guys get it back together. It's better when USA is not a nincompoop 💜

  16. @stu1037

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    AI aside, I basically consider any misinformation with the bad-faith intent to misinform as slop. So, Fox "News" and their ilk, all the way down to some whackjob with no followers parroting the same garbage. I'm a middle aged white man and I think our only hope to pull us back from the brink of collapse will be intelligent women. I applaud this panel. It's everybody's responsibility, and I'm not abdicating mine, but powerful men clearly cannot be relied upon to consider the needs of anyone but themselves.

  19. @yeknommonkey

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    The long term problem is that left wing ideals essentially lean towards education and educated people. This will never match up with the volume of people that have, and or want to remain with a lower level of education. To the left it’s plainly obvious that trump is stupid and not fit to run the country, yet somehow plenty of people voted for him, twice!

  29. @lynnerose7891

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    So disappointed by the Latinos who literally voted for this exact situation and are the ones attacking the Latino community. They should be outraged, not be ICE agents.

    You didn’t reach any low-information voter in 20 years.

    Very few voting blocs are a monolith. All I’m hearing is excuses for why you failed to reach ppl in the 20 years.

  30. @zetwzeytounfurbrot

    December 11, 2025 at 4:20 am

    Notes for self thank you for the talk 🙌🙌
    1. Mass media is now nothing but individual’s own social media.
    2. Most influencers are probably not ex-journalists. However,
    3. « […] Attention economy and trust economy. […] But we need to talk about the media economy. » E Ryan
    4. Authentic politicians are now commended in social media and smaller media. However it will, at least for now or the older generations, be in favor of men.
    « Men showing off for each other as politicians as authentic[] and women trying to be in control as fake » E Ryan. T McGowen, « older generation women are so entrenched to be presentable only in a certain way […] [being off is because] you’ve been told to be a million different things and women are the most subject to that. »
    5. Exit polls show the recent democratic/socialist wins were chiefly supported by the women and women of color demographics.
    « We cannot shame for Trump voters. […] [We have to be understanding and welcoming to the opposite camp] To shift the social accoetbality of voting for Trump or Republicans. » S Valencia
    5. « […] It’s easier to [infight and call out your own camp] but it feels helpless to scream at the literal fascism [on the rise] […]. It’s better for engagement and building community against the common threat [Trump] if we are creating and amplifying permission structures for people to be brave […] [pointing disagreements only will] diminishing our share of voice in the conversation. » T McGowen
    1/4 of Latinos listen to Joe Rogan – S Valencia

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