Friday: Three Morning Takes
“maga civil war!” / game of scones: transgaryen rebellion / roadkill
PW Daily
Nov 7, 2025
“MAGA Civil War!”
Last week, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes displayed a subdued version of his typical antisemitism: basically, Jews, who are “extremely organized,” have a “natural affinity” for Israel that puts “the interests of themselves before the interests of their home country.” This instigated what some pubs have called a “conservative civil war,” with the NYT arguing, across multiple pieces, that the secret “racism” behind MAGA’s “nationalism” is finally rearing its ugly head, but forreal this time. Which makes the Times (and now me I guess?) simply the latest PR shills for this absolute boychild, who firehoses his incel audience with hateful positions for just possibly the sole purpose of validation-by-virality. Anyway. This mess was captured well by today’s top Slack interlocutor: “i stg if the reason we get communism in 2028 is because people can’t stfu about a kid talking about jews in his basement I’m gonna kms.”
Game of Scones: Transgaryen Rebellion
Starbucks Workers United, an 11,000-strong union of baristas, is gearing up for “Red Cup Rebellion,” a strike designed to hit Corporate where it hurts: their annual Holiday Cup rollout next week. “We are ready and willing to go on the biggest strike we’ve ever been on,” said one “lesbian trans woman” barista from Philly (she/her) amid accusations of illegal anti-union tactics, pitiful 2% raise guarantees, and insufficient LGBTQ+ healthcare coverage from corporate. Over at HQ, Starbucks accused the union of making “financially unsustainable proposals” despite possessing “the best job in retail,” with baristas receiving average pay of $19+/hour, and you might be thinking: “those damn woke activists holding yet another capitalist enterprise hostage” — but you’d be wrong. After all, Starbucks CHOSE this fate by offering full gender affirming surgery coverage since 2013 (!!), then walking it back in recent years. I guess you reap what you sew (see what I did there?)
Roadkill
Last week, in this very newsletter, I wrote about the outrage that ensued in San Francisco after a Waymo struck and killed KitKat, a beloved convenience store feline who chose to sprint into the street around midnight. ‘Sad,’ I mused at the time, ‘RIP, Apu the cat, you crazy jaywalker you, but surely we aren’t banning all autonomous vehicles over this, right? Haha, that would be crazy.’ Then Jackie Fielder said ‘hold my catnip.’ The SF Supervisor has just called for legislation that would allow counties to — you guessed it — BAN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ALTOGETHER, all because, I remind you, ONE (1) STREETWALKING CAT DIDN’T KNOW WHAT A CROSSWALK WAS. Jackie, ffs, I shouldn’t have to say this… but non-autonomous cars hit animals literally all the time. Are we banning ALL cars next until every house cat/deer/sewer rat/ant is safe? Or can convenience store owners maybe just, idk… actually watch their f*cking pets?
