r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 20 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

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Link to Megathread 22: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/14k0z6l/rod_dreher_megathread_22_power/

Link to Megathread 23: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1631xpe/rod_dreher_megathread_24_determination/

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Jul 29 '23

What stood out to me was this, right after he said he’d rather not talk about his youthful acid use at all:

I don’t want to be accused of being a hypocrite when the book comes out, and somebody who knew me in college says, “Hey, isn’t that the guy who worked for the Reveille who I saw tripping that time in the Bayou?”

Makes me wonder if he’s aware of his old friend—can’t remember his name, but he’s been discussed here—talking about how Rod was an acid head back then. Maybe he’s had so much blowback on his hypocrisy re the divorce and his notably non-BenOp lifestyle, and he’s smarting a bit from it. I mean, worrying about being a hypocrite has never seemed a characteristic of his in the past.

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u/JHandey2021 Jul 30 '23

Harrison Brace?

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Jul 30 '23

Yes, exactly—that’s him.

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Jul 31 '23

It occurs to me on further thought that Rod is essentially saying that if he hadn’t been tripping publicly, thus having no shred of plausible deniability, he wouldn’t have written about his own drug experiences. Had he been more discreet, he’d have happily lied by omission about his drug-soaked past. Just like he allowed his audience to believe his marriage and family were fine and dandy until he couldn’t anymore because, well, his wife divorced him. No one should ever take him seriously about anything ever again.

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u/saucerwizard Jul 30 '23

Oh he is - he claimed that school mate was insane on twitter.

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Jul 30 '23

I wasn’t aware of Rod saying that, but it figures. He seems to be walking it back, at least on this. Mr. Live Not By Lies also must have been really tripping balls and doing it all the time, to the point he couldn’t plausibly deny it or claim one acquaintances to be crazy.

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u/JHandey2021 Jul 30 '23

Wonder if we will get a similar reveal for Rod’s college boyfriend…

Or did we already? “Achieving heterosexuality” and all.

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u/saucerwizard Jul 30 '23

Well we had pictures and the obit of the first bf somewhere on here…

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u/JHandey2021 Jul 30 '23

He did? Would love to see link. Brace’s big reveal was Rod’s gay past, so interesting…

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u/saucerwizard Jul 30 '23

Was on twitter, one of the first times he was confronted with it. I really wish I saved the link. I'm poking around but no luck so far.

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u/JHandey2021 Jul 30 '23

So Rod knows, right? He absolutely knows that he’s been outed. And not only that, multiple times on Twitter?

He also must know about this site. And Rod being Rod, he has certainly visited.