I've asked a similar question before: If Trump were trying to destroy the west at Putin's behest, what would he do differently?

There is no grift that Trump won't try. If you think he's not selling us out to foreign & domestic billionaires, you're a horrible judge of character.

Hlas column for HawkFanatic.com: Bennett Stirtz puts his teammates and the Iowa student section on his shoulders in win over No. 9 Nebraska. hawkfanatic.com/2026/02/18/h...

Hlas Out of Bounds: Pryce Sandfort coming back to Iowa City tomorrow with Nebraska is a reminder that what Jerry Seinfeld said holds true. We root for laundry. mikehlas.substack.com/p/iowa-iowa-...

Not sure Stephen A Smith should be accusing anyone else of accepting $ while offering nothing in return. sports.yahoo.com/articles/no-...

These are not people who should be using the word "intellectual."

I wonder if Paramount/CBS know how many of us are canceling subscriptions immediately after viewing the last Late Show episode. Every single one of them can go fuck themselves.

Imagine how bad you have to fuck up to get fired when Bob Huggins & Frank Martin didn't get fired there. themercury.com share.google/T01bMTdQscBT...

Trump's hoax can't be allowed to undermine Colorado's excellent ballot drop-off or mail-in system. If state officials let him, they should be removed.

What if our common culture was an agreement that oligarchs can't exist in the US and that we're going to limit influence money in politics?

Inside all of his lies, he's still arguing the federal government caused the problem he claims they fixed. Trump's people are so stupid they can't even argue rationally the position the think they're defending.

Everyone should understand how economic mobility is the basis of the American dream and that wealth concentration erodes mobility. Oligarchs like Trump & Musk simply buy government policies that protect their wealth from their own mistakes & depravity. www.frbsf.org/research-and....

The Epstein stuff is just the most obvious manifestation of the rot. It runs throughout our system now. Any 2028 presidential hopeful who doesn't have a plan to address this maldistribution of wealth and power doesn't deserve a second of anyone's time or attention.

Seriously, this hyper concentration of wealth is one of the top problems facing the country -- the maldistribution is worse than it was before the Great Depression, and their political influence is even greater than it was then thanks to Citizens United etc.

Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain. But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.

All Smith does is scream the stupidest shit with the confidence only found in morons. We already have Trump for that.

I'm using my real name choads. There are probably 100 million anti-ICE adults in America at this point.

Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

The fact that KLANoem thinks she is one of the "right leaders" for this country says everything you need to know.

Suggestions for women's college basketball referees: 1. Stop making calls where another ref is closer & has a better angle. There may be a reason they didn't call anything. 2. Stop calling moving screens where little or no contact was made. It's not a foul if they don't actually touch the defender.

Until they figure out how to hold debates where sociopaths can't simply scream lies to drown out cogent points, don't bother. Smith shares this trait with Trump.

The former bartender understands capitalism & democracy far better than the advocates of trickle-down economics.

Lying is this administration's policy. No sane person would believe any statement from our federal government without reliable substantiation.

The Mike Lee character was cut from the movie "Idiocracy" because he was too stupid and would have taken viewers out of the movie.

John Gielgud after Pam Bondi's "testimony:" "Thank you for a memorable afternoon. Usually, one must go to a bowling alley to meet someone of your stature." Although today he'd probably say, "Usually, one must go to a Trump rally ..."

Release the unredacted Trumpstein files.

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It's absolutely all a scam but the "this" he's talking about isn't the part he wants his dumb followers to assume.

ICE's inhumane campaign is probably a double-edged sword for the union. They want to protect their immigrant members but fewer immigrants in the US gives the union leverage. My $ says everything the union says about working conditions is true. coloradosun.com/2026/02/12/g...

Got home from walking our dog just now. Couldn't hear ourselves think because we had hundreds of crows in the trees out front. I moved two of these owl decoys out front. It's nice & quiet out there now. No crow in sight. Just a few small chirping birds.

I'm sure all of them who publicly support ICE violence will resign voluntarily rather than be hypocritical.

I used to think Republicans were just power mad opportunists supporting Trump for money. I'm sure some are just greedy but I now think most of them are somehow implicated in the Epstein/Russia plot. Why else would they watch Trump slowly strangle NATO? www.reuters.com/world/poland...

One test of whether we're a democracy after Trump dies, is whether Bondi goes to jail. If she doesn't serve time, there is no rule of law anymore.

My doctor's office now has kiosk self-checkin for lab work. It's 4 minutes of questions & scanning from a tiny display aimed at my belly button using fonts I couldn't read if the display was aimed at my eyes. This 65 year old was checking in on one knee. Not an improvement!

"The Super Bowl halftime show wasn't unifying," a whole bunch of people who cheer when Trump calls Democrats evil and posts racist videos.

They should tread carefully. Some of those NFL owners shared underage girls with Trumpstein.

I agree. I'd add that: 1. I don't like to go around announcing, "I don't know who that is" as though my ignorance is someone else's fault. 2. If I don't like something, I'm not enough of an ass to label it as unAmerican or unpatriotic.

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Heather reminds us that today's Republicans are the party of Joe McCarthy. They've completely abandoned Abraham Lincoln.

I was not previously familiar with "the lady in black with back" but that was enjoyable.

Wanna see a stacking of groups most likely to overestimate their own intelligence?

If you steal from taxpayers, you don't get to lecture anyone on patriotism.

It's a better day to arrest all the pedophiles and the Republican congressmen who protect them.

Just reposting this. If you saw the game tonight, you know why.

Does she have an immigrant doing her laundry?

It's weird how often racists use the phrase "racially divisive." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

As everyone knows, anytime Trump says "everyone knows," he's about to tell a real whopper.

The list of things Skid Rock doesn't understand would fill the entire internet.

The article offers ZERO examples of any Libertarian warning us about Trump. Instead, it repeats the standard "hopelessly naive" Libertarian tropes & argues Trump was inevitable with a big federal government. How do we protect Americans from oligarchs, China & Putin w/o a big government?

Okay. Try rereading this while mentally replacing the Super Bowl with one of Trump's rallies.