(rolls up sleeves) all right. Let’s get started

"I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better." This explains so much about this administration. Trump isn't running a government: he is running season ten of Celebrity Apprentice. The Future Investment Initiative, 27 March 2026 www.youtube.com/live/19b7cuF...

"That Americans get more angry about gas prices than a seditious revolt against the Constitution tells you something about how decadent and self-absorbed a nation we've become." ~ @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/E5Z9wa7... (~49:15)

I would like for someone, anyone, to cite a concrete, specific example of an elected Democratic politician talking to the public *as though in a college seminar*, per Obama's scolding. We hear about Dems talkin' fancy all the time. Someone cite an actual f'ing example! Please!

So, the media is all-in for the rehabilitation of Marco Rubio. Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/u... The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... Vox: www.vox.com/politics/488...

This is going to be called a treasonous liberal media lie right up until it becomes the reason we resume air strikes. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

A modest list – I'm not even suggesting an exhaustive list – of issues Democratic leaders and consultants have concluded Democrats should avoid talking about would be so damning.

Chat does this mean the economy is good

The media runs on sensation. So that Trump is falling apart in front of everyone's eyes is unremarkable. But when it comes out in memoirs in like 2030 that Vance, Wiles, Rubio, Bessent, etc. had a pact to hold the government together as Trump descended into delusion, it will be considered explosive.

What conservatives want is to teach a hothouse version of Western Civilization, in an eternal eighteenth century zenith, where Hume's Enquiries, Kant's Copernican Revolution, Darwin, Nietzsche, Keynes and the total wars of the twentieth century never happen. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Trump is still badgering NATO over possession of Greenland. Like with his vendettas against Jimmy Kimmel, James Comey, Jerome Powell and others, this won't end until he is gone from office. www.foxbusiness.com/video/639316...

I would love a list of attendees of the White House Correspondents' Dinner so I know to whom I'm never again going to pay one iota of attention.

Regarding Virginia's mid-decade gerrymandered redistricting, I think Scott Bessent said it best ( youtu.be/7M3VIg2gitc ):

The two books I am reading right now are Adrian Tchaikovsky's sci-fi novel, "Children of Time" and Lee Phillips's biography of early twentieth century mathematician Emmy Noether, and together they are a one-two punch of how terrible sexism is.

The relationship between genotype and phenotypic expression is not linear. www.science.org/content/arti...

The day before they shot it, Ryan Gosling thought Stratt needed to to be in the farewell scene, so Sandra Hüller had that night to figure out what song Stratt would sing at a karaoke bar and that's how "Sign of the Times" became the official song of the second space age. youtube.com/shorts/ClE3g...

The other side of the death of the author is that "Language is a virus from outer space". The danger of being flippant about discourse is, once it escapes the cordon of your cranium, it is out of control.

This guy is too fucking stupid to know that he is describing the very mechanism by which it doesn't matter for U.S. gas prices that we import zero oil from the Persian Gulf, that supply constraints anywhere are inflationary everywhere, that the oil market is globally integrated.

"Vance is a living node in a Russia-funded propaganda machine"

hello to those experiencing nuclear war anxiety for the first time

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

I go back and forth on what's most depressing about the last 10 years: a) the absolute profusion and ubiquity of terrible people, or b) the utter lack of heroes, of virtually *anyone* rising to the occasion. Today it's B.

Part of a Democratic Project 2029 should be a running list of officials, along with their specific crimes, who are going to be referred to the DOJ for prosecution.

The Democrats' contribution to the next phase in the cycle of the collapse of the United States will be the widespread belief among the party elite (as well as the party's opponents) that getting back to Clintonism is the remedy to MAGA, rather than the cause.

"The party’s 2028 campaign is shaping up as one unprecedentedly hostile to the Jewish state." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Not hostile enough. I think most Democrats plan on going back to business-as-usual on Israel once in office.

"No one pulls a band-aid off slower than Donald Trump." ~ Dan Pfeiffer youtu.be/TmCrA1KsakA (26:50)

I cannot wait to see Rick Wilson's video on Trump firing Pam Bondi.

So, just repeating the same incoherence, lying, magical thinking, abdication, rambling and bluster as the last two weeks, only with the pomp of a "prime time address".

The pols & pundits staying on X are choosing to be useful idiots for a nazi.

Why are all these makers boasting that their durable goods are biodegradable? I don't want a biodegradable computer case. Is it going to disintegrate in three years because I live in a high-humidity region? If I set my glass on it, will the condensation make it melt like a paper straw?

It is beyond ridiculous that Trump has added a dig against Gavin Newsom to his shtick that someone with dyslexia isn't qualified to be president when Trump is an illiterate who can't say two coherent sentences in a row. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

There is no plan.

If Trump wasn't a coward we would be in the midst of a preventative war against existential threat China, not a maintenance war against nuisance Iran.

Look, everyone is receiving gender-affirming care of one sort or another.

Fortuna I wish Trump would give The Kennedy Center the East Wing treatment. There is no stupider use in America of two tenths of a mile of waterfront property than the Kennedy Center. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

The reason to tax billionaires out of existence is it's the only way to preserve democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

This is not good.

Survivor is touting its 50th season, but how are they supposed to compete with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem getting voted out of the Cabinet in season 47 of the Trump Administration?

This has been on my mind for the last few days. If things seem to Trump like they are going well in Iran, it is only a matter of time before they start ramping up this playbook in Cuba.

One of the things that's kind of stupid about American writing is that when all other narratives fail, you can always just take a road trip and use that as your metaphorical vertebrae.

And I mean, has there ever been a quip as perfectly acerbic and insightful as Marx's "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce"?

Great, so we're going to encourage the dissolution of Iran into ethnic strife, while the U.S. enforces a no-fly zone. And since historic Kurdistan spans northern Iraq and eastern Turkey, it's hard to see how this doesn't turn into a regional war. www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/p...

Afghanistan and Iraq were disasters but do you think if we tried it again, but with stupider and more vainglorious people than the Bush administration in charge, it'll go better?

Very few ideas have been as utterly discredited by the last few years as the idea that it’s actually good to tear down an imperfectly observed, aspirational ideological facade and ‘be honest’

I can't believe there are people who are incensed that a penny on their tax dollar is going to SNAP or museums with controversial exhibits when 15 cents on the dollar is going to bombing a revolving carousel of developing world enemies-of-the-month.

What are you supposed to say about a State of the Union address by a guy who's an ignoramus, a pathological liar, a narcissist, a racist and transphobic demagogue with no self-control? #SOTU

One of the things that's so gross about Trump is whenever he talks about victims, he can't help but go into prurient detail about the violence done to them. #SOTU

We've crossed over to the part of the speech where he just blathers on about whatever. #SOTU

Increasingly when I see a story on social media that's too good to be true, even when it's accompanied by corroborating evidence, I jump over to Google to see if it is being reported on real news sites. [1/2]