These leaks that he is incompetent, venal, and unethical are an obvious ploy to ingratiate himself with Trump.

A leaked 115 page report by current & former FBI personnel describes the bureau under Kash Patel as a “rudderless ship” & says he is “in over his head,” lacking the experience & bearing needed to be an effective FBI director—

Update: I have reattached skipper’s leg for the second time, but the limb will never have its original functionality. A tragedy. Daughter remains insistent that it makes no sense for skipper to not be able to do the splits if Barbie can.

if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...

Finally putting a stop to endless wars in the Mideast, albeit with the emphasis in that phrase not exactly where I want it.

“Now, on the cusp of totalizing victory, we will destroy the opposing party once and for all.” *4-8 years later* “Ah, we’ll get ‘em next time.”

The answer, horribly, was yes.

Finally got my daughter singing Huntrix as “It’s just a part of me, Bone Thugs N’ Harmony My voice inside me lies, this is what it sounds like.. when doves cry.”

This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived. How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died. acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...

When I was a lawyer for the gov’ment the rule was if I even so much as displayed my badge to an arresting officer I would be fired for trying to curry favor, but I can see why a guy doing obscure administrative hearings would be held to a higher standard than an armed agent of the state.

Absolutely crazy to me that Alfred Crosby made the most important historical insight of the 20th century and then Jared Diamond wrote a pop history book ripping him off and got all the credit. It’s like if instead of Einstein we all talked about the reporter who broke the story of his anus mirabilis

Really hoped this would be, like, "Satan" and "Witches" or even "Popish conspiracies" but turns out to just be "reconciling the worldwide anglican communion" as you were

One of the things that doesn't come out in the soundbites but does in the full speech is Hegseth's repeated, explicit emphasis on viewing problems from the perspective of an E-6 or O-3, wholly unaware (as a bad O-4) that the job of the 0-7s to O-10s in front of him is quite different.

Everything is very simple to do in childrearing, but the amount of shit to do is infinite. The shit to do accumulates and produce a friction, which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen childrearing.

they should make a fighting game that's completely impossible for newcomers but also has no depth whatsoever

The deal with trench crusade is they will have a lore drop like “the arch militants are fueled by the blood of mecha Jesus” and that’s it, then the community will make 17 4 hour long videos about mecha Jesus.

Karen Gillan as the kurgan, Bautista as the love interest, Hounsou as Ramirez, Crowe as the fop who gets in the duel with the drunk highlander. Have the courage.

Who’s my favorite ‘creator’? God, in their various forms

It’s not funny or snarky to post that it’s a good thing someone was murdered because you didn’t like them. Cuz if the people that don’t like you felt the same, then you’re now in the queue. It’s not funny or edgy. It’s pathetic and a cancer. I see LOTS of murders. It’s not a meme. It’s not a meme

I thought the point of Stancil thought is that flooding the zone with anti Trump messages is more important than message discipline. Let the millions rant about democracy and the Matts rant about the economy and the politicians rant about anything, so long as they all rant.

I am such a stupid dipshit I actually thought John Roberts was being sincere when he wrote “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

My hot take is you see a lot of people saying “you should vote for the Democrat in 2028 no matter who they are” because you should vote for the Democrat in 2028 no matter who they are.

I really need to know if the sandwich was a ham sandwich

May go nuts and start trying to frighten people with my sorcerous ways at work.

Like when Caesar refused the symbolic crown, only Caesar accepts it and talks about how people are saying it’s maybe the best crown.

Oh heh did a romanceball happen today? I was too busy watching sports

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

I am probably being naive, but I get the sense he’s not playing a character on here and we are seeing the genuine mark. I realize what a mean thing that is to say.

i finally realized who his ass looks like it is glass joe from punch out

One of my beliefs is that every school should have a working farm attached so kids can learn that farming sucks and is really hard

The good thing about revenge in politics is you simply decisively deliver it, presumably by running the bad guysover with a motorcycle, and then that’s the end of it with no further blowback. This is why it is known as “the cycle of revenge.”

Okay I found the most depressing post

Without downloading any new pics where are you at mentally?

ok this is a great line tho

A non-partisan reason to pack the court is giving this much power and prestige to an individual for life completely warps their brain. If you are a workaday, no name one out of 10,000 Justices you’re much less likely to start thinking you’re a law lord.

“Cuomo criticizes Mamdani for gaming rent control and also opposes rent control because it’s a dumb easily gamed system” actually seems coherent to me, as does “mamdani thinks basically all apartments should be rent controlled and lives in one.” No one is a hypocrite here?

Culture ship name ass tweet.

There is an even easier path: just let candidates say whatever they need to to get elected with the sort of wink wink understanding that they will support trans rights if any legislation or judicial appointments come before them. This is how dem politicians did gay marriage and it worked.

“This is unconstitutional” I scream into a void filled entirely with fedsoc judges.

*Finally* a solution for when you are on the moon and need a nuclear reactor.

People flirting with the idea that Israel is an illegitimate colonialist state that should be ethnically cleansed or that October 7 was legitimate resistance or whatever is as bad as people defending Israel’s war crimes. War crimes are war crimes are war crimes, condemn and prosecute them all.

Having sat with this, I think it’s most consequential defect is ignoring the competing and much more punitive treatment of German war guilt in East Germany. He implies the west going easy on the Nazis is behind the rise of the AFD, and yet…

The response to this is a pretty good argument that the left has, not silence for young men looking for dating advice, but active hostility.

I’m reading the bond novels and man they really work as a kind of literary investigation into the mind of a slimy and unlikable narrator; the slimy and unlikable narrator is just the actual author, Ian Fleming.

On freedom of association issues Alan Dershowitz should be whatever the opposite of a protected class is. Like if you want to hang out with him or sell him something — even be mildly polite to him — you should have to prove you have a compelling interest with no narrower means to accomplish it.

Mark’s new thing is identifying problems a philanthropic billionaire could help enormously with and then going “democrats should do this.”

I don’t really see how it’s not a news story every time he does this. The business and political press cannot simultaneously believe “so called ‘stenography’ articles are actually good because what powerful people say is inherently news” and “what Elon musk, says on Twitter is not news.”

My favorite genre of article is “people celebrating the passing of a fashion trend I did not notice and am, in fact, at least eight trends behind.”

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels: