every day coke and pepsi spend millions to tell us to buy sugar water but liberals dont think you have to ever sell things to people in politics. "everybody knows it" so you dont have to repeat.

Look, the fact that Iran is fighting back shows how they are crazy and we had no choice but to attack them

Trump's war to stop purported Iranian nuclear proliferation could plausibly cause Iran, Saudi Arabia and even Turkey to get nuclear weapons

If only there had been some way of predicting how devastating a US war would be for regular Iranians, such as previous US attacks on the country directly east of Iran and also on the country directly to its west

I hope we're all enjoying the experience of living in the first 15 minutes of a 1980s docudrama the BBC is only allowed to air once.

Americans need to understand that our war with Iran did not start last month, it's been going on for a long time. It began 3.5 billion years ago when the microbes that would evolve into Iranians engaged in an unprovoked attack on the microbes that evolved into us.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

I'm glad Trump destroyed the Deep State, which had hamstrung so many previous presidents by telling them what the Strait of Hormuz is and where it's located

The fundamental worldview of the US and Israel is that we can go anywhere on earth and kill anyone and that it is inherently illegitimate for anybody to fight back

If history has taught us anything, it's that the only path to true security is to make the entire world hate and fear you

In order for this war to end, we must destroy all of Iran's nuclear program, its missiles, its drones, and every pencil it has that it could use to write about these subjects in the future

Thx to Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for reminding us Ronald Reagan supported Saddam Hussein during the 1980s. That's why Saddam spoke wistfully about how much he liked & missed Reagan after he was captured in 2003. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/o...

Good to hear Bill Maher is getting the Mark Twain Prize, if there's anything Twain was about it was an unfunny hate-filled misogynist love of violence

I can't explain why, but for some reason I've spent a good part of the day thinking about how much Mark Twain would've hated Bill Maher.

If there is one message that the world's great religions have in common, it's that God definitely wants humans to wear hats

It feels like Donald Trump was not satisfied with going bankrupt six times and is now trying to achieve the Biggest Bankruptcy of All

Circling back on this, I haven't been paying attention but did Trump end up cutting the US military budget in half

I once was talking to a lefty think tank person with decades of experience in world politics. I said: I wonder what it is about power that's so great people will commit the most hideous crimes to obtain & hold onto it. She said: Well, Jon, whatever it is, you & I will never know.

Remember when the late Sheldon Adelson called for an unprovoked nuclear attack on Iran? His wife Miriam Adelson donated $150 million in 2024 to elect Trump. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uotL...

Lots of people like to call Woodrow Wilson racist. But if you take the time to read a bit of his five-volume "History of the American People," you will see that he was in fact incredibly racist.

Trump was right, I've gotten tired of all the winning

While it's ugly for an Israeli official to call for the arrest of a journalist, this is a step up from the standard Israeli treatment for journalists, which is killing them

I wonder what it's like to be completely incapable of perceiving reality

Republican foreign policy is kill kill kill kill kill, whereas Democratic foreign policy is kill kill kill kill (one fewer kills). It seems like a fine distinction but does sometimes matter, like right now with Trump and Iran.

This is a great tactic for Democrats if their plan is to slowly euthanize themselves and their party. A good longterm message for them would be "Americans aren't overtaxed, we're underpaid." They won't ever say this, of course, both because of their funders & their principled objection to winning.

I can understand if Americans don't like it when Iranians chant "Death to America." On the other hand, if Iran had done to us what we've done to them, we would have nuked them long ago. So you kind of see where Iran's coming from.

I have toenail fungus and have been prescribed something called Fluconazole. I have to take it once per week, and for some reason this is supposed to happen on Sunday specifically. Maybe Sunday is the Sabbath for the fungus and this is a way to catch it on its day of rest.

I remember how Election Day 2016 felt like being a conjoined twin waiting to find out if your attached sibling was going to commit suicide for both of you

The Wexner Center at Ohio State, named for the family of Jeffrey Epstein's top patron Les Wexner, showed a movie set in an NYC prison that "follows the volatile dynamic created when a white pedophile arrives amidst the otherwise black & Puerto Rican inmates" wexarts.org/film-video/s...

The Supreme Court said in the Citizens United decision that it would "not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption." Here's a gift link to this NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

One of the most damnable things about political action is that you rarely know what positive effect you've had on the world. But as bad as things are now in the US, we can bet they'd be much worse without the incredible resistance to ICE by Minnesotans. Everybody else is in their debt.

Yes, David Ben-Gurion said the Zionist movement would settle Palestine exactly as the British did in North America and the Dutch did in South Africa. But what did that dummy know compared to an expert like Adam.

I hope reincarnation is real, just so I can learn about the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 all over again www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKax...

Long ago NPR's Scott Simon wrote this about Fahrenheit 9/11. I've always wanted to ask him how he'd feel if Iraq engaged in an unprovoked bombing of the US & his family was massacred by an errant US anti-aircraft missile. Surely he'd blame America for their deaths, to be consistent.

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

I believe the American/Israeli attack on Iran will be good for the Iranian people. Relatedly, I am unaware of anything that has ever happened before in the history of the world.

Women are way underrepresented among both CEOs and serial killers. And in both cases, I believe we should be striving to eliminate the position rather than even up the numbers.

Ideally what happens now is Iran has a genuinely free and fair election, Iranians choose someone Trump hates, and Trump immediately declares that the election was rigged

I am a cannibal with strong moral convictions, so I only eat free range organic humanely-raised people

No one in the foreign policy blob ever believed Iraq would attack the US with WMD. But they did have a rational concern, which was an Iraq with WMD could deter the US & Israel from *attacking them* whenever we wanted. As Marco Rubio just explained that's also our worry with Iran:

On the evening of 9/11, Netanyahu mused to the NYT about whether Americans would blame Israel for what happened. (Netanyahu well knew US support motivated al Qaeda.) You have to wonder how concerned he is now. The NYT didn't print this, tho — the reporter revealed it 10 years later.

You might have thought that during Kristi Noem's time as head of Homeland Security it would have come up that her boyfriend and employee Corey Lewandowski brags about having murdered two guys dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I grew up in the affluent suburbs of Washington, D.C., which made me instinctively hate and fear the people who run America. Decades later, I have to say my instincts were right on the money.

This John Mulaney "horse loose in the hospital" bit about Trump from 2018 was very popular, especially among other comedians, but it made me unhappy then and even more unhappy now. Ah ha ha ha, also the horse just murdered 100+ schoolchildren. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZ...

I love the song "Dr. Worm" by They Might Be Giants because the first line is 🎵 They call me Dr. Worm 🎵 and then over the rest of the song you learn how, despite his yearning for everyone to call him Dr. Worm, no one actually does www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxX...

A Brookings Institution guy & former US diplomat describes meeting Ayatollah Khamenei, and explains how Khamenei simply didn't understand the United States. For example, he was so paranoid he thought America was out to get him. Thank god we killed him. brookings.edu/articles/the...

Rest in peace Dan Simmons, an extraordinarily gifted horror writer. Also he went insane after 9/11 and wrote diatribes calling for the killing of all Muslims because otherwise we'd all be reduced to dhimmitude by 2020. irfi.org/articles2/ar...

no matter how bad much of the internet gets, that will always be outweighed by how it lets us see Sarah McCreanor dance around imitating a bird www.instagram.com/p/DVeHdwFjEG...