To Wilhoit's Law and JKG on conservatism as "the search for a superior moral justification for greed," add Goethe's "I prefer to commit an injustice than to endure disorder," and you have pretty much have the whole deal, right there.

Just watched this. It's great, *especially* the editing - you'll know what I mean if you watch it. It reminds me of just how many of these movies are excellent, yet still unwatched by me, for various odd reasons.

This is the joint to which I refer. Recommended! www.netflix.com/us/title/819...

The camera adds ten pounds.

Tonight was a hoot. "Breakdown: 1975" dropped on Netflix. Me and the gang. I like it! Here's one set of shots :-)

Preach.

Preach.

Fuckers defiling my favorite fishing spot.

These are the "good and decent people" who didn't survive the Reagan presidency.

Gregory Bovino's caravan just exited DuSable-Lake Shore Drive at Broadway: my neighborhood. Helicopter hovering above Broadway. Police escort, which pulled over a rapid-resoonder. Watch this space.

Another one. America is staking it's economic future on this so-called "AI" that can't spell "Reagan" in the titles of "books." RWR used to talk about mankind's ascent from the "ant heap" to the "stars." Thanks, Gipper! The triumph of your definition of "freedom" is rocketing us back ant-heap-ward.

Some things, you keep inside the family.

While we are all thinking about a beautiful soul, now departed, and all his wondrous works, here's what looks like a fascinating new book on one of them. uncpress.org/978146969090...

Telepathic improvisation. On dark days like these, it shows me that light, in fact, is everywhere, and how deeply and lovingly humans can connect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxJb...

'The Beast In Me" gets our political moment. Mocks "meeting in the middle."

Good times.

When I wrote my first essay on the question of Trump and fascism, late in 2015, I decided he wasn't one, because he wasn't working toward a one-party state. My judgement was premature.

Trending on X...

This is Ryan Lizza. These media aristocrats are too much. Not only wasn't he able to conceive of any public obligation to say what he knew about corruption in political reporting, he can't conceive now that it might be shameful to admit it.

John Brown. Martin Luther King. Alina Habba.

"Direct wealth transfer from law abiding American citizens to criminals."

So sick of the learned helplessness on the left;; the endless train of alibis for why we can't, can't, can't. We can.

An even better example: 1924-1932. The '24 convention split over whether to endorse the Klsn or not. Largely pro-temperance and nativist. By 1932, the left had lots of power in the party at thy highest levels.

Gramps here, lecturing leftists who say the Dems can't change that in 56 it was aligned with Southern segregationists (who got the VP noms), but by 64 with MLK, because of successful social movement organizing. Take the party over, leftists. Else you're not actually involved in US politics.

Hello this great cause!

Contemplate how terrifying this is. religiondispatches.org/us-ambassado...

Long story, but I'm I'm in a luxury resort in the Italian Alps. Where (shhh, don't tell Steve Miller) I've... FOUND ANTIFA!

He has their back. To stab.

@paulrosenberg.bsky.social check out the chapter "Lancegate" in my book Reaganland. It has what you're looking for.

This, from the Miami Herald, is a really good illustration of what I'm trying to get across in my current book: elite media genre conventions systematically distort reality. "You can save yourself and those closest to you" by abducating is described as if a negotiation, at an "impasse"....

Venezuela will be America's first entirely Oewellian War.

Google's "AI Overview" invents essay I've never written, about a book published two years after I was supposed to have written it, while claiming the book was published six years before it was published. For gifts like these, the global economic teeters on the verge of collapse.

The President of the United States is suborning terrorism. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/?f...

2+2=5.

"Saying He Won't Invade Czechoslovakia, Then Invading Czechoslovakia, Hitler Displays Contradictions: Reichskanzler Hitler's statements on radio less than 24 hours apart shows dissonance in his Munich promises."

I get in debates on X with right- wingers for fun, and the words they use now bear a one-to-one correspondence to the 1920 Klan. Read this from the grand wizard, a document everyone should know. MAGA. KKK part of our USA DNA. www.americanyawp.com/reader/22-th...

PUNCHED THROUGH 170 LBS. LAST NIGHT!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNeI...

This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.

Woke up to my tweet trolling Senator Mike Lee going viral.

Get to something downright ontological about right-wing cogitation: "shit just happens sometimes" is never a reasonable explanation for events. A demonic Other must be at fault. Except for the malign intervention of Them, the universe would yield perfect order. To think otherwise is unimaginable.

Fascist framing. Worthy of Der Sturmer.

He is turning into an actual weasel as he speaks

This doc is the deal. youtu.be/jKELEhLeN4o?...

I feel like I spend half the day responding to people making fun of some logically incohetent thing some Repiblican says by pointing out, "It's not stupid. It's fascist." Which often requires a great deal of intelligence, of a sort.

What was that about Kafka's "The Trial" being superceced?

I'm re-reading Kafka's "The Trial" right now. It doesn't really work any more as literature, because of how many of the details that are supposed to be as surreal as a dream that are superceded by actual American reality. Like this.

Border Patrol has a surveillance program tracking millions of drivers by name and then gets them pulled over for lies. Listen to the officer admit that he is careful to conceal the reason for the stop so if it ever gets questioned, no one will know that there was NO PROBABLE CAUSE.

Dear readers, I am a river you are my canyon.

A left "anti-imperialist" of my acquaintance. The leader of a local county "peace" organization.

AI will save/destroy the world; also misspells "Reagan."