I would absolutely love for a reporter simply to ask, "Mr. President, how old are you?" (My father, with Alzheimer's, had to ask me his age when he was 85 (he's 91 now). When I told him, he said, "I thought I was 70.")

"I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat. But the only thing I would whip them for is not knowing English. I would whip them hard for that." --Winston Churchill

I love when financial journalism escapes into the wild...

Oopsie... www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

Say what you want about Trump (oh please do...), but he's a rank amateur compared to the Avant Garde, which has been playing this tired racket for over a century: The fact that you think it's worthless proves, IRREFUTABLY, that it's not. And you're a moron (or, worse, bourgeois...).

Quick reminder: Trump won in 2024 because he lost in 2020. He lost in 2020 because millions if not tens of millions of voters chose Biden on the "Duh!" assumption that he would not seek re-election. Biden gave them the finger, and they gave him the finger right back.

I'm a thematic investor, not a stock-picker, but if Walmart can't make it work, then how the hell are the supermarkets supposed to make it work (let alone that despicable* mutant monstrosity, Target)? (*As a self-respecting gay male, I am legally obligated to say, "Fuck you, Target, Fuck you.")

Phase 1: Deploy AI at airports. Phase 2: ? Phase 3: Profit!

I'm actually a Seth Meyers - Jon Stewart guy, but I'm obligated to note that I'm old enough to remember "The Official GE Handshake" (JFGI) newrepublic.com/article/2106...

So what's the Vegas line on whether it's alcohol or drug rehab? Because it's almost certainly one or the other.

Quick reminder that "white privilege" is a myth...

Today's "Use any possible word except 'dementia'..." winner is: "bizarrely."

We used to have a more diplomatic-euphemistic term for "lower-value human capital" -- fraternity pledges. Anyway, some of us are old enough to remember when "Human RESOURCES" was attacked as demeaning. Go figure. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Yes, and there is also the game-show element. Even the biggest loser gets some lovely parting gifts, so he expects at least the geopolitical equivalent of a toaster oven.

You can call it a "rebound" ... or you can be right and call it a "bubble." www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

"In America you call it MAGA ... in Germany we call it, 'Why great-grandpa lives in Argentina.'"* www.liberalcurrents.com/prosecute-th... *Butchered from an SNL skit.

How long before one of the MAGA-controlled state legislatures requires "Dixie" to be played at school graduations? ("Bavaria's conservatives push through new law to require state anthem to be played at commencement ceremonies") share.google/hfEDXcudxCN3...

The serial commandment-breaker is beloved by the Bible-thumpers. The draft-dodging soldier-mocker is beloved by the bloodthirsters. This country deserves everything it's gotten and is yet to get.

Sure the integrity of high school girl's volleyball is on the list somewhere!

In news from the art world: Paintings by elephants continue to auction well, with prices now as high as $8.5 million. What's that? It wasn't painted by an elephant? Oh, okay, could have fooled me...

TLDR: If you need the moron ... sorry, "rural" ... vote to win, then you need to say moronic things. newrepublic.com/article/2103...

No, the thing about TAOTD is that Trump didn't write it and that the person who did write now publicly regrets having done so.

I was born in the Bronx, grew up in the Hudson Valley, spent my working life living first in Brooklyn then Manhattan. But I have absolutely no idea where "New York New Jersey" is.

Seeing more references to Trump's sundowning than to his underlying dementia, but it's a start. share.google/Dqg27MfnWkJp...

There are few more effective ways for a smart person to suddenly become a blathering idiot than for them to utter "proportional representation." Three words: United Kingdom Germany. Or, if you prefer only two words: Humpty Dumpty. www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional...

I miss Mark Haines (RIP), I miss the Penguins (IYKYK). Joe Kirnan can fall into the pit, and as for Maria Bartibimbo, well, best not go there.... www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but oligarchs are always and everywhere created by exclusively by government, not by a free market (whether enclosed in snotty, unprofessional "sarcasm quotes" or not).

I still like to think that every young, ambitious and soulless local-yokel state-level GOPer backbencher who voted for the 2006 bigot amendments banning gay marriage would come to regret it decades later. Maybe the third decade rather than the second?

Those of us who have seen intimately the progression of dementia know that it is rarely gradual or linear. The sufferer declines in sudden and significant quanta. And the afflicted never improves.

I'm not seeing the words "real," "nominal" or "per capita"... 🤔

"Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee, and he asks you, 'What did you do in the great Redistricting War?' -- you won't have to say, 'Well, I gerrymandered the shit out of Louisiana..."

Krispy Kreme is down over 80% from its (2nd) IPO. But sure, buy the maker of even crahppier donuts (and shaved "beef") in the middle of a MAHA rampage. 📉💸 www.ajc.com/business/202...

Didn't I just post about this a few days ago? And remember, it will only get even more bubblicious after SpaceMusk, OpornAI and Anthroporn are Ohtani-rule added (prematurely and outrageously) to the "index."

It would be interesting, in the way that going to the zoo is interesting, to see how the country would respond to a bona fide, mainstream amendment campaign to abolish lifetime tenure. In the meantime, let's start w/ court shrinking (by abolishing future vacancies). newrepublic.com/post/210195/...

"Was it over when the Iraqis bombed Pearl Harbor?!?"

I'm not saying it's a strong case -- it isn't. But I've never seen a stronger case for invoking the Republican Form clause than the VA redistricting scandal. The elected branches should simply declare the VASC's ruling a violation of Article IV, Sec. 4 and void. ...

Airline websites are the new bathroom scale: No point in looking, because you know you won't like what you see... www.reuters.com/business/ene...

But they have PROTEIN, so obviously a healthy breakfast alternative to other sources of whole grain oats, such as ... I dunno... oatmeal?

Next up, Trump gives Huguenots rights and declares Martin Luther a heretic...

I forget the numbers in play back then, but I noted at the time that it cannot be sane that Michael Bloomberg could spend $11 million of his own money to get elected mayor of New York City but I couldn't spend $11,000 of my own money to oppose him. That way madness lied -- and still lies...

Eventually one tires of typing, "The Democratic campaign ads write themselves..."

I repeat: the devolving standards of fuckyouism. newrepublic.com/post/210011/...

Two Points: 1. Cohen calls it an "acquisition" because it's true name, "leveraged buyout," would scare stupid money (i.e., meme investors). 2. GME doesn't have enough shares for the bid. Shareholders would need to approve amending GME's articles of incorporation. www.semafor.com/article/05/0...

Eloi Compares Morlock Complaints of Hunger to Racial Slurs... www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Beating a blind six-year old at checkers doesn't make you a grandmaster at chess. www.notus.org/2026-electio...

Obviously not an Eighth Amendment case, but it's retina-burning to see Babynino go from evolving standards of decency to devolving standards of fuckyouism.

Guest he's not on the invite list at Mar-a-Lago. P.S. "Dad's" [sic!] House"

It is still defensible to oppose court-packing (I still oppose it, for now). It is not defensible, however, to be dismissive of anyone who supports it. It is now a perfectly reasonable position.

No. Biden's presidency was premised on him announcing the day after the 2022 midterms that he would not seek re-election, that he would call for an open primary and endorse the winner. Tens of millions of people reluctantly voted for him, he gave them the finger and they gave him the finger back.