Right it’s all mythologizing, all the way down. We of course do it too. People who are paid to think are on average pretty far removed from people who have made non-managerial careers in manufacturing or extraction that they tend to just make things up about such people

Cynicism--which is cowardice masquerading as wisdom--will be the death of us all

Correct, because at our current point on the value chain a large number of workers need a level of education that makes them susceptible to the Woke Mind Virus

I have a theory that the longstanding American assumption that politicians are inherently corrupt actively increases corruption by chasing off honest, well-intended people and giving cover to the worst of the worst.

Jimmy Kimmel was almost certainly punished not primarily for how he talked about Charlie Kirk but for pointing out that the president either a) is too far gone to remember who Charlie Kirk is, or [inclusive] b) does not give a single shit about even his most strident supporter (also likely)

This has been prepared for though. For decades the popular wisdom of “all politicians are corrupt’ has been encouraged so that even obvious corruption is just seen as transparency

No way, he doesn’t even look like exactly like a comically corrupt government official in a Dick Tracy comic who gets caught with a bag of money with a dollar sign on it

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

UPDATE: DHS has an official follow-up statement.

It’s funny reading Bush era political commentary because we finally have a president who regularly tells the sort of off the wall lies the media convinced Americans Al Gore was telling

Jimmy Kimmel was almost certainly punished not primarily for how he talked about Charlie Kirk but for pointing out that the president either a) is too far gone to remember who Charlie Kirk is, or [inclusive] b) does not give a single shit about even his most strident supporter (also likely)

traffic is probably better, but it means writing actual coherent pieces and not just engagement bait slop

Real life looking more and more like a nearly shot for shot remake of Machete - just need Danny Trejo to step onstage

No way, he doesn’t even look like exactly like a comically corrupt government official in a Dick Tracy comic who gets caught with a bag of money with a dollar sign on it

Cake voice: We are building a religion, we are building back bigger

The best memes are ones originating from brand rivalries you have no stake in. I love watching Makita users diss Milwaukee and vice versa; I’ve got no dog in that fight so I can just respect the craft

"Gender wars" but it’s only ONE gender taking the lives of their partners, exes & kids literally every day. Wars are two sided, this is one sided, and it’s only coming from MEN.

Like I said, this may have been an overstep by the FCC. Kimmel wasn't celebrating Kirk's death or glorifying the assassin or anything like that - I don't think public opinion is really tuned in to the specifics but the 'easy way or hard way' speech sounds like a movie villain

I wish Trump would turn some of that war ending acumen towards wars that he didn't start, too

Pundits struggle with the fact that most Americans are not consistently pro life or pro choice. Kansans rejected the Republican abortion platform but they also reject the Democratic one because their views are not really ideologically coherent but based on what feels like too much

Who are they? And what do they want? They live among us. They are our neighbors, friends, colleagues. Yet for many of us, they are mysterious and potentially dangerous. Tonight on 60 minutes: Men

One creep in PA killed more cops than whole Designated Terror Organizations maybe we need to see what’s up with Men

Thin Blue Lind brigade is too busy holding Charlie Kirk vigils to have anything to say about the cops gunned down this week which is interesting

Trump brings disorder because he lacks the Mandate of Heaven

Admittedly some kinds of pardons should be illegal but constitutionally there is no one ineligible for a pardon (though there is one person who should be)

We’ve actually gotta burn down (figuratively!) a lot of our cultural institutions honestly and start over

They finally can close the case

For the second time today I am having to write about another "drone safari" murder in Zaporizhzhia. This time, two people were murdered, a couple in a civilian car. We cannot say killed - they were murdered by war criminals, in Hulyaipole. #RussiaIsATerroristState

the H1-B thing seems unlikely to withstand a court challenge, but it's still deeply funny that it's basically a nuclear warhead aimed at businesses and executives who've been grandiosely and publicly kissing his fucking ass for nine months

Charlie Kirk is US Christians’ favorite motivational speaker because he never asked anything of them except to believe and do what they already believed and wanted to do

Trump is a tyrant the same way a senile old man is a tyrant to the nurses in the hospital. But with nuclear codes

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

Love this picture because you can’t tell if it’s a navel blockade or tariff enforcement

Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do. Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons -Henry George

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Take two: Many of our own dissidents have basically rejected most of this century’s successful regime-challenging protest movements as CIA ops and so are loathe to learn from or imitate them

Again, sadly, many of our porn dissidents dismiss the actually successful protest movements of our time as CIA ops and therefore would rather fail than learn from them

The red and black flag, famously one ‘the people’ of the U.S. recognize and identify positively with

You know immigrant detention facilities are humane because they arrest you if you try to see one. You know they are telling the truth about Charlie Kirk because they fire you if you claim otherwise

But the justness of the "forty acre" donation cannot be controverted. To tell him he was a free man, and at the same time shut him off from free access to the soil...was to add insult to injury, to mix syrup and hyssop, to aggravate into curses the pretended conferrence of blessings. -T.T. Fortune

Been reading up on this and my own crackpot theory is that maybe burning everything down every 70 years is just the only surefire (get it?) way to avoid inter generational social stratification

Been reading up on this and my own crackpot theory is that maybe burning everything down every 70 years is just the only surefire (get it?) way to avoid inter generational social stratification

You know immigrant detention facilities are humane because they arrest you if you try to see one. You know they are telling the truth about Charlie Kirk because they fire you if you claim otherwise

I say this a lot because I like to remind people how stupid Matt Taibbi is and how dishonest Bari Weiss is but: Remember how the Twitter files were supposed to demonstrate a huge free speech threat posed by Democrats?

Yeah, not going to be a very large leap at all from this to "Lord Sinclair finds your upcoming slate too Woke, cancel Ironheart 2 and make a white man Captain America again." If you pay the Danegeld you're never rid of the Dane.

The one thing we’re sure of is that they need to be evicted, regardless of who shot them

Jacob Frey has been on TV a lot in the last five years and honestly he has yet to impress me (he’s in good company among Dem mayors to be clear)

Any news on who actually shot those homeless people in Minneapolis?

It’s cool that the director of the FCC can make mobster movie sounding threats on a podcast funded by Russian money to enforce programming decisions for major media networks