"If I've lost TV's Frank, I've lost middle America"

It's remarkable how long I've heard about term limits and it is motivated entirely by a belief that politicians one doesn't like will be replaced by young, good politicians who one likes, and nobody who advocates for this policy seems to think about it longer than forty-five seconds

It's a fine time to read Greg Grandin's infamous and insightful obit for Chavez. After 13 years of Maduro's take on Chavismo (and 9 years of Trumpism-Brandonism), it's the differences between these two men that have brought Venezuela here, almost as much as American rapacity

If Maduro had been toppled in almost any other way I would have either shrugged or been happy. I think he's only hurt his people and his claimed causes. Grunstein articulates my mixed feelings and also comes to the same conclusion as many of us: this is most likely going to make *everything* worse

All those 2A crackpots are right: you need to hoard weapons or the United States government will come after you They're just don't realize that this doesn't apply to American citizens, but rather to every single other person on earth

Axis of "i swear to God you're not gonna know where these fucking missiles land but know that the moment you fucking touch me, you're gonna want to call a few of your closest friends just to see if they're not turned to ash" America has been encouraging *everybody* to get the bomb for 25 years

In my measured opinion, Thomas L Friedman should eat shit

Lol

Are we still a country that says a military murderer is just a widdle boy but routinely shrugs at 15 year old Black kids shot by police Oh, we are? Cool, just checking

Trump: i rule America and there is no opposition America: ok Trump: i rule venezomblia and there is no opposition Venezuela: hold up wtf does this guy say he's doing

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

"He was no angel", international edition

This really is a bluff calling moment Does anybody believe in anything they say they believe in? Guess we'll see

I think we're in a complete "who's gonna stop me" moment The US has done worse, but usually with slightly more planning. This is a genuine delight in impulsivity and leaving others stunned. And the rest of the world will watch this play out, hoping the situation resolves itself

Total speculation mode: Doing this on a Friday night before a weekend when most of the US is still on break suggests hedging and minimizes an opportunity for a big spectacle and speech It's still ridiculously reckless and while Trump okayed it, it doesn't have his fingerprints

One thing is for certain: I'd give my left arm to be in the New York public defenders office today

You're going to see a lot of Americans claim to be experts on Venezuela. Obviously the impact on Venezuela is going to be dire, and morally, it should be the focus. But we have an obligation not to analyze beyond our scope. Americans need to be asking what exactly happens to the US because of this

You have got to be fucking kidding me

Miles Bennett Dyson is the most heroic character in Terminator 2; given a couple of hours of finding out he creates Skynet and indirectly causes the apocalypse, he does absolutely all he can to avert this and ends up sacrificing his life to save humanity I miss when Jamcam wrote humans who mattered

Iranian Will Stancil is posting right now that housing has never been so affordable

Why of course I know him, he's me

Funny way to say "shitty and underwhelming"

Lol

Fascism aside, this work is by a Japanese artist!

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

the WOKES want you to call the year “2026” now

Counterpoint: he would have made less money, and isn't it about money Also they pushed the "Star Wars as modern myth" thing for *years* until the prequels and the Disney sale and Lucas was like "nope, original trilogy and EU are gone, I sold them to white slavers"

The fact that it competed with Rome, even for three losing rounds, seems underappreciated, and as a complete Carthage stan I will lecture anybody about this, sober even!

the end of Inglourious Basterds

As a big fan of the interwar period, I agree to this times a thousand, and also All of you need to watch Babylon Berlin

What is this sorcery

Oh yeah? Yeah? America always makes things worse in Latin America? Well what about Chi--oh Well there was And Haït--fuck, which time I'M SURE YOU'RE WRONG

Avatar 2 acts like it's eco propaganda and I mean it is but in that movie, the whales have brain goo that gives eternal life IRL we used whale bones to bind women's torsos and whale head goo to light fucking lamps I hate avatar but it let us off easy Real humans are orcs

Happy new year to everybody I promise I will not let having 800 followers (at least half of whom are human!) go to my head in 2026

This was truly the sweetest deal a client state ever got from an imperial power, for almost nothing in exchange, and if a liberal Zionist insists that Israel would just always have done what it wanted to anyway, they are simply refusing to look at present or historical reality

My analysis will never equal Emissary's but I want to add that Israel attempted some degree of pivot, or at least put feelers out, during the Obama administration and it went hilariously poorly This national relationship can never be replicated and probably will never exist again, between anyone

Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.

The worst person you've never met: Harris would have gotten is brunch, all these dsa kids believe in genocide cuz tiktok, Hillary was girl boss lolololol You: Actually I think people were legitimately concerned about incinerated children Them: You make Trump happen have a nice life [block]

She sits at the right hand of the Lawgiver now

Hey look, a call to genocide from Suzanne Moore of the Telegraph

Many liberals don't want to conclude that friends and family who support cruel policy are themselves cruel I get it, trust me, I get it But that's what that means. Your team mom, your coworker, your neighbor may couch their beliefs in ways to placate you but that's not what they actually support

I don't care but I'm morbidly curious what jd vance does after he realizes he hit his political zenith during his administration Hey, I could be wrong, he could genuinely become president. I just don't think it's likely and I think he's peaked and doesn't know it yet

How many times has Zohran expressed that he's a Mets fan? It doesn't matter, I'm Christopher Caldwell, professional racist, and he likes *English* *soccer* now

For fucks sake

Anybody else feeling not up to returning to civilization

The @nytimes.com loves dead Palestinian children, questions if trans people exist, and thinks Zohran Mamdani is a dangerous fanatic. It employed Bari Weiss for years. It gave Tom Cotton an op-ed to call for killing protesters. But Marjorie Taylor Greene gets a glow up!

Not since Yuval Harari have I been so disappointed in the scholarship and supposed big ideas by an otherwise fine seeming person as I am by Rob Boddice It would be easier if he were a ghoul but nope, seems normal Then I look back at this Atlantic article and start screaming

Got my rant this week locked and loaded buddies, I am incandescently pissed at this intersection of bad mental health and bad history

The news is very sad that a woman your grandpa used to jack it to is now dead (and also she turned out to be a Nazi)