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No, He’s Not Popular

Published: February 18, 2025 02:00

I was unhappy earlier today about all the media attention to some Arizona voters who told a focus group that they think Donald Trump is just dreamy. It’s the same old same old form the media who are once again working feverishly to pump up Trump’s…

Social Security On The Radar

Published: February 18, 2025 00:30

No it’s bullshit. This is the Great Replacement Theory which Musk signed on to some time ago. For a quick refresh on what this is about: The Great replacement in the United States is the American version of a white nationalist far-right conspiracy theory…

Puerile Nerd Utopia

Published: February 17, 2025 23:00

Dave Karpf wrote about the Silicon Valley Edgelords’ plan for world domination and it’s important: Balaji Srinivasan’s 2022 book, The Network State is a blueprint of sorts. It is the wild fever-dream of Silicon Valley’s libertarian investor-class. It…

“No One Knows”

Published: February 17, 2025 21:30

President Trump says USAID is rife with fraud. But Andrew Natsios, a Republican former administrator of USAID, calls that “utter nonsense.” Natsios says USAID is “the most accountable aid agency in the world.” https://t.co/4MwUokAAdX…

Picture If You Will

Published: February 17, 2025 20:00

No doubt. Meanwhile, Trump’s co-president believes he is a god. He’s impregnating as many women as possible (through IVF so he doesn’t have to engage in the dirty work apparently) in order to spread his seed to create some sort of master race. That’s not…

Man Of The People

Published: February 17, 2025 18:30

Yesterday Trump made another ceremonial visit to Real America while President Musk ran the country: Donald Trump swept into Daytona, Florida for the Daytona 500 on Sunday while the arrival of a rainstorm — combined with the president’s own pre-race stunt —…

They Love The Carnage

Published: February 17, 2025 17:00

Axios conducted a focus group that I’m seeing touted all over the media as if it’s the Oracle of Delphi. I’ll let you be the judge if anyone should take this seriously: Every Arizona swing voter in our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups said they approve…

Monarchists Or Worse

Published: February 17, 2025 15:30

Using democracy to kill democracy The only thing American about supporters of Donald Trump’s rolling coup is their birth certificates. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel (and others) excluded, of course. * Resistance isn’t futile, The Ink reminds readers this morning.…

Not My President’s Day

Published: February 17, 2025 14:00

Keep leopards from eating your faces He Who Would Be King on Saturday gave dubious legal advice to those who would do him harm. That’s not what he intended. He meant to declare that no law can touch him, to issue a royal corollary to his Fifth Avenue…

Trump Tower II, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Published: February 17, 2025 00:30

This isn’t the most important thing in the scheme of things but it’s telling. Trump is taking over the Kennedy Center to create a new MAGA cultural center, no doubt based upon his fabulous playlist of Pavorotti and The Village People. And now he apparently…

Face Feast O’ The Day

Published: February 16, 2025 21:30

This piece in a local Kansas site tells it like it is. Look who’s getting screwed: … 398 million acres of cropland has been added to the mix around the world since the start of this century, notably in tropical regions such as Brazil and India. There is…

This Is Bad. Very Bad.

Published: February 16, 2025 20:00

This looks like an historic moment. And not in a good way: “Next Putin will try to get the US president standing on Red Square on May 9 this year, not as a respected leader, but as a prop in his own performance, we don’t need that,” Zelensky said.…

Depends On What The Meaning Of “Save” Is

Published: February 16, 2025 17:00

He’s trying to tell us something: Donald Trump has been back in office for less than one month, and he, Elon Musk, and his senior administration officials have already plunged the nation into an ongoing constitutional crisis and openly performed various…

Get In The Game

Published: February 16, 2025 15:30

Do Democrats even have “game”? A few “Democrats concede they are losing an asymmetrical battle with the president and his MAGA allies,” Politico reports. But there is no agreement on how to mount an effective, attention-getting rapid-response: “Republicans…

You Have Power

Published: February 16, 2025 14:00

Use it now. Before you lose it. “Repetition is really important. And so is repetition” is a message to take to heart. You will be seeing more of it here in coming months. Like this example from Friday: A commentator the other day said that there are only…

My funny valentine: 10 Romantic Sleepers

Published: February 16, 2025 00:30

I know …Valentine’s Day was yesterday. But at least I remembered. OK, I’m on the couch. Anyway. I’ve combed through my review archives of the last decade or so and assembled a “top 10 list” of romantic comedies that may not have set the box office on fire,…

RFK Jr’s “Wellness” Camps

Published: February 15, 2025 23:00

Snake oil freak RFK Jr was confirmed this week and has laid out his first 100 days: Hours after being confirmed as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. issued a statement that laid out sweeping plans for his…

Will Inflation Be Real If Trump Says It Isn’t?

Published: February 15, 2025 21:30

Grocery prices are going up, we may be dealing with another pandemic, Trump is threatening draconian tariffs and we’re on the verge of deporting the vast majority of the agriculture workforce. So the economy is getting more fragile by the day. One of…

QOTD: A White House Official

Published: February 15, 2025 20:00

“We knew they were going to do this. They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan.” He seems nice. And frankly, it’s clear they don’t give a damn…

Germany Stunned By America’s Nazi-Curious VP

Published: February 15, 2025 18:30

I’m trying to imagine what I would have thought if I’d looked into the future and saw this happening even a decade ago. I think I would have assumed it was some kind of dark joke: Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD…

MAGA On The World Stage

Published: February 15, 2025 17:00

I know you don’t like X posts on here and neither do I. But Bluesky still doesn’t have the capability of rendering videos in the blog so there’s not much I can do about it. I would never expect you to sit through a full JD Vance speech but it’s important…

Bootlickers Anonymous

Published: February 15, 2025 15:30

Trump likes them intimidated. They eagerly comply. Me and my sharpie are signing a ‘zecutive order changing the name of Donald Trump to Donald Toadstool. You will henceforth use my preferred designation. His Insecure Highness has enacted several measures…

Pam Bondi’s Escape Room

Published: February 15, 2025 14:00

Emil Bove, Game Master For no particular reason. Here’s an easy-to-follow piece of advice. If you don’t want to be called a Nazi, don’t act like a Nazi. Or Jigsaw. Here’s the intro from Reuters: A U.S. federal prosecutor agreed on Friday to file a motion…

Friday Night Soother

Published: February 15, 2025 00:30

Baby tapir named Ume. Who knew they were so cute? Born last Sunday, Feb. 2, to mom Yuna, little Ume sports the signature white spots and stripes of a newborn tapir, making her look like a tiny, fuzzy watermelon. 🍉 Mom and baby are thriving behind the…

Occupied America

Published: February 14, 2025 23:00

You’ve been boarded Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation. — Anne Applebaum More than a few of us not in federal…

QOTD: A Trump Voter

Published: February 14, 2025 21:30

This is a Trump voter who works for the US government. Apparently, she didn’t think Trump would actually do what Project 2025 said they planned to do because Dear Leader lied to them and said he had nothing to do with it: We voted for border security. We…

But At Least They Can Say Pussy Again

Published: February 14, 2025 20:00

Remember that story from a couple of weeks ago about all the Big Money Boyz celebrating that mainly Trump and the boys were back and they could treat people like shit in the workplace again. They might have to re-think that a little bit in the not too…

3 Weeks Of Rolling Thunder

Published: February 14, 2025 17:00

Trump’s executive orders, Musk’s power grabs, dismantling institutions faster than anyone can track, attacking science, knowledge and international cooperative bodies and allies are all part of the authoritarian playbook. I’ve also grouped the actions in a…

“Highway Robbery”

Published: February 14, 2025 14:00

Donald Trump: And your point is? It’s not unlike the plot of that Die Hard movie where thieves keep police busy hunting for a bomb in a school while the they rob a federal gold depository. The Musk-Trump cabal has simply started firing federal law…

The Banana Republic For Which He Stands

Published: February 14, 2025 00:30

He’s not drunk, but still “bulletproof” Some people still in federal employ will have no part of Donald Trump corrupting the functions of American justice (The New York Times): Manhattan’s U.S. attorney on Thursday resigned rather than obey an order from a…

The Ukraine Mess

Published: February 13, 2025 21:30

Seeing Pete Hegseth running around in Europe like he’s a serious person is hard to take but we have to put up with him. His pronouncements about NATO and Ukraine are pretty shocking but they come directly from Trump so you can’t really blame him. Reporter…

The January 6th Shop

Published: February 13, 2025 20:00

Coming soon to a roadside near you? This quaint little emporium just north of Travelers Rest, SC is identified as run by a neo-confederate hate group associated with The League of the South and “The Lost Cause.” How is that even a thing 160 years after the…

The Nerds Have A Plan

Published: February 13, 2025 18:30

And it’s not good I’ve posted a few pieces by Gil Duran at the New Republic over the past year or so exposing the Silicon Valley overlords and their philosophy led by a creepy guy named Curtis Yarvin. The NY Times actually interviewed Yarvin recently,…

A Little Copium For A Bad Week

Published: February 13, 2025 17:00

Zack Beauchamp at Vox has a great piece today that I would suggest you read in its entirety if you’re feeling as overwhelmed as I am. He recaps the atrocities. You know what they are and they are legion. But he has some perspective that I think is…

Let’s Get Nuts!

Published: February 13, 2025 15:30

It’s asymmetric warfare Our friend Anat Shenker-Osorio once wrote, “Democrats rely on polling to take the temperature; Republicans use polling to change it.” Democrats are reactive, Republicans proactive. If ever there was a time for Democrats to get…

Turning Over In Their Graves

Published: February 13, 2025 14:00

Harwood sums it up John Harwood assesses the GOP’s “descent into nihilism” at Zeteo. It is by now so taken for granted as to go unnoticed. Not in Kiev, of course. I don’t have a Zeteo subscription just yet, but the teaser sums up the situation nicely. Or…

He Had A Michael Jordan Tattoo

Published: February 13, 2025 00:30

They shipped him to Gitmo This is a horrible story and one which I believe is probably just the tip of the iceberg: Luis Alberto Castillo, a father of one from Venezuela, entered the United States on Jan. 19, one day before Donald Trump became president…

It’s Not Just Eggs

Published: February 12, 2025 23:00

Trump used to say on the campaign trail that the markets were going up and inflation was coming down in anticipation of his arrival to save the country. Guess what? Inflation heated up more than expected in January, as prices for groceries, housing and…

He Did It. He Sold Out Ukraine.

Published: February 12, 2025 21:30

He’s giving Ukraine to Vlad as we knew he would. Here’s Hegseth (after he got booed by middle schoolers) today: I think we all expected this but watching the cable newsers like Dana Bash excitedly announce this as a “historic” moment that will change the…

How Do I Screw Thee?

Published: February 12, 2025 20:00

Let me count the ways First, put up or shut up. (Musk will do neither.) The hypocrisy dials at the West Wing propaganda office are turned up to 11. Donald Trump, our first convicted-felon president, and his Muskovite DOGEes mean to screw Americans while…

It Looks Like The People Are Waking Up

Published: February 12, 2025 18:30

Even Republicans are trying to tell their representatives something. (Have some pride and dignity fergawdsakes) Yes, it’s true that members of that 40% may threaten to kill you if you cross Dear Leader but again, have some pride and dignity… I read…

Criminal Minds, Part Deux

Published: February 12, 2025 15:30

If at first you don’t succeed…. “North Carolina will be the first and only state where elections oversight is within the state auditor’s office,” explains Ren Larson at The Assembly. Why is that and how did it happen? Therein lies a tale. Let’s skip the…

Elon Musk’s Fiji Mermaid

Published: February 12, 2025 14:00

Assassination by innuendo By now you’ve seen Tuesday’s bizarre press event in the Oval Office. The leader of the free world expounded at length on rooting out fraud and waste in the U.S. government while Donald Trump, his lieutenant, sat inert behind a…

Where Is All This Going?

Published: February 12, 2025 00:30

I would guess that we’re all in pretty much the same boat with that question right now. I don’t have any answers except to say that this is a serious crisis and it’s hard to see a way out. It’s overwhelming mostly because the entire Republican Party has…

“Maybe They’ll Be Russians Someday”

Published: February 11, 2025 23:00

Vlad is thrilled The White House is indicating that they are on the verge of getting some kind of a peace deal in Ukraine. There aren’t a lot of details but he said something today that gives us a big clue about what it might be like: Trump discussed his…

The Law Is For Losers

Published: February 11, 2025 21:30

Trump’s accomplices are winners It’s a criminal free-for-all: Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to a state charge on Tuesday for his role in a plot to defraud donors to a nonprofit devoted to building a wall on the country’s southern border. Bannon won’t serve…

Why Trump Really Wants Canada

Published: February 11, 2025 20:00

It’s Great and it’s White Deadline from Sunday: “We lose $200 billion a year with Canada, and I’m not going to let that happen,” Trump said. “It’s too much. Why are we paying $200 billion a year, essentially in subsidy to Canada? Now, if they are a 51st…

What She Said

Published: February 11, 2025 18:30

As usual, AOC says it plainly and clearly. But the party does appear to be coalescing into something of a plan even if the leadership is using language more suited to 2015 than 2025: Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) in a letter to colleagues…

Who’s Going To Buy A Tesla?

Published: February 11, 2025 17:00

JV Last answers a question I’ve wondered about recently. A year ago my neighborhood was inundated with Teslas. California is the biggest US market for EVs and they were everywhere on the westside of LA. It was downright weird. Suddenly, there aren’t so…

Nation State Of The Absurd

Published: February 11, 2025 15:30

It’s come to this Google tried to sanewash its map changes: In a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, Google said it would be complying with the name change as part of a long-standing practice of adhering to official government names. The move…

Who’s Afraid Of A Constitutional Crisis?

Published: February 11, 2025 14:00

Not monarchists Arshad Hasan from Democracy for America’s Campaign Academy (back in the day) told us straight away: You are not normal. Normal people do not spend their weekends learning to run political campaigns. Let me extend that: If you read this…