May 3, 2026

I've Had It Podcast

Mussolini didn't "make the trains run on time." He put people in charge who would lie about them being on time.


Good Question


My original gut reaction stands:


However:
I'm sorry you've had to go through all that - we did warn you. Remember that.

What you have to do now is admit you got took, come out of the darkness, and help us tear down the #EpsteinClass so we can start to rebuild what they've been destroying over the last 5 decades.

We've got a metric fuck ton of work ahead of us, and you get to do your share of the heavy lifting.

Democracy Is

It's been going around for some time now, that it's not Red vs Blue, or Conservative vs Progressive, or even Good vs Evil (although we've seen a lot of that too)

And there's certainly a Class vs Class element to it - a big one actually.

But what it's come down to is liberal vs ill-liberal. Do we want our version of democracy to work for us, or do we want a version that just requires us to obey - and work for - the government?



I have one basic bone to pick with Mr Frum - he left out the yang:

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals - and you know it."
--Agent K, Men In Black

And that's the eternal paradox - the necessary rights of the individual, and the necessary commitment to a collective society every individual depends on.

A Quote


If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.
--Hanna Arendt

May 2, 2026

Man vs Bear

Notice how the bear hears "No!" and fucks off.

Are we clear on this now, guys?


Hawk

This is a bit of a knee-jerk reaction, but it's easy to understand, hard to dispute, and impossible for me to condemn.

10 years. We've been plagued with that jerk's shit for 10 fuckin' years.





More War & Higher Prices

As per usual, Trump struts around calling himself a hero for "stopping the war in the Congo", while he's busily ramping up the US military to fight it.



- and in the meantime, our anti-war POTUS is making everybody's lives worse with his stupid fucking "ideas" on trade, economics, and foreign policy -


Drudge


 

All this winning.
Please, Mr President,
we can't take any more
of this winning.