Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds…
People really think there’s any chance of returning to the status quo ante with regard to Iran, Hormuz, and American hegemony in general? Really? Still?
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NYC father of 4. Writing a book about Brooklyn gangster Joe Adonis. You should be listening to Dinah Washington.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds…
People really think there’s any chance of returning to the status quo ante with regard to Iran, Hormuz, and American hegemony in general? Really? Still?
Gorbachev brain is very real. People can't accept a major change even when they see it or when it follows from actions as night into day.
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People really think there’s any chance of returning to the status quo ante with regard to Iran, Hormuz, and American hegemony in general? Really? Still?
This is the progress of civilization @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and I spoke about this last week. It’s both absurd and dangerous. More than a generation has passed since the Cold War. Yet the Trump regime wants Americans to believe communism is the “greatest threat.” How many people actually believe this nonsense?
@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social: " Rubio cited this to build his case [on left-wing terrorism], 'Between 1971-1972, the FBI counted 2,500 bombings on American soil by left-wing actors'… I wasn't even born yet." @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: "Those people are not organizing terrorist cells right now.
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.
This from the guy who has to hire people to play his video games for him.
Dumbest Goddamn Times™️ understates our predicament
In Tucker’s recent interview with his favorite Holocaust-denying “historian,” TC is shocked to learn that the Bolsheviks erected a statue to Judas in Moscow. The only problem is, there is no evidence that this ever happened. But who cares about evidence when you have a fascist narrative to push?
Mount Rainier, Mount St Helens and Mount Adams poke above a smoky Washington sky on Wednesday morning. #WAwx
I could have sworn "stolen valor" was a thing Turns out it was just something else Republicans never actually gave a shit about Draft-dodging PoS
should i use the billions of dollars i have to make the one known hospitable planet in the universe nicer or should i spend trillions pretending to colonize a moon 239k miles away where no one can breathe, eat, or drink these are the hard questions i, a genius, wrestle with every day.
Vance married a woman whose last name was Chilukuri, but he thinks you should be terrified of someone named El-Sayed.
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
After FSD, robot taxis, and Mars, ofc.
$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
“I do not see right now a way to create a balance of interests where the Trump administration walks away with something that ***normal humans*** would regard as a win,” [Aaron David] Miller said. www.ft.com/content/87b0...
Donald Trump trapped between escalation and an Iran deal on Tehran’s terms
The US president faces few good options to exit a war he once said would end swiftly with the Islamic republic’s surrender
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I’ll vote for the first one who says that shit is coming down.
Now I’m no operational security expert, but if I was building a highly sensitive military facility I would probably refrain from posting photos of that facility as it’s being built.