the future is a mashup of Terminator and Idiocracy.

i like it when Alan Greenspan appears in the news. it makes me feel young again.

this is still the fucking around stage, only nobody's having fun.

the arsonists run on being tough on fire. that is their whole trick. to those who take them at their word, every fire they set strengthens the case for their necessity.

i wonder about the incentives we’re creating here.

leaving on a jet plane.

for a minute there, it seemed he was a lame duck rather than a horseman of the apocalypse.

morons learn lessons.

come spring the ice melts.

the fundamental mistake the contemporary right makes is to confuse the product of successful institutions with personal characteristics of the people that perform them. since they think good outcomes are about good people, they happily dismantle the institutions under which people become good.

i will accept your straight-A report card if you give it to me. ht @kagrox.bsky.social

just waiting for the argument, “if they don’t burn down portland it shows how racist the left is against white people.”

Gotta get down to it ICE agents are gunning us down.

the masculine energy on X is all men playing dress-up of their favorite dolls via grok.

it’d be nice to have a few days when something impossibly horrible doesn’t happen.

a change of administration would not be sufficient. the united states needs a refounding, something on par with the post-Civil-War amendments (hopefully in the instance more effective than those amendments) signaling that a durable change in the nature of the polity has occurred.

does anybody know the directions back to my timeline?

our writers are not subtle.