When people eventually stop denying that the worms in Trump's brain have made a lot of progress, the excuse will be that Dems covered up Biden, too.
Schoolyard logic, but not entirely wrong.
Saturday, September 20, 2025
It's Always 2003 To These Fucking People
I don't claim that Democrats will win a Senate seate in Missouri (for example) by being pro-choice (oops fixed, had written anti-abortion), but abortion is more popular than Democrats in Republican states. Running against it won't help! It will hurt!
And it isn't new! Dems run anti-choice and wishywishy-on-abortion candidates all the time!
All they are doing there is their favorite thing - lecturing the left on how it's big boy grownup politics to be horrible at politics. It's just trolling!
Neera runs the premier Dem think tank, which includes genocide architect Anthony Blinken on its board!
Being mealy-mouthed just makes you seem like a loser who doesn't believe in anything! Which, I guess, is why mealy-mouthed losers love it!This is something people really have to take seriously. We need to expand the tent. https://t.co/4mbFS2vuin
— Neera Tanden🌻 (@neeratanden) September 20, 2025
And it isn't new! Dems run anti-choice and wishywishy-on-abortion candidates all the time!
All they are doing there is their favorite thing - lecturing the left on how it's big boy grownup politics to be horrible at politics. It's just trolling!
Neera runs the premier Dem think tank, which includes genocide architect Anthony Blinken on its board!
Friday, September 19, 2025
We Don't Worry About Outdated Concepts Like "Revenue" and "Profit"
Amazing stuff.
Nearly three years after the start of the artificial intelligence boom, business technology leaders are starting to change their thinking on return on investment. The new wisdom? Don’t worry so much about AI’s ROI.We embrace new metrics like "vibes."
Return on investment has evaded chief information officers since AI started moving from early experimentation to more mature implementations last year. But while AI is still rapidly evolving, CIOs are recognizing that traditional ways of recognizing gains from the technology aren’t cutting it.
Welp
She did say that she would appoint a republican, just not then [the View interview]
Still, Harris defends her actions against her critics who said she should have done more to distance herself from Biden, saying she did not “want to embrace the cruelty of my opponent.” She also argues that naming one specific policy difference would have created a “backward-looking rather than forward-looking” conversation and “would have limited the definition of the difference between us to that one thing, rather than my unique perspective on a variety of issues.”
In hindsight, Harris writes, she wishes she’d said that, unlike Biden, she would appoint a Republican to her Cabinet.
I'm not interested in second-guessing the campaign, but rather highlighting the thinking that is still driving them.
They all (leadership, the cool kids of the caucus, the centrist dipshit pundits and consultants) believe that her problem is that she wasn't Republican-friendly enough, that Biden himself was too left wing, and when they imagine "Republican" they think "Liz Cheney fan." The white suburban soccer moms from 2004, only now they are soccer grandmas.
If those Sensible Republicans were still Trump-curious in 2024, they weren't Sensible Republicans, were they? That model voter does not exist in any quantity.
They dedicated the campaign to chasing those voters, and they think they just didn't do it well enough.
Look to the UK for the popularity of Starmerism. Labour did manage to get elected due to the conservative vote being split across two parties, and the associated collapse of the Tories, but they are currently at syphilis levels of popularity.
Unpopular President
Almost hitting pony territory, someone tell Jeffries.
Overall, 39% of adults approve of the way Trump is handing his job as president and 60% disapprove.Also, too:
We'll Get Right On That
Absurd shakedown attempts.
Previously, the South Korean government pledged to establish a US$350 billion fund for US investment on the condition that the US lower its tariffs on Korean imports from 25% to 15%. The expressions of disgruntlement come amid US pressures so unilateral that the situation could scarcely be described as a “negotiation” between the two sides.
In the follow-up negotiations that have been taking place over how the investment is to be carried out and how the profits are to be distributed, Washington has been pressing for direct cash investment, while Seoul has been arguing for investment in the form of financial guarantees instead.
In terms of profit distribution, the US has been insisting on a system where it claims 90% of the profits once the principal investment has been recouped, while South Korea gets 10%.
Sure Why Not
I've been betting (in my mind, not dollars) against K-Hole man forever and he keeps winning. Not that anything he promises ever works as promised, but he's rich and I am not.
“The reason xAI is here is because Tesla is right across the road,” he said. “My prediction is: Optimus will be more productive than the entire global economy. That the output of goods and services from Optimus will far exceed the global economy, of everyone on Earth.”
He is also working on a Microsoft competitor called "Macrohard." Still the humor of a 13-year-old boy from 1985.
Rich People Have More To Lose
Jimmy Kimmel might lose his $16 million annual salary, and Khalil made a grad student stipend (I assume), so who really has more to lose here?
This view is why Klein is sucking up to right wingers. Why everyone is. They believe that if you have further to fall, you have more to lose, instead of, at worst, you can just retire and drink wine in Italy all day and things will be okay.
Corollary: the lives of rich people are much more important, much more valuable.
Just as you can't have An Exchange Of Ideas And Good Faith Arguments with people who believe in racial hierarchies and believe that some people aren't really people, you can't do that with those who think the rich are more valuable than the rest of us.
This is the elite consensus.
It is enraging watching nobodies try to stop ICE deportations while these fuckers imagine they are the ones who are threatened.
(This about Smith, not Kimmel. We don't really know how he is reacting/going to react.)
Just as you can't have An Exchange Of Ideas And Good Faith Arguments with people who believe in racial hierarchies and believe that some people aren't really people, you can't do that with those who think the rich are more valuable than the rest of us.
This is the elite consensus.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Donald The Dove
Trump let slip that we're going to invade Afghanistan again. Another 20 years!
Mr. President, sir, I'm not sure what this does for your peace prize chances!
President Donald Trump has been quietly pushing his national security officials for months to find a way to get Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan back from the Taliban, three people familiar with the matter told CNN.
Trump hinted at those discussions publicly for the first time on Thursday, telling reporters that his administration is working to regain control of the base, which lies an hour north of Kabul. The Taliban took it over following the collapse of the Afghan government and the US military withdrawal in 2021.
Send in the Charlie Kirk Fighting Debaters.
Sure Why Not
Isn't there anyone inspirational who actually joined the military?
WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders are considering a new recruiting campaign that would encourage young people to honor the legacy of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk by joining the military, according to two officials familiar with the planning.Kirk did not get into West Point as he wanted. He then did not enlist.
The idea would be to frame the recruiting campaign as a national call to service, the officials said. Possible slogans that Pentagon leaders have discussed include “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors,” according to the officials.
Wow Didn't See That One Coming
I like Seth. He can come blog for free here if he needs a gig.
The U.S. president had cheered ABC for “finally having the courage to do what had to be done” in a late-night Sept. 17 post on Truth Social that also called for NBC to cancel late-night shows of comedians Seth Myers and Jimmy Fallon. “Do it NBC!!!” Trump wrote....It isn't quite as serious as the Oberlin Banh Mi scandal of 2015, but worrying!
Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO
— Thomas Seal (@twseal.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Welp
Literally none of this is true and this woman needs to get help. We have to stop allowing members who are experiencing mental breakdown to continue to work without getting them the help they need. This is an emergency, let’s help her before she hurts herself or one of us. https://t.co/4DDeIm8QyU
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) September 18, 2025
Fuck You Money
You would think people would appreciate that one big benefit of having money - even "I can retire young, comfortably" money, not super yacht money - is that, at worst, you can just nope out and go enjoy your life.
Well, I would have thought, anyway.
Watching videos of people protesting ICE contrasted with Ezra Klein "can't we all just get along" videos has certainly been educational!
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
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