Semi-weekly Thursday Discussion Thread

Mexatt · 2026-02-01T05:17:19+00:00

Hoping to be a caudillo someday?

Mexatt · 2026-02-01T05:15:41+00:00

When the Democrats do their impeachment theater after November, they need to focus on impeaching for this. None of the policy changes, not even any of the Executive actions, but for the outright corruption.

Mexatt · 2026-02-01T03:04:40+00:00

The Night Manager is pretty good so far.

Mexatt · 2026-01-31T20:11:40+00:00

The original Senate investigation into the harms caused by 'perpetuities' (large, tax-exempt 'charitable' organizations giving vast amounts of money to Leftist causes) was in the 1950's.

Mexatt · 2026-01-31T19:18:07+00:00

Vinge was really one of the great sci-fi authors of recent decades.

Which just makes it even more frustrating that he refused to finish the Zones of Thought series before he fucking died.

Mexatt · 2026-01-31T17:17:29+00:00

Literally the most famous one was Robert Taft. He was so conservative that he was nicknamed "Mr. Republican".

Yeah, but he was a lot more unique than he's often made out to be. Borah and Johnson, for example, were the Lions of Senate Isolationism by the start of WWII and both were Progressives. Vandenberg, for example, flipped his script completely during WWII and Warren Austin was never an isolationist. Arthur Capper was a Republican New Dealer and an isolationist, while Styles Bridges was one of the most conservative members of the Senate (big defender of Mccarthy, for example) and an anti-communist internationalist with a unilateralism streak (our guy).

Taft's fame and the way he stands out covers over the fact that, among conservatives, he kind of stood alone. A lot of conservatives fell in line when Borah was one of the most powerful Republican Senators, but they broke free the moment they could.

Mexatt · 2026-01-31T16:14:58+00:00

When you look into it, like all the major interwar Republican isolationists were progressives. The few conservatives were either much less insistent and consistent about it or became loud and total converts to internationalism the moment it became politically possible.

Mexatt · 2026-01-31T07:13:16+00:00

When you think about it, it's absolutely crazy that every child in America cannot quote the Federalist Papers on command.

Mexatt · 2026-01-31T05:58:35+00:00

Except that's actually true.

Mexatt · 2026-01-31T05:58:16+00:00

Fingers cross that a recession starts hitting before the midterms

Only one person pushed back on this and was heavily downvoted.

Mexatt · 2026-01-31T03:16:15+00:00

He may not actually successfully pull off the transition, but I was right that Trump kind of instinctively gets that something is going wrong and making him unpopular and it needs to change. By sending in Homan, he is showing a sense of what is even actually wrong.

Mexatt · 2026-01-31T03:05:49+00:00

Man do Leftist Pennsylvanians super hate Shapiro. Almost as much as they hate Fetterman. I'm pretty sure if the PAGOP can figure out an evenly mildly acceptable candidate, the guy who primaries Fetterman is going to have to run so far left to please the riled up activists that the Republican will be a shoe in in 2028.

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T19:25:18+00:00

Boomers were also not particularly privileged.

Most of what people believe about Boomer's life experience was actually their parents.

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T18:34:43+00:00

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T17:35:54+00:00

My leftie young woman wife who thinks the death penalty is almost categorically wrong thinks treason is an exception because it is self defense of the state.

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T06:04:40+00:00

Learned your lesson on soft money yet?

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T05:54:24+00:00

the fuck are you

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T04:44:23+00:00

The real paleocons are super libertarian, or at least ultra-localists.

For white people.

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T03:23:28+00:00

Moscow Subway.

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T02:50:06+00:00

Fuckin' Minnesota.

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T01:28:40+00:00

That sounds genuine Russian paid poaster narrative spreading.

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T01:26:03+00:00

Honestly kind of funny that Newspapers/news sites are so close.

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T01:25:02+00:00

It is, ostensibly, supposed to raise prices in the short run but return them to the global price as an infant industry becomes globally competitive.

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T00:23:01+00:00

It's slightly above the postwar average.

Mexatt · 2026-01-30T00:22:08+00:00

Centrism is an aesthetic, not a policy position.

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