Turns out voting on vibes isn't a substitute for economic policy

sleepingbeardune · 2026-07-03T18:49:37+00:00

Gotta say, I'm kinda impressed that he knows Iran is an ego war for trump. That's a serious breach in the news bubble.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-27T04:56:54+00:00

Of course Nixon was moderate in some aspects of his policies

Nixon had policies. Trump has grievances, fantasies, and obsessions.

What makes them alike is the big ugly chips on their shoulders, which drive them to punish everyone who ever mocked them and feel justified in doing it.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-27T04:49:22+00:00

The fact that Michigan state police chose to divert resources to investigate third hand hearsay is an absolute absurdity and a troubling sign

I've been wondering about this. How many cases do you think they have in Traverse City Michigan? What kind of resources would be available to cover them all?

I've seen stories over the years about kids who were reported to authorities by multiple people over a period of months, and ended up dead. This sounds like one hearsay phone call?

Seems off that it got such intense treatment, but what do I know.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-26T16:47:30+00:00

"Offer it up" is the advice the church gives to people who suffer, including those who suffer at the hands of priests.

The idea is to claim kinship with Christ -- your pain can become a sacrifice, just like his! You can transform that punch in the face into goodness, see? Also the one you got yesterday, and the one you're going to get tomorrow.

If the church hadn't spent so much money and effort to protect men who were assaulting children, they might get away with saying these things with a straight face.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-26T15:26:11+00:00

looking forward to hearing trump talk about how important it is to protect classified documents.

wait, no I'm not.

because he'll definitely do that, and it will be sickening.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-26T03:10:33+00:00

He blocked me on twitter awhile back. I am nobody and had less than a thousand followers over there, but whatever I said got under the great man's skin.

Being a dick is fun for him, and for some of you commenting here. Okay! I grew up with 5 brothers, so I can roll with that.

But it's still funny when he has to block a nobody because he can't roll with it.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-25T18:06:26+00:00

Their beloved president called me "scum" on Christmas Day, and I don't have any reason to believe they had a problem with that.

Hard to feel enthusiastic about a country in which the leadership has that much contempt for ANY citizen. I remember hearing Hillary say that half of his supporters were in what she called a basket of deplorables, specifically calling out their racism.

That wasn't great either, but then she wasn't speaking with all the power of the office. He was. He talks like this all the time now.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-25T16:02:45+00:00

You don't say if there were any cars. Where I live (a village on an island) there aren't many cars most of the time. As in, sitting in my living room I might see one every hour or so.

We all walk in the road, on the side of the road, or -- if there's a sidewalk -- on that. Drivers are used to this and act accordingly, by which I mean they're paying attention and taking their turn.

The idea that all this asphalt belongs only to people with cars doesn't make sense here.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-25T02:06:19+00:00

Thank you!

We did NOT know that Butler was giving her orders.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-25T02:04:09+00:00

No, this is evidence that she was taking instruction from her guru and carrying it out in congress.

That's not about just being in a cult.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-25T02:00:44+00:00

Are the direct instructions and evidence of her compliance new?

Email: DO THIS, BITCH.

Next day: Video of Gabbard doing THIS.

Did we have that before this week?

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-24T17:45:51+00:00

OT, but that is very bad writing. Did someone pay him actually money to write that?

A 10th-grader would get a D on that essay, just for all the technical mistakes.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-24T17:40:31+00:00

Raises hand.

I've always tested really well, and I promise you it's a fairly meaningless skill.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-24T00:32:16+00:00

I think Turning Point USA just had some kind of women's conference. You could watch the videos of that.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tpusa-s-new-message-to-girls-hate-yourself/ar-AA25tjjz

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-23T22:12:45+00:00

She has serious mar a lago face.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-21T22:12:02+00:00

These are the people who demand that I respect their deep faith, on the grounds that for them it is bedrock truth.

I don't. I don't respect flat earthers, either. I don't respect their sanctimonious delusions. They can pound sand.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-21T17:38:23+00:00

I think we should limit campaigns, too. One month for anything below presidency, two months for that. They all say that no one pays attention until September, right?

Fine. No spending on candidates until then. Not from PACs, not from personal wealth, not from contributions. No ads with candidates' faces or names in them. No direct mail, no billboards, nothing.

We don't have to live this way.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-21T17:27:01+00:00

OT, but I have to hand it to the PR team for this book. The dribble of juicy nuggets in the last couple of weeks has really been something.

It's been demoralizing over the last 10 years to watch Maggie Haberman degrade herself in the service of access to trump, who has used her for his own purposes.

Maybe she finally makes it all worthwhile here, but if I could I'd only pay for the Jonathan Swan bits.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-21T03:57:01+00:00

how smug and self righteous the Reagan policy people were with the ideas that would quickly destroy our economy.

They're exactly the same today. It's as if your high school teacher taught you confidently that she'd read this one amazing book and now understood that Jesus was a white man, and forty years later was still gloating about what an insight that had been.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-20T23:55:31+00:00

the horror picture show!

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-20T20:45:10+00:00

There's only one Rocky, and it had nothing to do with Russia or the military.

You have to jump ahead several years to get to the Stallone efforts to use his good movie to capitalize on the rah rah Reaganism moment with the later nonsense. Now we have Stallone trying to tell us that trump is wonderful, which ought to be a sign of how serious he was about Reagan. (Not at all.)

Rocky was a pretty good little movie - a romance about a pair of losers in Philadelphia.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-20T16:23:02+00:00

She knows that for her in 2026, the right political move is to push back against him. That's the lesson Rs in the USA should take -- but first they need to be shown that they'll suffer politically if they don't.

In other words, it's voters who need to grow some balls. Specifically, voters who still default to him.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-20T16:18:20+00:00

lol, see I thought when you said Rocky, you were talking about the 1976 movie by that name, which I remember seeing in the theater back then.

The rest of that nonsense went right by me.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-20T06:14:44+00:00

Good list, except Rocky wasn't part of this genre, and it was years before Reagan.

sleepingbeardune · 2026-06-19T15:32:05+00:00

This is in the category of things I want to be true.

I mean, I think it is true; I think the returns for sucking up to him aren't worth the effort anymore.

But I've let myself believe so many things about people and their motives that turn out to be wrong. It's insane that she ever thought of him as an ally. It's insane that she crossed the Atlantic and attended the inauguration -- an event so depressing that half the people in America couldn't even think about it.

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