Kakistocalypse Now
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Artisanal f-bomb purveyor. Founding Guard member. Louisiana born and bred, but Oakland for life.
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You are angry and anxious because
you never agreed to live in a burning
home while the people who should
care pretend the fire doesn't exist.
Distress
is a valid emotional response
to injustice.
-Nikita Gill
you never agreed to live in a burning
home while the people who should
care pretend the fire doesn't exist.
Distress
is a valid emotional response
to injustice.
-Nikita Gill
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Like trying to drift a car on the street & being surprised when they hit a curb. These guys didn't put in the work, because the whole reason they're these guys is because they can't or won't put in the work
Right, there are these little moments where you can see them going “no rules! Arrest the enemies of the state” and then they get to the station and they’re like “but wait, we got nothing on this guy, we gotta let him go” like it’s Law and Order
parts of the law enforcement apparatus in this country, both federal and local, is behaving as if we are in an autocracy or a State of Exception is in effect, but they can't actually...do autocracy/SOE things, because of what I can only describe as institutional inertia
January 6, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Like trying to drift a car on the street & being surprised when they hit a curb. These guys didn't put in the work, because the whole reason they're these guys is because they can't or won't put in the work
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The GOP didn't have the votes for many years but that didn't stop them from pulling out every procedural trick possible while screaming at Dems on TV. And now they're in charge.
Lot of people yelling recently "but we don't have the votes!" True! That doesn't mean "immediately quit." (Also not what propter is saying here, to be clear.) It means create a spectacle, make things cause celebres, make the Republican position untenable.
Create bargaining position and force votes.
Create bargaining position and force votes.
January 6, 2026 at 1:31 AM
The GOP didn't have the votes for many years but that didn't stop them from pulling out every procedural trick possible while screaming at Dems on TV. And now they're in charge.
It doesn't and I've been saying forever that Democrats need to put that dead eyed freak front and center in their messaging
im genuinely curious if this resonates with voters. this naked appeal to imperialism from a shrieking, shrill man
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 3:21 AM
It doesn't and I've been saying forever that Democrats need to put that dead eyed freak front and center in their messaging
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he’s doing a bunch of awful shit at once because he has a bunch of evil impulses and no attention span or short term memory and his various viziers have their own agendas and get him in a room and he goes sure sounds good
it’s overwhelming to deal with but it isn’t complicated
it’s overwhelming to deal with but it isn’t complicated
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
he’s doing a bunch of awful shit at once because he has a bunch of evil impulses and no attention span or short term memory and his various viziers have their own agendas and get him in a room and he goes sure sounds good
it’s overwhelming to deal with but it isn’t complicated
it’s overwhelming to deal with but it isn’t complicated
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I understand that the goal is to focus their messaging on Affordability and all but I am tired of the twelve dimensional chess framing
the president is a bunch of evil fireflies beeping in a jar, he doesn’t distract from things so much as it’s a different firefly’s turn
he wants oil, kidnap maduro
the president is a bunch of evil fireflies beeping in a jar, he doesn’t distract from things so much as it’s a different firefly’s turn
he wants oil, kidnap maduro
Chris Murphy: "At some level he's winning tonight because clearly part of his intent here was to distract the American people -- you and I -- from what's happening here at home. You have 20 million families who are getting massive increases in their healthcare premiums. People will die."
January 6, 2026 at 3:10 AM
I understand that the goal is to focus their messaging on Affordability and all but I am tired of the twelve dimensional chess framing
the president is a bunch of evil fireflies beeping in a jar, he doesn’t distract from things so much as it’s a different firefly’s turn
he wants oil, kidnap maduro
the president is a bunch of evil fireflies beeping in a jar, he doesn’t distract from things so much as it’s a different firefly’s turn
he wants oil, kidnap maduro
I'd bet good money he forgot his password
![Those long-standing rifts aside, polls do not show widespread Greenlandic support for swapping the Danish flag for the Stars and Stripes. [Jørgen Boassen [Trump’s most prominent and vocal advocate in Greenland] insisted that many Greenlanders are afraid to speak up in favor of annexation because they would face professional and political retribution. He claimed that Danish authorities shut down his Facebook page, which is his primary means of spreading his support for Trump’s policies. (We were able to access the page this afternoon.) Boassen said that “Trump has heard about people suffering” and that he is “a savior for us right now.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l2x3nn7edvmirt4od4iuvhb7/bafkreie22e4sqw55bzdnx2v5ttvekdi76zvqhadhbvog6wwsnx3yhu43h4@jpeg)
January 6, 2026 at 2:40 AM
I'd bet good money he forgot his password
Silverview is the only book I've ever finished and immediately turned back to the first page and reread
"A Legacy of Spies" is a tough, tough moral battle. It is an excellent book. "Silverview," the final book, is not monumental in its story, but its conclusion. There is a reason he held it until after his death. Together they are essential to understanding le Carré.
After the wall fell, he became a very different writer, and I think the consensus on which books are good and bad breaks down. But I liked the Night Manager and Agent Running in the Field.
January 6, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Silverview is the only book I've ever finished and immediately turned back to the first page and reread
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the ne plus ultra of Stephen Miller anecdotes is that time he threw $80 worth of sushi in the trash as part of an emotional meltdown he had when someone cursed him in the streets; he's eminently bulliable and bullying him is a patriotic act
www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
January 6, 2026 at 12:03 AM
the ne plus ultra of Stephen Miller anecdotes is that time he threw $80 worth of sushi in the trash as part of an emotional meltdown he had when someone cursed him in the streets; he's eminently bulliable and bullying him is a patriotic act
www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
Burn it to the fucking ground
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
A Calif. teen trusted ChatGPT for drug advice. He died from an overdose.
"Who on earth gives that advice?"
www.sfgate.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Burn it to the fucking ground
The funniest part is the email tells them exactly why they cancelled the reservations
January 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The funniest part is the email tells them exactly why they cancelled the reservations
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I keep telling people that sharing misinformation from the left, just as much as misinformation from the right, furthers Trump's goal of getting people to believe there is no such thing as objective truth.
January 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I keep telling people that sharing misinformation from the left, just as much as misinformation from the right, furthers Trump's goal of getting people to believe there is no such thing as objective truth.
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"In normal liberal democracy terms, the US is in bad shape. But in consolidated authoritarianism terms, we’re doing pretty well."
I wrote about the weirdness of walking around the monuments in DC, three ways the Trump regime stumbled this year, and why I'm cautiously optimistic heading into 2026.
I wrote about the weirdness of walking around the monuments in DC, three ways the Trump regime stumbled this year, and why I'm cautiously optimistic heading into 2026.
Washington DC is Messed Up, But the Regime is Failing
America is no longer a constitutional democracy yet is far from consolidated authoritarianism. It's important to recognize both of those at once.
www.arcdigital.media
January 5, 2026 at 6:38 PM
"In normal liberal democracy terms, the US is in bad shape. But in consolidated authoritarianism terms, we’re doing pretty well."
I wrote about the weirdness of walking around the monuments in DC, three ways the Trump regime stumbled this year, and why I'm cautiously optimistic heading into 2026.
I wrote about the weirdness of walking around the monuments in DC, three ways the Trump regime stumbled this year, and why I'm cautiously optimistic heading into 2026.
Honest question: will anyone notice
Dan Bongino has departed FBI, per statement
January 5, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Honest question: will anyone notice
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I would like to point out that the trump White House is so fucking stupid that during term 1, they included in their email blasts of Look-how-create-trump-is an Alexandra Petri column about how awesome he was and how good a job he was doing
The Constitution does say that war powers belong to Congress. But there are important exceptions, like if the president really, really wants to go to war. Or it’s the weekend. Or it’s January. Or he thought he saw a spider. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
President Trump Totally Meant to Ask Congress Before Attacking Venezuela
Oops!
www.theatlantic.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM
I would like to point out that the trump White House is so fucking stupid that during term 1, they included in their email blasts of Look-how-create-trump-is an Alexandra Petri column about how awesome he was and how good a job he was doing
Every bit of Musk's empire needs to be obliterated
Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors
When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies."
www.reuters.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Every bit of Musk's empire needs to be obliterated
This Clear and Present Danger remake sucks
Trump is eyeing up a strike on Colombia. On Airforce One he told reporters: “Colombia…is run by a sick man who loves to produce cocaine and sell it to the US. He won't continue doing this for much longer. He has cocaine factories... he won't do this for much longer.”
January 5, 2026 at 11:06 AM
This Clear and Present Danger remake sucks
The stupid cherry on top of this idiot sundae is that Trump only cared about getting a Nobel Peace Prize in the first place because Obama got one
January 5, 2026 at 8:20 AM
The stupid cherry on top of this idiot sundae is that Trump only cared about getting a Nobel Peace Prize in the first place because Obama got one
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a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
Honestly insane they didn't brief the gang of eight until it was underway
January 4, 2026 at 9:56 PM
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
We have always been at war with Eastasia
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 7:22 AM
We have always been at war with Eastasia
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When you have wealth and privilege, you don't plan, execute, engage in strategy, think, focus on details etc. You have people who do that.
Don't be surprised there is only shit posting and bluster. That's all someone like that has actually done.
Don't be surprised there is only shit posting and bluster. That's all someone like that has actually done.
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 PM
When you have wealth and privilege, you don't plan, execute, engage in strategy, think, focus on details etc. You have people who do that.
Don't be surprised there is only shit posting and bluster. That's all someone like that has actually done.
Don't be surprised there is only shit posting and bluster. That's all someone like that has actually done.
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These people are not slick. They're not savvy. They're not thinking two, three or four moves ahead. They did a raid and kidnapped an adversarial country's leader. Now they will attempt more things like this because it worked once. It's not any more complicated than that. So yes, maximum insanity.
The problem with people saying Trump would never actually try to take Greenland is many of those same people were once very confident he’d never actually run for president. I no longer have any confidence that we aren’t crashing headlong into maximum insanity.
January 5, 2026 at 5:04 AM
These people are not slick. They're not savvy. They're not thinking two, three or four moves ahead. They did a raid and kidnapped an adversarial country's leader. Now they will attempt more things like this because it worked once. It's not any more complicated than that. So yes, maximum insanity.
Mais oui cher
anyone else have happy childhood memories of a Cajun Night Before Christmas?
January 5, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Mais oui cher
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What JD Vance really means by this is that Maduro is bound by US laws but Trump is not.
January 3, 2026 at 8:38 PM
What JD Vance really means by this is that Maduro is bound by US laws but Trump is not.
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Yes, this is exactly the time to demand Democrats "do something."
They can denounce Trump's actions as unconstitutional. They can state that he must be impeached and removed. They can make clear that all involved will be held accountable.
These are the core duties of a role they all signed up for.
They can denounce Trump's actions as unconstitutional. They can state that he must be impeached and removed. They can make clear that all involved will be held accountable.
These are the core duties of a role they all signed up for.
January 3, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Yes, this is exactly the time to demand Democrats "do something."
They can denounce Trump's actions as unconstitutional. They can state that he must be impeached and removed. They can make clear that all involved will be held accountable.
These are the core duties of a role they all signed up for.
They can denounce Trump's actions as unconstitutional. They can state that he must be impeached and removed. They can make clear that all involved will be held accountable.
These are the core duties of a role they all signed up for.
But then he'd have to share the spotlight and the credit
The irony is, if Trump had framed it as "elements of Venezuela's regime acted, with our assistance, to remove Maduro as a roadblock to resolving the crisis", the whole thing could have come across as a decent-size win without the baggage of kidnapping and colonialism.
January 4, 2026 at 7:04 PM
But then he'd have to share the spotlight and the credit