Jonathon M. Floyd
@jfloyd314.bsky.social
Huge BYU fan who just returned home from London. BYU grad (Political Science BA '21). QMUL (History MA '25). Latter-day Saint. Utah Jazz, RSL, Utah Mammoth. I love politics (centrist), history, sports, aviation.
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Jonathon M. Floyd
@jfloyd314.bsky.social
· Jun 26
BYU Football Analysis - Ryder Lyons and the State of the BYU Quarterback Room
There has been a lot of news out of Provo on the quarterback front recently, and I figured now was a good opportunity to distill all of my thoughts on it into one place. I'll start with the most excit...
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I don't post enough about sports on here, but if anyone wants to read a little about the BYU quarterback room, I've got you covered!
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You can have democracy or you can have a military that fixes the mistakes of the electorate. You can’t have both.
January 4, 2026 at 3:05 AM
You can have democracy or you can have a military that fixes the mistakes of the electorate. You can’t have both.
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Very Bad People have killed the government, and are walking around in its skinsuit. The question is: do you do what they say, simply because they're wearing the skinsuit?
January 4, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Very Bad People have killed the government, and are walking around in its skinsuit. The question is: do you do what they say, simply because they're wearing the skinsuit?
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I think at this point its entirely fair to just wait 48hrs and see which political entities appear to actually be exercising control on the ground, probably the actual govt led by the VP. Not many other ways to really tell what’s happening there w/o great on the ground journalism, which is unlikely.
January 4, 2026 at 2:58 AM
I think at this point its entirely fair to just wait 48hrs and see which political entities appear to actually be exercising control on the ground, probably the actual govt led by the VP. Not many other ways to really tell what’s happening there w/o great on the ground journalism, which is unlikely.
The nominal anti-Trump neocons on Twitter are all posting rapturous celebrations of Maduro's capture like Trump didn't immediately install his vice president to replace him lol.
They literally did this for the DEA photo op, and presumably to steal as much low-grade oil as possible.
They literally did this for the DEA photo op, and presumably to steal as much low-grade oil as possible.
January 4, 2026 at 2:21 AM
The nominal anti-Trump neocons on Twitter are all posting rapturous celebrations of Maduro's capture like Trump didn't immediately install his vice president to replace him lol.
They literally did this for the DEA photo op, and presumably to steal as much low-grade oil as possible.
They literally did this for the DEA photo op, and presumably to steal as much low-grade oil as possible.
This is honestly a fantastic encapsulation of everything this administration stands for. This is government of the posters, by the posters, and for the posters. They do what they do specifically with the intent, desire, and goal to drive social media engagement. This IS the Trump era.
They’ve got Twitter up on the big screens in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago makeshift “situation room.”
Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.
Photos from Trump’s Truth Social account.
January 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
This is honestly a fantastic encapsulation of everything this administration stands for. This is government of the posters, by the posters, and for the posters. They do what they do specifically with the intent, desire, and goal to drive social media engagement. This IS the Trump era.
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Finally we can do Sicario type operations in Latin America as shown in the movie Sicario: US Interventions In Latin America Are Bad
January 3, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Finally we can do Sicario type operations in Latin America as shown in the movie Sicario: US Interventions In Latin America Are Bad
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This is definitely not a SCIF and, among many other things, this alone is a major national security breach. Random third rate intelligence agencies would have known about this attack before Congressional leaders did.
Trump is posting a bunch of photos without captions, presumably of him watching the Maduro kidnapping.
Is this the inside of a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago or did they just toss up some pipe and drape?
Is this the inside of a SCIF at Mar-a-Lago or did they just toss up some pipe and drape?
January 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM
This is definitely not a SCIF and, among many other things, this alone is a major national security breach. Random third rate intelligence agencies would have known about this attack before Congressional leaders did.
Even among nominally liberal reporters, I think there's still a virtually ironclad assumption that someone as irrational and impaired as Trump could not possibly ascend to the presidency, and that there must, therefore, be some kind of coherent intelligence behind what he says and does.
This is the wild part about the whole Trump experience, even when he says politically disastrous things, reporters rush in to fill in the blanks and steelman his arguments. As soon as they cut away from him saying “we’ll run it,” they cut to someone saying “obviously he didn't mean that.”
January 3, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Even among nominally liberal reporters, I think there's still a virtually ironclad assumption that someone as irrational and impaired as Trump could not possibly ascend to the presidency, and that there must, therefore, be some kind of coherent intelligence behind what he says and does.
There also need to be elected Democrats, particularly anyone considering a 2028 run, out in public post haste making it clear that a Democratic administration will aggressively prosecute those who carry out illegal orders.
Would like to see some JAG officers on the news talking about whether these military strikes are technically legal and, if not, what sort of liability commanders have incurred by carrying them out.
January 3, 2026 at 8:10 AM
There also need to be elected Democrats, particularly anyone considering a 2028 run, out in public post haste making it clear that a Democratic administration will aggressively prosecute those who carry out illegal orders.
I genuinely don't think Trump has thought about this since authorizing it.
So do we think that they didn’t actually have a comms plan for this?
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
I genuinely don't think Trump has thought about this since authorizing it.
This is also, incidentally, the final legacy of Charlie Kirk and the social media-fication of the MAGA movement. The Republican Party's leadership has been gutted and replaced with a collection of social media addicts.
It’s the geopolitical equivalent of the teenage meathead whose entire reality is framed around impressing his equally meatheaded friends, and ends up backflipping off a bridge into a icy river in February without a second thought and is recovered a month later.
January 3, 2026 at 7:47 AM
This is also, incidentally, the final legacy of Charlie Kirk and the social media-fication of the MAGA movement. The Republican Party's leadership has been gutted and replaced with a collection of social media addicts.
This is the end stage of a political movement built entirely on escalating purity tests and runaway groupthink. These people exist entirely within echo chambers that tell them that all of their ideas are good, anyone who disagrees is subhuman, and the world should revolve around their whims.
They genuinely cannot distinguish between “this sounds based and gets us a lot of retweets from our neo-Nazi fan base” and “this is in reality a good idea.” They are pursuing lunatic authoritarian policies because the reward centers in their brain are tuned to social media likes and nothing else.
this admin is profoundly and absolutely detached from reality, in a directly internet and slop-enabled way that I do think is genuinely unique in history.
January 3, 2026 at 7:42 AM
This is the end stage of a political movement built entirely on escalating purity tests and runaway groupthink. These people exist entirely within echo chambers that tell them that all of their ideas are good, anyone who disagrees is subhuman, and the world should revolve around their whims.
It's also characteristic of this administration's style of governance-by-poster. These people have no concept of how they are viewed by their actual voters. They just know that their snark, juvenile, fascistic tweets get tens and hundreds of thousands of likes, so they assume they're doing great.
Characteristic of this administration. They’re mimicking villains on TV. Miller wants to be Goebbels but skipped the years of party-building and maneuvering that made Goebbels possible. Trump wants to ape Bush and seize foreign oil (he assumes this is what Iraq was about) but is skipping to the end.
Yeah uhhhhhh I'm not sure there's any precedent at all for a war that literally just didn't have public buy-in, or a material effort at generating same? In like, all of American history??
January 3, 2026 at 7:30 AM
It's also characteristic of this administration's style of governance-by-poster. These people have no concept of how they are viewed by their actual voters. They just know that their snark, juvenile, fascistic tweets get tens and hundreds of thousands of likes, so they assume they're doing great.
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The U.S. is functionally now a pariah state and must be treated as such until the cancer rotting out the heart of the White House is cut out.
January 3, 2026 at 7:23 AM
The U.S. is functionally now a pariah state and must be treated as such until the cancer rotting out the heart of the White House is cut out.
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The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 AM
The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
Yeah, as evil as this is, it's also just politically insane. Nobody wants this. Even Maduro's fiercest Western critics don't want a unilateral American invasion of Venezuela with no clear end goal and no semblance of constitutional legitimacy. There is no audience for this!
This is nothing like Iraq. That was a catastrophe and moral atrocity, but also, Bush was incredibly popular, spent a year securing broad public support, received congressional authorization.
Trump is very unpopular, has not bothered to build any case, and is doing this illegally and unilaterally.
Trump is very unpopular, has not bothered to build any case, and is doing this illegally and unilaterally.
January 3, 2026 at 7:24 AM
Yeah, as evil as this is, it's also just politically insane. Nobody wants this. Even Maduro's fiercest Western critics don't want a unilateral American invasion of Venezuela with no clear end goal and no semblance of constitutional legitimacy. There is no audience for this!
Donald Trump permanently lives his life with the sort of liminal, semiconscious view of "reality" that one has immediately after waking up from wisdom tooth surgery, and the controlling majorities of both other branches of government have decided that they exist to serve his bizarre whims.
no creature is more dangerous than a man who has deluded himself into believing reality does not apply to him: the entire leadership of the U.S. government now consists entirely of these horrifically destructive freaks
January 3, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Donald Trump permanently lives his life with the sort of liminal, semiconscious view of "reality" that one has immediately after waking up from wisdom tooth surgery, and the controlling majorities of both other branches of government have decided that they exist to serve his bizarre whims.
This kind of switch doesn't just happen--there's definitely some underlying bigotry there--but having that bigotry reinforced, echoed back at you, and rewarded with positive engagement 24/7 is how you go from "person with bad opinions" to "person openly calling for ethnic cleansing".
The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
January 3, 2026 at 12:06 AM
This kind of switch doesn't just happen--there's definitely some underlying bigotry there--but having that bigotry reinforced, echoed back at you, and rewarded with positive engagement 24/7 is how you go from "person with bad opinions" to "person openly calling for ethnic cleansing".
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/3 Also, Trumpism is more or less collectivism for the benefit of a white male conservative affluent polity rather than other groups. It’s not like Trumpism is remotely individualistic in terms of thought, speech, or tolerance. So going with the “not gleefully bigoted” one is an easy choice.
January 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
/3 Also, Trumpism is more or less collectivism for the benefit of a white male conservative affluent polity rather than other groups. It’s not like Trumpism is remotely individualistic in terms of thought, speech, or tolerance. So going with the “not gleefully bigoted” one is an easy choice.
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/2 That’s because I think the choice between a mainstream vibe-collectivist (who only seems extreme through Overton Window abuse) and a cult of white nationalist nihilists is not a close call. Taking the least charitable view of Mamdani, we’ve lived with it plenty before, and he’s not a psychopath.
January 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
/2 That’s because I think the choice between a mainstream vibe-collectivist (who only seems extreme through Overton Window abuse) and a cult of white nationalist nihilists is not a close call. Taking the least charitable view of Mamdani, we’ve lived with it plenty before, and he’s not a psychopath.
Turns out that if you come from a tradition where you are perfectly comfortable believing in a deity that would condemn 99% of the world's historical population to hell for eternity because they weren't baptized Protestants, you are probably a lot more likely to be a bigot.
I managed to largely avoid this guy but I remember him having a Very Specific interpretation of Lutheranism and that’s usually a good tell.
People that believe “everyone outside my very specific tradition are all going to hell” are just thinly masked Hitler particles.
People that believe “everyone outside my very specific tradition are all going to hell” are just thinly masked Hitler particles.
January 2, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Turns out that if you come from a tradition where you are perfectly comfortable believing in a deity that would condemn 99% of the world's historical population to hell for eternity because they weren't baptized Protestants, you are probably a lot more likely to be a bigot.
There is a cruel streak on the far left that rivals anything on the right--the only difference is that the far left has never been the dominant left-of-center political influence in America that MAGA has been for the right.
Why do people fetishize the French Revolution when the American Revolution is right there
January 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
There is a cruel streak on the far left that rivals anything on the right--the only difference is that the far left has never been the dominant left-of-center political influence in America that MAGA has been for the right.
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I must stop this Christmas from coming...but how?
January 1, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I must stop this Christmas from coming...but how?
This is my favorite lol
My man looks like he lost his Toyota Tercel in a high stakes game of mah jongg
January 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
This is my favorite lol
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Like sorry Christians but Satan won the Satanic Panic. Great job Satan. Really underestimated you there. 4/
January 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Like sorry Christians but Satan won the Satanic Panic. Great job Satan. Really underestimated you there. 4/