Michael Stahlke
@michaelstahlke.bsky.social
It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep.
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Something way more people need to internalize and help their friends understand is that the *only* politics and culture that you can reproduce using pile-ons, networked harassment, doxxing, death threats and the like is a fascist one. It doesn’t matter what you think your motivations or politics are
Losers decided to do gamergate but pretend wokely 🤦
January 6, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Something way more people need to internalize and help their friends understand is that the *only* politics and culture that you can reproduce using pile-ons, networked harassment, doxxing, death threats and the like is a fascist one. It doesn’t matter what you think your motivations or politics are
How about big man 89, running like he’s angry at the ground and pancaking a hapless safety twelve yards beyond the line of scrimmage.
January 6, 2026 at 3:19 AM
How about big man 89, running like he’s angry at the ground and pancaking a hapless safety twelve yards beyond the line of scrimmage.
Governor Walz has shouldered his share of the task and has carried the flag as far as he can.
January 5, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Governor Walz has shouldered his share of the task and has carried the flag as far as he can.
Tim Walz is leaving politics in large part because his family, including his teenaged neurodivergent son, have been relentlessly harrassed, attacked and threatened. And this person wants Tim Walz to die of an extremely painful and prolonged cancer because of that.
Go fuck yourself.
Go fuck yourself.
Only thing Walz should get for capitulating to a blood libel crank mad about Julia Salazar is an extremely painful and prolonged terminal cancer.
Nah. If you can't stand up against blood libel you don't get nicer jobs in public service.
January 5, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Tim Walz is leaving politics in large part because his family, including his teenaged neurodivergent son, have been relentlessly harrassed, attacked and threatened. And this person wants Tim Walz to die of an extremely painful and prolonged cancer because of that.
Go fuck yourself.
Go fuck yourself.
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My workday discussion, in a nutshell:
January 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
My workday discussion, in a nutshell:
RIP to all the other empires that lost the Mandate of Heaven because of their hubris, but America is different. And better.
Maybe even better than The Gods
Maybe even better than The Gods
Dort possesses a toddler’s understanding of national security. @mikeblack114.bsky.social @sharonk.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 3:13 PM
RIP to all the other empires that lost the Mandate of Heaven because of their hubris, but America is different. And better.
Maybe even better than The Gods
Maybe even better than The Gods
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"Give me one good reason why the US military shouldn't just be a bunch of gangsters?'.
Remember this guy is a serving Army Lt Colonel, elevated into a job in the Secretary of Defense's office
Remember this guy is a serving Army Lt Colonel, elevated into a job in the Secretary of Defense's office
Dort possesses a toddler’s understanding of national security. @mikeblack114.bsky.social @sharonk.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
"Give me one good reason why the US military shouldn't just be a bunch of gangsters?'.
Remember this guy is a serving Army Lt Colonel, elevated into a job in the Secretary of Defense's office
Remember this guy is a serving Army Lt Colonel, elevated into a job in the Secretary of Defense's office
Gotta chain these two kickers together and throw them into one of the three rivers.
January 5, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Gotta chain these two kickers together and throw them into one of the three rivers.
Man do I enjoy football.
January 5, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Man do I enjoy football.
I mean, unironically yeah. If you’re a president that wants to use military force against another country you should do things like get a congressional AUMF, an Iraq Resolution, a UNSC Resolution 1441 and a concerted public relations campaign to sway public opinion.
"I’m absolutely disgusted by President Trump’s attempt to start a war with Venezuela without first putting in the years of tedious, brain-breaking propaganda work."
Whatever Happened to the Art of Brainwashing America Before Plunging It into an Unnecessary War?
“President Donald Trump on Wednesday assailed his White House predecessors for not pushing back against Venezuela earlier and stated that his inten...
buff.ly
January 5, 2026 at 2:50 AM
I mean, unironically yeah. If you’re a president that wants to use military force against another country you should do things like get a congressional AUMF, an Iraq Resolution, a UNSC Resolution 1441 and a concerted public relations campaign to sway public opinion.
I fear we’re going to go to the well once too often and a lot of American service members are going to die because of it.
Trump: "Cuba is ready to fall. Cuba looks like it's ready to fall. I don't know if they're gonna hold out."
January 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I fear we’re going to go to the well once too often and a lot of American service members are going to die because of it.
My mental breaking point with SOF was the murder of SSG Logan Melgar.
I’m starting to see special operations forces the way the Founders saw standing armies: having them & investing so much in them makes it entirely too tempting for a tyrant to use them
January 5, 2026 at 12:21 AM
My mental breaking point with SOF was the murder of SSG Logan Melgar.
Probably because the president and unitary executive keeps saying that we are specifically fucking around in Venezuela to exploit their oil reserves
The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane
January 4, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Probably because the president and unitary executive keeps saying that we are specifically fucking around in Venezuela to exploit their oil reserves
January 3rd. All Christmas decorations boxed and put away. Fireplace clean and chimney swept. Luna is wearing her Valentines bandanna. Stahlke Haus Yuletide is officially at an end.
January 4, 2026 at 2:33 AM
January 3rd. All Christmas decorations boxed and put away. Fireplace clean and chimney swept. Luna is wearing her Valentines bandanna. Stahlke Haus Yuletide is officially at an end.
I am definitely getting there. It is a painful process of realization.
Real black pilled on the military. The oath means absolutely nothing at all, apparently. Happy to be praetorians, just as long as the check clears.
January 4, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I am definitely getting there. It is a painful process of realization.
I am not a toy, I am not a Twelfth Night present. I am a 353,841 sq mile Bolivarian Republic
January 3, 2026 at 10:59 PM
I am not a toy, I am not a Twelfth Night present. I am a 353,841 sq mile Bolivarian Republic
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Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"
January 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"
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i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
i think that people really underestimate reality that
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man
2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually
3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas
JD Vance: This is a law enforcement operation to bring a narco terrorist to Justice
The President:
The President:
January 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
JD Vance: This is a law enforcement operation to bring a narco terrorist to Justice
The President:
The President:
No, you get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States if you bribe the president into pardoning you.
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
No, you get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States if you bribe the president into pardoning you.
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You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty
Vance pushes back and says this was not illegal, arguing "Maduro has multiple indictments in the United States for narcoterrorism. You don't get to avoid justice for drug trafficking in the United States because you live in a palace in Caracas."
January 3, 2026 at 3:19 PM
You don't have to listen to these professional liars who are barely trying. 9 months ago they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty
This guy is probably with digging into.
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 AM
This guy is probably with digging into.
I’m a pretty informed guy. I’m pretty keyed in on the news. I have a smattering of military and intelligence experience.
I got no fucking clue what our goal here is.
I got no fucking clue what our goal here is.
January 3, 2026 at 7:04 AM
I’m a pretty informed guy. I’m pretty keyed in on the news. I have a smattering of military and intelligence experience.
I got no fucking clue what our goal here is.
I got no fucking clue what our goal here is.
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Well this is the most JSOC thing to have JSOC'd in a while
Add to the list of why the next Dem SECDEF's core qualification must be a commitment to rip out JSOC root and branch
Anyone else remember what those dipshits were up to 6 years ago today?
Unreformable presidential assassination crew
Add to the list of why the next Dem SECDEF's core qualification must be a commitment to rip out JSOC root and branch
Anyone else remember what those dipshits were up to 6 years ago today?
Unreformable presidential assassination crew
January 3, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Well this is the most JSOC thing to have JSOC'd in a while
Add to the list of why the next Dem SECDEF's core qualification must be a commitment to rip out JSOC root and branch
Anyone else remember what those dipshits were up to 6 years ago today?
Unreformable presidential assassination crew
Add to the list of why the next Dem SECDEF's core qualification must be a commitment to rip out JSOC root and branch
Anyone else remember what those dipshits were up to 6 years ago today?
Unreformable presidential assassination crew
It’s been years since I used tobacco, but whenever I see stories like this I think
“you guys dip pouches? do you hide the tins in your training bra?”
“you guys dip pouches? do you hide the tins in your training bra?”
“Nicotine pouches, which have grown in popularity in recent years, including among Wall Street bankers, have become a go-to stimulant for a subset of tech workers who claim the products help them focus and get through the workday, despite health hazards.”
Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity
A nicotine replacement for smokers has started popping up in offices in the tech industry, despite health hazards.
www.wsj.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:26 AM
It’s been years since I used tobacco, but whenever I see stories like this I think
“you guys dip pouches? do you hide the tins in your training bra?”
“you guys dip pouches? do you hide the tins in your training bra?”