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Sherman's Ghost
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Haunting Confederates on principle.

Anti-extremist and anti-authoritarian.

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This is a good point and one complainers like me should take to heart. Give it a chance. The challenges are different but still challenges, and the best drivers will overcome them.

#F1
February 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM
What we are seeing is that if America's wealthy and corporations were in Germany in the 30s they would have behaved exactly as they are behaving now.

"Chemicals? Bullish. There are some BIG contracts out for bid right now. What for? Who cares. They say it's for pest removal or something."
February 14, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This is old man talk, but when I was young we physically fought and learned the lines not to cross.

Then came zero tolerance policies and so on, and I can't help but think that the proud boy/ICE type is someone who could have benefited from a good beating as a teenager to teach him how to act.
February 14, 2026 at 5:10 PM
When Toto promised you engine dominance but you show up and realize that Red Bull and Ferrari may have actually hit upon superior overall designs...

#F1
a man wearing a jacket with logos for ubs and ineos
Alt: George Russell, Mercedes F1, falling into a trance
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
"Servant of the People"

The whole thing should be built to keep people humble (and not attract narcissists to office).
If we had a US parliament, what would the nomenclature be? House of Reps and Senate can stay, but what is the premier’s title? Prime Minister is wimpy, General Secretary is Commie, Premier is also Commie, Chancellor is Teutonic (derogatory), Leader is Italian (derogatory), so I suggest Head Coach
February 13, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I am sure this has been pointed out, but Tyson is a convicted rapist, so they have implied healthy food is associated with violence and sexual abuse.
I don’t want to be like Mike Tyson, Jay.

It’s incredible that Les Incompétents not only burned a fat stack of cash on a Mike Tyson Super Bowl ad, but are apparently building an entire campaign around him.

The food item for which Tyson is most famous is Evander Holyfield’s ear.
February 13, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Let's see if my thoughts match Fugelsang's (before reading).

Pam Bondi deflecting by touting stock market performance is more than just misdirection.

She's saying "C'mon, no one cares about kids. You don't. I don't. We all know that. Let's be honest, it's all about money."

It's what they are.
February 13, 2026 at 3:42 PM
It occurs to me that "A.I. conscious?" stories are just sales pitches.

Humans default to causality because it keeps us alive, so we are quick to believe in other minds causing what happens to us.

Branch move? Leopard stalking.
Hurricane? God angry.
Computer love me? Computer alive.

It's nonsense.
February 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
This guy was the greatest.
Happy Birthday to my wonderful Dad! I miss him every day.

☘️ 11x NBA Champion
☘️ 5x MVP
☘️ 11x All-NBA Team
☘️ 12x All-Star
☘️ 1969 All-Defense First Team
☘️ 4x NBA rebounding champ
☘️ Hall of Fame player & coach
☘️ Undefeated in Game 7's
☘️ 1956 Olympic Gold Medalist
☘️ 2x NCAA Champion
☘️ 1955 NCAA MOP
🐐
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 AM
To address a real voter fraud problem, look into how the GOP rounds up old folks to vote.

When my father was in a nursing home with dementia, every single resident was visited by a GOP GOTV operative to get their absentee ballots filled out.

"Who did you vote for, Dad?"

"I voted? I don't know."
February 12, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Someone explain to me, why coal?

No one wants it. It's declining rapidly.

Do they literally think that their base is so old that they have fond memories of coal?
February 12, 2026 at 11:46 PM
I don't slut shame and get particularly angry when people act like sexually active women are somehow degraded or filthy.

On the other hand...
I can only assume removing his nappy formed part of foreplay.
February 12, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Some rednecks I know are digging in, like defending Bondi no matter what, effectively acting like it's an extinction burst for the extinction burst, losing their minds as more people are critical.

That's a good thing. They know very well that they are in the wrong.

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February 12, 2026 at 11:25 PM
If sport pretends to be apolitical, we should end it.

There is no excuse to have a big money-making bonanza that pretends to be neutral.

Fuck the Olympics. It's all just 20th Century ugly nationalism on display for the sake of corruption and sportswashing.
February 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
When I mention Mark Kelly, left wing accounts criticize him for being too moderate.

When I mention having witnessed how people lived like slaves in the Eastern Bloc, silence.

U.S. liberals preferring the chaos of liberty over any utopian system is not "proto-Fascism," it's anti-authoritarianism.
February 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I think we should openly call out Zionism as a nationalist supremacist ideology and resist attempts to silence us with false charges of antisemitism.

Let's also amplify Jewish voices for good because negative voices are dominating the media, and actual antisemitism will be the result.

We are one.
February 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
This masterpiece about the perils of high living hits differently now.

"We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
Eagles - Hotel California (Live 1977) (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by Eagles
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February 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM
I don't know anything about this person, so this is not an endorsement of her, but I 100% endorse the message here.

Decent people of whatever or no faith are not the problem.

Fundamentalism is supremacism and Zionism is nationalism.
February 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
It will be their last stand. Grab the hostage, put a gun to her head, and dare us to take the shot.

TAKE THE SHOT.

Burn it to the ground.
February 12, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I am 100% for this guy as president.

He's not the only good candidate, and I would probably disagree with him on quite a bit, but character, character, character, and I think he has the guts to take on the GOP and the system.
Trump’s DOJ tried to charge me with a crime simply for saying something they didn’t like. Think about that. This is after DOD already censured and threatened to demote me.

He wants to make an example out of me and scare Americans from speaking out against him. Don’t let it work.
February 12, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Opinion:

Language ability is not indicative of intelligence in general. Language has its own circuitry. Someone raised by eloquent parents may sound sophisticated but still be incapable of reason.

This is key to understanding gullibility. Smooth talkers seem credible to uneducated minds.

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February 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Oh, please, Lord, let it happen.

My guess is that they will say that the teenage girls were part of an alien hybridization program and that our savior Donny has foiled their plot.

And MAGA, of course, will buy it.
Another distraction being added in to all the other distractions. He is desperate.
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I hear people saying Bondi's behavior signals that they think they will never lose power.

No, it does not. It may simply be that she knows she will be pardoned.

We all know that we are in danger of permanent one party rule, but we are NOT going to allow that to happen.
February 11, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Is minimum wage guy going to drive his $50K EV to work? Will he use non-existent mass transit? How exactly is an economy only for the wealthy going to function?

I was in East Germany and saw a factory with a "dormitory" surrounded by security. You know, for the "workers." Convenient, right?
February 11, 2026 at 5:39 PM
People demand that Ds step out of the mainstream and do something dramatic, but that’s what the GOP finally decided to do, to just go for it, and how is that working out for them electorally?
February 11, 2026 at 4:12 PM