David Faris
@davidfaris.bsky.social
Prof. of Politics, writer at @slate.bsky.social, @newsweek.com and @thenation. Author, IT’S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY. Chicago, in the Medium Bucket. Dad, husband. The alarmists were right. Views are mine alone.
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
I remember when I was part of a unionization drive in grad school. The night before the representation election, one of the organizers gathered us together and was like, guys we can't want this more than you do. That's how I feel right now. I honestly think it doesn't matter to most of them.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I remember when I was part of a unionization drive in grad school. The night before the representation election, one of the organizers gathered us together and was like, guys we can't want this more than you do. That's how I feel right now. I honestly think it doesn't matter to most of them.
....their giant eyes at you and then you plunge yourself into another day. I wish I could bottle that feeling of anticipatory loss, the reminder that it's so fleeting and you have to make yourself fall in love even with the hard parts, slam it like a 5-hour energy drink....
Anyway how was your day?
Anyway how was your day?
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
....their giant eyes at you and then you plunge yourself into another day. I wish I could bottle that feeling of anticipatory loss, the reminder that it's so fleeting and you have to make yourself fall in love even with the hard parts, slam it like a 5-hour energy drink....
Anyway how was your day?
Anyway how was your day?
....feeling such internal conflict over this sometimes horrific, sometimes beautiful world you've brought them into, hoping they never remember anything that is going on right now, knowing you'll do it all over again in eight hours whether you sleep well or not. And they will wake up and blink....
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
....feeling such internal conflict over this sometimes horrific, sometimes beautiful world you've brought them into, hoping they never remember anything that is going on right now, knowing you'll do it all over again in eight hours whether you sleep well or not. And they will wake up and blink....
...and then they finally go to bed and you pop in on them after you know they're lights out, and you gaze at them with this exact line of thinking barreling through your head, second guessing what you did right and wrong, agonizing if you lost your temper for a minute, wishing they were awake....
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
...and then they finally go to bed and you pop in on them after you know they're lights out, and you gaze at them with this exact line of thinking barreling through your head, second guessing what you did right and wrong, agonizing if you lost your temper for a minute, wishing they were awake....
...you know this and yet it doesn't really change anything to chant it to yourself as a mantra. In the moment you're still like wow I'm wheezing and out of gas and I have hours left to deal with two kids with the weekend looming and I would give anything to lie in my bed and shut my eyes for 30....
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
...you know this and yet it doesn't really change anything to chant it to yourself as a mantra. In the moment you're still like wow I'm wheezing and out of gas and I have hours left to deal with two kids with the weekend looming and I would give anything to lie in my bed and shut my eyes for 30....
...maxed out on Magnetiles and Bluey and reading, you know somewhere deep in your soul that someday, maybe in 10 years, maybe in 30, whatever, you will be willing to trade every single second of whatever remains of your dumb life for 1 of these hours. One hour. The whole time, highs and lows....
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
...maxed out on Magnetiles and Bluey and reading, you know somewhere deep in your soul that someday, maybe in 10 years, maybe in 30, whatever, you will be willing to trade every single second of whatever remains of your dumb life for 1 of these hours. One hour. The whole time, highs and lows....
It has been fifteen and a half years.
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
It has been fifteen and a half years.
I am now dying to know the story of Gingrich's role in this movie. Did GOP House leadership greenlight him saying this stuff? Is he playing a bit or did he really think running a blockade in the Persian Gulf was important enough to risk the existence of human civilization?
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I am now dying to know the story of Gingrich's role in this movie. Did GOP House leadership greenlight him saying this stuff? Is he playing a bit or did he really think running a blockade in the Persian Gulf was important enough to risk the existence of human civilization?
"There is no thing worth nuclear war. But Winston Churchill said it brilliantly when he said that war is horrible, slavery is worse." He says basically if we allow a Soviet-backed government in Oman to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, "freedom will die."
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
"There is no thing worth nuclear war. But Winston Churchill said it brilliantly when he said that war is horrible, slavery is worse." He says basically if we allow a Soviet-backed government in Oman to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, "freedom will die."
...back when he was still an insurgent backbencher who had just founded the Conservative Opportunity Society. Near the conclusion of the movie, when U.S. cities are being evacuated and the president is preparing to flee the White House, Gingrich seems to endorse the idea of nuclear war.
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
...back when he was still an insurgent backbencher who had just founded the Conservative Opportunity Society. Near the conclusion of the movie, when U.S. cities are being evacuated and the president is preparing to flee the White House, Gingrich seems to endorse the idea of nuclear war.
It's basically a long simulated newscast about a Middle East crisis triggered by a Soviet-backed coup in Oman, with a very young Scott Glenn playing a reporter embedded on a U.S. aircraft carrier. But the most fascinating part of this movie is that it features a young Newt Gingrich (!) as himself...
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
It's basically a long simulated newscast about a Middle East crisis triggered by a Soviet-backed coup in Oman, with a very young Scott Glenn playing a reporter embedded on a U.S. aircraft carrier. But the most fascinating part of this movie is that it features a young Newt Gingrich (!) as himself...