Hippolyte L'zard
@hipliz.bsky.social
Retirement-age reinventor of self. Loves dogs, cats, music, writing, history, designing stuff, making stuff, food, and more! Politically a radical centrist. SF East Bay native.
It's time for "politically correct" to be recast as being in line with the President's thinking. The cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel was not because he said something outrageous, but because he said something politically incorrect.
September 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It's time for "politically correct" to be recast as being in line with the President's thinking. The cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel was not because he said something outrageous, but because he said something politically incorrect.
May 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted by Hippolyte L'zard
I gotta stop talking to my cat about politics.
March 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I gotta stop talking to my cat about politics.
I gotta stop talking to my cat about politics.
March 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I gotta stop talking to my cat about politics.
All this destruction of federal services and the rise of the oligarchy have convinced me the path to making America great again will be to return to the tax rates and civil spirit of the early 1960s.
February 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
All this destruction of federal services and the rise of the oligarchy have convinced me the path to making America great again will be to return to the tax rates and civil spirit of the early 1960s.
Reposted by Hippolyte L'zard
Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!
February 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!
Underneath some rabid pro-DOGE post, the AI comment summary was:
February 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Underneath some rabid pro-DOGE post, the AI comment summary was:
Roman military power was very effective when soldiers were sent to fight far from home. Their loyalties were then assured. Germans fought in Africa and Africans fought in Germany. Brilliant! So, after some unrest, will MAGA-loyal militias be deputized to keep order in other parts of the country?
February 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Roman military power was very effective when soldiers were sent to fight far from home. Their loyalties were then assured. Germans fought in Africa and Africans fought in Germany. Brilliant! So, after some unrest, will MAGA-loyal militias be deputized to keep order in other parts of the country?
There is great controversy on X as to whether Trump was cheered or booed at the Super Bowl, with claims that a soundtrack of one or the other was overlaid for political reasons. I don't believe in such conspiracies. He was cheered because he was in Louisiana.
February 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
There is great controversy on X as to whether Trump was cheered or booed at the Super Bowl, with claims that a soundtrack of one or the other was overlaid for political reasons. I don't believe in such conspiracies. He was cheered because he was in Louisiana.
Got a survey email soliciting donations to DJT. It was a chance to disapprove of everything, so I did, and am sending the minimum amount so my answers are recorded. OK, it was pointless, but it was fun. The fun part was answering, "What do you think I should sign next?" with "A resignation letter".
February 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Got a survey email soliciting donations to DJT. It was a chance to disapprove of everything, so I did, and am sending the minimum amount so my answers are recorded. OK, it was pointless, but it was fun. The fun part was answering, "What do you think I should sign next?" with "A resignation letter".
It just occurred to me that the AI which will be unleashed into the federal computer systems could rewrite all records and essentially change history, erasing all evidence they want erased, and creating all evidence they want created.
February 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It just occurred to me that the AI which will be unleashed into the federal computer systems could rewrite all records and essentially change history, erasing all evidence they want erased, and creating all evidence they want created.
None of these recent government actions would have been accepted by any real Republicans. We need to find ways to reach right wing voters. They're the ones whose opinions matter. All WE can do is protest in our circle of rage.
February 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
None of these recent government actions would have been accepted by any real Republicans. We need to find ways to reach right wing voters. They're the ones whose opinions matter. All WE can do is protest in our circle of rage.
How's this scenario? The food crisis that Trump's team is manufacturing with their illegal immigrant crackdown allows government to control the food supply (the so-called conservatives' worst nightmare), and creates an ongoing crisis that justifies cancellation of the 2026 elections.
January 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
How's this scenario? The food crisis that Trump's team is manufacturing with their illegal immigrant crackdown allows government to control the food supply (the so-called conservatives' worst nightmare), and creates an ongoing crisis that justifies cancellation of the 2026 elections.
As the secret Trump agenda unfolds and his core voters express doubts, it's important we don't tell them they were fooled. People dig in when they hear that. Forget the past. Over issues in which we have commonality, such as grocery prices, we need to join with them, not go all told-you-so.
January 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
As the secret Trump agenda unfolds and his core voters express doubts, it's important we don't tell them they were fooled. People dig in when they hear that. Forget the past. Over issues in which we have commonality, such as grocery prices, we need to join with them, not go all told-you-so.
It's starting to look like the time for liberals to wake up and recognize the 2nd Amendment was written for them too.
January 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It's starting to look like the time for liberals to wake up and recognize the 2nd Amendment was written for them too.
America is a great country and I never thought we would ever need to make it great "again". But after the new administration's first week, it's plain that someday we will have to.
January 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
America is a great country and I never thought we would ever need to make it great "again". But after the new administration's first week, it's plain that someday we will have to.
Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference
The confessions of a concerned bird.
open.substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Just that if the music I want to listen to is going to be accompanied by the musicians' picture, I'd rather it be from when they were on it, not what they look like forty years later.
January 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just that if the music I want to listen to is going to be accompanied by the musicians' picture, I'd rather it be from when they were on it, not what they look like forty years later.
This is absolutely brilliant. Read it read it read it. More shade thrown on the felon-elect than I've ever seen in one place.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
The Real Housewives of State Funerals.
Bravo ain’t got nothing on that shit.
open.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is absolutely brilliant. Read it read it read it. More shade thrown on the felon-elect than I've ever seen in one place.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
On the morality of rushing to net zero, say by 2050:
"Lifting up the billions in the world who suffer from energy poverty and the stunted lives and living standards such poverty produces is or should be a moral imperative—a moral imperative about which net zero definitionally has nothing to say."
"Lifting up the billions in the world who suffer from energy poverty and the stunted lives and living standards such poverty produces is or should be a moral imperative—a moral imperative about which net zero definitionally has nothing to say."
January 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
On the morality of rushing to net zero, say by 2050:
"Lifting up the billions in the world who suffer from energy poverty and the stunted lives and living standards such poverty produces is or should be a moral imperative—a moral imperative about which net zero definitionally has nothing to say."
"Lifting up the billions in the world who suffer from energy poverty and the stunted lives and living standards such poverty produces is or should be a moral imperative—a moral imperative about which net zero definitionally has nothing to say."