Doug Clark
@itinerantpedant.bsky.social
Anger Management failure, hopeful cynic, ex-military officer, and Corgi Dad. Also real dad.
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Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.
November 1, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.
I don’t want Prop 50 to offset the Texas Gerrymandering. I want it to eliminate ANY Republican in California. Ditto NY. Ditto VA. Etc. etc.
October 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I don’t want Prop 50 to offset the Texas Gerrymandering. I want it to eliminate ANY Republican in California. Ditto NY. Ditto VA. Etc. etc.
As an ex-artillery officer, in three and a half years of active duty and MANY training deployments to Grafenwohr, I’ve seen four rounds go short because of technical malfunctions and one round out of safe because of not accounting for charges properly.
Artillery misfire over I-5 during Marine celebration hits VP Vance security detail
Ordnance fired over Interstate 5 at yesterday's 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton prematurely detonated.
timesofsandiego.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
As an ex-artillery officer, in three and a half years of active duty and MANY training deployments to Grafenwohr, I’ve seen four rounds go short because of technical malfunctions and one round out of safe because of not accounting for charges properly.
Governors of any state that has had NG troops activated and deployed to support ICE should activate their own units, and send them to “oversee” activities. Just to watch. Because the state activated guardsmen will be getting paid. Unlike the federalized troops or ICE. Just walk around getting paid.
October 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Governors of any state that has had NG troops activated and deployed to support ICE should activate their own units, and send them to “oversee” activities. Just to watch. Because the state activated guardsmen will be getting paid. Unlike the federalized troops or ICE. Just walk around getting paid.
Technically speaking it’s not fascism.
It’s Authoritarianism. But that’s too many syllables. It’s the common left failing of over precious over precision getting in the way of a message.
So while what it IS is authoritarianism, call them faciscts. Nazis. Because they hate it. It pisses them off.
It’s Authoritarianism. But that’s too many syllables. It’s the common left failing of over precious over precision getting in the way of a message.
So while what it IS is authoritarianism, call them faciscts. Nazis. Because they hate it. It pisses them off.
September 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Technically speaking it’s not fascism.
It’s Authoritarianism. But that’s too many syllables. It’s the common left failing of over precious over precision getting in the way of a message.
So while what it IS is authoritarianism, call them faciscts. Nazis. Because they hate it. It pisses them off.
It’s Authoritarianism. But that’s too many syllables. It’s the common left failing of over precious over precision getting in the way of a message.
So while what it IS is authoritarianism, call them faciscts. Nazis. Because they hate it. It pisses them off.
How much of this was public outrage and how much was creatives like Damon Lindelof or Mark Ruffalo making it know that there would be pork in the treetops before they worked with Disney unless The Mouse changed course?
ABC ends Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and his show will return Tuesday
ABC will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after suspending it due to his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
apnews.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
How much of this was public outrage and how much was creatives like Damon Lindelof or Mark Ruffalo making it know that there would be pork in the treetops before they worked with Disney unless The Mouse changed course?
ICE had better hope there’s never another D Congress or President because it won’t survive two weeks into a D administration. In any form.
August 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
ICE had better hope there’s never another D Congress or President because it won’t survive two weeks into a D administration. In any form.
This.
Basically the map sucks in the Senate next year. If someone is saying "unless the Dems win the Senate in 26 they're useless" they are either a) an idiot, or b) lying/misleading to promulgate a "both sides are bad" narrative.
Basically the map sucks in the Senate next year. If someone is saying "unless the Dems win the Senate in 26 they're useless" they are either a) an idiot, or b) lying/misleading to promulgate a "both sides are bad" narrative.
Looking Again at the 2026 Senate Map
There’s a long way to go before November 2026. The pace of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This.
Basically the map sucks in the Senate next year. If someone is saying "unless the Dems win the Senate in 26 they're useless" they are either a) an idiot, or b) lying/misleading to promulgate a "both sides are bad" narrative.
Basically the map sucks in the Senate next year. If someone is saying "unless the Dems win the Senate in 26 they're useless" they are either a) an idiot, or b) lying/misleading to promulgate a "both sides are bad" narrative.
So the fundraising orgs that constantly reach out to me need to do one of two things.
1) ACTUALLY fight and support candidates that fight, tooth and nail, on every front, OR;
2) Ease up on the apocalyptic rhetoric about Repubs.
Your methods are not matching your rhetoric, folks.
1) ACTUALLY fight and support candidates that fight, tooth and nail, on every front, OR;
2) Ease up on the apocalyptic rhetoric about Repubs.
Your methods are not matching your rhetoric, folks.
August 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM
So the fundraising orgs that constantly reach out to me need to do one of two things.
1) ACTUALLY fight and support candidates that fight, tooth and nail, on every front, OR;
2) Ease up on the apocalyptic rhetoric about Repubs.
Your methods are not matching your rhetoric, folks.
1) ACTUALLY fight and support candidates that fight, tooth and nail, on every front, OR;
2) Ease up on the apocalyptic rhetoric about Repubs.
Your methods are not matching your rhetoric, folks.
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Of course you're on edge. You're in a government mandated relationship with one of the worst people America has ever puked up, who probably reminds you of the person you left home to get away from. Give yourself a little grace here.
August 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Of course you're on edge. You're in a government mandated relationship with one of the worst people America has ever puked up, who probably reminds you of the person you left home to get away from. Give yourself a little grace here.
The Texas (more) gerrymandering scheme is highly likely to blow up in their faces, as with most of Trump’s moron ideas.
Why? Because most Republicans run states are ALREADY gerrymandered to almost their full extent.
You know what states aren’t? Democratic run states. Please proceed.
Why? Because most Republicans run states are ALREADY gerrymandered to almost their full extent.
You know what states aren’t? Democratic run states. Please proceed.
August 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The Texas (more) gerrymandering scheme is highly likely to blow up in their faces, as with most of Trump’s moron ideas.
Why? Because most Republicans run states are ALREADY gerrymandered to almost their full extent.
You know what states aren’t? Democratic run states. Please proceed.
Why? Because most Republicans run states are ALREADY gerrymandered to almost their full extent.
You know what states aren’t? Democratic run states. Please proceed.
Because Canada is getting uppity about not electing a fascist: not until we showed you why not (Pierre was your huckleberry until Trump, stop pretending otherwise), and at least WE have a fucked up health care system to partially blame when measles spike.
Alberta Claims Top Spot For Measles, Sorry American MAGA States!
Conservatives blame Justin Trudeau, as they do.
www.wonkette.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Because Canada is getting uppity about not electing a fascist: not until we showed you why not (Pierre was your huckleberry until Trump, stop pretending otherwise), and at least WE have a fucked up health care system to partially blame when measles spike.
NATO members agreeing on a 5% aspirational defense spending target is not the win that MAGAts think it is.
It is a tacit acknowledgement on the part of signatory countries (other than Canada) that A) Russia is both expansionist and right on their collective borders...
1/?
It is a tacit acknowledgement on the part of signatory countries (other than Canada) that A) Russia is both expansionist and right on their collective borders...
1/?
Europeans back higher defence spending amid Russia threat, poll finds
Majorities in some countries back mandatory military service, and poll shows public sharply divided over Trump
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
NATO members agreeing on a 5% aspirational defense spending target is not the win that MAGAts think it is.
It is a tacit acknowledgement on the part of signatory countries (other than Canada) that A) Russia is both expansionist and right on their collective borders...
1/?
It is a tacit acknowledgement on the part of signatory countries (other than Canada) that A) Russia is both expansionist and right on their collective borders...
1/?
Slava Ukraini.
🚨 Entire Russian strategic bomber fleet takes to the skies
June 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Slava Ukraini.
They can spin this all they want but Mango Mussolini seems to have honestly thought he could bluster and China would bend the knee. China's escalation tit for tat on tariffs seems to have caught the Vulgar Talking Yam totally by surprise.
Trump claims ‘total reset’ of US-China ties as 90-day pause to trade war agreed
Markets rally after deal to drastically cut reciprocal tariffs as US treasury secretary says ‘neither side wants a decoupling’
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
They can spin this all they want but Mango Mussolini seems to have honestly thought he could bluster and China would bend the knee. China's escalation tit for tat on tariffs seems to have caught the Vulgar Talking Yam totally by surprise.
It is clear that if/when Repubs lose power, every single person in ICE will need to be charged with crimes against humanity, and rendered to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Because in addition, we also can no longer rely on the US court system, thanks to the Roberts Court.
Because in addition, we also can no longer rely on the US court system, thanks to the Roberts Court.
May 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It is clear that if/when Repubs lose power, every single person in ICE will need to be charged with crimes against humanity, and rendered to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Because in addition, we also can no longer rely on the US court system, thanks to the Roberts Court.
Because in addition, we also can no longer rely on the US court system, thanks to the Roberts Court.
Today my wife and I were discussing the persistent low grade cold we’ve had for approximately 2 months/all our damn lives. We settled on “Indeterminate Ick”.
Then my daughter referred to her version as “The Curse of Ra”. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new champion.
Then my daughter referred to her version as “The Curse of Ra”. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new champion.
March 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Today my wife and I were discussing the persistent low grade cold we’ve had for approximately 2 months/all our damn lives. We settled on “Indeterminate Ick”.
Then my daughter referred to her version as “The Curse of Ra”. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new champion.
Then my daughter referred to her version as “The Curse of Ra”. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new champion.
How's President Musk's promise to "Rescue the astronauts Biden stranded" going?
Like this:
Like this:
SpaceX delays flight to replace NASA's stranded astronauts after launch pad problem
A launch pad problem prompted SpaceX to delay a flight to the International Space Station on Wednesday to replace NASA's two stuck astronauts.
apnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
How's President Musk's promise to "Rescue the astronauts Biden stranded" going?
Like this:
Like this:
I didn’t think of this. It’s an ignorance twofer.
I would bet a great deal of money that they canceled funding for special education students who are not on the diploma track to get extra job and life skills training because this was labeled as "transition services".
Do we think that they cancelled support for "transition services" because they thought it was a transgender transition thing?
February 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I didn’t think of this. It’s an ignorance twofer.
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"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
If they don’t want to be called “Fascist” why’d they vote for the guy who consciously imitates Mussolini?
February 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
If they don’t want to be called “Fascist” why’d they vote for the guy who consciously imitates Mussolini?
Honest question. Given what EVERYONE knows about his lying and how he treated his oath last time why are we even bothering with administering the oath and therefore an inauguration in the first place?
January 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Honest question. Given what EVERYONE knows about his lying and how he treated his oath last time why are we even bothering with administering the oath and therefore an inauguration in the first place?
I’m not suggesting anything, but if I were Chaiya Retchik or Elon Musk I would NEVER eat out where people prepared my food out of my sight.
January 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I’m not suggesting anything, but if I were Chaiya Retchik or Elon Musk I would NEVER eat out where people prepared my food out of my sight.
Your annual reminder regarding our furry friends this time of year.
November 11, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Your annual reminder regarding our furry friends this time of year.