MarkMyWords
mark-friesen.bsky.social
MarkMyWords
@mark-friesen.bsky.social
Single dad living the good life in rural Vermont. Formerly an arms control analyst, wildfire fighter, beekeeper, and startup founder. Lived in China/Panama/Brazil. zebra(iykyk)
Easter weekend is a good time to remind ourselves that literally anyone can be crucified by smear and innuendo. I imagine there were more than a few who said nailing people to a cross is bad but we need a better poster kid.
April 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I hope the Dems have learned their lesson and continually, relentlessly, and unforgivingly brand this as a Trump doing. Otherwise in 2026 voters will be convinced this all happened under the Biden administration.
April 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Correction: Everything’s gender fluidity.
April 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Our current unemployment rate is quite low. What are they planning where they expect we will need to be compete with Vietnam and Bangladesh for low skilled jobs?
April 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wish the follow-up question to this kind of pablum would be “did you short the market before the Rose Garden tariff announcement?”
April 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Don’t trust a finance guy with your money if they couldn’t identify the biggest risk to your investment when it was right in front of them.

Don’t trust a school with your kids if they let their students be abducted without protest.

Don’t trust a lawyer who folds to blackmail without a fight.
April 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
My daughter’s 7th grade class is doing a stock simulation game. I suggested to put her money in VXX and dollar general. Nothing like using the start of a global recession to show off to your kid.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I would find it entirely reasonable if you asked his boss to remove him from your home.
March 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
2/2 information is our greatest weapon if we have it and use it. MSM takes days to respond and investigative journalism is under funded. Even if well intentioned they fight a loosing battle. This effort bipartisanship but without compromise. Bill Kristol et al are on our side. Keep up the good work!
February 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
1/2 The DNC should work with the former GOP never trumpers (who have been more vocal than many elected Dems!) to form a rapid response network and information blitz campaign. Get information to the media on the personal and general impact. All media from local, msm, non-trad including influencers
February 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Wonder if this was an interest bearing account. Interest on 81 trillion even for an hour ain’t nothing.
February 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Hua Lien is an amazing place. Back in the late 90s motorcycling thru I got caught up helping wire up TVs in a new cafe/bar I happen to stop at. American culture without being in America is a way for us to make sense of it, yet it is Taiwanese thru and thru.
February 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“If you hadn’t keep warning us about the potential threat the white Christian nationalist movement was, people might have taken you more seriously when the threat materialized” is the kind of “you were right but you know…” lazy takes I would expect from Bill Maher. I expect more from Stewart.
February 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
His lack of recognizing this reality was one of the early troubling signs that he is just a man-child version of Elizabeth Holmes.
February 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Nothing is so scary as to see someone I have learned to know as a level headed conservative (aggravatingly so, I must admit — those were the days, eh?) talk this way.

I agree completely, but to hear you say them impresses on me how objectively serious this is.
February 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Does this mean Trump will no longer have access to Fox News at the White House?
February 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I am sure A2Z spends the resources to do their own investigation on all applicants with a violent crime arrest. That is some woke DEI right there.
February 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
My middle schoolers immediately pointed out, this EO makes Trump the first woman president. I am deeply conflicted.
January 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM