Mike Wegner
@ziobacio.bsky.social
Vietnam vet—Army helicopter pilot, 1st Sig Bde. BOI Galveston, former Austinite now retired in Fort Worth.
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Mike Wegner
@ziobacio.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Going to Vietnam
Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of my joining the Army. Thus this year, today, marks the fiftieth anniversary of my arriving in V...
mtweg.blogspot.com
Fifty-six years ago, I arrived in Vietnam, with a W. B. Yeats poem in my head.
mtweg.blogspot.com/2018/11/goin...
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We are where we are because of all the Democratic Party leaders in my life like Clinton, Biden, Obama, Schumer, and Pelosi choosing to align more and more with the GOP, Zionism, and right-wing fascism over the democratic socialists in THEIR OWN PARTY who organize, fundraise, and vote for them.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We are where we are because of all the Democratic Party leaders in my life like Clinton, Biden, Obama, Schumer, and Pelosi choosing to align more and more with the GOP, Zionism, and right-wing fascism over the democratic socialists in THEIR OWN PARTY who organize, fundraise, and vote for them.
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Many of my liberal peers see clearly how mainstream outlets have ruined their already imperiled businesses by capitulating to bad-faith right-wing criticism. They have a harder time seeing that the Democratic Party has fallen victim to the same kind of self-sabotage.
Democrats Fell Prey To The Same Toxic Dynamics That Destroyed Mainstream News
Instead of fighting smears, they appeased the smear merchants.
www.offmessage.net
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Many of my liberal peers see clearly how mainstream outlets have ruined their already imperiled businesses by capitulating to bad-faith right-wing criticism. They have a harder time seeing that the Democratic Party has fallen victim to the same kind of self-sabotage.
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Maybe we can copy Kliban's Nixon Monument for Trump, only make the hole deeper?
October 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Maybe we can copy Kliban's Nixon Monument for Trump, only make the hole deeper?
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The plan was available before the March cave and is still available now. They’re just scared—like, physically scared—of seizing any initiative. www.offmessage.net/p/schumer-an...
September 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The plan was available before the March cave and is still available now. They’re just scared—like, physically scared—of seizing any initiative. www.offmessage.net/p/schumer-an...
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🧵🚨🚨🚨The Cycle's Monday Memo:
Yes the Senate just passed the Big Ugly Bill but actually, Republicans have a Really Big Problem
Want to know more?
This 🧵is for you!!
(please RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Yes the Senate just passed the Big Ugly Bill but actually, Republicans have a Really Big Problem
Want to know more?
This 🧵is for you!!
(please RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
The Cycle's Monday Memo
Actually, Republicans have a Really Big Problem
open.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
🧵🚨🚨🚨The Cycle's Monday Memo:
Yes the Senate just passed the Big Ugly Bill but actually, Republicans have a Really Big Problem
Want to know more?
This 🧵is for you!!
(please RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Yes the Senate just passed the Big Ugly Bill but actually, Republicans have a Really Big Problem
Want to know more?
This 🧵is for you!!
(please RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
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Please use this image as the reply post to all dems who're trying to compromise right now. You have my blessing.
I got stoned last night and made this and then forgot to post it anyway I stand by it
May 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Please use this image as the reply post to all dems who're trying to compromise right now. You have my blessing.
Aria from the opera Rigamarole:
il Donald è mobile
il Donald è mobile
April 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Aria from the opera Rigamarole:
il Donald è mobile
il Donald è mobile
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Being a fighting Democrat can't mean paying lip service to the idea of holding bad actors accountable, while scoffing at every specific call to fight as a surefire loser with the median voter. That whole impulse has to go, if it's not already too late. New from me. www.offmessage.net/p/window-dem...
The Window For Democrats To Fight Keeps Closing
And the missed opportunities of the past loom large.
www.offmessage.net
April 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Being a fighting Democrat can't mean paying lip service to the idea of holding bad actors accountable, while scoffing at every specific call to fight as a surefire loser with the median voter. That whole impulse has to go, if it's not already too late. New from me. www.offmessage.net/p/window-dem...
@lisaguerrero.bsky.social Hi Lisa, we followed each other on that other place, glad to find you here on bsky. Look forward to your posts.
March 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
@lisaguerrero.bsky.social Hi Lisa, we followed each other on that other place, glad to find you here on bsky. Look forward to your posts.
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I keep saying Dems need to do a daily briefing on Capitol Hill and fill the void, fact check the WH. Hire Pete Buttigeig and give him a staff to do this.
February 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I keep saying Dems need to do a daily briefing on Capitol Hill and fill the void, fact check the WH. Hire Pete Buttigeig and give him a staff to do this.
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social I just finished reading Hiding in Plain Sight, what a wonderful writer and thinker you are! Much love and respect to you and your family, we are so fortunate to have you.
December 19, 2024 at 3:28 AM
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social I just finished reading Hiding in Plain Sight, what a wonderful writer and thinker you are! Much love and respect to you and your family, we are so fortunate to have you.
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The playbook shouldn’t be to “work with them.” They own all three branches. The playbook should be “let them own the myriad mistakes they’re about to make and then crush them with those mistakes.” IMHO.
Really, Dems? You think capitulating now will get you votes later? They don't want to govern! They don't want to work together! They want to reign! They want to dictate! You've tried this time and again before. It didn't work then, it won't work now! #RESIST!
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Democrats' playbook to beat Republicans in 2 years: work with them now
Democrats have a plan to take back power in Washington back from Republicans in two years: work with them now.
abcnews.go.com
December 18, 2024 at 5:33 PM
The playbook shouldn’t be to “work with them.” They own all three branches. The playbook should be “let them own the myriad mistakes they’re about to make and then crush them with those mistakes.” IMHO.
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New: Dems have conflated the ideas that they should take language “not from the faculty lounge, but the assembly line," and that "identity politics needs to go the way of the dodo.” These concepts overlap, but the differences are important. The second, in particular, is a copout.
Democrats Just Need To Decide What They Believe
They should do less complaining about activist tactics and more plain speaking about what they think is righteous.
www.offmessage.net
November 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM
New: Dems have conflated the ideas that they should take language “not from the faculty lounge, but the assembly line," and that "identity politics needs to go the way of the dodo.” These concepts overlap, but the differences are important. The second, in particular, is a copout.
Time flies like an arrow,
Fruit flies like a banana.
--Seen on bathroom wall at Austin Scholz Garten, 1980s
Fruit flies like a banana.
--Seen on bathroom wall at Austin Scholz Garten, 1980s
November 23, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Time flies like an arrow,
Fruit flies like a banana.
--Seen on bathroom wall at Austin Scholz Garten, 1980s
Fruit flies like a banana.
--Seen on bathroom wall at Austin Scholz Garten, 1980s
I take pictures, too. flic.kr/p/4TYjBf
Montreal Underground: Victoria Square
One of Montreal's many underground corridors, this one leading to Victoria Square. All of our Montreal snapshots are here.
flic.kr
November 22, 2024 at 2:02 AM
I take pictures, too. flic.kr/p/4TYjBf
Society without organized religion is like a crazed psychopath without a loaded .45.
November 22, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Society without organized religion is like a crazed psychopath without a loaded .45.
"Of course, government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind..."
--Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
--Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
November 22, 2024 at 1:40 AM
"Of course, government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind..."
--Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
--Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
I need to think of something witty and insightful to say so I can attract followers -- that's the point of all this, right? Long ago, I used to land on mountaintops. mtweg.blogspot.com/2011/06/flyi...
Flying to Nui Ba Den
I began this blog in 2009 to replace the email travel reports I had started in 2007. Long before any of that, though, I had tentatively beg...
mtweg.blogspot.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:38 AM
I need to think of something witty and insightful to say so I can attract followers -- that's the point of all this, right? Long ago, I used to land on mountaintops. mtweg.blogspot.com/2011/06/flyi...
Fifty-six years ago, I arrived in Vietnam, with a W. B. Yeats poem in my head.
mtweg.blogspot.com/2018/11/goin...
mtweg.blogspot.com/2018/11/goin...
Going to Vietnam
Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of my joining the Army. Thus this year, today, marks the fiftieth anniversary of my arriving in V...
mtweg.blogspot.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Fifty-six years ago, I arrived in Vietnam, with a W. B. Yeats poem in my head.
mtweg.blogspot.com/2018/11/goin...
mtweg.blogspot.com/2018/11/goin...
...in the beginning you understand the world but not yourself, and when you finally understand yourself you no longer understand the world. --Mary Ruefle
November 18, 2024 at 6:01 PM
...in the beginning you understand the world but not yourself, and when you finally understand yourself you no longer understand the world. --Mary Ruefle