Every time Tesla stock rises, I wonder if it's due to some complex financial strategy, but no, it's because the dumbest fucks on the planet think Elon is going to make them personal robots.

I don't have a solution beyond "perhaps it was bad to have the entire Internet be 4 things" because I really don't know how you fight back against conveniently available dog shit.

It's like being told to collect as much dog shit as possible. A generation ago, that meant wandering around the neighborhood looking for a few stray messes. These days being online is like being at a crowded dog park. If you want shit, you just go pick it up from the barrel. Too easy.

Like many who grew up Extremely Online in the early Internet era, I wonder at how easily teens get radicalized, when the 90s Internet was still full of horrors in every dark corner.

I figure it's because it's all so systematized into an efficient workflow of turning boys into hate demons.

Say what you will about Canadians, Bret Hart would NEVER add someone named Goldberg to a group chat

Checking in on how Google AI search is going. Seems fine + cool

I suspect "low information voters" is a good shorthand for every person in line ahead of you at a checkout who is apparently making a purchase for the very first time in their entire life

So how's the plan to get MAGAworld to all buy EVs to own the libs going? Good? Great? I'm going to just put you down for great.

Not much to add here except that I feel obligated to note that @edzitron.com referred to CoreWeave as a "Time Bomb" with "utterly rancid" financial disclosure docs. No mention of investment in black coats, white shoes, black hats, or Cadillac.

Love how much the Internet in 2025 has turned into Plagiarism Machine that I've seen SEVERAL examples of someone sharing the Mark Rober Tesla stunt with "someone did this" as if it's impossible to figure out the identity of the world's second most popular vlogger.

To my mind it was during the George Floyd protests, when self-described libertarians got super quiet about the unsanctioned killing of an unarmed citizen by an agent of the state, that their conversion into authoritarianism was complete. Jillette had the good sense to say "yeah, no, this is awful."

To be clear, this is largely a consequence of spending a generation passing CRs instead of a full federal budget, not some wishy-washy notion of mismanagement.

Based on my own experience, there is a staggering amount of federally owned infrastructure that is long overdue for upgrade and continues to function only by the efforts of career employees with highly specific knowledge, all of whom fear being fired without warning now.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

My 73 year-old father also wants him gone from leadership. It would be great if just once, NYT did interviews BEFORE they've already decided what the interviewees believe.

a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in an elevator and says `` not great , bob '' . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man in an elevator and says `` not great , bob '' .

When I am asked how it feels to be a federal employee now

I don't disagree that it's a cult of personality at its core. And of course it's all abominable. But it can be broken down to "form a white male ethnostate where billionaires run everything to their whims instead of a nonpartisan federal government."

This is why I get existential dread over how much cachet pleas to move to the right get (something something "big tent"). They openly reject forming a community around a coherent philosophy (like MAGA successfully did) in favor of "keep treating voters as customers, just get different customers."

His entire framework seems to rely on the presumption that the DNC strategy of "vote when we need you to, otherwise be quiet and send us $5 a week" is effective. When faced with the engaged communities MAGA and even the Tea Party created, he's saying "no, don't do the that, stay unengaged."

This is the moment you lost America. Do not forget that.

Can we now, at long last, stop pretending that there is an adult in the room? No one is coming to save us but ourselves.

You couldn't muster one lousy stand on a CR you absolute tepid gefiltefish

1993 Super Mario Bros movie Goomba

John Fetterman

The Morning: How Trump is helping liberals abroad

Every time I think, "this is it, this is the most simpering Quisling @nytimes.com headline imaginable," they go and outdo themselves

Things my Boomer father says when he has a flight departing at 4 PM

Small potatoes I know, but worth noting how even Trump wouldn't performatively "buy" a Cybertruck

Y'all why is the Substance Tom Brady on Jeopardy!

What are tariffs but Troll Tolls?

He went full bore villain during early COVID lockdown, but pitched a pointless hissy fit during the Thai cave rescue in 2018. I don't see a whole lot of model year 2017 or older Teslas out there, so...

Their promotion efforts will come up short.

This was a Ben Shapiro Joke (TM)