Martin Smith-Rodden Ph.D.

So you don't heave a missile into an elementary school, then fire a second missile into the school to finish off the survivors is why a professional military engages in dumb, politically correct rules of engagement. But no, American exceptionalism > 175 schoolgirls.

There were few winners at last night's shitfest of lies and carny spectacle. But count every last member of the U.S. women's hockey team among them.

If you can't stand up for a fellow journalist when she's being ridiculously bullied and demeaned for asking a basic question of a public leader, you sure as hell aren't going stand up for anything as abstract as a national principle or ethos.

American journalism is dying. And with it, our republic.

It’s a fair bet that would be the only time they’d stick their neck out for anybody.

Also: virtually the ENTIRE photojournalism staff. That a news org, who purports to be New Media-focused, scuttles their own (top of their game) visual journalism corps reveals their strategy doesn’t extend one bit past throwing darts.

And with all the marksmanship of a twitching and blind fitter.

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So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...

In other words:
It’s Thursday.

The murders will continue until you stop calling us murderers.

There is no bottom.

His name is Jonathan Ross. His name must be known. And all U.S. law officers who use lethal force against fellow citizens -- whether seemingly justified or unjustified i early analysis -- must have their names immediately known. How else for us to know whether they've killed one person or ten?

Yeah, I honestly don’t think ICE agents qualify as law enforcement officers anymore. But I get your point. And I’m all for the “warrior policing” mentality being fully bonded to the level of disgrace it deserves.

All kidding aside, that really is a short little finger.

What we all know with a deep and righteous certitude is that Stephen Miller was that kid that every goddam day had do cede his lunch money to every school bully operant from fourth to ninth grade. I mean, they turned him upside down and shook him for coin.

And now, finally, he wants to get even.

How sick must a man be that on the day a family loses a 35-year-old mother, daughter and sister from cancer he aggressively attacks the family with relish?

What a loss.

I refuse to give that greedheaded libertarian space in my head as a hero. But the sonofabitch has been consistent on extrajudicial killings by presidents since al-Awlaki and if he keeps this up, I going to be really pissed off at whatever measure of grudging respect I'll have to supply.

Same. And now the cognitive dissonance is moshing around in my head so loudly that The Ramones at near full volume barely drown it out. 🫨

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In the end, when I walked from my X account, the waves of racists and bots that were always invoking the same phrases and talking points made it clear that the thing was just a hall of mirrors, that it had been crudely rigged for political fraud. Never thought Musk would admit it all in a self-own.

But not one catsup bottle was safe at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today. 😏

On-brand

It was so great seeing this!

I often find myself missing Eastern Shore yardbird 🐓 and I will note: Much of the decline of life in the U.S. seemed to correlate with the closure of English’s Fried Chicken restaurants around Delmarva. Coincidence you may say? Correlation and causation are firmly attached at the drumstick. 🍗

a group of people are watching a video of a man 's face on a screen . ALT: a group of people are watching a video of a man 's face on a screen .

New catch line:
“WE SHAAALLL AVENGE ‘BIG BALLS’!”

They would likely opt for something along the lines of: “The Final Solution.”
…justifying it with the character and word-count. 😶

Before long, a Holiday in Cambodia might seem to be a lateral move. 😬

It’s an iffy bet that the flounder-eyed poindexter would survive long enough to write a page into his preface, after his first exposure to gen pop. Just a guess, mind you.

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