Jeff McMahon

Oh, it doesn’t matter if I push back, got it, I won’t.

Promoting an attitude of resignation is a very good way to help the regime.

This is obviously kabuki, typically if you were serious about negotiations and then your genocidal client state did something to provoke a response, you wouldn’t just shrug and say “No way to control our allies, what can you do?”

the transition into Pizza The Hutt is nearly complete

(Not necessarily the right people, but people with more than a pretense of knowledge)

I would argue that there’s a significant enough difference in their respective sociopathies, even if it’s just that GWB understood there were people he should listen to.

The irony for me is that it at least meant that he knew he was getting away with something, which would suggest a small amount of moral fiber above than the current version

What does “optimizing” mean in this context

Screenshot of a tweet from x.com by Senator Dave McCormick that reads: Now would be a good time for Democrats to drop their opposition to DHS funding and pass the bill to support our homeland security. Continuing to play political games with our national security given the unfolding situation in the Middle East is dangerous.

Boy, does this make me think of Justice Jackson’s Youngstown concurrence, in which he warns of the danger of a president unilaterally initiating a war, and then using that war as a bootstrap to claim extraordinary powers at home.

Started a new podcast and now I learn that the host is a guy younger than me who is smoking a fuckin pipe (traditional, not weed) in every photo online, bad mojo.

Understanding our current predicament requires acknowledging that every single conservative from the establishment “intellectuals” like Ross to the lowest jug hooting simpleton has driven themselves insane via a media diet that hasn’t communicated a single true fact to any of them in 6 years

To be clear, they weren’t protesting it as smut, but because of the lead actress’ allegations of mistreatment during filming.

The autistic guys sitting near me don’t understand what the big deal is

Kinda surprising this is the first time in 25 years that I’ve seen this, especially considering the surrounding neighborhood is extremely Orthodox.

Protestors outside the New Bev re: Deep Throat

So multiple layers deep of not being connected to the real world

What is “The Cathedral”???

Remember when the US military killed about a dozen guys who were the second-in-command of Al Qaeda over a span of several years

Immediately jumping into “it’s going to be a great place to invest” is so gross and soulless

Wearing the cap = needs a nap

They aren’t prepared and won’t be for at least a year or two.

I would love it if the US govt had a plan for regime change of a regional power that was more than “an app”.

Historically, these are TERRIBLE polling numbers for day 1 of a major US use of force, particularly against a well known and disliked adversary. Usually it only goes down from the start

A section from a Free Press article by overpraised dimwit Niall Ferguson about Team America: World Police.

I like this section because it praises the film for doing a both-sides without pointing out that the liberal opponents of the Iraq War turned out to be completely right, and the movie made fun of them for no particular reason beyond them being perceived as annoying.

This piece has almost no actual content, it’s a lot of blather saying things we already know.

This would be a lot more persuasive if I could find a single anti-war protest within 5 miles

He wears the hat when he doesn’t have time to do the complex architecture of combovers.

If only we could put Trump, Netanyahu, and the Iranian leadership in a room together. Then that room gets dropped into the Marianas Trench

Read the room

They should be more Scrooge McDuck (adventurous, waterfowl, fictitious)