Joe Stieb

Agreed

I know historians of the Holocaust and Nazism get worked up about uses and misuses.

But sorry, we need it.

Nazism as the metaphysical representation of evil is a load bearing pillar of our civic culture.

We need a high saturation of Nazi and Holocaust history in primary and secondary ed to relentless pound home that people who look like this are evil.

That plus even more stuff on slavery.

you had me at humiliation

some must be forced to be free (read: healthy)

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

The biggest political story of the last 40 years is the Republican Party losing their fucking minds

I would obvs vote for him, I just don't like him, and he has serious liabilities.

Freud can't keep getting away with it

/3 Ultimately Marc is very like Trump in that he is shallowly narcissistically transactional. He likes shitty people if they treat him like a big hero and hates decent people if they don‘t kiss his ass. If Hitler bought Marc a beer he’d think Hitler was cool and all this talk about him was cringe.

I’m coming to the realization Marc Randazza was always like this, just more under cover, and I was just too fucking stupid to see it. What a loathsome douchebag.

um, ok

Sorry but anyone who tries to tell you (leftistly) that Calhoun is a more authentic exemplar of the American political tradition than Frederick Douglass is a wrecker.

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.

Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.

Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.

Trump’s ICE Goons Detained a 5-Year-Old. Then JD Vance Made It Worse. Much of the media is treating the vice president’s Minneapolis visit as an attempt to lower the temperature. If anything, he raised it.

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that JD Vance tried to "soften" things in Minneapolis. He blamed the left for ICE violence and called the 5-year-old's father an "illegal alien" even though he's lawfully applying for asylum.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2056...

also pretty funny that all these right wingers think liberals are hysterical but if the Dems win in 28, it's all over.

also pretty funny that Dreher poses as a non-partisan

Ah he's so close yet so far to getting it

not nearly high enough

J.D Vance Approval Polling:

Disapprove: 53%
Approve: 35%

Angus Reid / Jan 20, 2026

Very smart online guy:

Ackshually America fomented separatist revolts in the late 19th century, so this is nothing new.

Please don’t approvingly share absolute horseshit like this written by someone who is deeply miserable and wants you to be miserable too.

Short of getting caught orchestrating a coup or assassination, this is absolutely the core case of what you expel an ambassador for.

Not for the first time I wonder:

Why is the Secretary of the Treasury talking about any of this?

Canada should kick the U.S. ambassador out of the country for this, not even joking

Let’s ask Cousin Sal and House

Scott Bessent is such a dipshit, he is going to make Albertan secession absolutely radioactive. Like explaining directly to everyone how three card monte works before asking them if they want to play.

[Bill Simmons voice]: Alberta for Minnesota, who says no?

Sovereignty Picasso

Conspiracy Bill!