Steve Young

There are so many people who think that endless process is just fine and there is no reason in the world anyone would not sign up to participate in it. It's free, after all.

No lies detected.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

We live in the dumbest timeline.

Cops looking the other way when rightwing thugs commit violence is just a form of professional curtesy.

But do you honestly - *honestly* - believe that this same standard about what is publishable applies to information that tends to make any non-MAGA person look bad?

I am a longtime NYT subscriber and I do not for a minute think the same standards have been applied.

How did I not know that NCMEC was founded by that reality TV blowhard John Walsh? I never would have had as much respect for the organization if I had known.

That was the first thing I noticed. I immediately started thinking about where I could put something like that.

Trump’s Government Of Spite: Political Performance Art For Assholes A couple weeks ago, as millions of Americans took to the streets in what may have been the largest single day of protest in U.S. history, the President of the United States responded by… posting a …

FWIW, I will never forgive the AI video of "King" Trump liqui-shitting on peaceful American protestors

www.techdirt.com/2025/10/30/t...

When we are in the aftermath of all this, the American people should not recognize or honor any pardons bestowed on the regime thugs.

I just don’t think “no nazis” is an overly woke position.

You could also set a maximum limit on how long an asset can be owned without a realization event. Ten years or so might make sense. We don’t make anyone sell or force them to realize the gain at a particularly bad time. But the gain does eventually get realized and taxed before too long.

Yeah, I have a hard time getting upset about the white house demolition. There are so many other things they are doing that are causing actual harm to people.

The images of the demolition seem likely to get regular people to pay attention to the state of things, and so may be helpful in the end.

Pride is not the only emotion that you're allowed to have about your history. There are many others that can and do apply. It should not be a failing or a threat to your sense of self to acknowledge those other emotions. To speak them aloud as you watch history unfold.

Didn’t they? Pretty sure they did.

Like Lindsey Halligan, I am a lawyer who has no experience that would be relevant to being a federal prosecutor.

Unlike her, however, I would know better than to accept a role that I am not qualified for, where my inevitable failure will be national news and will likely show up in history books.

We live in a literal idiocracy.

He literally cannot remember that he was president on January 6th. We are so far past the time when the 25th amendment should have been invoked.

I see no way to square Trump v. US with the idea that there is still rule of law in this country. And without rule of law, the Supreme Court is *literally* just some weirdos who wear robes in the middle of the day.

At this point law is to be followed to avoid punishment, not because of legitimacy.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

If senior people are saying, "no, I won't do that, and neither will the people under my command" it will become pretty public.

If it is not happening visibly, the message to the lower ranks is clear: we tell the public this bullshit about honor, but we follow illegal orders from the president.

And where can I go to see evidence that our military actually believes this? Where can I see them refusing any of the blatantly illegal orders they are being given?

<crickets>

It would be great to see the military leadership stand up and act like they meant it when they swore an oath to the constitution.

I won’t be holding my breathe.

This administration is sure demonstrating how false that has always been.

An illegal order to kill people in Venezuelan boats? No problem, sir! Orders to go terrorize citizens in US cities? Sure thing, sir!

I don’t expect this bunch to respond to this latest outrage with honor or integrity.

Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders

For my whole life I have been told a lot of bullshit about the military being a place of honor and integrity.

Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Although I am as susceptible to nostalgia as anyone, I have come around to the perspective that it is often a bad thing. I always try to put it in perspective when I start feeling nostalgic.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

I always say he is the most evil person to be president in modern times, because you have to make room for Andrew Jackson as the most evil of all time. But Trump is clearly, without any doubt, the dumbest of all time.

I held off cancelling until Saturday, thinking that if they backtracked in the first 48 hours or so, it might be something to overlook.

Now, I feel like someone has got to sell me on signing up with Disney Plus or Hulu again. If the deal doesn't look good, inertia is no longer on their side.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.