Mike Baugh

We did good by our country today. Things may get worse before they get better, but we will prevail. One day like today at a time. #NoKings

My high school history teacher #nokings

We have friends everywhere.

Well, it’s not all I’m saying. That would be incorrect. But that’s one of many angles on this I believe strongly in.

All I’m saying is, cede a little ground on this part of the issue and we might be able to actually get something done to keep your classroom safer. Bans don’t address the problem. It wouldn’t for another half century or more for the millions of guns in circulation already to be out of commission.

Worrying about my kids in a classroom of course is always on my mind. But I’m also worried about defending them from lawlessness in the event our Democracy falls. “Someone breaking into my home” is no longer the most extreme scenario most of us can envision.

Our institutions have weakened. Any gun ban policy doesn’t change the fact that there are more guns than people. That cat is out of the bag. Right now gun ownership is concentrated on one side of the political spectrum and we need to be aware of how dangerous that is right now.

We need to provide subsidies/tax credits for gun storage. We need to look at measures that restrict access to those who are a danger to society, but balance them with the reality that it’s our constitutional right to own one.

I’m not going to fall for your Michael Dukakis trap. People are doing all this shit because they are in distress and the American dream is gone. We need to invest money in health care and housing to make life more affordable for people.

I am a father of two that is very concerned about school shootings and public safety.

I am a firmly progressive liberal.

I think it’s both unconstitutional and a genuinely bad idea to ban assault weapons.

The final boss for MAGA will be the democratic socialists. Might not be for another decade, but they’re coming.

I’ve been on a self-imposed social media break while planning my upcoming wedding.

In the meantime, some memes are simply too truthful to ignore…

sad that I can't reduce the $0 I spend on EA games any further

People are taking “Trump 3rd term” stuff way too seriously. Biden declined quite rapidly from the age Trump is now to the end of his term. I just don’t see it. I wish him good health though, because we need to keep that ratfucker Vance out of the Oval Office at all costs.

I like it when Paul Thomas Anderson is very clear about the content of his films.

Q: Can I expect to see any blood in this picture?
A: THERE WILL BE BLOOD

Q: Does your new film feature any battles? And if so, to what frequency?
A: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Opinion | Trump Can’t Be the One to Dictate Who Gets Indicted

Source: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

Any other President would’ve been impeached over 104730295729350262066295739 things by now.

Norms aren’t enough to sustain democracy.

The real issue I’m getting at is authenticity: sticking to poll-tested scripts, avoiding long-form engagement, and overthinking what basic category someone belongs to as opposed to their ideas, how well they can communicate them, and how well they’d actually do the job makes us look fake.

I don’t think she’s wrong or that you’re wrong for a certain segment of voters, but that segment isn’t decisive. Swapping in two milquetoast straight white guys wouldn’t have changed the outcome.

I was digging Kamala’s book until she said that America isn’t ready for a gay VP on the same ticket as a black-woman President. The box-checking mindset of twenty years ago is precisely why liberals lose so fucking always.

Maybe it’s the rose colored glasses I’m looking through now. But I think if you give McCain that four year term from 08-12, they own the messy recovery from the financial crisis and we don’t lose so many blue collar voters between 2008 and 2016. The inevitable populism wave might’ve been a blue one.

It’s your second point of the downside that is particularly terrifying to me. Watching the weak-minded be so enthralled with how “normal” he seemed in the VP debate made me sick.

Haha that’s true. But even as a Barack fan and the progress he made, I sometimes wonder looking at where we are today if we’d be better off now had McCain won.

Trump might be the worst thing that’s ever happened to this country, but Vance being a heartbeat from the Presidency terrifies me more than anything else right now.

With Calls for Retribution Over Kirk, Some See Rise of a ‘Woke Right’

Link to full article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

“We aim to win, not unite.”

I sincerely hope Bob Iger steps the fuck up here and stands up to these TV stations. I hope he has the spine to take a hit and distribute Kimmel’s show on Disney+ or whatever it so maybe I’ll consider resubscribing. You know damn well the people on the lost TV stations aren’t watching Kimmel anyway.

And even I have the instinct to go “yeah, but they are worse” but that gets us nowhere. We have to be informed, and we have to call out bullshit when we see bullshit regardless of it’s elephant shit or donkey shit.

Ben Shapiro said the right has become anti-left, and the left has become anti-right. He’s right because of how many of us will approach an issue differently depending on who is the home team and who is the away team.

We need more humility and grace in our politics. We need to actually think about issues and form opinions. Stop just finding what the other side is for, and then just being against that.