Phoebe Juel

Ten bucks to the first WH correspondent to ask him what "existential" means.

I looked up the students who edited and approved it, though? (And there was nothing subtle about it) JAGs, DoJ, plumb positions all.

Some years back the George Mason Nat. Sec. Journal published an article contending that the President had the power to name as enemy combatants and kill legal scholars who criticized the Bush administration's torture policies. People were briefly shocked, the author lost his job. Apologies happened

Car repair, too, particularly through a dealership. The car dealers in congress have interesting ledger books.

I think about him a lot these days.

Him and Silas Soule.

You know the Friday lunch speaker this year at the ABA's Nat. Sec event Brose from Anduril?

That's after "Empowering Rapid Innovation in National Security: Venture Capital Startups and the Defense and Intelligence Communities" on Thursday.

The BigLaw sponsors list is a treat, too.

Why do I think the end goal on this is AI deciding whether or not meat should be inspected?
That and making the average person think that's good.

I want to grab some of these people and tell them there's no feeling quite like the feeling of being Fetterman'ed.

The moment to avoid that is now.

Yay!

Enough of this, "tis no matter what you do if you have been to Waterloo" bullshit.
Service is not a get out of asshole free card.

I learned what a swastika meant when I was 4 and was drawing it on airplanes (dad is a huge military history buff and had then and now many books on ww2 aircraft - I read everything).
Dad sat me down and told me to never draw it again and why I shouldn't.
I still shame cringe thinking about it.

Even if you buy the idea he was young, stupid, and didn't know what it meant; he went to a good college and he made his military service & knowledge of history a hook in his campaign. How, if you're ignorant and then learn, do you not sprint to the nearest tattoo joint & clean that up?

I think he gets most of his world view from his dad now, when he used to get it from her.
My impression on meeting him was that he was malleable as wet clay. There's not much him (apart from ego-driven performative righteousness), just the hands holding him.

Well, he damn near killed her in a car accident, and the word in the area is that he's been blowing off anything connected to parenting their kids for quite some time now, so maybe she's channeling her time and energy into insulating them from what their father has revealed himself to be.

Oh, you've met my aunt's ex's idiot paramour's even bigger idiot daughter?

She might need to rush off to an emergency Plandemic screening, you don't know.

Thoughtful of him to get the SS death's head and not the panzer death's head so we're spared that whole phase of this little drama.

Can't wait to see yon dude shine up Charles Willoughby.

When keeping it real goes wrong.

He came into my parents flower shop back in late '86 when Bon Jovi was just taking off. They were playing Western Carolina U. He wanted to send flowers to his mom. My folks said he was a remarkably nice young man.

I'm not sure I'll ever be able to stop apologizing to Connor Lamb.

Aah, sonafabitch.

We're troping ourselves to death.

50 years of action movies have broken a lot of peoples' brains. It's not just the rugged individualism, it's the idea that a quiet life is a failed life, violent drama is the only source of meaning and everything will somehow work out before bad things happen to you.

I vividly remember seeing my dad get a shot of the good stuff in an ICU step-down before being moved to a cardiac care unit. He went, in about 90 seconds, from being a very unhappy camper to having cheerful bluebirds flying around his head.

We don't talk enough about how many of these people wrecking the country have spent their whole adult lives hopping between think tank sinecures and gigs in a government they hate.

Starting to think one of the most horrifying things about the AI Era is being forced to see the most ridiculous corner of someone's ego.
In shiny earth tones.

When I was in college a bunch of friends and I sat around one night riffing on how The Mighty Ducks was an allegory for WW2. We were not high, just just bored nerds surrounded by cornfields.
I swear we made more sense than whatever the hell this is.

Some of them, yeah. I mean, the klan went after my mom's family, so, yeah. But the number seems to have increased again, of late.

Unless you meant the people who just view abducting an autistic kid as a paycheck? if they were always here, that's effing terrifying.

Did society change some time in the last 50 years that we somehow made these people or were they always here, waiting?