Joe Walsh

What could possibly go wrong?

On the one hand this is probably pretty funny for most civilians and on the other hand it’s utterly fucking depressing for those who grasp the long-run implications.

Can’t do it. There’s just no substitute. We could get some useful info for sure, but BLS and rest of government stat infrastructure irreplaceable. For one, they make such info a public good. Who wants to pay for the unemployment rate? (I mean, I would, but u know what I mean.)

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Peter Sagal speaks for us all.

I…worked on that book for five years…and…they just…they TikTok bro’d it out

U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS

What is the point of negotiating anything with these people? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

A Chinese carmaker Xiaomi just made a record in auto industry! #auto #cardesign #xiaomiyu7 #cartech #xiaomicar #ferraripurosangue #mclaren #coolcars #sportysuv TikTok video by Jeremy Lueck

I think the US auto industry is in a lot of trouble

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I think about this John Mulaney bit way too often youtu.be/EyS8uDoFedc?...

A+ reference

One last thing on this for the moment: Scorched Earth Conan was incredible TV for a few weeks, and Scorched Earth Conan's enemy was fucking Jay Leno. Scorched Earth Colbert should be really good TV.

David Gergen, Washington Veteran Who Advised Four Presidents, Dies at 83

I have been fortunate enough to have had amazing mentors and teachers. And I think I learned the most from David Gergen. He was a good man, and a patriot. And very, very good at what he did. I will miss him.

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Hard to compete with "Heck of a job Brownie" performance, and yet ....

this is so good

New rule: no criticizing the way others choose to resist unless you have a better, actionable idea and kind, constructive feedback. New ideas are good! Performative contrarianism is useless.

As the dissents point out, the majority constantly contradicts its own recent decisions to fit the result they want. Ie: a HS football coach leading a Christian prayer does not violate other students religious rights, but a storybook with LGBT characters does. On some level they must know this.

In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that only it could decide issues on a national level. And then, with thousands and thousands of people waiting in limbo for resolution of many legally disputed Trump orders, the justices went on summer vacation, not to return until October.

If I were a hero I think I would probably not be happy to know that my name had replaced another guy’s entirely because the secretary of defense hates gay people

Heartbreaking- President Ryan is an amazing leader.
Darkness is winning…

entire block of crowd control barricades arranged to accommodate a long line of people at security, empty

One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

norms are going to kill us all.

Clearly it's Kindergarten Cop. And I will not be taking questions at this time.

Every one of these covid-revisionism pieces consists of people lying to your face about events that you remember
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Thanks but that's not me. Looks like you tagged two people - WalshFreedom is the former Republican who wrote that piece, not me.

It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.

The amount of space this particular strip occupies in my mind and has since I was a kid is hard to convey.

Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.

I'm so glad Josh said this. Thought I was going insane. Musk broke Washington, not the other way around, no matter what the beltway takes say, and the real damage he caused - to people and democracy - will go on long after him.