Windsor Mann

I Fled Trump’s America After His Re-Election. Here’s Why I Came Back The problem with Europe was that there was no one in whom to confide my distress about American politics.

The problem with Europe was that there was no one to confide my distress about American politics to.

I Fled Trump’s America After His Re-Election. Here’s Why I Came Back The problem with Europe was that there was no one in whom to confide my distress about American politics.

“I never thought of myself as someone who runs away from my problems. I always thought of myself as someone who flies away from them.” Me on my attempt to expatriate in @thedailybeast.bsky.social: www.thedailybeast.com/i-fled-trump...

Happy birthday to Alex Jones, although it’s possible his birth was a hoax staged by actors paid by the Illuminati!

“Don’t obey illegal orders.”

“We’re going to throw you in jail for saying such an outrageous thing!”

Trump hates Bad Bunny because he did something Trump cannot do: He got millions of people all over the world to watch him on TV and cheer for him.

“No form of prayer breakfast yet devised will save this crew, or earn it forgiveness.”
—Christopher Hitchens

It’s only a matter of time until Trump renames Reagan National Airport “Trump Nationalist Airport.”

When Trump is president, time goes so slow and yet everyone ages so fast.

Personally, I’d rather hear “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” than “I’m from the government and I’m here to shoot you.”

I really want to move to another country, but I’m afraid Trump will invade it and start running it.

Trump takes trivial things seriously and serious things trivially.

The only way to get ICE agents to take off their masks is to tell them that there’s a deadly virus and wearing those masks is the only way to prevent it from spreading.

Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter The vice president knows What ICE Means to MAGA.

“MAGA is many things, but above all it’s a movement about redistributing respect away from those who command too much (overeducated coastal elites) to those who don’t have enough (white Americans without advanced degrees who feel left behind).” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This, along with the talk of fighting Venezuela, seems very “I’m unpopular so I’ll start random wars” to me.

You Winsome, you lose some.

January 23, 2025:

George Orwell wrote in 1941:

Trump thinks D-Day stands for Donald Day.

Trump is doing to businesses what he did to his businesses.

Happy April Trump’s Day!

I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now

My DMs are open for anyone who wants to text me their war plans.

The weirdest thing just happened to me. A guy just asked me what time it was.

How to Build an Autocracy The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism.

Remembering this nugget from @davidfrum.bsky.social’s March 2017 cover story:

“The benefit of controlling a modern state is less the power to persecute the innocent, more the power to protect the guilty.”
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

“American politics has an ingrained philistinism and anti-intellectualism that has been the cause of infinite mischief.”
—Irving Kristol (born OTD in 1920)

I’ll procrastinate later.

The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

If you think it’s “divisive” to talk about January 6, you should have seen the time the president incited a mob to overthrow the government.

“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”
—Mencken

“Hatred has become a habit. With no more outside enemies to destroy, the fanatics make enemies of one another.”
—Eric Hoffer, The True Believer