Patrick Hruby

I’m hardly the first person to make this observation, but it is astonishing to me that the American public considers the GOP to be the Good At Economy And Defense Party—at least given every single event of my entire lifetime

"We'll blow up some people and buildings and then everything will go the way we want" was also Osama bin Laden's theory and it didn't work out for him either. It hasn't worked out for anybody ever.

White House posts bombing videos interspersed with MLB, NFL highlights The clips mix videos of explosions with home runs hit by former sluggers and violent hits in pro and college football games.

Unserious voters, unserious leaders, unserious country. Spoiled failsons.

Are you talking to republicans

Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.

I guess it’s refreshing that for once due to my professional expertise I know Trump is full of shit here rather than having to rely on other experts telling me he is full of shit like usual.

What truly unsettles me about this guy—and really, all of Trump’s goon squad—is knowing how many people like and want and chose this!

Goodhart’s Law, forever

Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.

I have never been more tempted to come out of sportswriting retirement

This advice is basically how Trump has lived his entire life

By “lawsuits,” he means “laws”

I like my power grabs to be honest!!!

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

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The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Another member of the chat, William Bejerano — who tried to start a pro-life group at Miami Dade College — was the primary user of the n-word in the group. At one point, he posted a block of text calling for dozens of acts of extreme violence against Black people, who he referred to using the n-word, including crucifying, beheading and dissecting people. Bejerano hung up the phone when reached by the Herald.

Dariel Gonzalez, the College Republicans’ recruitment chairman at the time, responded in the chat: “How edgy.” “Ew you had colored professors?!” Gonzalez wrote at another point. “I reguse [sic] to be indoctrinated by the coloreds.” He told the group he used the term “colored” because, “I was told we cant say black anymore.” A couple days later, he added: “Avoid the coloreds like the plague.” He did not respond to a request for comment. The group chat members — which included some women — also frequently discussed sex, sometimes describing women as “whores” and at one point using the k-word, a slur for Jewish people, to describe women they avoid.

Fun fact, fox news once tried to sic a mob on me because I wrote that being hispanic didn’t mean you couldn’t be a white supremacist, because race is subjective and many hispanics identify as white. Completely unrelated here’s how some Miami Republicans talk in private

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

Weird how this keeps happening! www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

RFK Jr. Tells Joe Rogan He’s About to Unleash 14 Banned Peptides RFK Jr. plans to reverse a sweeping compounding ban of certain peptides issued by the FDA in late 2023.

This is madness. I wrote about "peptides" a few years ago, before the trend really hit. People are injecting themselves with black-market liquids purported to contain experimental drugs that were abandoned for failing to show benefits or being unsafe.

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The party of narcissism

People are making fun of this but at the end they open mouth kiss and it's actually kind of beautiful. They're clearly doing hand stuff too but they don't show it.

I think this gets at the basic problem in this country: a whole lot of people are either unable to distinguish between truth and lies or actively and aggressively prefer the latter

Yes

our rich elites think she’s brilliant

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I don’t buy this at all

I mean when has a hopeful moment of popular uprising against a despised regime ever given way to a new revolutionary government that came to be just as corrupt and repressive and sclerotic as the one it replaced. Certainly never before in Iran.

How much more money does Jim need

One year later, seven fired federal workers share where they are now The Trump administration fundamentally altered the trajectories of hundreds of thousands of lives.

“They unleashed an army of highly talented, skilled, and competent public servants that now have the motivation and the time to fight back. They've tried to break our souls. They tried to break us down, but they're not going to take that fighting servant spirit. They're really not.”