Alan Elrod

Telling the world you are The Empire is a choice

me 2017: theright wing culture epitomized by the president has uncomfortable parallels with Kylo Ren
the president, 2026: I am Kylo Ren. And also Walter White. And also Deadpool, and Optimus Prime

Re-upping this for the late-night crowd!

🔥Ex-CIA Ex-Marine congressional candidate @adamduniganva8 : “This is now a regional conflict involving 17 countries… incompetence, lack of planning, and an inability to understand the scale of the crisis they’ve created… Trump spent more time with Epstein than planning for war.”

This is what they mean when they say shit like "suicidal empathy."

It's just bloodlust. Not patriotism or deft military strategy. Just thuggery on a global scale.

Pervert Politics: Trumpism’s Body Obsessions How Republicans went from the party of prudes to the party of perversion.

From Trump to Noem to Hegseth and beyond, we are being governed by a party of perverts who are set on making their own psychosexual derangements into policy

www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...

After Trump, the Flood On the ending of things and the need for post-diluvian politics.

There is no pre-Trump world to which we can return. That has all been washed away.

And there is no near future that is not defined by him and the cataclysm of his rule.

My latest for @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...

this is not incidental!

to be a liberal/pluralist of any kind requires accepting that other people will see things differently than you do and that you have no sanctified monopoly on the One Truth.

this is what illiberals hate about liberalism. it’s the starting point for many.

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

i cannot get over how incredibly insane it is to think you can pull the same move you did on maduro against the entire regime of iran. in time this will be recognized as caligula-level insane. totally bonkers. hard to even fathom how someone could think this.

people who think 'it was always fascism' will point to hard-right conservatives (& fair enough)

but your definition should also be able to cover genuine moderates

like, i do not think john major is a fascist

This first thing I read this morning:
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there’s a reason it’s not just maga that lacks a theory of mind. illiberal leftists do as well. they find the very idea of having a theory of mind to be offensive, threatening, a de facto conspiracy (sometimes by the woke, sometimes by the capitalists, sometimes by the jews, etc)

I have thought this so many times in the last decade

Thank you, Matthew

This is very good.

Nancy Mace talked about her sex life at the National Prayer Breakfast and spends almost all of her time on her social media accounts discussing the genitalia of trans women.

This is one example of what I mean.

I think it’s also important to understand that purity cultures and predatory ones are two sides of the same coin

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...

The simple phrase, "Look, these people are all Nazi perverts," explains a good 90% of the news.

This guy is knocking it out of the park with his essays.

Reading this ripped from the headlines piece in light of Noem's ouster . . . MAGA exists in a freakish sexualized hellscape of its own fever dreams 👇🏽

Hegseth is a lecherous creep with the worldview of a teenage boy who just walked out of a screening of 300.

His view of war is fundamentally a homoerotic rape fantasy.

Considering Markwayne Mullin’s past as an MMA fighter, some additional relevant thoughts

www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

How to Eat An Elephant The essential plan to save America by persuading voters to discard MAGA into the ash heap of history (where it belongs). Featuring a foreword by Jonathan V. Last.

Pre-order your copy today: static.macmillan.com/static/smp/h...

Piker gives strong ratfucker vibes, in the grand leftist tradition of the Green Party and Sanders campaign staff. He's soft on left-coded authoritarian regimes. And he's also just kinda gross. Mamdani and Piker are a world apart, imo.

Violence has fans everywhere.

Sisyphus is on duty

Trump tells CNN Cuba is soon going to fall: ‘I’m going to put Marco over there’ | CNN Politics President Donald Trump told CNN Friday morning that Cuba “is going to fall pretty soon.”

“Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon, by the way, unrelated, but Cuba is gonna fall too. They want to make a deal, and so I’m going to put Marco (Rubio) over there and we’ll see how that works out." www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

Viceroy Rubio?