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Hegseth really proving that the Army OER process isn’t entirely broken, they had a reason to deny him command of anything larger than a platoon.

If you want to talk about college sports, maybe don’t start an uncontrollable war just days before.

Good idea, they need an expert on how to lose a war.

More “chaos is a ladder” bullshit from the White House. They think if they can get Cuba to fall quickly they can withdraw from the Iranian debacle without admitting their failure.

Man, if the House won’t defend its plenary and absolute authority over all bills of supply, then that’s six centuries of settled Anglo-American practice tossed in the bin.

Wonder what the Sand Hill Road types who have become addicted to Middle East sovereign wealth investments are thinking of their choice to go anti-woke right now.

I don’t even know what the market price is for “25% of global crude supply is locked up behind a combat zone,” but I’m betting it’s somewhere north of “no one traveling anywhere for Spring Break this year.”

They’re going to keep burning down the world and remain convinced that they can evade the consequences if they just keep Posting Through It.

I’m not saying it’s (3), but for sake of completeness we should include (3): The campaign is just antisemites all the way down.

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Starting to wonder if their much-publicized confrontation was just kayfabe.

(There’s probably a few more vessels also just switching off AIS and hoping for the best, but that’s not something insurance is going to love you doing.)

An asphalt carrier did that yesterday, but pretty much everyone’s still stacked up at anchorages on both sides.

If you wanted a counterexample, you could point to the minimal effect the Iran-Iraq Tanker War had on prices, but any serious attempt to close the strait this time is going to be more widespread, have a lot of PGMs involved, and less ability for pipelines to pick up the slack given tanker capacity.

If the ballistic missile appears stationary, you gotta start hauling ass my brother

Props to the writers, the plotline where Christian evangelicals line up to worship the Antichrist who has literally covered his world in gold isn’t exactly subtle, but they’re pulling it off.

It’s more than a bit frustrating to remember that Gonzales personally purged US attorneys for nakedly partisan reasons, so, yeah, what’s the daylight between him and the current admin — but I’ll reluctantly accept the whitewashing for now.

I mean, yes, hotdogguy dot gif, but also we’re going to have to accept that these guys are part of the anti-Trump big tent despite their role in setting the stage for today. If we get a chastened institutionalist GOP out of this we can notch it a win while also implementing Woke 3.0.

The worst part of The Bear was the gauzy, soft-focus, gently-supportive Thomas Keller cameo. The best part was Joel McHale basing his abusive, cruel, asshole monster of a chef on Thomas Keller.

Orwell wasn’t talking about committed pacifists, but instead those who isolationists who attacked the West for its “militarism” (and, as he noted, were often fascist-adjacent). The quote there is “Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.”

IIRC the closest anyone got to is possibly a baroque misquote by George Will of Orwell’s “Notes on Nationalism,” where he’s talking about those we would today call “Tankies:” “[T]hey do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defense of the western countries.“ /

Hard argument to make when the Founders drank more hard liquor than any other generation, and by the 1800s folks were openly doing opium and putting cocaine in their health tonics.

The same map, except a single ship is sailing up through the strait.

Got to appreciate the lone asphalt carrier YOLOing their way through the strait, insurance be damned.

And Iran hasn’t even closed the strait yet — right now you’re just seeing insurance companies reacting to the /risk/ of a closure.

Map of the Persian Gulf, showing full tankers piling up at anchorages on the west side of the Strait of Hormuz, empty tankers piling up on the east, and no one transiting the strait.

Exciting days.

He also succeeded Jesse Jackson to lead Rainbow PUSH (albeit briefly, because the organization was a disaster, not his fault at all). He’s already a religious celebrity; he’s going to be an absolutely towering figure on the national political stage, is my bet.

Raw chain-of-thought traces from LLMs are just plain weird; if a human talked like that you’d put them on a psych hold with a bunch of thorazine, yet it generally seems to “work” with AI.

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I think a serious problem until now has been the decades-long defensive crouch that mainline churches have been in, largely as a result of mainline decline and evangelical growth. But it does feel like the tide is turning and a mustard seed of hard-shell mainline resistance and action is developing.

Main problem Crockett had, other than jumping in too late, is she ran a party-political campaign in a high-turnout election. She had local/state party support, but got swamped by Talarico being the Dem face of the race. Now he’s got to convince the base to turn out for him, a different challenge.