If I were her I think I would have gone with Colonel Jessup over George Orwell, myself.
05.03.2026 19:38
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If I were her I think I would have gone with Colonel Jessup over George Orwell, myself.
Here we go.
Image: Andy Dwyer from Parks and Rec, played by Chris Pratt, with text saying "I cannot emphasize enough how little I was thinking"
Hell, they didn't even think of the eternal "make the Kurds the expendable substitute for boots on the ground" play until the bombs were flying
Ooh. We could test both on the same flight?
Right. Successful regime change in history has really only been accomplished with a massive occupying force (Germany, Japan, Iraq) or by installing someone the populace will accept for historical reasons (like the Shah in 1953).
During the Iraq invasion, CNN had correspondents reporting directly from inside Iraq. How come they’ve got no one inside Iran now?
I’m having a hard time imagining any scenarios besides 1) power vacuum the IRGC steps into, or 2) international peacekeeping and nation-building. What even is Trump’s best-case scenario?
Schumer’s style is to fight 2026 political battles with a quill and parchment.
It sort of says something that Trump’s former advisors don’t agree with Trump at all. Trumpism isn’t a movement of, like, ideology. It’s a movement of power and opportunity.
The biggest problem still feels like the fact that we haven't seen the Human Landing System at all, and it's supposed to land on the Moon in 2 years.
More frequent Artemis launches isn't bad. Now we're getting an "Apollo 9-style" launch, in addition to Artemis 2's "Apollo 8-style" launch. But it's a little bit sad to lose the more powerful Block 1B configuration entirely. spacenews.com/nasa-revises...
That’s how you know Carr is coming for them next. “They’re not accountable to anyone! They’re not playing by the same rules. So today, the FCC is announcing a new rule…”
Jesus. Somehow Netflix buying Warner was the more competitive option. But we’re definitely getting less Star Trek (and no original content, for that matter) when Larry Ellison can pump out Harry Potters and DC movies instead.
Yes. Sue. It's apparently the only language Trump speaks in. www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/25/m...
16 years after Citizens United, it's insane that Congress isn't allowed to prohibit this kind of naked bribery of the President of the United States.
Well that’s bad. And it was sounding like the Wet Dress Rehearsal went so well, too.
If the money has to get refunded, and it gets refunded to companies who claim that they only raised prices because of tariffs in the first place, what happens next? Do companies keep $100B in extra revenue, or do they return money to consumers in the most giant class action in history?
You honestly think the *Trump administration* is about to start extraditing and prosecuting rich and powerful people associated with Epstein? As though that won’t shine a bigger spotlight on one rich and powerful person in particular?
JD Vance hasn’t posted in 21 days.
Trump started an arms race and it was stupid, he’s getting crushed. There’s good news for Republicans, though: they can join Democrats to ban gerrymandering nationally. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
And it should make people feel better that Trump has utterly failed to corrupt the judicial system over the last 10 years. There’s just no public support for dismantling an impartial justice system.
The media continues to call the rejection by the Grand Jury remarkable, but it’s more the baselessness and incompetence of the prosecution that was remarkable. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...
Spider-Man 3. It’s certainly not the worst movie ever made… but the trailer for it might be the best movie ever made, and the actual movie certainly didn’t live up to that.
Congrats to RFK Jr. on all his efforts to save kids from mercury in vaccines.
It's all imagined. To remember that "homogenous era," they have to retroactively call Italians, Polish, and Irish white, which people in that era didn't. You could imagine future racists pining for the homogenous era of the 2020s but only able to show their work by including Hispanics.
Trump's termination of Gateway stuck about as well as his termination of congestion pricing.
At least someone is still measuring approval.
Everyone remember the drones? We elected Trump to get us answers. Thank god that nightmare came to a satisfying conclusion.
Musk can literally throw a switch at this point to decide who starts winning the war. He turned off Starlink for Russia and Ukraine immediately retook 200 kilometers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=teVr...