You have to say it with tears in your eyes.

Reading the op-eds in full doesn't help:

"Even if Texas’s move triggers an arms race, the trend will not put American democracy on life support" (Aug 2025).

"They’re right that the GOP started this fight...but they can spare us the false sanctimony about democratic norms going forward" (Apr 2026).

THE TIMELINE IS HEALING

I look forward to the inscription of runes in every Texas classroom on the strength of the existence of Woden's Day. By the same token, we probably shouldn't neglect to erect statues of Mercury. Quite the multicultural ruling, really.

I agree with you — I just doubt that legislation could get through a Congress that has never hesitated to outsource collective responsibility and maximize individual profit. I don't think you put gerrymandering down without a national drive from the states up. As improbably hard as that would be...

Might take a constitutional amendment to shut it off. No party is motivated to release a lever that lets them lock in power. Plus, it's an armed standoff. The first party to lower his gun gets a bullet to the head. Has to be forced everywhere, on everyone, at the same time, or it doesn't happen.

We could replace him with a potted plant maybe. Low maintenance, no one actually cares if it dies.

hard to imagine a replacement, any replacement, that's not an improvement

I love how our Secretary of Hair Gel is always staring into the camera with what I can only assume he believes to be a Steely Glare of Warfighter Resolve.

I remember the election that put Schwarzenegger into office. Felt like the entire population of the state was on the ballot.

Every time these guys confess remorse, it's Homer Simpson saying he's never eating chili again.

If you ask it to tell you a joke, the punchline is always "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree."

The Military: "Within hours, we sank their navy and established air superiority if not supremacy."

Academia: "Who can stand in the shadow of Iran's might?"

“Alas?” Yours is the only sane answer. Welcome to the rational defenders of civilization against the barbarous sluggards.

Airports are the closest you’ll ever get to being an unescorted kid again.

I decided many years ago that I'm never going to look back from my deathbed and think, "Sure glad I won that argument with my wife over fifty bucks."

You can overplay this and get into real trouble. But within reason, relationships are better when they matter more than money.

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

There's a whole circle of hell for people like this.

The only thing funnier than nothing happening would be something happening. These goofs are so cooked.

Having read all three volumes of Capital, I can say this: I have unbridgeable gulfs with Internet Marxists, but not nearly so unbridgeable as Marx would've had.

I’m almost done with the third volume of Capital. Can confirm the joke is funny because it’s true.

Talked to my brother about this today. In my field AI is revolutionary. I never want to go back. I’m all in.

Total opposite for him. In his field, AI makes no sense; but boosters are shoving it everywhere and degrading everything with slop. Not a skill set issue — wrong field and no good use case.

For a long time after COVID, I noticed that oncoming walkers would cross the street before we’d pass each other. This is much less frequent now, but habits of avoidance and isolation are hard to break. There’s something seductive about never having to make the little accommodations society requires.

The best test is the 2022 elections. Within two years of this purported despair, red and blue districts alike were voting even harder for red leaders. If there ever was a feeling of abandonment and revolt (which as a red state resident I very much doubt), it was so transient as to be meaningless.

What I find interesting about greedflation discourse is that it often comes from online Marxists, and I don't think Marx would've agreed. He was motivated to prove that even capitalists are subject to economic/historic laws, and took some pains to argue that prices can't be fixed artificially high.

Heck, I don’t think it’ll help in 2030. Public memory has small horizons. Not always a bad thing — it’s better that people live their lives than that they feed on politics — but not great for longevity of a healthy body politic.

I see this bigotry claiming more of my friends in their FB posts, including people I used to count as rationale and gentle souls. It's depressing.

A lot of modern leftism is less concerned with fixing problems than it is with inflicting pain on class enemies.

You know. Like MAGA.

There’s a reason they all sound the same.

For a certain class of poster, Will, you’re allowed neither to be right nor to admit that you were ever wrong. They aren’t happy unless you exist in a special Stancil superposition where they can just pick at you all day long for sad, weird reasons of their own.