First Wordle Problems
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Black sheep boy, fearful Jesuit, functionary of the great swamp
midwest office guy, he/him
"Half the crowd is calling out for Born to Run / The other half is calling out for Born to Lose. / Baby, we were born to choose."
midwest office guy, he/him
"Half the crowd is calling out for Born to Run / The other half is calling out for Born to Lose. / Baby, we were born to choose."
Pinned
"He has a good deal to say, and if he can reduce his complicated and painful feelings...to a few telling and effective pages, it ought to be child's play to analyse the state of the nation..."
Yes I am joking, but Quayle and Pence are BOTH basically comic figures. Obviously Pence did the "right thing," and good for him, but I don't REALLY believe he saved the republic or made that much of a difference, heh.
February 11, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Yes I am joking, but Quayle and Pence are BOTH basically comic figures. Obviously Pence did the "right thing," and good for him, but I don't REALLY believe he saved the republic or made that much of a difference, heh.
Dan Quayle. The hinge around which history turned. There was an hour, and there was a man for the hour, and they found each other. In Indiana, for some reason.
February 11, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Dan Quayle. The hinge around which history turned. There was an hour, and there was a man for the hour, and they found each other. In Indiana, for some reason.
Yeah. Like, the tradition of liberal democracy in the German lands was...rather slight, shall we say. It was all paper thin. Maybe it didn't HAVE to birth an autocrat, but in that environment it feels almost overdetermined. And with a whole generation of resentful war veterans all ready to go?
February 11, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Yeah. Like, the tradition of liberal democracy in the German lands was...rather slight, shall we say. It was all paper thin. Maybe it didn't HAVE to birth an autocrat, but in that environment it feels almost overdetermined. And with a whole generation of resentful war veterans all ready to go?
nasty tricksy posters
February 11, 2026 at 1:33 AM
nasty tricksy posters
Yeah. There’s a lot of terrible governments in history. Probably more terrible ones than good ones! We don’t automatically have to leap to the Worst One Ever when searching for a comp. It has a whiff of stolen valor, as it were. (We’re staggeringly wealthy and secure compared to ANYONE in 1933!)
February 11, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Yeah. There’s a lot of terrible governments in history. Probably more terrible ones than good ones! We don’t automatically have to leap to the Worst One Ever when searching for a comp. It has a whiff of stolen valor, as it were. (We’re staggeringly wealthy and secure compared to ANYONE in 1933!)
America now (the whole WORLD now!) is just so drastically different from interwar Germany that it's just really hard to draw direct connections. Everything about our history, culture, political tradition, political SYSTEM...it's hard for us to even understand what they were going through.
February 11, 2026 at 1:21 AM
America now (the whole WORLD now!) is just so drastically different from interwar Germany that it's just really hard to draw direct connections. Everything about our history, culture, political tradition, political SYSTEM...it's hard for us to even understand what they were going through.
I feel like we all used up our 1933 analogies and our rebuttals to them last year sometime, so I won't go too deep into it. But I've always thought it was a generally poor analogy for our own situation, one that obscures more than it reveals.
February 11, 2026 at 1:20 AM
I feel like we all used up our 1933 analogies and our rebuttals to them last year sometime, so I won't go too deep into it. But I've always thought it was a generally poor analogy for our own situation, one that obscures more than it reveals.
“Recognize when you are being fucking played for a mark” is like Step One in nearly all contemporary politics and so many people on all sides just NEVER GET THERE. It’s exhausting.
February 11, 2026 at 12:37 AM
“Recognize when you are being fucking played for a mark” is like Step One in nearly all contemporary politics and so many people on all sides just NEVER GET THERE. It’s exhausting.
WRONG, lowtax. We don’t like Chris Hayes EITHER.
February 11, 2026 at 12:33 AM
WRONG, lowtax. We don’t like Chris Hayes EITHER.
Man things got so “woke” for a while that it was practically illegal to be a dude in America. It was the era of
February 11, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Man things got so “woke” for a while that it was practically illegal to be a dude in America. It was the era of
I mean I guess? But in the story we’re told, those legionaries crossed the Rubicon for their beloved commander, right? Not for some dumbass civilian who’s openly contemptuous of them.
February 11, 2026 at 12:24 AM
I mean I guess? But in the story we’re told, those legionaries crossed the Rubicon for their beloved commander, right? Not for some dumbass civilian who’s openly contemptuous of them.
I usually consider it a skill issue, like many other things that are bad.
February 10, 2026 at 10:50 PM
I usually consider it a skill issue, like many other things that are bad.
I don’t care about “ideological differences” smh I care when people are WRONG.
February 10, 2026 at 10:50 PM
I don’t care about “ideological differences” smh I care when people are WRONG.
Oh of course; it’s completely insane. This is just how the guy talks, and people like Kudlow just let him. We’re allowed to mock him though!
February 10, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Oh of course; it’s completely insane. This is just how the guy talks, and people like Kudlow just let him. We’re allowed to mock him though!
Why is the American president allowing all this communism to go on, is what the people want to know
TRUMP: We can grow at 15 percent. I think more than that!
KUDLOW: Well, 15 is a big number sir
TRUMP: But Larry, you can do it. We used to grow at 15 percent because we had spirit. Today we have a lot of communism
KUDLOW: Well, 15 is a big number sir
TRUMP: But Larry, you can do it. We used to grow at 15 percent because we had spirit. Today we have a lot of communism
February 10, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Why is the American president allowing all this communism to go on, is what the people want to know
(I mean our side is not without sin. You’d see the usual “Trump stole the election” stuff online all of last year. But those were just crackpots and grifters, not officials.)
February 10, 2026 at 10:16 PM
(I mean our side is not without sin. You’d see the usual “Trump stole the election” stuff online all of last year. But those were just crackpots and grifters, not officials.)
States will still try to purge voter rolls in sketchy ways, etc. Suppression. But not old-school “election fraud” like Republicans are always on about.
February 10, 2026 at 10:11 PM
States will still try to purge voter rolls in sketchy ways, etc. Suppression. But not old-school “election fraud” like Republicans are always on about.
I’m not talking about the broad sweep of history here like they teach in “history lessons.” Or the constitution or whatever. Just the nuts and bolts of election administration and law, heh. Nobody can just stuff ballot boxes like they used to, etc. All that stuff is mostly fictional now, as we see.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I’m not talking about the broad sweep of history here like they teach in “history lessons.” Or the constitution or whatever. Just the nuts and bolts of election administration and law, heh. Nobody can just stuff ballot boxes like they used to, etc. All that stuff is mostly fictional now, as we see.
No no I mean I thought she was that character in real life because I am old and dumb and impossibly straight heh.
February 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM
No no I mean I thought she was that character in real life because I am old and dumb and impossibly straight heh.
Oh not at all! My mistake and apologies to her. She is indeed bi! I had no idea. I think I just assumed she was her “A Star is Born” character.
February 10, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Oh not at all! My mistake and apologies to her. She is indeed bi! I had no idea. I think I just assumed she was her “A Star is Born” character.
I mean lots of presidents have done weekly addresses. It’s just about getting the public to care!
February 10, 2026 at 9:13 PM
I mean lots of presidents have done weekly addresses. It’s just about getting the public to care!
But wasn’t he the one who tried to bar the whole concept from discussion because of the dangers? (Implicitly taking it seriously? Though I think he later denied that.)
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
But wasn’t he the one who tried to bar the whole concept from discussion because of the dangers? (Implicitly taking it seriously? Though I think he later denied that.)
But seriously, I thought we had ALL agreed on "Yub Nub," like YEARS ago. You think a thing is settled...
February 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
But seriously, I thought we had ALL agreed on "Yub Nub," like YEARS ago. You think a thing is settled...
I mean, America did it to ourselves! We did! That's what really hurts.
February 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
I mean, America did it to ourselves! We did! That's what really hurts.
America: Planet Earth’s Problematic Fave since 1945!
February 10, 2026 at 8:03 PM
America: Planet Earth’s Problematic Fave since 1945!