Too many viziers with their own egos to keep messaging calibrated, I’m afraid.

Just another cycle of outrage and extinguishment as soon as it becomes clear the narrative can’t survive.

And onward to the next thing.

We’re gonna get congressional investigations into party outlet stores being antifa for selling frog costumes and I think that’s great.

Their strategy is performance so they weigh performative signals of negotiation more highly than more substantive things.

I think I actually believe this to some extent or another.

“Will the people in Hampton roads and NOVA that Republicans routinely threaten and inflict with economic immiseration and repression believe Mike Johnson is working on a deal for healthcare subsidies?” is the operative question in the immediate sense.

How does that pencil out?

@ctreese2.bsky.social and @maverickbrett.bsky.social it is now down to you to reconcile this and predict the future. Chop chop.

I’m so torn here.

I agree with you, and I think one of the weirder things is how little the shutdown is treated like a crisis compared to previous ones *because* they all resolved.

But it also feels like the wheels are really coming off the regime right now, and there’s coordinated protest soon.

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

“Can we get several more weeks out of some text messages or will the federal government’s devolution into paralysis punctuated by performative cruelty overshadow everything else” is currently their theory of the case, as far as I can tell.

That’s the sound of Virginia Republicans collectively collapsing.

“Samwise, a service disabled veteran owned small business and economically disadvantaged small business is led by a board of retired General Officers…”

Actually the more likely outcome is that it becomes way more consolidated but there’s a lot more “small business” joint ventures that are really just the remaining primes in a trench coat.

“How can we make our defense industrial base worse and more fragmented faster.”

I get that, I’m looking for more soul sounding things to get me through Fall, so if you’ve got any recommendations I’d be open.

Where have I been?? This is awesome, thanks for the recommendation.

OH HELL YEAH

He’s got a bad company cover.

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Aight. Sold. I’ve got his stuff downloaded and it’ll be what I listen to while I torch through this rusted bolt on the wife’s minivan.

Right, and they’ll be standing in line up next to the clergy, right in front of the young families with kids.

I love stories like that. I’m a sucker for it.

His brief bio I read made him seem like the real deal, but good to hear that from someone that knew him before.

The logical conclusion of education polarization is a series of goons desperately yelling at a computer to calculate the net present value of an inflatable frog costume purchased in 2017 for a protest in 2025.

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@jeremyhammett.bsky.social, curious your thoughts on Charley Crockett. He came up in my YouTube mix and I’ve been enjoying it so far.

The only folks that substantively disagree with him make up the base of power users On Here, I think.