On what I would do if I had the power.

On Moral Imagination

On Where We Could Go From Here

I wrote this back in April. Back when my TDS was at its worst.

The Time of Monsters

On Institutional Erosion, Normalcy Bias, and the Conditions That Precede Catastrophe

I understand people may think lowly of me for the unrelenting humiliation against my former friends which is on the spoke, but they betrayed me, you see. And I was made to suffer for insisting on truth. So now you must be made to suffer for insisting on lies.

The people who turned their backs on me, said I had TDS, said I was too toxic with my public disapprobation of Mr. Trump. Boy, am I now going to make their lives hell.

Yes, I have earned the right to rub shit in your face if you have—at any point—said to me that I have TDS. I have a long memory of such things. And if the world is to burn, I shall at least, get to humiliate you.

See you stupid former friends who called me a neocon for supporting Ukraine. I’m opposing this illegal fascist war, while supporting Ukraine fighting fascists. I’m consistent. That’s how it works. It’s called not being a stupid coward. And have discernment.

I am looking for an expert on "Trump Derangement Syndrome" for a piece I'm working on. I wonder if any of my former moron friends who diagnosed me with it, could break down some of the features of the pathology, so that I may accurately describe it to my readers.

I think most reasonable people can agree that participation is the price one must pay to be taken seriously. Advertising that one has taken the black pill is therefore, an admission of unseriousness. Of cowardice. Of selfishness. You are not wise. You are aloof!

The Ballad of the Black Pill

A Crisis Dispatch

To the "black-pilled" among us.

The Ballad of the Black Pill

A Crisis Dispatch

If you want to understand the world you are living in right now, you should read this. I promise it's worth your time.

The World Blinks

A crisis dispatch

We're coming for you!

We’re Coming For You - A Song

Lyrics written by Joyce Strong, music by Suno

There should be public hangings.

What Should Come After

On the dispensation of justice for the usurpers

Must be pretty uncomfortable to be one of those executives who took a knee to this White House. Must be particularly worrying if you're a general counsel who oversaw what amounts to political bribes in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment. You thought this was the new order. You had to go along to get along. But now you sense it isn't so firm. And you should be afraid. When the public comes to fully understand the nature of what you did — when the word sedition stops sounding hyperbolic and starts sounding like a charge — you will have no one to blame but yourself. You betrayed your country for profit. That bill comes due.

The truth is that classical liberalism doesn’t have a materialist metaphysics. Like say right-libertarianism and Marxism. The socialist-capitalist argument is about placing material conditions as primary in a political order. Collective versus individual ownership of stuff. I think this is very confused. Marxists and libertarians therefore, both have more in common than they do with classical liberalism.

Libertarians who voted for Trump as the lesser evil might be the most politically stupid (and selfish) people on the planet.

How are the "at least Trump isn't a necon/warmonger" folks doing these days?