Gus Orviston

Heh.

Vance is too much of a coward to actually stand up to the President, but it's certainly not too much of a coward to leak this to the media.

To be clear, I wasn't on board with the first move, either.

I really thought the Trump administration would alienate our democratic allies but improve relations with autocracies and dictatorships. I didn't have "alienate democratic allies and then mess up so bad that the autocracies and dictatorships no longer want to be our allies either" on my bingo card.

Was lucky enough to get into an advance screening tonight, and that will not be the last time I see it in a theatre.

You guys, Project Hail Mary is so damn good.

To be fair, these seem to have all been decommissioned in September of 2025. Still, this seems a bit on the nose.

Welp.

Six days after 9/11, a Republican President said:

“Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow [Muslim] citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.”

Let's salute the GOP for making primary voters choose between a charlatan and a coward. In the last Presidential election, voting for the GOP was to vote for both these attributes in the same man.

Progress!

Interesting business model. I assume that he's fairly compensated anyone who authored anything that they used to build their system, correct?

Right? Right?

Today marks the birthday of the great (prophetic?) American writer Octavia Butler!

(1) I do not think all this ends just because Trump thinks that it will, and (2) I can't help but notice that the oil price boost + the removal of sanctions is a huge boon for Putin. Sure seems like the longer that this goes on, the better it is for him.

A couple points, with the background information that I think Trump's brain is a bag of cats and there is always a good bet that there is no larger plan; if there was, he'd blab to the press about what it is. However . . .

One hopes that these people will eventually be able to attain the maturity and humility to realize how much damage they have caused and how much suffering they have unleashed.

I wouldn't count on it, though.

Anyone that has read any recent church history will instantly recognize this talking point and where it came from.

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Would have been much funnier had he endorsed him for that Texas Senate seat, tbh

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

You can go back and compare how 🇦🇫 was covered, & it’s simply not remotely the same right now, even though the failure & incompetence is orders of magnitude beyond even the worst caricature of Biden’s policies:

It is interesting to me* how this total military, geopolitical, & economic omnishambles is not being covered in the press with remotely the same fierce EPIC DISASTROUS FAILURE urgency that Joe Biden’s not 100% surgically clean withdrawal from 🇦🇫 was covered 🤔

[*It is not remotely interesting to me]

it's only a recession if it's made in the region of a Democratic administration, otherwise it's merely a sparkling economic contraction

Words, do they have meanings, who can know, really

People are dying, but at least rich people have something fun to talk about on their phone calls.

Leaving aside the fact that if they stop them, then they don't happen, I think what he's *trying* to say isn't even true, and we know this because if it was, Trump couldn't stop himself from blabbing about it even if it was classified.

I mean, me, obviously, but that can't be the entire market for this book

Why is the Oxford Handbook to the Book of Common Prayer $180? Who is that interested in the BCP?

I mean, that wouldn't be the stupidest thing that we've seen out of this White House, so sure, why not

I mean, big swaths of this obviously have nothing to do with reality, but I am taking my encouragement from the presumption by a Republican talking on Newsmax that he only has 4 years.

Work for a clown, be forced to wear clown shoes. Perfect.