when i finally watched "Casablanca" i had the same reaction: it's very, very good
i liked Peter Lorre's performance so i tracked down his starring performance in 1931's "M"
the film was great but oh man it was extremely uncomfortable to see the parallels between Biden era USA & Weimer era Germany
pour one out for the people at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists who have to set the Doomsday Clock
imagine the impossibility of trying to assess how likely it is that trump will see something on tv that makes him mad & decide to respond by lobbing nukes at iran
there's a real chance that trump has gone so off the rails that we get a repeat of both the great depression *and* the series of tangled regional conflicts that kicked off world war one
trump has been taking a sledgehammer to every lode bearing pillar of american society for a decade
when he smashes down a pillar but the roof doesn't immediately collapse all the Very Serious people chide us, "see, everything is fine"
we're now at a point where not many pillars remain standing
a screenshot from summer of 2025 of a chuck schumer social media posts where he attacks "TACO Trump" for being soft on iran hard to avoid the the thought that dem leadership may well have goaded trump into this disastrous war by calling trump a chicken at a time when his administration was negotiating with iran instead of bombing them
how many schoolgirls in iran might still be alive today if top democrats hadn't spent their entire careers desperately trying to escape the post 9-11 accusations that they were peacenik wimps & hadn't decided to spent last yr calling trump a pussy for negotiating with iran
a couple weeks before the election trump was promising ruinous tariffs—he said he would go as high as 2,000%!
but it got maybe 1% of the scrutiny that was given to whether tim walz was a traitorous coward because he only logged 24 yrs of service in the national guard
sign of both how thoroughly americans are propagandized & how incurious the avg. voter is that trump campaigned on wars & new taxes yet they voted for trump as the Prices Go Down guy
instead, we're getting a global economy that's gonna land somewhere between 1970s stagflation & 1930s depression
Trita Parsi on American Prestige here, and yes: clearly, various Israel hawks slithered up to Trump, telling him - You only need to demonstrate your power Sire, then the enemy shall cringe in terror before your magnificence! You shall be the mightiest conqueror, everyone is saying it, more and more
the recent american version of this was the new york times looking at the texas democratic senate primary race and labeling jasmine crockett the progressive & james talarico the moderate for no real discernible reason other than that the latter is a white man & the former is a black woman
rod dreher watching the smoke & flames rising out of the hungarian presidential mansion & feeling such despair that he has to assuage his grief by going to a place where he can watch fat magyar men gnaw pork knuckles & pound tankards of czech beer
cyndi hyde-smith goes to mississippi for the weekend but fails to show for the following senate session
two weeks later she reappears & explains that she told her phone "directions to the washington capitol" & drove all the way to olympia before realizing there had been a mix up
graham platner shaves his beard into a hitler mustache and tells the critics that he was just trying to emulate charlie chaplin's little tramp persona
amy klobuchar starts a routine of having lunch in the senate cafeteria where she's seen eating salad with a comb
but no one thinks anything of it because that's just amy
dick durbin's staff hurriedly ushering him away from the rotunda when the senator starts telling reporters about his favorite new pudding snack
but his 'pudding' is just a jar of one of those goopy putties that you use to clean debris out of a keyboard or a vent
to the bewilderment of all chris coons suddenly loses the ability to speak english
only after months of tests & examinations do the doctors realize he's actually former german chancellor olaf scholz
138 yr old chuck grassley succumbs fully to senility & will no longer talk about anything but his desire to get to dairy queen and all the deer that keep jumping in front of his car to obstruct him
the looming departures of both tommy tuberville & markwayne mullin means the senate will be losing both the reigning title holder *and* the heir apparent to the mantle of Dumbest Man in the Senate
we're gonna see new & terrifying displays of idiocy as new contenders duke it out for the dunce crown
with friends like these who needs enemies
remembering that kristi noem lives on a military base, it would be very funny if she was ordered to vacate her housing on three hours notice the way that they evicted the coast guard commandant linda fagan for the crime of being woke, i.e., a woman
CBS News GOP senator joins police in ejecting anti-war protester from Capitol Hill hearing By Alan He Updated on: March 5, 2026
The New York Times Senator Helps Officers Forcibly Remove Protesting Veteran From Hearing
a GOP senator assaulted a marine in uniform & broke his arm with dozens of cameras recording
look at the headline from CBS, a newsroom run by state-aligned propagandists & owned by a billionaire aligned with trump
then look at this headline from the NYT
not much difference, is there
eh, for what they are the Kelces are fine
if you wanna send a pair of football playing brothers off to war send the Bosa brothers and their MAGA hats
timothy mcveigh murdered 168 people when he bombed the murrah building, 19 of them children at day care
to see the US gov't now trying to justify murdering 168 children is the sort of unholy symmetry that makes you wonder if the devil is real
these headlines are still up where the NYT is using passive voice to describe an israeli and/or US attack against iran but uses active voice to describe an iranian take against israel
this NYT account has been active for 12+ months & hasn't even been able to verify their account, how long do we think it will take them to verify whether it was the US or israel that blew up a hundred iranian school girls on the opposite side of the planet
impossibly on point that the CEO raking in billions in tax payer dollars to operate concentration camps is named Swindle
CoreCivic Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Financial Results February 11, 2026 BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CoreCivic, Inc. (NYSE: CXW) (CoreCivic or the Company) announced today its fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results. Patrick Swindle, CoreCivic's President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We closed 2025 with strong financial performance, which wouldn't have been possible without the tremendous efforts of our professional staff and the trust of our government partners. We anticipate 2026 will be a continued period of increased demand from our federal, state, and local government partners. CoreCivic is well-positioned to meet this growing demand given our readily available capacity, experienced management team, and our strong balance sheet."
the sort of person who is the CEO of a private prison & unashamedly sends out an investor relations letter bragging about net profits increasing 70% YOY because they're doing gangbusters business w/ their fascist pals running the govt. is, no joke, the sort of person re-education camps were made for
stitt isn't full on 4chan pilled the way young republican staffers are now so there might be a little part of him that likes the idea of making sure the first black senator from oklahoma is a republican and that stitt was part of that milestone
jc watts is actually kind of interesting because he's a former ok congressman so he knows what dc is like
but he's also unacceptable to GOP voters—watts supported a republican-recently-turned-democrat in the last gubernatorial election—so he wouldn't be a threat to other elected republicans
that's not an exhaustive list of the shady things pruitt did while in office but it's pretty representative of how much more anodyne the corruption of trump version 1.0 was compared to the current supertanker sized looting that's happening on a daily basis
the halcyon days when a trump cabinet appointee from oklahoma could experience a career-ending scandal for traveling first-class, spending thousands of dollars on tactical pants, & for trying to shake down the CEO of chik-fil-a into giving his wife a franchise store
