This Used to Be the Future
Longtime Thieves in the Temple blogger Alec Mento returns with a dozen new essays excoriating the venality of political and corporate “leaders” and...
You can only get my new book, *This Used to Be the Future*, at my storefront, Blunt Instruments (linked below). You may find the book’s final essay, “Love is the Answer One More Time,” unexpectedly personal, especially after reading the other 11 more analytical essays. I hope so, anyway.
06.03.2026 17:04
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(I say this even though I know a Senator Horn would seriously annoy me after a few years.)
06.03.2026 16:55
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Trump's waging a war to hide his bad economy, but media “personalities” look at this pile of shit and say “but what if it’s meatloaf?"
06.03.2026 16:50
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“(U)nexpected setback”?
Who Could Have Predicted that the Administration publishing job numbers late/not at all could be hiding something?
06.03.2026 16:48
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Not a far walk from satire to reality here, though.
05.03.2026 21:30
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But Dan Boren would be a shitty idea, Kendra Horn less so.
05.03.2026 21:28
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I remember this! This’ll be fun, and in 2026, a Republican keeping his Senate seat wouldn’t be as sure a thing as it has been.
05.03.2026 21:25
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In case I’m not being clear: Joe Rogan and his dittoheads.
Doesn’t matter he’s turned on Trump now. Like that was never the plan!
05.03.2026 18:39
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The people who voted for Trump because of his “energy” will get their own circle of hell.
05.03.2026 18:37
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Welcome to another exciting edition of “The Passive Voice Sucks."
05.03.2026 18:34
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The Senate will treat him better, partly because he’s one of their number, but mainly because he’s a man.
05.03.2026 18:33
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If by “transparent” they mean TRANSPARENTLY AWFUL
05.03.2026 18:30
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Wonder how he feels about being the deciding vote for the Defense Secretary who just stranded hundreds of thousands of Americans in the Middle East.
Kidding! He feels nothing of consequence, to himself or anyone else.
05.03.2026 18:27
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2) Military leaders typically plan to get Americans out. We should tolerate nothing less, even from drunk asshole TV hosts.
05.03.2026 18:25
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1) “(I)t all” didn’t happen so much as *Trump caused it to happen*.
05.03.2026 18:24
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Offensive, intolerable horseshit on at least two levels. 78 million Americans call this “leadership."
05.03.2026 18:24
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But 21 of the 53 are Democrats, making this a *bipartisan problem*! I kid, of course.
05.03.2026 18:03
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05.03.2026 17:56
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SRSLY
05.03.2026 17:55
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Americans are tired of the government wasting their money on Medicaid and schools. They want it spent on security details for Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and Kash Patel's girlfriend.
by J.D. Vance
04.03.2026 18:48
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Polymarket to allow bets on the name of the new terrorist organization spawned by the war in Iran.
05.03.2026 01:14
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(And Sens. Tillis and Kennedy would *never* have taken a male DHS Secretary to the woodshed the way they did to Sec. Noem.)
05.03.2026 13:19
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The Constitution is clear: Congress decides on war. When a president uses military force without authorization and Congress stays silent, they are abandoning their role as a co equal branch of government. War is the most serious power our government has. Shame on the U.S. Senate today.
05.03.2026 02:24
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Let us not forget: if the Homeland Secretary were a man, Trump wouldn’t even be asking.
05.03.2026 13:12
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You’d think our sensationalist media would eat up this unimaginably horrible crime story.
But they don’t. You already know why.
05.03.2026 13:10
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And his nearly-78 million voters. Every single one.
05.03.2026 13:06
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“Should I fire her for doing everything I asked her to do?"
Some 78 million Americans think that would be leadership.
05.03.2026 13:05
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