This is the reverse Pottery Barn rule: "we break it, you buy it"
01.03.2026 18:23
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This is the reverse Pottery Barn rule: "we break it, you buy it"
This is another issue I have with punditry: are you trying to convey the most accurate factual assessment based on your focus of knowledge and understanding, or are you trying to play the odds/trying to make sure the optics are going to be good for you
We’re not going to just walk away, we have oil to steal. But yeah walk away from caring about what happens to the people and their governance, sure
A polite request for a briefing has no weight, it just signals to them that they can keep ignoring you without consequence.
"But I said he's lying" --literally doesn't matter, saying it doesn't cover your butt at all because it's like a reverse "truth sandwich" effect
Pundits are always focused on "how does this play" instead of "is this actually true," and the complication is it's pundits that shape how politicians' statements play. So if pundits are saying "trump is positioning himself as the anti-war candidate," the message they convey is he's anti-war.
Every eight years:
I was wondering why my autocomplete always suggests JDAM when I start writing JSON
I don’t expect much from them, but it’s pretty messed up for Republicans to spend all last week saying Dems who don’t show up are “reprehensible” and “disrespectful” only to say the Dems who did show up are “crazy.”
Objectively, the courts preventing trump from continuing his disastrous tariff policy would be a windfall for him. The media’s praise is misplaced, this is a tactical decision from a politicized court
Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.
It’s just gibberish policy and always has been. How can a company planning for the future make rational decisions on logistics and infrastructure when they don’t know if the tariff will increase by 150% in a day, or reduced to a fraction tomorrow, or found to be illegal next week
Weird how the “oh actually in context it’s almost but not quite as bad as it sounds so we won’t bother reporting on it” argument has never in my lifetime ever applied to democrats, only republicans
A tariff isn't a fee the other country pays, it's a tax on those receiving the goods on our end; this is his core economic policy, his one economic "innovation" and he still has zero understanding of it
Just a reminder that the Biden admin turned around more folks at the border than trump did in his first term
It costs are 150 then retail is more like 300-450, at least twice as high as they could have been bought previously with free trade
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.
His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.
Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.
Real task assigned to our backend devs: "update Symbol: CLOWN to have an alias of clownworld"
Currently under 50k so it must be doing bad now right? It's imperfect now correct? 🤷🏻♂️
Fell for it again award world champion
Which model chose the name Corvina bc I’d dump that one
Instructions clear: ghost-rode the whip to the car wash
"Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights." oh so nothing changed
Despite claims from the NYT, politicians can't in fact "repeal" scientific findings
MGS4 is only playable on a PS3 and is real difficult to emulate, so this is like a holy grail for Metal Gear fans
After all this time they still don't have a design, they're still in the "Nano Banana give me some ideas" stage. This is going to be a monumental boondoggle
omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for
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