It’s become the fashion, to put it mildly, among the thoughtful folk, to take out our frustrations with Donald II on poor old Joe Biden, and who can blame them? Joe did a terrible job on many big issues, most notably immigration and inflation, which alone were probably enough to sink the Democrats’ chances in…
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The Agony of the Anti Anti-Trumpers: This Man’s a Maniac! Warning! This outbreak of sanity could last a full 24 hours! Maybe more!
Yes, we do live in “interesting” times, times in which various “thinkers” around the net, after telling us for more than eight years now that Trump is, well, “normal” are discovering that El Jefe Grande is, well, a drooling idiot! I could laugh, and I will, as I recount their grotesque struggles with, you know,…
Donald Trump not a very nice person, Glenn Greenwald, Yuval Levin, Liz Wolfe, and Eli Honig discover Who knew?
It is “amusing”, insofar as watching the death of what future historians will call “The First American Republic” can be “amusing”, to watch yet another crop of innocents, who somehow maintained their innocence through the events of January 6, 2021 and thereafter, to discover that, you know, Donald Trump is a very, very bad man!…
Shorter John Roberts/Amy Coney Barrett: We’re not 24/7 whores! We’re Monday, Wednesday, Friday whores!
It’s true! The U.S. Supreme Court is definitely not Donald Trump’s personal gumball machine! In a small but genuine triumph for judicial modesty and common sense, only four of the six Republican justices on the Supreme Court rolled over for His Donaldness, because the other two—namely Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney…
The story of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison & Cowardice: What good is a Constitution if nobody uses it? Billable hours yes, freedom of speech no
Michael S. Schmidt, Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg, and Ben Protess have the story, How a Major Democratic Law Firm Ended Up Bowing to Trump, though why the New York Times needed four of its top journalists to “explain” why it took the 200-partner, $2 billion law firm known as “Paul Weiss” no more than two…
Yo, Democrats! Forget about the working class! Worry about the upper class!
Okay, that’s a bit compressed, but here’s the deal: Democrats are in just a bit of a tizzy following the 2024 presidential election results, worried in particular about the fall-off of support for Kamala versus Joe in 2020 among Hispanic men, black men, and the “working class” in general. Should we go left, as Bernie…
Yo, Bret Stephens! We know you’re a pr*ck! You don’t have to prove it every day!
No, you don’t, Bret. In the course of a “on the one hand, on the other” take on Trump’s foreign policies, praising “toughness” but bemoaning the lack of interest in, you know, “freedom”, Bret is heartened by Trump’s “get tough” approach to Iran: “Iran suddenly seems interested in discussing its nuclear program after treating the…
The Return of Trump: America’s Shame It’s High Noon for America’s soul, and things are looking dark.
When I was all of seven years’ old, I was treated to the following homily via the famous Carl Foreman-scripted western High Noon: In the fifth century BC the citizens of Athens, having suffered grievously under a tyrant, managed to depose and banish him. However, when he returned some years later with an army of…
Billionaire AI King Sam Altman believes in freedom. For Billionaires! Also true: Mark Zuckerberg is pathetic!
Over at Bloomberg, Josh Tyrangiel has an excellent interview with OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, which I found well worth reading, though surely not “definitive,” regarding all the melodrama surrounding Sam’s role in founding OpenAI, not to mention his dramatic dismissal, his dramatic rehiring, and then predictable departure for greener, for-profit pastures. For all I know,…
Everyone must obey the law, says US Chief Justice John Roberts. Except Donald Trump, of course.
Yes, US Chief Justice John Roberts, who makes US Chief Justice Roger “Dred Scott Decision” Taney look like John Marshall (pretty much) has addressed a “warning” to Donald Trump (well, pretty much) not to defy the federal courts in his 2024 Year End Report on the Federal Judiciary, to wit: Every Administration suffers defeats in…