Latest posts
-
The Economy Is Just Three AI Trench Coats in a Trench Coat: Why Your 401(k) Is Actually a Casino Bet on Chatbots
If you have glanced at a financial headline in 2025, you might be under the impression that the American economy is roaring like a lion. The S&P 500 is up more than 12 percent!1 The Nasdaq is printing money! Larry Kudlow is on Fox Business inventing words like “growthier” and “money-er” to describe the sheer,
-
The Nuremberg Refresher Course: Why the “Seditious Six” Are the Only Ones Trying to Save the Troops from the Hague
The timeline of American decline has a specific, rhythmic quality to it now, like a drumbeat played by a toddler who found a loaded gun. On November 24, 2025, that rhythm accelerated into a frantic, terrified tempo when the Pentagon announced an “extraordinary misconduct probe” into Senator Mark Kelly. The crime of this retired Navy
-
The Art of the Un-Deal: How Trump’s “Secret” Plan to Save Obamacare Imploded Before the Teleprompter Was Loaded
The most defining characteristic of the second Trump administration is not its malevolence, nor its incompetence, but its profound and unending awkwardness. We are constantly forced to watch the political equivalent of a man trying to high-five someone who is actively tying their shoe. This dynamic reached a crescendo of cringe this week when the
-
INVALID Paperwork of Tyranny: When the Revenge Tour Trips Over the Help Wanted Sign
The central tragedy of the modern authoritarian is that eventually, someone has to fill out a form. You can stand on a podium and scream about retribution until your voice gives out. You can promise to rain fire and fury on your enemies. You can draft lists of traitors and fantasize about televised tribunals. But
-
Red Scare 8.0: How Idiots Still Don’t Understand The Difference Between Socialism and Communism
Why You Should Probably Google Words Before You Scream Them at Thanksgiving Dinner Welcome, patriots, comrades, and confused centrists. Grab a beverage—preferably one produced by a worker-owned cooperative or a ruthless multinational conglomerate, depending on your vibe—because we are about to embark on a journey. A journey into the heart of darkness. By “darkness,” I
-
The Star-Spangled Bot Farm: How Elon Accidentally Doxxed the “America First” Foreign Legion
There is a specific kind of schadenfreude that tastes like champagne mixed with battery acid, and on November 20, 2025, the internet drank deep from the cup. For years, we have been told that the “silent majority” is rising, that the roar of the MAGA movement is the organic, thundering voice of the forgotten American
-
How Trump’s “Peace Plan” Turned Ukraine into a Real Estate Distressed Asset
The modern history of diplomacy is usually written in treaties, summits, and carefully worded communiqués hammered out by people who know the difference between a demilitarized zone and a zoning variance. But the history of the second Trump administration is being written in term sheets. On November 21, 2025, the world learned exactly what happens
-
Trump’s ICE Body Bag: Where the Amenities Are Tylenol and a Body Bag
The wind in the high desert of Victorville, California, blows with a specific, sand-blasting indifference. It strips the paint off cars and the hope off human beings with equal efficiency. In this desolate landscape sits the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, a facility that sounds like a place where one might go to renew a driver’s
-
The Bartender Who Bought the Bar: Why AOC’s Senate Run Is the Chaos We Deserve
It has been seven years since a twenty-eight-year-old bartender from the Bronx looked at the decaying edifice of the Queens Democratic machine, ordered a seltzer, and then proceeded to bulldoze the entire building. We all remember the shock of 2018. We remember the “AOC phenomenon,” a phrase used by consultants to describe something they hoped
-
The Ring Is in the Dishwasher, but the Marriage Is in the Sewer: Why Usha Vance Might Finally Be Tired of the MAGA Casting Call
There is a specific genre of political theater that plays out in the unspoken spaces of a marriage, a silent drama usually reserved for the frantic final act of a melodramatic screenplay. But recently, that drama has spilled out onto the campaign trail and into the glossy pages of People magazine, centering on the ring