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  1. Because the best defense against a unified attempt to rig the election is to have republicans busy competing against each other and maybe even a non-MAGA favored candidate emerging as the winner. An anointed JD Vance will have the entire apparatus working to install him.
  2. Because our best hope of non-fuckery in that election is a contested GOP primary.
  3. Part two, where there is speculation on another DJT run (Wiles says no).
  4. Buried in that article is Rubio conceding that he will stand aside for Vance and its very troubling that a succession plan is in place.
  5. Hey so….Harmeet this is a nice post and all but really we only needed this from cabinet level people and not AAGs. I don’t think Susie really knows you. Good effort though, noted in your file. No, it would be good if the machine shuts down because the competent are ejected.
  6. Sir, are you talking about Susie Wiles or did you feed ChatGPT a prompt about NY Giant great Lawrence Taylor?
  7. My annual performance evaluation:
  8. Could also be that the Internet misidentified someone and the U is protecting them. That other guy’s life is ruined for a while because of the freak show in the Hoover Building.
  9. This guy is part of the Pentagon’s credentialed “new media.”
  10. It’s a pretty fair indictment of current (lack of) immigration policy that no legislative fixes are required to achieve drastically different real-world outcomes; it erodes faith in democratic input and is the result of years of ducking a debate. This isn’t unique to the U.S., most of the developed world has done this for the last thirty years. The result has been historically notable, rabid shifts in the demographics and character of nations. The policy consensus was that unbridled economic growth, technocratic management of integration, and a fundamental change in mentality would facilitate this. It appears to have been a mistaken consensus and almost all of the managers of the process would tell you behind closed doors they wish they had a do-over to make decisions more deliberately, slower, and with more debate. All people, everywhere, throughout history demonstrate frustration and disorientation when their homes and communities change rapidly and in a way seemingly disconnected from preferences and input, and that’s true whether we are talking about new construction or new arrivals.
  11. RFK for sure used AI to complete his assignment.
  12. Wiles talking about cabinet members to Whipple.
  13. Something else going on. They aren’t this unsavvy.
  14. Vanity Fair went nuclear with these portraits, are those filler injection sites for Leavitt? How was this authorized LOL.
  15. I am not a fan of JD Vance in the slightest but this isn’t true. Umurzakov was from Uzbekistan. It’s really awful for that country and such a horrible indictment on ours when kids who want to study here are gunned down.
  16. I honestly don’t think any of DJT’s prose ever implies anything, it is literally all surface text and if he means to say something he will do so, explicitly and clumsily.
  17. This is a good post and I think I need to refine my take a bit. While the official, state-sponsored version of Islam in many Arab, Gulf, and South Asian states provides a scaffolding of intolerance and hatred for other faiths and minorities, it stops short at providing the motives and encouragement to actually become a militant or terrorist. Pakistan is a bit of a special example in that it is more willing to play with the hot stove of terrorism that most Gulf states have abandoned and views militant networks in Afghanistan and India as strategic assets even as it fights its own Pakistani Taliban. It is worth noting that the harshest forms of official Pakistani prejudice are aimed at unsatisfactory Muslims: the “apostate” Ahmadi and to a lesser extent the suspiciously tolerant Ismaili. But in all cases, state-sanctioned Islam, even of the extreme conservative bent, pulls up short of encouraging the type of nihilistic militancy of ISIS or AQ, for good reason: these groups have extreme hostility to the governments that don’t walk the walk and are pragmatic when dealing with the kaffir great powers. And proponents of ISIS-style militant Islam are not long for the world in places where an official Islam exists. Which leads to an odd situation where the most fertile recruiting and proselytizing zones for nihilistic militant Islam are in places where state power has completely collapsed OR inside of open, tolerant, secular Western democracies. They are uniquely unsuited for combatting it, and the paradox of tolerance absolutely comes into play. People would be jailed in Saudi or the UAE for delivering the types of Friday sermons heard weekly in Molenbeek. The most effective ISIS recruiter was an Australian convert who the Aussies struggled to jail until he finally followed through on his calls for jihad and tried to stage an uprising in the Philippines. And, Western authorities lack the nuance and community ties to differentiate between bog-standard conservative Islam (which presents its own issues to a pluralistic society) and the far more acutely dangerous explodey militant version. The great majority of Muslims, even devout or conservative Muslims in the West will do what most people of all faiths do, which is find ways to accommodate deeply held religious sensibilities with their new surroundings and norms. A much smaller number will be unable to do so, and will in fact be further inflamed because in this ideological worldview it is a humiliation for Muslims to be forced to seek material prosperity among non-believers. It is very difficult for Western nations to tackle this issue, not in the least because unhelpful rhetoric about civilizational clashes with all Muslims in the West and calls for absurd crackdowns clashes with equally unhelpful allegations of Islamophobia and racism when a more targeted and sensible approach is being sorted out.
  18. One of my blistering hot takes is that it is good when scumbags feel compelled to maintain a modicum of decorum and tact because to do so is in their narrow self-interest. It helps maintain discourse within non-sociopathic bounds and cumulatively, places actual behavioral boundaries on them. “Authenticity” is a morally neutral character trait depending on what one’s authentic self is.
  19. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-15/bondi-beach-attack-gunmen-father-and-son/106142630 Pretty wild that Aussie gun laws licensed a dude who’s son just happened to be besties with a bunch of ISIS guys.
  20. Witnesses to what? As indiscreet as they may have been, I’m doubting they invited other staff members to watch them knocking boots. At most you have people who “misinterpreted a close working relationship, and we see how that might give the wrong impression, we will certainly be mindful going forward. It’s unavoidable that we’ve developed a friendship but we understand the need to avoid even appearances of impropriety.” It is very hard to prove two people who don’t want to admit it are actually in the sheets with each other short of skullduggery that is off limits to 99.9 percent of employers.
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