JamesMFlanagan

We thought we were already in the fast phase of societal collapse. We weren't. Maybe Chicago is the 'all at once' experience tha...

Rod Dreher has degenerated into a racist piece of garbage, another generation of Klansman in his family ... 

I wonder what they are thinking. What kind of a dungeon of denial you have to put yourself in to go on when the world is watching, and falli...

Conservatives and Liberals agree, this can't go on. 

Conservatives are publishing whole books on 'woke' which is not a thing and doesn't exist. Edicts and executive orders are emerg...

I feel like I've been slimed, Ghostbusters style, and I can't get the shit off me. 

Or Assholia. The United States of Assholia. That's us, a country run by psychopaths and dicks.

So we've got a sadistic circus we're being forced to watch that actually kills people and it's saying it can shoot us out of a c...

I grew up in a household that valued creating something out of nothing. Through cooperation, for example. My father taught management and it...

Identity movement people, let's say Republicans, criticize others, let's say Democrats, for their allegiances, immutable accidents o...

The fatalism and self-pity of the country music crowd will apply to the losses they're about to suffer at the hands of Republicans. They...

I didn't choose to be a bacterium, I tried to live a good life. And individual bacteria are innocent. But my colony has gone nuts. The m...

Trump's tariffs are taking a bite out of consumers, as we knew they would. Further pain and suffering await. Trump is going to destroy e...

Jordan Peterson's formula for saving young men doesn't seem to be working. I think because it's within the Calvinist model of li...

Evangelicals, through the divine agency of Donald Trump, just took food out of the mouths of kids and gave the savings to rich people so the...

With SNAP cuts going into effect evangelicals are celebrating. Those undeserving little shits won't be wasting our money anymore as is t...

John Paulson succumbed to Epstein's temptations, it seems. Maybe he sought it out. Either way, if it happened, and I suspect it did, it...

David Brooks is a bigot. Racists are supremacists. Brooks is a Brooks supremacist. A race of one and a Brooks bigot. He thinks he's bett...

Trump needed American carnage so he found it. He invented it. Nothing was wrong only the usual problems any society has and tries to deal wi...

Interviewer: Many people, including legal scholars, have accused you of overseeing the obliteration of the rule of law in America in favor o...

Of course they would lie and use the shooting to reinforce Republican talking points. Other countries have far lower rates of shootings thou...

I wonder if Plato foresaw the possibility of a government, one highly effective at destroying itself, stumbling into an inverted version of ...

AI is the last big thing, the technology that heralds the end of humanity and civilization. I'm not sure it was even good while it laste...

Stephen Miller, a member of the Trump crime family, has mixed up Kilmar Abrego Garcia with the title character, Alfredo Garcia, in a Sam Pec...

Trump might die, and sooner rather than later according to some people who say his swollen ankles and other signs point to a man in serious ...

When you associate with Jesus every day and are expecting the end times it's hard to focus on mundane things like the millions of people...

But, be reassured. Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize and, we have recently learned, to get into heaven. How bad can it be? 

Wow, the Trump admin just got its clock cleaned in Alaska. Trump can't admit he got owned and made a fool. And there are those around hi...

Out of what? Out of where? I don't know, but's I think it's time to get out.  

Posse Comitatus is a right of non-interference, initially a concession to southern states to impede the use of federal force against them wa...

Tell me how we're going to know the Epstein Files, if we ever see them, haven't been doctored to protect the guilty. Trump is never ...

We should have known that when America went fascist even its villains would be pathetic and losers among that class of losers. They would be...

People picture themselves in a battle as though it's a competition and it's scripted and you're doing something that at least ma...

I had an ongoing thing with an undergraduate philosophy professor about pragmatism. Dewian pragmatism. I couldn't tell if he believed in...

Conservatism occasionally blooms and the horrific stench attracts the carrion flies that are its pollinators. Flies like Stephen Miller, Rus...

We're in the last battle. Will the Yankees or the Confederacy rule?  Always, in the past, the South has had its redoubt. They lived in t...

In today's news Arkansas inbreds Tom Cotton and Mike Huckabee made their mark, Cotton by ordering up an investigation of Jack Smith and ...

They think they're eating God's ass, a strange concept. 

We see evangelicals using and ripping off God. Does it matter? They think not because they're on God's side. On the ground the act i...

I'm grasping but wondered if we stamped or tattooed 'Do Not Eat' in big letters on Trump's ass if his cabinet and functionar...

Fundamentalists are going mental. Trump has them tied in knots. They're literalists and Trump isn't literally literate so it's g...

Donald Trump seems to not know a lot about Jeffrey Epstein. And not know a lot about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein. I want to know when ...

The headline says it all.

Because I don't think anything is intelligible out of context. 

I've become aware there are clandestine awards in the White House for excellence in lying. I think they're weekly but they might be ...

Republicans, it turns out, have a different idea of having a seat at the table. For them it doesn't mean belonging or having a voice and...

Because you can blow shit up with them.

with some Republicans still screaming 'not evil enough!' 

Scott Bessent, in an offhand moment and aside, owncd the Class War, pointing out that Democrats didn't stick it to the rich when they co...

So I'm thinking about a new version of the Faust story, à la 'Bedazzled' but without a denouement, titled 'Bedraggled.' ...