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Category Archives: Political Commentary
The Largest Wealth Flight In History
Congratulations, California.
Poor Hitler
He’s discovered his new followers:
Hitler reacts to the new generation of Nazis pic.twitter.com/ihZR66rEHf
— TRIGGERnometry (@triggerpod) January 19, 2026
A Mass Hostage Situation In Iran?
And by “mass,” I mean by the millions.
If the administration still intends to do something, I wonder what they have planned?
[Update a couple minutes later[
What can’t the Democrats speak frankly about Iran?
Starfleet Academy
We’ve been sort-of enjoying “Strange New Worlds, the prequel to TOS, but this looks awful. They don’t have GLP-1s in the 21st century?
[Update a while later]
Stephen Green almost watched a whole episode, so you wouldn’t have to.
[Late-morning update]
I watched 24 minutes of "Starfleet Academy" before I turned it off.
— Byl Holte (@SirBylHolte) January 15, 2026
I stopped it when the fat Klingon Jem'Hadar lady started verbally abusing the black male kid and the Klingon male kid.
Before that, there was a lot of talk about how people are hungry and have to steal food -…
[Early-afternoon update]
Wait a minute… pic.twitter.com/57NtaFPIUu
— Jon Del Arroz | Pop Culture & Gaming 🎮 (@jondelarroz) January 16, 2026
A Lawsplainer On Minneapolis
It’s not even a close call.
The Crew On Artemis II
Bob Zimmerman says to take them off the flight.
NASA would never allow SpaceX to do something like this.
But it’s a tremendous waste of money either way.
[Friday-afternoon update]
Eric Berger reports on a meeting at NASA to discuss the issue. Jared owns it now.
[Bumped]
[Midnight update]
Charlie Camarda responds.
Stop Using Mercator Projection
Why Greenland is important.
Greenland – As viewed from a proper map
— Object Zero (@Object_Zero_) January 6, 2026
Why Greenland? Well because Moscow bases almost all of their strategic military assets on the Kola Peninsula next to Finland. This is where the Russian ICBM silos, submarine bases, and their strategic bombers are.
If you look at the… pic.twitter.com/z6qECCJ3u5
I’m pretty sure that Copenhagen is not capable of defending it.
[Update a while later]
I can't believe this needs to be explained but:
— Robert Anderson (@ProfRobAnderson) January 6, 2026
1. The US is not going to attack Denmark.
2. The bluster from Trump is to give encouragement to Greenlanders for a vote of independence, and a warning to Denmark not to ignore the results of such a vote.
3. Once the vote for…
[Thursday-morning update]
The unfortunate Greenland kerfuffle.
[Bumped]
Minnesota
A political culture full of arsonists.
It should be a cautionary tale. I hope it will be.
High- Versus Low-Trust Societies
Why who we allow to immigrate into the country matters:
When I first came to the U.S. to finish school, a professor told us to take an exam at home and simply said, “Don’t use Google or open your books.”
— Dan Burmawi (@DanBurmawy) January 6, 2026
As someone who grew up in the Middle East, I couldn’t believe it. What kind of society trusts people like that?
But over time, I…