I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band:
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) November 11, 2025
My 11 year old son son joined the… https://t.co/1ixiAQJwos pic.twitter.com/0tvRrtVUVI
Category Archives: Political Commentary
A Fifty-Year Mortgage?
In this scenario, which is basically almost an interest-only loan, you don’t really own your home; you’re just renting it from the bank.
The Armed Awakening
…of America’s radical left.
The Cold Civil War is defrosting, and I don’t think the left will ultimately be happy with the results.
Orion
I’m not sure — he’s sometimes subtle — but one gets the impression that he doesn’t like it.
Elon Strikes Back
It will be quite amusing if Duffy has goaded him into beating SLS/Orion to the Moon.
I’m glad that he’s realized it was politically stupid to say that the Moon “is a distraction.”
[Update a while later]
HLS interior. A true spaceship. But here's my mindblowing take. This is by far the worst Starship interior we will ever see. I think this is a very bare bones cladding that will be blown out of the water by their LETS lander, and standard crew variant.
— Ken Kirtland IV (@KenKirtland17) October 30, 2025
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Bill Gates
Why he (finally) turned on the climate alarmists and said it isn’t an apocalypse.
I don’t know why anyone ever took him seriously on the subject in the first place. Just because you’re rich doesn’t mean you’re smart.
It Begins
Duffy wants to recompete HLS.
[Wednesday-morning update]
One of the reasons that we have made so little progress in space for the past half century is that Congress decided that NASA had to have its own space transportation, regardless of how terrible it is at it.
— Rand Simberg (@Simberg_Space) October 21, 2025
Delete unnecessary parts and processes ==> If Starship can land 100 T of stuff on the Moon, or fly >10 T to and from the Moon from LEO without refueling, all other parts of the NASA so-called "architecture" are unnecessary, regardless of how many tens of billions of dollars have… https://t.co/Gna5xuX9GO
— Casey Handmer (@CJHandmer) October 21, 2025
There have been many dud NASA administrators, some of which looked good on paper (e.g., Dick Truly). Webb was a lawyer, but even he had experience in the aviation industry. What are Duffy's qualifications? You need to at least know which end the fire comes out of.
— Rand Simberg (@Simberg_Space) October 22, 2025
[Early-afternoon update]
Bob Zimmerman is not impressed.
John Brennan
As Roger says, I’ve always been aghast that this horrible man was in the intelligence community at all, let alone head of the CIA. Let’s hope justice is finally served.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related thoughts from Stephen Kruiser.
The Great Feminization
This is extremely explanatory, and extremely terrifying. I love women as individuals, but we should be societally terrified of them as groups. It’s why many people, including many women, think that it was a mistake to give them the vote. It makes me think that if we were to return to literacy tests to vote, maybe we should have some emotional ones as well. It would exclude many men, but probably many more women.
Cutting The Gordian Knot
Lockmart is starting to look to reusability and other launch vehicles than SLS for Orion.
NASA may want to have it for its precious astronauts, but at some point it will be embarrassing when Starship is putting up dozens of people at a fraction of the cost.