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Re: This Is The Centrist Position Now

m0nty — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:36:04 -0000

Quite right, he needs to concentrate on his soccer.

Re: Frigid Britannia

m0nty — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:12:46 -0000

I mean, Australia has its own problems like very high housing prices, One Nation and the resource curse without having planned for it like Norway… but at least it’s not Britain.

Re: Frigid Britannia

m0nty — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:02:24 -0000

No wonder the Pommy bastards are all emigrating to Australia.

Re: Maine Primary Open Thread

m0nty — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:40:22 -0000

You know that LGM-adjacent meme where some scraggly Ethan Hawke type is in bed with a beatific visage, talking about how his vote is imbued with magical spirits?

We need an inverse one featuring a still from Bart Gets Hit By A Car, the scene where Lionel Hutz coaches Bart to testify to “constant pain”. Which is apparently how voting is supposed to be.

Re: Maine Primary Open Thread

m0nty — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:33:29 -0000

Is there a law in Judaism about voting for shellfish?

Re: Maine Primary Open Thread

m0nty — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:32:32 -0000

Other people are hell.

Re: Maine Primary Open Thread

m0nty — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:30:52 -0000

Don’t get me wrong, I am about to block the word Platner on Bluesky because I am as sick of it as you. The discourse is interminable.

The issue being debated is a real one, nonetheless. The fact that it’s the sort of opaque enigma that everyone can have their own uniquely wrong take on is part of the problem.

But hey, it’s history in the making, and on a history blog you debate history as it is being made.

Re: Maine Primary Open Thread

m0nty — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:26:28 -0000

You don’t want to hear that Platner could be the new Fetterman?

You don’t want to hear that all this effort to unseat Collins could be for nought, with a fresh young Sinema to fill the seat on behalf of Republicans for another generation?

There is no Johnny Unturnable waiting in the wings here, granted, but grousing about Platner is justified. It’s hella boring, but it’s not wrong.

Re: The great circle jerk of looting

m0nty — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:17:36 -0000

Start a file on Mr Epshteyn.

Re: There Is a War and the Right Side is Winning

m0nty — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:29:12 -0000

It’s the acesulfame potassium that gives CZ the edge. Same thing as in Pepsi Max.

I find it interesting that CZ has less caffeine than DC.

Re: Why do Republicans have unlimited tolerance for Trump’s unprecedented corruption?

m0nty — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:59:36 -0000

I feel there is not enough discussion of affinity in this list. There are at least two more categories IMO:

- victims of affinity fraud, who thought Trump had their backs but are finding out there is no herrenvolk carveout for them in this democracy, nor much democracy (lots of Latinos in this sector)

- people who are not being defrauded because they are not stupid, but still vote Trump because they feel affinity with him; these are people who enjoy white patriarchy and care little about anything else, as its preservation and promotion benefits them more than anything else a politician could do

Re: Mission Accomplished

m0nty — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:15:07 -0000

Not sure if anyone has made this connection yet, but calling it Project Fredo is a bit on the nose. We all know what happened when Fredo went out on a boat.

Re: Kamala Harris and 2028

m0nty — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:12:53 -0000

Yes, that post COVID election was brutal for incumbents, which was unfair on some levels.

How many losing incumbent candidates have run again and won back government since then?

Re: The ADHD style in Trumpist politics

m0nty — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:35:40 -0000

No.

ADHD is not an accurate metaphor, or pop psych diagnosis, or analogy. Narcissistic Personality Disorder is far more accurate, and apposite.

Trumpism uses the language of abuse, echoing Cluster B personality disorders. Trumpism is not erratic in the same way as ADHD, it can all be explained.

Read your Phillip K. Dick. The clans of the Alphane moon are not the same.

Re: An Oily Reckoning

m0nty — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:18:58 -0000

Economics is about incentives.

We look at the markets’ facial irrationality and say they are stupid, or insane, or both. No. They are neither, within their incentive structure.

Market price setters are perfectly happy with how society is operating, even during war and famine, specifically to enrich them. They love Trump as the apotheosis of their Gekkoist creed, widening inequality to their benefit.

Their refusal to cause a stock market crash, or even a meaningful, lasting correction to track grim reality, is an expression of their endorsement of Piketty; their revelling in it.

Waiting for the markets to come to their senses is folly.

Re: Shots fired at White House correspondents dinner?

m0nty — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:08:35 -0000

Oh man, this so would have been a great event to invite Cordelia Cupp (in character). With Kylie Minogue as guest singer.

Re: Shots fired at White House correspondents dinner?

m0nty — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:06:02 -0000

If you throw enough of them on the fire, you might starve it of oxygen.

Re: LGM Podcast: Quagmire(s) in the Middle East

m0nty — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:26:27 -0000

LGM is a part of what the Dubbya administration called the reality-based community.

Just because Trump denies reality, doesn’t mean everyone else has to.

Re: Trump ends ninth war, starts tenth

m0nty — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:25:35 -0000

A name for the document produced by successful negotiations.

Re: Trump ends ninth war, starts tenth

m0nty — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:30:05 -0000

I am not rooting for Iran. I am barracking for reality.

Trump’s main opponent is the logic of international diplomacy. He keeps on trying to defy it with this half-arsed bilateralism that just doesn’t work in circumstances like this.

When there are three independent combatants in a war, you can’t create peace with only two warring parties at the table.

Worse, Trump can’t even do multilateral talks with Iran while having Pakistan in the same room as a facilitator. No, his guys have to negotiate separately with Pakistan and then Pakistan negotiates with Iran in a different room. It’s insane. You can’t produce heads of agreement under such conditions.

Re: Trump ends ninth war, starts tenth

m0nty — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:22:42 -0000

Refreshing to see Newtonian physics still operates in these blighted times.

It made no sense that Trump declared Iran was opening the Strait but he was still blockading it. Inevitably, the waveform collapsed and it turns out you can’t have both of those things operating at once.

After his prideful boasts of solving everything, one wonders where his demented mind goes next. He doesn’t have any good options left. The invasion force is still weeks of sailing away. It’s going to be a long week.

Re: Iran announces opening of Strait of Hormuz

m0nty — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:46:16 -0000

South Park sports announcer gif:

Aaaand it’s closed again.

Re: Eastman and Down (for the count)

m0nty — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:20:26 -0000

Well, maybe. Or perhaps he now has the stink of a loser.

Re: Trump thinks RBG died in January 2025

m0nty — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:41:58 -0000

Campos is bringing sexy (pejorative) back.

Re: America Low Priority

m0nty — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:20:48 -0000

JD Vance:
- visits Pope
- Pope dies
- campaigns for Orban in Hungary
- Orban loses (TBC)
- conducts peace negotiations with Iran
- walks away without anything
- what does he mean by this