Any questions?
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Say NO To Trump's Big Ugly Bill!
Any questions?
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Conscription: The Machiavellian Solution In Search Of A Problem (And Why It Will NOT Help The Youth Rights Movement)
Monday, June 16, 2025
No War With Iran!
The legendary Senator Bernie Sanders once again hits the nail right on the head:
The TSAP does not take a position on whether or not Iran "deserved" the attack. And granted, Israel as a sovereign nation has a right to defend itself from existential threats in general. That said, launching a preemptive strike on Iran while the U.S.-Iran negotiations were still in progress was NOT a wise move, and is at best a very risky strategy. And it is really, really reaching at best to claim "self-defense" for a preemptive strike in the absence of truly imminent danger. The case for that is about as strong as the case for claiming "self-defense" in a bar fight turned deadly that one had clearly provoked. Which is to say, not very strong.
And it has escalated from there since, of course.
And make no mistake, we unequivocally believe that regardless, this is NOT America's war, and we should NOT be dragged into it. Period. Inflaming it any further can VERY easily turn it into WWIII. America absolutely needs to engage diplomatically with both countries to help reach a peace deal quickly before this escalates any further still.
CEASEFIRE NOW.
You KNOW things are bad when The Notorious MTG suddenly starts to sound like the voice of reason!
(Mic drop)
UPDATE: On June 21, 2025, Trump went ahead and ordered the airstrikes of three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, with bunker-buster bombs. Clearly, he is being reckless. We better HOPE that Iran turns out to be a "paper tiger", and that no further escalations will occur. Seriously.
CEASEFIRE NOW. On ALL sides. YESTERDAY.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Trump Could End This All Yesterday, If He Wanted To
Sunday, June 8, 2025
This Is NOT Normal!
Thursday, June 5, 2025
The Bromance Is Over
Well, well, well....it looks like the Musk-Trump Bromance is now over, and MAGA is becoming a circular firing squad as we speak. Get your popcorn 🍿 🍿 🍿 🍿 🍿 😁 😁 😁 😁 😁
(Mic drop)
Sunday, May 25, 2025
The "Big, Beautiful Bill" (NOT) Is MUCH Worse Than We Thought
Read this and weep. Then call and email your senators, yesterday! And the senators of other states as well. It's still not too late to stop this from becoming the new law of the land, but that window is closing very, very fast!
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Eliminate Income Taxes Without Debt Or Inflation? Easy-Peasy.
Friday, April 25, 2025
Don't Say We Didn't Warn You!
Sunday, April 20, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
The Trump Crash And Recession (Or Depression Perhaps) Has Begun
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Chesterton's Fence Revisited
One very important philosophical principle is that of Chesterton's Fence, by author G.K. Chesterton.
Per Wikipedia:
"Chesterton's fence" is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood. The quotation is from Chesterton's 1929 book, The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic, in the chapter, "The Drift from Domesticity":
In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
In other words, before you remove or destroy a fence (or policy), make sure you know why it was put up in the first place. That's just common sense.
(Hey DOGE, are you listening? Seriously!)
Of course, the apocryphal "Five Monkeys Experiment" is a good foil to counterbalance that principle. That is, sometimes various policies really have outlived their usefulness, were rotten from the start, and/or do far more harm than good. And wisdom is to know the difference between the two cases.
(The latter pitfall is sometimes called "status quo bias".)
Today's "conservatives", especially Trump, Musk, and MAGA Republicans, are really not conservatives at all, since they really aren't conserving anything. Rather, they are reactionaries and regressives who want to "turn back the clock" to a bygone golden age that never really existed, and are essentially the mirror image of radicals, as they seek to make truly drastic changes. The rash, arbitrary, and wholesale gutting of long-standing government agencies and programs by DOGE under Musk and Trump is but one of many glaring examples of such regressive radicalism, and is thus a willingness to tear down every fence in Chesterton just to manufacture chaos. Or "move fast and break things", as Zuckerberg would call it. And it needs to stop. NOW.
Seriously, Elon, lay off the ketamine and SLOW DOWN! Better yet, STEP DOWN, as NO ONE ever elected you.
Where are the real conservatives when you need them? Because we know THEY would respect Chesterton's Fence.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Why Trade Wars Are A Dumb Idea
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Stranger Than Fiction
It is truly stranger than fiction what has happened to our country. Mass deportations, mass firings, chaos manufacturing, tariffs and trade wars, alienating our allies, selling Ukraine down the river to Putin, and so on. And so many Americans are still apparently cool with it, cheering it on, or are callously indifferent to it.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with you? Even President Ronald Reagan is likely spinning in his grave right now.
Monday, February 17, 2025
Memes for President's Day!
Today is President's Day, and today we would like to "honor" (to use the term VERY loosely), our two new Co-Presidents: Elon Musk and Vladimir Putin, along with their orange lapdog puppet that they thoroughly own now:
Saturday, February 15, 2025
1971: The Year That Changed Everything (But Probably Not For The Reason You Think)
Saturday, February 1, 2025
The Real Reason Why The Broligarchs Want Higher Birthrates So Much (And Desperately Fear Low Birthrates Like The Plague)
Oh, and by the way, there is that elephant in the room--make that the "elephant in the Volkswagen"--OVERPOPULATION. Left unchecked, it will destroy the very planet that gives us life. While technology (and Monetary Sovereignty) can largely solve the foreseeable economic challenges of aging and declining populations, the same cannot really be said of the intractable ecological problems of overpopulation. And the only ethical way to do this is to voluntarily have fewer children, i.e. well below the "replacement rate" of 2.1 or so. And the TFR is now below that in the USA, around 1.6 to 1.7. The recent drop in birthrates is thus actually GOOD news on balance.
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
It's Official. America's New Dark Age Has Now Begun In Earnest.
Well, it's finally official. America's new dark age has begun. President Muskrat and his orange puppet and their cronies have taken over, and they basically hold all of the cards now that all three branches of the federal government are doing their bidding. The ONE thing they lack is a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, having less than 60 seats, but that is not much consolation. Especially given how utterly obsequious practically everyone even remotely in Trump's orbit has been lately. I mean, in the previous several months, Congress couldn't even manage to get the No Kings Act passed, which would have limited Trump's power.
Trump wasted no time with his executive pen on Days 1 and 2 of his second term. From pardoning January 6th insurrectionists to cracking down at the border (and attempting mass deportations) to unconstitutionally attempting to end birthright citizenship (!) to pulling out of the Paris climate accords and pulling out of the WHO to rescinding many of Biden's executive orders, to so many other things. Some of the things he is doing are already facing pushback and/or legal challenges which can tie things up for a while, while other things can have near-immediate impacts, mostly negative and often very negative indeed. And other things are just plain silly, like him renaming the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America", for example.
And they're just getting warmed up!
Oh, and by the way, did you see Muskrat giving...wait for it...what looked suspiciously like a Nazi salute (sorry, "Roman" salute), not once, but twice in a row to the innauseation crowd? If it quacks like a duck....
(Remember, the road to fascism is invariably paved with, "Calm down, you're overreacting!", followed by, "Meh, I wasn't really using my civil rights anyway".)
January 20, 2025 will very likely go down in history as "the day that democracy died". But to be brutally honest, it has been on life support for quite a while now, and now the plug has finally been pulled. America has long been an oligarchy, and is now a full-blown plutocracy and kleptocracy without any semblance of shame or any attempt to disguise it any longer. And with increasingly neo-fascist leanings too.
This is, sadly, to be expected in a society that has become so desensitized that it has clearly forgotten how to shudder.
One can only hope that it's always darkest before the dawn. But after seeing so many false dawns in the past, that outlook has gotten rather, well, darker lately.
Winter is coming, in more ways than one. The winter of our discontent, that is. And actually, it's already here now.