Law enforcement isn’t a game of fairness. It’s never sporting. It’s not a game. There’s no such thing as proportionality. Laws, due process, and the Constitution are not Level III and Level IV body armor, they are only after-the-fact post-mortem resolutions.
Unsolicited moral intervention isn’t care, it’s control. It assumes authority over others without consent, replaces humility with certainty, and turns fear or conviction into coercion. Care responds when asked; control acts because it “knows better.”
Every Independent and Conservative voter who is thanking their lucky stars that Tim Walz is “only” the lame duck Minnesota Governor and not Vice President right now based on the same behavior that makes the Left immortalize him. I’m really glad that Walz is no longer in the military. Phew.
Legal provocation is conduct or speech that intentionally incites or provokes a reaction but remains within the bounds of the law. It may be inflammatory or offensive, yet it does not cross into illegal acts like threats, violence, or unlawful incitement, so it’s protected despite consequences.
I think most people overestimate their own intelligence in relationship to their perceived adversaries and inferiors.
I don’t anticipate Republicans flinching at all over the shutting down the government. The right loves the government closed. There are way fewer anti-ICE Americans than anyone acknowledges. Also, many Americans are amazed as to how few protesters have been shot and killed.
This is so completely awesome!
Beyond the Headlines - SNL youtube.com/watch
Doors+Radiohead+Rufus=Geese?
Geese: Trinidad (Live) - SNL youtube.com/watch
I can tell that Geese is cool and that I’m old (and this isn’t satire) because they sound like Drunk Rufus Wainwright.
Geese: Au Pays du Cocaine (Live) youtube.com/watch
An exposé of American BIG PROTEST
The Minneapolis Protests and Democrats’ Nonprofit Problem youtube.com/watch
Capitalist Pig Greed Transcends American Imperialism For Sure!
The mistake in “American empire collapse” narratives is assuming the empire is the thing that holds power. It isn’t. Capital does. Modern billionaires and oligarchs aren’t loyal to flags, voters, or even countries—they’re loyal to liquidity, legal arbitrage, and mobility. If U.S. hegemony weakens, they don’t suffer; they pivot. Assets move. Passports change. Headquarters relocate. Monaco, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Moscow—pick your jurisdiction.
What collapses isn’t global capitalism, or elite power, or greed. What collapses is the American middle class’s access to the leverage that once came with being inside the dominant system. The belief that “America” is the center of global capitalism is a 19th–20th century idea rooted in industrial empires and national elites. Today’s elites already operate in a post-national, meta-state economy. If the American empire falls, it won’t be the rich who pay the price—it’ll be the people who can’t leave.
All of Star Trek is woke—and always has been
Every generation of Star Trek has been denounced on arrival as woke propaganda, civil-rights sermonizing, or pinko nonsense. The original series was blasted for interracial crews and utopian politics. The movies gave us San Francisco, flower power, and literal “save the whales” messaging. The Next Generation was mocked as preachy, soft, and politically correct. None of this is new.
What is new is selective memory. People who now defend “classic” Trek don’t realize that their affection for it is proof they evolved alongside it. If they were 30, 40, or 50 in the late ’60s, they would’ve hated Kirk’s Enterprise. If they were that age in the ’90s, they would’ve called Picard’s Enterprise moralizing nonsense. Time softened the edges, not the ideas.
Starfleet Academy is just the next expression of the same trajectory: optimism, pluralism, competence, anti-authoritarian ethics, and a belief that cooperation beats domination. Trek has never been neutral, and it has never pretended to be. The franchise doesn’t shift left so much as it drags each generation—kicking and screaming—forward, then waits until they forget they ever resisted it.
Starfleet Academy has 100% Star Trek DNA. It’s delightful. I don’t know what’s up with people. Don’t let the saboteurs sabotage this camp-but-lovely Harry Potter in Space.
Amelia is a Masterclass in unintended consequences for the British cultural revolution. youtube.com/watch
Dana Carvey called himself a Bill Clinton Liberal—that’s totally what I am! He also said that in 2026 people call him a Nazi.
Bill Maher, Dana Carvey & David Spade Get Honest About Comedy