Mike Brock 🇺🇸

Trump's envoy called Putin a humanitarian. Twenty months of American complacency, and Ukraine gets the bill.

Remember when Charlie Kirk was going to be this martyr who galvanized the right to complete the cultural and political revolution against the left, with his grifter wife carrying the mantle forward? Yeah ...

"He's just got crazy people in his ear." Fine, grant it. So why can't a man who's otherwise so good recognize bad advice? He's told us he makes the decisions. His party should believe him.

If Trump and the GOP try to steal this election while two-thirds of the country disapproves of him and nearly 9 in 10 voters say they're worried about corruption, more than inflation, they will open up hellfire. I predict the reaction will be ... quite historic.

Silicon Valley used to argue politics out loud. Then its executives paid Trump and funded his ballroom, and the whole industry learned to keep its mouth shut. Cowardice at the top doesn’t stay there.

Most rich people would be better off paying higher taxes in a country where everyone felt included and had a fair shot. Instead, they've chosen war with the bottom 80% of Americans. They call the resistance "populism," now "slopulism," and then act surprised when the backlash deepens.

It's really weird that people who claim to oppose collectivism and embrace individualism speak out against diversity and agitate for cultural conformity. If politics is downstream of culture, what the fuck is more collectivist than that?

Trump supporters who only disagree with him in private are the most pathetic people among us. Imagine supporting somebody you know you can't disagree with in public, and still thinking you're an independent thinker, or independent anything. You're a willing serf.

For fuck’s sake

Musk throttled Ukraine's drones and his fans called it a terms-of-service issue. They think they're in the cabin with him. He'd put them out the airlock on the way to Mars to save oxygen.

"When a business becomes critical infrastructure, its relationship with society alters."

Musk throttled Ukraine's drones and his fans called it a terms-of-service issue. They think they're in the cabin with him. He'd put them out the airlock on the way to Mars to save oxygen.

Being an Elon stan when the man says on the record that most people are NPCs in a video game is an interesting place to stand. He's told you exactly what he thinks of you.

I may not be a Christian, but I know anyone who wears a "God, Guns and Trump" T-shirt or slaps it on a bumper sticker isn't one, either.

Let's say these motherfuckers in the White House, Musk included, manage to force Ukraine to surrender. I don't think that happens, but let's say it does. Do they think that will improve their standing with an American public that is largely pro-Ukraine?

Whether Putin is a bad guy or not is not a policy disagreement. Our fellow Americans who think he is a good guy are fucking traitors to what this country stands for. Republicans who disagree with Trump are treating it as a mere policy disagreement, and that makes them complicit.

All you motherfuckers who posted that video from Butler, PA, with Trump's bleeding ear and publicly declared you were endorsing him in that moment were announcing to the world that you are beta cucks

If you only read the New York Times or watch CNN you would have no idea he did this

If we were a sane country—which we are not—this alone would have us scrambling to begin impeachment proceedings.

My former friend Jack Dorsey placed his faith in Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. I tried to talk him out of each one. In hindsight, I owe him an apology for doubting his judgment.

Elon Musk says the Democrats who want to investigate him belong in prison. Bold move, announcing in advance which side of the bars you're worried about.

The GOP had nearly three years of hearings to figure out if Hillary Clinton was somehow personally responsible for Benghazi. That's the whole post.

Flustered from a solid hour defending his Russian master, Trump finally loses his shit.

Two years ago, the pundits declared the Latino realignment permanent, Mamdani an albatross, and El-Sayed unelectable, and Texas drew a congressional map on the forecast.

If the only options are matter or magic, every argument against materialism becomes an argument for magic. Two choices was always one too few.

It is interesting that Texas has led America in new clean energy deployment over the past few years, because it doesn't have a culture of the Sierra Club suing to stop every solar farm over some obscure ecological concern.

"It's not my job to educate you" might as well be "fuck you," and the people who heard it that way went off and voted. If you want power over your fellow citizens, convincing them is not an insult to your cause.

AI watermarking as a preventive strategy just won't work. The only reliable approach is cryptographic signing from trusted sources like Apple's new Reference Image. Everything else will be beatable.

Well, I know what I’m doing for the next hour: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcDz...

I'm very sad that Zacharia was fired. I thought she was great. If anyone from the administration had consulted me, I would have advised them to keep her and ignore everyone. She was a living embodiment of everything the administration stands for: fraudulence.

Well, well, well ... it's always the people you most suspect.

We taught a generation how to solve problems without teaching it to question the assignment.

If Alberta actually separated from Canada, it would basically turn into a corrupt little petrostate, but with the worst weather of all the petrostates.

Guys, if France elects Le Pen, and Germany elects the AfD, I’m not going to listen to French or German people say anti-American things to me without a rude response. I am just warning people in advance.

If Democrats do not drag Thiel before Congress and grill him on his ACTUAL PUBLIC STATEMENTS calling for the overthrow of democracy over the years as part of his radical anarcho-capitalist politics, they are missing a serious opportunity to help themselves into the future.

Remember right after Trump won again in 2024, cultural commentators started talking about how MAGA had become cool because it was so transgressive. Yeah …

If Trump croaks before he has a chance to pardon everyone, you're going to see the cockroaches that comprise the GOP turn into Lord of the Flies.

Technocratic liberal centrism is just dead. I note that many people in the center-left coalition do not accept this. But it's dead. No amount of appeals to moderation will stop Americans from throwing out what remains of the establishment. And I think that's good for democracy.

I have thought about it. I actually agree with Hegseth. Let’s do it publicity. And if that makes us queezy and morbid to see the state murder someone, maybe the problem isn’t its visibility, but the act itself.

If I’m ever executed, I actually want to be executed publicly so society is forced to look at its own inhumanities. Not hidden behind a prison wall where people can feel safe in their comfortable lies.

Other people may want to pretend that the GOP and Trump are different entities. That Trump's evil is not shared by the rest of the GOP — who, if they could, would be less evil. Reject this. And when they claim this is the case, don't believe them.

Libertarians wax poetic about Bastiat and the lost prosperity from compliance costs and regulations' unintended effects on business. The grift economy we now live in pretty much rules out that libertarian sociopolitical theory as workable.

The right mistakes Western civilization for a hierarchy it wants restored. Too much of the left is so embarrassed by the inheritance that it surrenders the whole thing to them.

It's pretty hilarious that two of Texas' new gerrymandered districts may go Democratic because Republicans gerrymandered on the assumption that Hispanics were trending to the right, and that trend was going to continue. And that has turned out to be ... false.