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@Parisire @ettingermentum It's unseemly for you to have a burner account on this hellsite, Mr. Ptesident.

@ettingermentum We all witnessed the events of January 6, 2021. Why was it necessary for Joe Biden to give people additional reasons to avoid re-electing Donald Trump after that?

Joe Biden will be looked upon poorly because he failed at stopping Trump’s return, which was the core project of his administration

@LukeTBased @glcarlstrom @phl43 I'll be happy to be wrong.

@FeedbackRobust @glcarlstrom @phl43 The administration has made great strides on this in terms of missiles and interceptors

"The cost of replacing the first four days' worth of munitions would be $20bn-26bn. The problem, however, is more to do with scarcity than cost. America is thought to have used more than 300 Tomahawk cruise missiles in the opening days of the war, but the Pentagon had planned to buy just 57 new ones in the current fiscal year. There have been no deliveries of THAAD interceptors since 2023 and the Pentagon has not placed any new orders this year. A puny 39 interceptors are slated for delivery in 2027—six years after they were ordered." economist.com/briefing/2026/…

@dccommonsense @shaundead02 The geography of the West Bank in particular was never a solvable problem, which is why I started saying 20+ years ago that the US should unilaterally end aid to all parties in the region.

@shaundead02 When was a younger man the challenge was to try to figure out how Israel and her neighbors could live in peace.That seems a very long time ago now. Unfortunately.

The amount of long term damage Netanyahu has done to Israel's public image since he came on the scene (all those years ago) is going to take forever to turn around. If that's even possible. He and Trump are so full of hubris they are like watching a Greek tragedy play out.

@iowahawkblog And a member of The National Wrestling Hall of Fame!

As a testament to Borlaug's humility, there's a story that he drove his car to work at Texas A&M's Borlaug Center on a Aggie home game Saturday. A parking officer told the Nobel Prize winner he wasn't permitted to park the building named in his honor, and he quietly complied.

yes Norman Borlaug was a humble Iowa farmer, but he had a PhD in plant pathology and genetics. And was a professor at Minnesota, Cornell, and Texas A&M.

@phl43 @BaronDestructo Unless it is family, I kind of prefer a slight Japanese bow.

@BaronDestructo I prefer that to the hug, but the lack of physical contact also feels weird to me.

I find the American practice of hugging to be unnecessarily demonstrative and emotional. Kissing is objectively a far superior way to greet one's friends.

@nickgillespie How bourgeoisie to use the bushes.

Oddly, this reminds me of pre-makeover Bryant Park in the late 1980s, when you could score whatever drugs you wanted and see people fucking in the bushes on lunch hour.

@RandyEBarnett He intends to use sarcasm in a particularly devastating fashion.

Who’s going to stop them, John?

@bendreyfuss Strangelove might be my favorite movie of all time. Eyes Wide Shut was rich, boring, characters making the world tedious. If that was the point, well, success, I guess.

@FeedbackRobust Paths of glory, Strangelove and shining are my favorite three. I don’t really think any of them are actually bad but we agree on the heights

We normally record these episodes in the morning when I’m very tired but this one we did in the afternoon so it has more Classic Ben Dreyfuss™ than usual

@shadihamid @washingtonpost Your definition reduces the word "genocide" to a synonym for "war". That's a bad thing to do.

What Israel has done in Gaza clearly and easily meets the legal definition of genocide as described in the UN Genocide Convention. I lay out the case in detail here in @washingtonpost: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/… Words have meaning. Even if it offends some people, we need to call things as they are. The idea that Israel is somehow immune from judgment is itself an application of a double standard. It is anti-semitic to hold Israel to a different standard than other states. And that's what Israeli is: a state. Sometimes, states do really awful things. And to conflate American Jews with the Israeli state is yet another example of anti-semitism, which the AJC seems to be doing here.

@MattWelch Always an error to think you know someone, based on what you read or see on a screen. If enough time passes, with people whose lives were heavily documented, you can get a fuller picture, and I'd nearly guaranteed that there were those who knew him personally that were aware.

Wow.

@Robertjl @JMcNallyBooks Isn't that what a "life coach" is?

@JMcNallyBooks Alvin Toffler! The guy who warned us we’d all have so much “leisure time” in the future that he labeled it a “crisis” & that we’d need “leisure counselors” to help society cope…?

Quintessential 1970s mass market paperbacks.

@mattyglesias Just wish the shot encompassed the whole audience, so the first person to stop clapping could be identified. Okay, maybe not....

Strong affordability message carries the day again

@Patrick_Reusse Just lulling the pitchers into complacency, I'm sure.

Royce Lewis is hitting .100 at the moment. That’s off-putting.

@DamonLinker @JonahDispatch It's the Mossad's attempt to lull the opposition into complacency.

God, I hope the Mossad would be smart enough deploy better agents than Loomer.

@jbarro @jessesingal Those two are the Aristotle and Plato of our age, aren't they?

I had missed that Megyn Kelly says Mark Levin has a micropenis and Mark Levin says Megyn Kelly is a harlot.

@bendreyfuss Many foods do, when prepared incompetently.

Cabbage tastes like shit.

They don’t actually eat corned beef and cabbage in Ireland because they don’t have corned beef because they hate Jews. Instead they eat bacon and cabbage because they’re sickos who didn’t help defeat Hitler

@JohnSimpsonNews How many unarmed civilians of his own country does a political leader need to have murdered, for the crime of dissent, in order to no longer be "reasonable"? 100,000? 1,000,000? 10,000,00? How do you manage to get food into your mouth, you gibbering idiot?

@kingharis @EasterbrookG @JDMartin1998 I've thought for a couple of decades now that Gregg Easterbrook is a remarkably poor thinker, to the point I pretty much ignored him. Every once and a great while, however, he appears in my follows, and reconfirms my assessment.

@FeedbackRobust @EasterbrookG @JDMartin1998 Sounds like Gregg thinks Ehrlich wasn't evil because he meant well but was "just wrong." By that logic a lot of history's greatest villains weren't evil. Per Scalia, a prerequisite to being good is being wise, and Ehrlich didn't do that before controlling others' lives. Evil.

Ehrlich was a good person -- I will detail my relationship to him on Friday -- but wrong on every prediction. Not on some predictions, EVERY prediction. Such is the nature of doomsaying.