Chuck Strange

We're live with a quick one on nuisance trapping & the eroding effects of time Give it a shot, get in there, get after it, have a nice Sunday Thank you @MISTERBULLBULL & @thedrevlow

@hostileUAVabove Based

Owning my cat with FACTS and LOGIC

@doughboywrites (Responding 6 weeks later) no sorry

@Normal_Chuck Can you prove it isn’t AI generated?

Posted my manuscript on Facebook marketplace Price negotiable, willing to trade for a 1999 Polaris 4x4

@GraduatedBen They HATE meek and mild families. That hate it!

“But no one wants to talk about why Merle Haggard turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole, despite the best efforts of his mother. They don’t want you to know that the mass displacement of farming families during the Dust Bowl broke communities and families for generations. Because that would mean talking about the banks.”

@doughboywrites @MrZoris @ColinMGee I am snorting tumeric, discarding earwigs, prompting chatgpt

@MrZoris @ColinMGee Inflamed LLM in need of digital turmeric

This AI kerfuffle might make now the opportune time for the Salinger estate to release whatever novels or stories are lurking in the bunker

@L0m3z @christopherrufo @willchamberlain “It’s going well” Our country murdered over 100 little girls and collectively shrugged it off

In Part 2 of our series on the Iran War, @christopherrufo and I talk with @willchamberlain who makes the pragmatic "Hard Realist" case that Iran has been a thorn in the side of America for nearly 50 years and is finally getting a long-due comeuppance that redounds to the benefit of American interests. Will further makes the case that the military effort is going well for the US, that Iran is gasping for air, and that Israel is not in fact the axis on which this intervention hinges. Well worth your time. Clip below. Full episode in the reply.

A great (second place) victory in this contest. Story publishing later this month I’m told. The prize money will be used to feed my gigantic toddler, who eats like a varsity football player

@doughboywrites Literally just got my hands on some earwigs last week and you’ve already moved on to tumeric

Everyone knows Fosse found God. But he also found turmeric. This is the true wellspring of his slow prose. Anyone can do incantatory. Real writers strive for anti-inflammatory

Whew. Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

@TomWill72550626 @zooomettee I could smell the PA diaspora on you through my computer

@grill_user Thats a big hell yeah Congrats dawg!

babyboy Mackey has been born happy and healthy. Praise God.

@grill_user It’s called providing for your family. Very honorable

wife is about to give birth and i am still grinding. not everyone is cut out for what it really takes to succeed.

I have a new story out this morning. "Really Getting It Going" is based on the type of parties I went to with grown-ups as a boy in the 90s—most everything probably was under control as far as I was concerned—but some adults were still attempting to surpass themselves in revelry.

I am not in the mood to listen to Jump by Van Halen and I never will be again

@TomWill72550626 See this always hits a nerve

@Normal_Chuck non mediterrenean priveldge frankly

@crownweber Keep bangin’ SCW

I'm here to promote the two Jules Romains prose-poems that came out in my translation this week from Don't Submit/Expat Press; my dad told me today he liked them: "They're profiles of streets in Paris and both very sensual. They remind me of early morning on a street in Paris."

Ruled by rats

@L0m3z He ran in no small part in opposition to regime change wars. He built a coalition around that plank. He is now engaged in an extraordinarily unpopular regime change war. It is a betrayal

I basically share Blake’s view. I’m opposed to war with Iran not because it’s bad in and of itself but because the consequences of a war like this are too indeterminate, and history tells us can often spiral into ugly, protracted entanglements that make the geopolitical problem you’re trying to solve worse rather than better. It doesn’t mean the geopolitical problem isn’t real or worth trying to solve, only that dropping bombs and crossing your fingers for successful regime change tends not to work very well. It’s also the case that it’s bad politically for this to drag out. Political capital is in some sense zero sum and using time and energy and public good-will to prosecute this war can make the other stuff harder to get done and signals administrative priorities that are misaligned with the domestic concerns that are front and center in the vast majority of American’s minds. There’s also a very real generational disconnect here. Iran is one of these legacy boomer fixations that most younger Americans simply don’t care about. Again, this is not to say that Iran isn’t bad or a geopolitical nuisance or even a security threat, only that the case for this kind of action isn’t obvious or clear to most voters under the age of ~55. The pitch is mostly falling on deaf ears. But okay, it’s happening. It behooves the admin to do this very quickly and surgically and apply max pressure to regional partners to pick up a lot of the slack so we can get out of there as soon as possible. Letting this become a millstone that hangs around the administration’s neck for any significant period of time risks continuing to successfully deliver on the primary issue of immigration, and associated domestic concerns, which is what really matters. God bless Trump. He is real, and I am not. His entire presidency exists in defiance of the political laws and constraints that seemingly keep everyone else from successful action. That this will be another case of Trump doing what only Trump can do is not an unreasonable expectation. We’ll see.

Slammed a cup of stale black coffee after falling asleep on the john at work