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Bored of peace?
The traitorous right in the US (and maybe elsewhere) has for decades wanted to get rid of the United Nations. The latest attempt is the “Board of Peace” spun up out of nowhere by the orange baby. It’s redundant, ridiculous, and amateurish, like practically everything these slimeballs do. The logo shows not the world, but Continue reading
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Isn’t this nice
Now that it’s January 21, I’m certainly enjoying my newly lowered credit card rates of just 10%. Just like the orange baby promised. It’s making everything so much more affordable. I bet you’re enjoying the lower rates too. Makes us forget all about Epstein, right? Remember Epstein? You’re not supposed to. Continue reading
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Traitors gonna traitor
The violent counterrevolutionaries who injured, killed, and caused millions of dollars worth of damage to the US capitol building during the January 6 attempted coup not only got pardoned by the traitorous orange baby. Now they’re trying to get their various fines refunded. These are the misguided, seditious assholes who actually should be deported and Continue reading
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Systemic Indecision
Pretentious title, but all I’m talking about is using MacOS versus Linux (Ubuntu, specifically). You can read a sort-of-similar account by Jack Baty, who has as long a history with Macs as I do. Recently I’m feeling disillusioned by Apple’s moves around many things, including MacOS. Unlike Baty, though, I don’t feel any particular urge Continue reading
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“Two Weeks” again
Now the orange baby says it will sue JP Morgan Chase for closing one of its accounts a few years ago. It’s claiming to have been “de-banked” as a result of its attempted Jan 6 coup. The whole thing is nonsense, just more deflection. They didn’t even “de-bank” Epstein. Oh, remember him? You’re not supposed Continue reading
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Weird disconnect
Tesla is not doing well at its core business of selling new cars. as [Indranil Ghosh](notes), in 2025 their deliveries fell “8.6% to 1.6 million vehicles.” That’s the second year in a row that sales dropped. However, “The sales decline hasn’t affected Tesla’s stock price.” What’s going on? Ghosh suggests that Wall Street investors are Continue reading
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Is it simpler than it seems?
It seems like there are so many reasons for the decline and fall of the United States. But I keep wondering if it mostly comes down to one thing: the decades-long dismantling of public education, and of education in general. The people in the current cadre are not deep thinkers, with only (maybe) a couple Continue reading
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Agreed
“…offering serious policy advice to the current U.S. government is like preaching to baboons: You won’t get heard over the hooting, and even if they did hear, they wouldn’t understand.” –Paul Krugman Continue reading
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Interesting timing
So just in the past couple of weeks we’ve seen an international kidnapping abetted by a military strike, escalating threats about Iran and Greenland, a Department of “Justice” attack on the Federal Reserve chairman, escalations of ICE thuggery and atrocities… Boy, there must really be some incriminating stuff in those Epstein files, eh? Remember Epstein? Continue reading
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“Exceptionalism”
For a long, long time “American exceptionalism” has been a jingoistic slogan generally used to tout some way in which the US is touted as better in some way than anywhere else. But “exceptional” doesn’t really mean “better.” It means different. Adam Bonica did some interesting math to illustrate the current state of American exceptionalism. Continue reading
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I’m Pete Harbeson, a writer located near Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to writing my own content, I’ve learned to translate for my loquacious and opinionated pup Chocolate Bossypaws. I shouldn’t be surprised, but she mostly speaks in doggerel. You can find her contributions tagged with Chocolatiana.
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