JFK literally ordered the invasion of Cuba. Bay of Pigs. JFK and RFL were hard core Cold Warriors. Not Peace Liberals as some have fantasised. When JFK died, the plan was for 10,000 Minutemen III mis… (View Post)

Clowns on Russian TV are demanding attacks on Stevenage. The fools haven’t realised that if they do that, and reduce Stevenage to a radioactive wasteland, inhabited by mutant cannibal zombies, the U.… (View Post)

What slander! The idiots in Idiocracy were well meaning and quite kind. Their big fuckup was trying to help and getting it wrong. The malevolence of MAGA was entirely absent. (View Post)

And of course, established norms have their uses. “Some men just want to watch the world burn” sounds edgy. But, generally, what you get is the Sycamore Gap tree being chopped down. Or people driving… (View Post)

a There is a studied lack of interest in what happens at the bottom of the economy. This was the stuff that started the modern liberals in the 19th cent. (View Post)