This article is just a recap of one Congressman’s life. It has virtually nothing to do with the headline.

“Great, let me transfer you to another department”

You just go down another rung in the service loop and have to climb back up again.

This is the most effective way to cancel a service and one of the primary reasons I keep carrying a credit card

Because we stopped doing shit like this

Did we? Or was this always a rare and remarkable incident, both in that it happened at all and it was captured and preserved for us to talk about today.

Certainly, you can talk about the no less than three different Trump assassination attempts. Or the Luigi Mangione shooting. Or the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, CPO of Cashapp. Or the assault of Bryan Kobel, CEO of TC BioPharm, after a dispute with his Uber driver. Or the vigilante attack on Paul Pelosi. Or the Doohickey assassination of Shinzo Abe. Or the Charlie Kirk assassination. Or just run the numbers annually for violence targeting C-level officials

This study analyzes 424 open source reported incidents targeting senior private-sector executives between 2003 and late 2025, highlighting a sustained and accelerating rise in both physical and cyber threats. Physical attacks dominate (85%), and one-third of all incidents resulted in injury or death. Incident frequency has surged since 2023, with 2025 already doubling 2024 totals by October, marking the highest level on record. Targeting increasingly occurs at workplaces and residences, with protest-driven activity driving growth at public events.

But I’m not seeing any evidence to suggest we “stopped” doing any of this. On the contrary, it looks like we’ve got a rising tide of stochastic violence, both from within the state itself and against state and private leadership.

Without exaggeration, doing it back then risked much the same.

These were brave acts then. They’d be brave acts now.

Wait for the world to get overrun by furries, but it’s just middle age bald dudes suddenly having shoulder length hair, six pack abs, and a deep sense of regret about how comfortable it is to carry around a two foot long penis.

Just over half us aren’t that stupid

How many people voted for Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo? How many Americans supported Israel for decades? How many believed the Clintons about “Superpredators”. How many bought into the notion that Medicare for All is economy-destroying, but Iraq/Afghanistan was a fight for freedom?

How many people still think The Russians and The Chinese are secretly behind every American candidate they don’t like?

The Russians did it

You should start a podcast

the Odyssey and the Iliad were assembled from a bunch of older stories

Very possible

and that a couple of those journeys went across the Atlantic

Total bullshit

It’s been in there for 6000 years. If it was wrong, someone would have corrected it by now

Everyone talks about the fake landing but nobody ever talks about the fake sequel they released four months later

There’s a certain irony in using Patrick Stewart / Jean Luc Picard for this meme, given that both the man and the character love their jobs

Was going to say… It’s not rocket science

Hey, I wrote my PhD Thesis on Gay Moon Theory.

This is why airplanes and trains are also stationary for most of the trip.

What if the underside of earth had stuff down there?

That’s where you get a lot of the real 🤯-tier pseudoscience and pseudohistory.

Dinosaurs and lizard people are down there. Nazis and Communists are down there. Mole people. Atlantis. The Garden of Eden. The sky is the limit.

Obviously, Social Murder never counts in these calculations.

And all those Falun Gong organ harvest victims who I am being told definitely exist and are filling up mass graves by the millions count double.

???

Get some thicker skin, my guy. If you’re getting paid for the work, its going to be more than a hobby. Especially if you’re planning to work 50 separate gigs.

Ffs, if you can file taxes as a business, we’re well past the point of hobbying. That’s just a part time job

every measurable metric except for Gdp and consumption which isn’t really a win at all.

So much of US GDP is tied up in the FIRE sector anyway. Housing is overinflated. Insurance is overinflated. Tech is crazy overinflated. It’s something of a joke to say the US is outrunning China when US businesses are touting triple-digit P/E ratios following decades of low-interest borrowing and bailouts.

And with all the consumer goods prices skyrocketing, you have to wonder how long American excess consumption can even last. $4-6/gal gas isn’t going to be any kinder to the US Automotive market today than it was during the Bush Admin.