Physicus Patricius

Anyone have some recommendations for books about the French Revolution?

I do not recognize the legal authority of Elon Musk and his minions at DOGE, and will not comply with any policy they decree.

ARREST MUSK

If I find out anyone has illegally accessed whatever information about me may be available on federal computer systems, I will be submitting a formal criminal complaint naming that specific person or persons to the New York Attorney General's office.

If you have superuser privileges, the command sudo rm -rf /etc basically bricks any Linux-like computer system. The Elon Musk boys who have full access to the US government's payment systems can now, at any time, type this or a similar command into a console to brick the entire US economy.

Some good news for a change: thehill.com/homenews/sta...

We've betrayed Canada, our closest ally. Their rage towards us is justified, as are whatever retaliatory measures they take. And let's retire the "please remember half of us didn't vote for him" thing -- they know. Not their job to reassure us Blue Americans that we're still good people.

Elon Musk is a criminal who belongs in prison.

Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Jail them.

I am pretty damn confident that in the 2024 election, there was not a single ballot in a single precinct in a single state in the entire country on which the name "Elon Musk" was printed.

If you have a Dem Senator and/or Representative, you are not allowed to be upset by their inaction on confronting Trump until you've emailed or called them. And you're only allowed to be upset for 24 hours. To extend it, you have to email or call them again. Make sure to use the word "primary."

The Tenth Amendment may well wind up saving this country.

When this is all over one day, we need a series of Constitutional amendments putting serious constraints on the President’s powers to do massively disruptive things without Congressional approval.

Elon Musk is a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

Not sure I'll be boarding any commercial airline flights within the United States any time soon.

You a coffee drinker? Donald Trump just increased the price you’ll be paying for it by 25%.

Hey "Genocide Joe" folks -- great job. www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/p...

Been blocking a lot of really, really obnoxious leftists over the past few days. I've got no problem with civil and intellectually honest leftists, but I've also got no patience for nasty, sanctimonious little shits. MAGAts under a different label.

As of 1/20/25, the United States of America is officially a shithole country.

If you voted for Felon-47 -- or if you would have voted for Harris but couldn't be bothered to show up -- then the nightmare we're now three days into is YOUR fault. YOURS. YOU are directly responsible for this.

It's Denali. It's the Gulf of Mexico.

Pardon or no, the J6ers were, are, and always will be treasonous, anti-American pieces of shit.

I don't have strong opinions about the TikTok ban. Both sides seem to have some valid points. But anyone who imagines they're striking a blow against government censorship by migrating to RedNote, a social media app controlled by the fucking *Communist Party of China*, is a brain-dead idiot.

Pete Hegseth is a dissembling, unqualified hack of rock-bottom intellectual and moral calibre. The Senators who vote to confirm him as Secretary of Defense bear direct personal responsibility for whatever national-security disasters occur on his watch.

A US invasion of Canada would morph very quickly into a civil war within the US.

Donald Trump is a convicted felon. No ifs, ands, or buts.

Dear Democrats of the 119th Congress: YOU. WILL. BLOCK. ANY. ATTEMPT. BY. FELON-47. TO. INVADE. GREENLAND. OR. PANAMA. OR. CANADA.

People are jokingly referring to Elon Musk as President, but he's more like the General Secretary in a 20th century Communist country. Those countries had presidents etc, but the real power rested with the party leader, even if he held no formal government office.

Who the fuck elected Elon Musk? Didn't we fight a revolution over this kind of thing?

Don't obey in advance -- and don't despair in advance. Donald Trump is weak and unintelligent, and his minions are arrogant, bumbling hacks. Most of his voters aren't hard MAGA and will turn on him fast when things go bad for them. Trumpism can be beaten -- but only if we continue to fight it.

Bluesky seems pretty inhospitable to both the extreme illiberal Right and extreme illiberal Left. Liking this place.

Both of these things are true: America's health care industry is heartless, dysfunctional, and corrupt. We desperately need Medicare for all, or at least massive new regulation of the insurers. The murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare was barbaric and evil, and celebrating it is abhorrent.

Starting another blocklist, this one for 2024 election denialists. Trump won. Fairly. And that sucks. Massively. But conspiracy-theorizing about missing votes etc. is just as dishonest and toxic coming from our side as from theirs. Those who descend to it do not belong in adult conversation.

I've set up a MAGAt blocklist for accounts not caught by the other ones I subscribe to.

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it." Judge Learned Hand, 1944