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  • What I’m Expecting, Part 2: Unchecked

    The Trump administration is planning to use federal troops to disrupt the 2026 election in key areas in order to maintain and expand his majority in Congress and seize power in state capitols, with an end result of manipulating the electoral system to a degree that he or whoever seizes power after him can’t lose…

  • A Brief History of the Epstein Client List

  • Political Compass, Volume XXII

    Political Compass, Volume XXII

  • Political Compass, Volume XXI

    Can’t believe it’s been 21 years since I started doing this, but here we are. They say you get more conservative as you grow older, and yet, this year marks my farthest to the left since I started taking this test. Getting pretty close to being pinned directly in that bottom left corner.

  • Political Compass, Volume XX

    It’s my once-annual visit to my blog! Almost missed it this month. Twenty years of taking the Political Compass test has shown you do get more conservative as you grow older. For instance, last year I was even farther in the bottom left quadrant! But when you’re basically against the wall, there aren’t many places…

  • Annual Checkup

    Economic Left/Right: -9.75Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.28 While the timing of this test comes at a point when I am, shall we say, agitated at the current state of the world, it’s only a slight outlier on a rather tight grouping over the last 19 years I’ve been taking this test. I’d say the libertarian axis is…

  • Purity Tests

    Establishment Dems talk about ideological purity a lot and how the Left demands it, refuses to vote for candidates who aren’t ideologically pure, and thus, hurt the party. They frame this as “the Left won’t vote for anyone who’s not a hard-charging Bernie Sanders-style anti-capitalist crusader, and this is why Republicans win!” While there are…

  • Oops, I Missed It Again

    I usually do this in May, but I forgot again. WHOOPS. Not much of a change (at all) here: Economic Left/Right: -9.63Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62

  • What I’m Expecting

    I started writing this back in February, but didn’t manage to get it down in a condensed version until mid-August when I unleashed it as a tweet storm. Here’s the slightly expanded and cleaned-up version. Posted here for posterity so you can call me a genius or an idiot later. The election in November isn’t…

  • Just a bit late

    I usually do this in May each year, and what do you know, the fifteen years that was May just flew by. So here’s my Political Compass update: Yep, that’s:Economic Left/Right: -9.5Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.08 I’m sure current events may have something to do with that being the first time both of those numbers have hit…