Daniel Dvorkin

#seemslegit

This post was almost a rant about a pet peeve that came up in a comment by someone I don't know and almost surely will never meet. And then I realized there was no point, and there are a million better ways to spend my time and mental energy. Is this what wisdom feels like?

This may be the stupidest thing #Kegsbreath has come up with yet, and that's ... impressive, in its way.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-warrant-officer-bonus-auction/

Meta meme is meta.

After Pam #Bondi's appalling performance in #Congressional hearings, I have seen a number of people wishing her various kinds of harm. Some I understand, others I don't.

Most obviously, #prison #rape. This is something a lot of people who should know better seem to think is an appropriate punishment for sex crimes. There are about a million reasons why this is wrong, and I'll go into them if anyone wants.

TL;DR: if you wish rape on anyone, for any reason, you are bad person. You may be a good person in other ways, but in this particular way you are scum. Either do better, or own it—just don't pretend righteousness. I'm genuinely baffled by how people I call friends don't understand this.

Nor do I want her, or any of #Trump's coterie of crooks, #assassinated or #lynched. I'm more sympathetic to those wishes, but just no. Every revolution in history has been, in every sense, a bloody mess.

What I want is for We The People, in accordance with the #Constitution and the United States Code, to #impeach, arrest, try, and convict every one of them for the numerous crimes of which everyone knows they're guilty, and then sentence them to prison for life without possibility of parole.

I want us to show the world that we can, legally and correctly, clean up our own mess.

And all that said ... I do hope when Bondi is led, stunned and baffled, down the concrete corridor to her final home, that just before the cell door slams shut, a guard whispers to her, "It's okay, Pam. The Dow is doing *great*!"

"Well, it is the ‘20s. So I guess we should all meet up in vaxeasies, where we’ll get illegal jabs and dance the night away. Until ICE bursts in and mows us down with Tommy guns, anyhow."

I slay me.

This is where my prediction comes true: the insane opposition to #mRNA #vaccines, without any scientific basis, is about to start killing people. Tip of the iceberg, and we’re all on the boat.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/health/fda-moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine

The last time I put my #luggage in an old-fashioned #suitcase, I lifted it too rapidly after check-in because I was in a hurry to catch my flight, and my #massive #manly #musculature propelled it upward so fast it punched a hole in the #airport roof. Air traffic control lost track of it at the #Karman line where it was still traveling at considerably more than escape velocity. It's probably somewhere in the #asteroid belt by now. So I'll stick to the wheeled variety. Just safer for everybody.

The Bird-dog of Alcatraz.

As a friend points out, this is bullshit: there were absolutely #protests against #deportations under #Clinton, #GWBush, and #Obama. #MAGA's selective memory is at it again. "Protests/Riots" is also telling. #Cult rules prohibit them acknowledging any distinction.

I do remember a number of #conservatives getting very worked up about the brutal treatment of #ElianGonzalez and his family. They were right to do so, or so I thought at the time.

Years later I figured out that what they objected to was not government agents waving guns in a little kid's face, but rather that it was happening under a #Democrat instead of a #Republican. Sanctioned #violence is only ever supposed to flow one way.

#Freedomsaur is not amused.

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." Man, I bet he's been practicing that all month.

Credit where it's due, though: if someone asked me to come up with a single sentence to describe the #Republican Party in a nutshell, I'm not sure I could do a better job. This is what they are, and all they'll ever be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNr09EPEdGc

"A #bot wrote this" has become the new "it's #satire" or "he's just #trolling." Sure, a lot of accounts are bots, programmed to produce maximum #ragebait. Your safest bet is still that on the other side of the screen is a real #human who actually believes whatever #bullshit they're spewing.

If you have ever met me, you may have noticed that I am quite #tall. Not NBA-player tall, not quite "how's the weather up there?" tall, but certainly "can you get this thing for me off the top shelf" tall and "watch your head in this low doorway" tall. Just tall enough for the advantages to outweigh the disadvantages, on the whole. If I were any taller, it might go the other way.

Social advantages as much as physical ones, which is the point of this ramble. Men are often judged on their #height at least as much as any other trait. I mean, there are studies.

Height is an inborn characteristic, shaped by the combination of genetics and environment, and very rarely a matter of personal choice. Those are things that decent people don't make fun of, in case you missed the memo.

Gregory Bovino is quite #short, shorter than I am tall. Short enough, I'm sure, for it to make it difficult for him to find clothes and fit comfortably on some furniture. Short enough for people who should know better to be comfortable mocking him for it. Which for whatever reason, they're currently doing in abundance.

Bovino is an asshole. Probably one of the most miserable excuses for a human being ever to walk the Earth. Undoubtedly one of the worst people, using that term in its broadest sense, currently holding power in the United States of America. And you know, that's a pretty tough competition.

He deserves mockery aplenty. For his self-importance, for his incompetence, for his swaggering certainty that he's a central figure in the Fourth Reich instead of the disposable mook he really is. He's not Himmler or Heydrich. At most he's Röhm, and he might want to read up on how that ends, if he read at all. Absolutely, laugh at him now and keep on laughing when the long knives come out.

If you look past all that and laugh at him for his height instead, you're a lot more like him than you are like me, however tall or short you are. Your choice.

Since #Trump pardoned every member of the #J6 mob, 33 out of the approximately 1,500 released have been convicted of other #violent #crimes, a rate of 2.2%. Elsenet, sumdood is arguing that this is no big deal because, and I quote, "The national violent crime rate is 4.4%." He argues that therefore, J6ers are less violent than the average person. Unfortunately for him (but fortunately for everyone else!) he's not even close. There were about 1.3 million violent crimes *reported* in the US last year, out of a population of about 330 million. Assuming one criminal and one victim per crime—which isn't necessarily the case, of course, but it's a reasonable approximation—that's a rate of 0.4%, not 4% or more. The #arrest and #conviction rates are much lower. There are about 500,000 violent crime arrests each year, or 0.15%. I can't find conviction numbers at the moment, but they must be lower than arrest numbers: for convenience, let's say 0.10% of the population, 2/3 of those arrested, are convicted. 2.2% is a lot more than 0.10%. Even a #Republican ought to be able to figure that out.