Political Musing
History has three ways this ends: the extremists win, the party dies, or everyone pretends to make up and don't. Pick your favorite, because 'grow a spine' isn't on the menu.
The Billionaire Victims Club
In 2007 thirteen men posed in mafia cosplay for Fortune magazine and called themselves the PayPal Mafia. The photo looks different now. It's not thirteen men performing menace. It's a class photo — of the cohort that just finished taking over the government.
A day late, sorry, Saturday got out of control for me. Sunday, July 5th: A read on the perennial argument (often fronted by the Never Trump crew) about the Can, vs. Will in the context of winning. This was pre-planner meltdown: Will Win vs. Can WinRon Johnson tried to
Political Musing
David French gets oh so close, but then he has to put his blinders on. But the real gem comes from the comment section.
The Billionaire Victims Club
ORACLE stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison. He started with a CIA contract, named the company after it, and told investors citizens will be on their 'best behavior' once we're all constantly recorded. He didn't disrupt the system. He built it.
This Fucking Guy
Meta's employees named their internal AI status leaderboard 'Claudeonomics.' Not Llamanomics. Claudeonomics. Zuckerberg spent billions building a frontier AI model his own people won't use, while paying a competitor to power his flagship AI product. The acquirer can't sell to his own staff.
Tech
Kathy Sierra got doxxed and death-threatened in 2007, seven years before Gamergate, with none of today's algorithmic muscle. The hate wasn't invented later. Someone just built better plumbing for it, and found out outrage pays the bills.
The Billionaire Victims Club
Brin named his $450 million superyacht after Google's secret project to build a censored search engine for China. The man comparing a 5% healthcare tax to Soviet communism literally named his boat after helping communists suppress the internet.
Political Musing
Ron Johnson tried to hand fake electors to Mike Pence. The Democratic establishment's real fear that cycle? Mandela Barnes's parking tickets. The electability model doesn't need to be right. It just needs to never be tested.
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A roll up of posts from Sweaty Spice and the Shitpost Dude for the week of June 27 thru July 4th
The Amazon logo smiles A to Z — delightful, frictionless, friendly. Then Bezos got unlimited money and no brand consultants, and built a rocket the entire internet immediately recognized as a penis with Peyronie's disease. The logo lies. The rocket does not.
The consultant class are the Capos. Never Trump are the enforcers. The donor class is in the back of the restaurant. And your midnight ActBlue email? That's the vig. Welcome to the protection racket.
Billionaire Victims Club, Vol. 2. - Europe has looked through Palantir and seen whose face is on the other end. Not the Antichrist. Just Peter Thiel, 58, looking older than his years, spending $40k a quarter on young people's blood, waiting for the lockup to expire.
How the Never Trump Brain Trust Built What They're Now Selling You Protection From
Billionaire Victims Club, Vol. 1. As I drafted this, I was watching SPCX lose $400B in market value. Only about $1.5T more to go to be "right priced" Glorious!
A wrap up of the posts of the week of June 20th, 2026
You can't go to the grindhouse anymore. But you can watch everything it showed. Here's where to start.
A group chat, a tax, and the men who'd like you to know they're the real victims here
A quick update and status. Also, appreciation of my audience.
Series: The Closed Loop, Part 2 — Series Capstone - Bringing it all together
Paul Gilbert is one of my icons. I discovered him in the late 1990s, his work with Mr Big was eye opening, and that got me to look into his band Racer X, and from there, I was hooked. I have as much of his recorded music as I can
