Daniel Conlin

Are the people I often encounter on X really boneheaded morons, or is it an act to draw attention to themselves? I'm leaning toward the former while hoping it's the latter.

Mute is the most valuable tool on X. Block is for pussies. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Remember this... youtube.com/watch?v=kisr3daN…

The fact that this trash sport has supplanted boxing in popularity is a metaphor for modern American culture.

American politics is now a contest to see who can attract the idiots. You've got the left who reliably vote that way, and you you've got the right who vote accordingly. Then you've got a REALLY big pool of very stupid and easily swayed idiots. Trumps superpower was to espouse good ideas while also drawing in the crucial idiot voting block. It was an ugly thing to watch, but it worked really well for a while. The idiots are impossible to satisfy for long because they can't think past next week. Now the idiots have jumped ship to the populous left / DSA. Another name for them is Bernie Bros. We are in thrall to morons because they are the swing voters.

Time for a couple of supreme court retirements while Republicans still have the Senate.

It is an iron rule that every political career ends in failure. It doesn't mean that every political movement or trend ends that way. Trump has done a great deal of good, more than he is credited with, but time moves on. I'm still optimistic.

All this talk about drug addicts "choosing" to use or being powerless addicts amazes me. I've been a junkie and a drunk at various times in my life, but one thing I have never done is use drugs or drink involuntarily. I've made lots of poor choices, but they were CHOICES. How humiliating and pathetic must life be for people who tell themselves that they are too weak to even act on their own desires.

I care about sustainability, that's why I have a reusable ivory straw. It's not cheap, but I think it is worth it.

I once saw 2 Down's Syndrome guys in a supermarket and one guy dropped an armful of groceries on the floor. The other guy looked at him and said "You fucking retard!" I almost pissed myself laughing, as did they. The other shoppers gave me dirty looks...

If you opened up X (Twitter) and saw nothing but moronic questions designed to elicit emotional responses, would you answer or ignore them? Is this the correct format for these moronic queries?

I voted for Reagan when I was 17. I registered to vote with my fake ID that I used to get into bars. I was both a teen degenerate and a political dork.

The rioters in France are doing this because it is FUN, and there will be few consequences. I've been young, stupid and full of violent enthusiasm. It's not difficult to understand. You need to take the fun out of it with serious and immediate consequences.

Is X just 90% bots stirring up conflict, or are the bulk of people really as stupid as they seem to be? Serious question, because I am starting to wonder. Maybe I am arguing with nonentities...

I'm an agnostic, but all this conflict about whether or not the tiger should have been killed to save the disturbed man has me more convinced than ever that we lost an unbelievably important part of our humanity when Christianity (in large measure) died. This should be obvious.

"Ain't no rose-bed ever gonna live in an untended field of regret" A classic line from the unheralded Jim White. youtube.com/watch?v=FqueEpo2…

I just looked down and there was a fly in my glass of bourbon. I scooped that bastard out with a spoon, added a bit more and carried on. Everyone would do this, right?

Possibly the most prescient and wise bit of pop music of all time. youtube.com/watch?v=kisr3daN…

I'm 60 today. 2 more years for social security, 6 more years for my Irish pension, I mop floors for a living, but I have rental and passive income plus a paid off house in Ireland. I'm seriously thinking about buying a blue water sailboat and pissing off.

I just watched High Plains Drifter today. In the first 30 minutes he explicitly rapes one woman, and towards the middle he kind of rapes another. He's the hero of the movie. Somehow, it has more realistic nuance than all the reporting about Cornell University.