RIA, PM, Recovering Banker, Cook, Cheese Maker, Music Buff, Outhouse Philosopher, Father of 6, Senior Citizen, Rabid Capitalist, and usually ignored. It/it
Missoula, Montana
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“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken
Old Bull Lee retweeted
the right needs to rebuild; it needs to clean house
now is the time to punch in all directions against the engagement-farmers and morons; don't hold back, our country's future depends on it!
Old Bull Lee retweeted
A senator falsely claiming that half the country “wants conservatives dead” is irresponsible, anti-American, and frankly disgusting.
Not surprising from him, though.
Old Bull Lee retweeted
85 years ago there was a small but real Communist cell in the Democratic Party that managed to install a fellow traveler as VP of the US under a physically declining President. Today there is a small but real fascist cell in the Republican Party that has managed to install a fellow traveler as VP of the US under an 80-yr-old President. Thank God FDR, with less than a year to live, dumped Henry Wallace for Harry Truman in 1944. Pray for Trump's health the next two years, and that the GOP electorate in 2028 will have the same good sense that FDR had 84 years earlier.
My thinking about the GOP wipeout on Tuesday keeps evolving. I think it wasn't so much about just policy but more like a general allergic reaction.
Old Bull Lee retweeted
The stupid cruelty will continue until what is left of the GOP gets wiped out in 2028.
NYT: Stephen Miller Shrugs Off Midterm Blowout
Republicans called for President Trump to scale back the policies many blamed for their midterm blowout. Mr. Trump ruminated about deals with Democrats
Stephen Miller was unfazed.
A day after the elections, as votes were still being counted and the Democrats’ victory margin seemed to increase by the hour, the longtime Trump aide and MAGA stalwart convened one of his regular calls with national security officials to get an update on immigration policy.
There was no talk of the results of the midterms or suggestion of scaling back the hard-line immigration approach that contributed to Republicans’ steep losses.
nytimes.com/2026/11/07/us/po…
Old Bull Lee retweeted
The idea that Josh Turek, Adam Hamilton, Roy Copper, Scott Colom, and Annie Andrews (who together won five of the seven seats Dems flipped) sounded like Bernie or Mamdani is just objectively wrong.
And speaking of filling up with the "the good" I also stopped by Trader Joe's and got some English Stilton. Damn, delish.
Old Bull Lee retweeted
Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/po…
Old Bull Lee retweeted
Useful overview in the @nytimes of what might happen with the arch, ballroom, etc. under the new Congress. But there's a piece missing: If Trump succeeds in getting what he wants, can't any future President just undo it? If he has this power, so does the next President.
On my way back from Spokane today I stopped to get gas at an out of the way store owned by the Coeur d'Alene tribe. Regular was $1.10 less than in Spokane. They had non-ethanol 91 octane premium for $4.50. I filled up with the good.
Old Bull Lee retweeted
Watching the GOP meltdown over Susie’s alleged corruption, ladies and gentlemen, look at the patio at Trump’s beloved Mar-a-Lago. Trump is surrounded there, as he wants it, by billionaires and CEOs, and recently lobbyists, who the club, not Susie, welcomed. Said lobbyists, as everyone in DC will tell you, then shopped to clients “a Mar-a-Lago patio strategy” for Trump, not his staff. Trump loves hanging, having all these rich and powerful court him and his family. Being a transactional, leverage-based clan by nature, you see how this spun out of control. For MAGA and MAHA in their criticism to avoid the elephants in the room takes serious cognitive dissonance.
Old Bull Lee retweeted
The irony is that the very warmongers that launched the war, engaged in atrocities, and now regularly target civilians—these are the same people call others warmongers.
Because they believe in defending Ukraine from Russia. It’s as simple as that.
Old Bull Lee retweeted
"Walmart doesn't offer its employees health insurance" hasn't been true for many years. Every employee who works 30 or more hours - more than 70% of the company's store employees, and more than 80% of their distribution-center employees - qualifies for benefits.
Talarico argues pro-business really means pro-big business, socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for everyone else
“I've seen that when people talk about being pro-business, what that usually means is being pro-big business, right?”
“we basically subsidize Walmart through Medicaid because they don't give their employees quality healthcare.”
“So again, socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the rest of us.”
“And this is not a radical vision. It's what we had before.”
w/ @jamestalarico
Old Bull Lee retweeted
1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.
This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.
Old Bull Lee retweeted
In this post, I outline case for impeaching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for his role in perpetrating over 200 murders, and starting an unconstitutional war. I have my issues with Rep. Thomas Massie. But he's absolutely right here: reason.com/volokh/2026/11/08…
Old Bull Lee retweeted
Reminder amid this insane NVIDIA espionage scandal that David Sacks was one of the leading voices in the admin pushing to allow NVIDIA to flood China with AI chips (after taking a break from being an anti-Ukraine activist).
Breaking News: Nvidia opened an investigation into Jensen Huang, its CEO, after he acknowledged to the company’s board that he had been intimate with a business executive who U.S. intelligence determined to be a Chinese spy. nyti.ms/3ViPMAt
Old Bull Lee retweeted
So Rubio himself is worried about Jensen’s romantic relationship with the Chinese spy and Megaspeed executive, meaning the intel was validated at the highest levels of government. But still, Commerce has done nothing to limit AI chip shipments to Megaspeed or Southeast Asia. Why?
NEW: Nat Sec Adviser Marco Rubio oversaw drafting of a highly classified memo this spring that the intel community assessed a woman who had established a close relationship w Jensen Huang was working for China's Ministry of State Security nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/po…
