In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Apparently in the wake of Trump's post calling out Tucker, Megyn, Candace, and Alex, commentators are beginning to weigh in on what those people are actually saying. Rich Lowry at The National Review, which has never been especially favorable to Trump, has the following to say in the video embedded above: I think first factor is the isolationist Right, overlap with a lot of these people, thought they controlled Donald Trump. They thought Trump was an isolationist the way they are isolationists. And it was never true, he was never an isolationist, and also, in his second term, he's actually been hyperactive in terms of foreign policy. So this led to extreme disappointment, which led on the one hand to a massive reevaluation of Donald Trump. Now yes, Donald Trump made wild threats in the runup to the cease fire with Iran. Are we really shocked by that? Do we not remember fire and fury with North Korea in the first term? And also, he dropped an f-bomb in that post on East...

I made Trump's takedown of podcasters he doesn't like into the opening credits of Star Wars... because it fit perfectly. This is pretty incredible. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/dxvtWBjltP — Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 10, 2026 Last night : President Trump lashed out at four right-wing critics of the Iran war Thursday, describing them as “NUT JOBS” and “losers” who will say anything for attention. “I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs,” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post. “They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!” the president raged. “Look at their past, look at their record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did! Tucker Carlson and Megyn K...

Real Clear Politics is a creature of big investment money and legacy media, although the conventional wisdom says it's pro-Trump : In November 2020, The New York Times published an article alleging that since 2017, when many of its "straight-news" reporting journalists were laid off, RealClearPolitics showed a pro-Trump turn with donations to its affiliated nonprofit increasing from entities supported by wealthy conservatives. RCP executive editor Carl Cannon disputed the newspaper's allegations of a rightward turn. . . . Cannon stated that RCP regularly publishes perspectives from both liberal and conservative publications, saying that "the simple fact is that the amount of liberal material published in RCP every week dwarfs the annual conservative content in The New York Times". But the circumstance on the ground is that RCP gets its reputation from polling averages, when polls wouldn't exist if they weren't financed by legacy media, and l...

Yesterday morning: An unspeakably evil threat. Every soldier has the duty to disobey orders to carry this out, every government official has the duty to do whatever is in his power to stop it, every churchmen has the duty to speak out against it, every citizen to resist in any moral way possible. pic.twitter.com/1t7uP2gwr7 — Edward Feser (@FeserEdward) April 7, 2026 Oh, well, never mind: Seeing a lot of this. My entire life I've been regarded as an extreme right-winger, but suddenly, because I oppose threatening a civilization with destruction, I must really be an "MSNBC lib." This sub-moronic level of thinking prevails within a large segment of the right today. https://t.co/VowTaibj3p — Edward Feser (@FeserEdward) April 7, 2026 And the chuds wanna have it both ways! Here we go again, with the cult’s usual two-step: 1. Trump’s doing X would be a great idea, actually!, but also 2. What an idiot you are for thinking he’d ever do X! It’s “Heads I win, tails ...

Yesterday I posted about a long-ago ex who could be so badly triggered that she would foam at the mouth, and this somehow reminded me of Edward Feser, the detached neo-Thomist academic philosopher who rages against the chuds. Then it occurred to me that there were two notionally big news events over Easter weekend, one a "historic" return to the moon by the Artemis II mission, the other the effort to rescue the downed weapons system officer who'd had to eject from his F-15 over Iran. The Artemis II mission, with its one-from-column-A-one-from-column-B crew struggling with two versions of Outlook and a stinking multimillion-dollar toilet, was paralyzingly anodyne. The story of how the WSO was recovered, details of which are still coming out, is what gripped the country. Nevertheless, So while a wounded American Colonel was hiding in a mountain crevice at 7,000 feet in Iran with nothing but a pistol and a prayer, and the CIA was running a fake rescue convoy to confuse ...

Meanwhile, Conservatism, Inc. and the chud brigade on Twitter would confidently assure us that nuking another country does not technically count as “war” and that the Constitution is perfectly OK with dropping as many nukes as Trump wants as long as it's within a 60 day window. https://t.co/GGNSSgnnUZ — Edward Feser (@FeserEdward) March 30, 2026 I haven't checked in with Edward Feser for several weeks, but others have pointed to his posts on X here and there. The big thing that strikes me lately is his use of the term "chud", as we see above. I asked the AI oracle, "can you give an estimate of how many times Edward Feser has used the word 'chud' on X?" Remarkably, it answered, It is highly unlikely that Edward Feser has ever used the term "chud" on X (formerly Twitter). A search of his public posts and interactions reveals no instances of him using the word. The term "chud" is a modern internet slang insult typicall...

Yesterday , A second Republican senator spoke out in defense of Nato on Thursday, joining Mitch McConnell and the Democrats, after Donald Trump said that he was “absolutely” considering withdrawing from the alliance after it refused to take part in the joint assault with Israel against Iran. “Nato stood by America when we were under attack and came to our aid after the September 11th attacks. Their soldiers fought and died alongside our troops in Afghanistan,” said Thom Tillis, a Republican, and Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, who co-chair the Senate Nato observer group. McConnell and Tillis are both lame ducks who seem to be opposed to anything Trump has ever proposed, but by gum, The Wall Street Journal has their backs : Could the Iran war do what even Vladimir Putin couldn’t and blow up the North Atlantic Treaty alliance? That’s no longer an idle question as most of Europe refuses to help the U.S., and President Trump responds by threatening to leave NATO. This wo...