(((Not That Crown, Maybe)))

Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque. Un père de 12+, trois au Paradis.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

To all of you who kindly did this, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

God, in His ineffable wisdom, willed otherwise.

I will be away for a while. Be not-terribly-gruesome to each other.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

I never do this, but: In your charity, please pray for a cause very dear to me; and if you're Catholic or Orthodox, please put in a word to St. Jude for his prayers, too.

[LoLNothingMatters @DastDn]

Is anyone in Ireland engaging with the fact that their economy is entirely dependent on being a tax haven for other countries' corporations.

That sort of position becomes cataclysmically vulnerable to actions of people they can't control/influence if public opinion goes toxic.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

I don’t like Biden but my default policy response here is we start airstrikes immediately on the attackers

[Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe]

If you believe that some people are 6's, some people 8's, and everyone is looking for a 10, you might be interested in my newsletter this week. I reviewed Paul Eastwick's book Bonded by Evolution, which argues that compatibility matters more than objective mate value

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

@ConwayCD @ArthurBoreman Let's all just agree not to start Teams.

Oh, how I miss Skype.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

@DastDn I had to look this up because I've never read the books and only seen one of the movies with the kids.

That's. That's a thing.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

Incidentally, Rogue did more than anything else to convince me that the Templars were, between two factions of ruthless sociopaths, the less dangerous to humanity by far.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

Rogue was a last love letter to the fans, and Unity was an admission that they had no idea what to do with the franchise going forward.

[Assassin's Creed @assassinscreed]

Happy Anniversary to Assassin's Creed Unity and Rogue!🎉

Who remembers the history between Arno and Shay?😔

#AssassinsCreed

[The Market Ear @themarketear]

The market isn't driving volatility anymore. Volatility is driving the market. And Wall Street is trapped in the feedback loop.
https://t.co/jXBID4r5bB

[Boo @IzaBooboo]

More cowbell is sure to energize those missing 2026 voters.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

@presjpolk Right?

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

This is a subcontinent-based farming account

[Norma @onorma_]

MY HUSBAND SWEARS I’M MAKING THIS UP…
BUT DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER
THE DIET SODA CALLED TAB?

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

The open, repeat adulterer is embracing Donatism, mirabile dictu

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

Sean Hannity announced on his Fox News program that he has left the Catholic Church. https://t.co/b7I2MavL5U

[jeremysenderowicz @senderowiczj]

Extreme Unfalsifiability Alert

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

@bellisaurius I get it and it's legitimately an interesting idea. And you're right, it would need a constitutional amendment.

On the other hand, the last time Congress tested its power on the executive it ended with Thaddeus Stevens losing it and impeachment being neutered.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

@upstatefederlst Clearing that much time on a docket is not something one can just do on a whim. This isn't horribly abnormal for a case like this.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

@physicsgeek 3, 4, then 3 for emphasis.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

In the first Trump administration, a lot -- not all, but a lot -- of what would change from ideologically opposed to Trump to Professional NeverTrump slammed DeSantis for being nice to Trump and ordinary Republicans who staffed Trump's administration.

Yeah.

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

The fact that Florida managed to remain the only big red state is clearly at least in part the result of DeSantis building a GOP machine that can withstand even a historic blue tsunami. Very impressive feat of political organizing.

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

Villains RW sympathizes with: tragic figures, men who want to fix the world, tyrants who desire order, men who want to build a civilization often at the expense of other human virtues.

Villains LW sympathizes: horrendous bug monsters that kill maim and torture humans as an instinct, incapable of building civilization only destroy, incapable of virtues.

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

For the last decade, the new GOP establishment has been MAGA and the insurgent “New Right” crowd that now appears best positioned to lead the party out of the Trump era.

For the most part, I think that’s been a good thing. The pre-Trump GOP establishment had become lethargic, lazy, and out of touch with voters. It couldn’t lay a finger on Democrats during the Obama era, blamed its failures on “changing demographics,” and essentially threw in the towel. Change was needed.

But now I worry that the new GOP establishment—including plenty of overconfident Republican operatives around my age who, even in overwhelming defeat, like to sit around packing Zyns and competing to see who can drop the most “based” take—is over-indexing on the losses Republicans suffered among young men in the midterms. And I worry that they're becoming similarly inclined to handwave away the party’s broader political problems by blaming changing demographics.

I’ve seen a lot of self-reflection on the timeline about the drop-off among young men in the days since the midterm shellacking. I get it. Many of us are young men ourselves. It’s hard for us to understand why others in our demographic would stay home or break for Democrats. But it’s worth remembering that 2024 was the aberration in terms of GOP support from this group, not 2026.

None of this is to say Republicans shouldn’t focus on winning back young men. But Republicans lost ground among almost every demographic in 2026. Focusing exclusively or disproportionately on young men—and convincing ourselves that the way to win them back is to get even more racist on the internet or sound a little more like Nick Fuentes—would be a major mistake.

I’m much more worried about the middle-aged white suburbanites increasingly exhausted by Trump who defected to Adam Hamilton in Kansas. Or the Hispanics across the Rio Grande Valley who voted enthusiastically and overwhelmingly for Trump just two years ago, only to jump off the bandwagon and vote for James Talarico this cycle.

Those voters represent a much bigger problem for Republicans than a largely imagined epidemic of “based” young dudes defecting to support socialist-aligned, Islamist-sympathetic extremists on the left like Abdul El-Sayed.

If the new GOP establishment responds to its first major electoral setback by retreating into demographic fatalism and doubling down on the very cultural and political instincts that alienate everyone outside its own online bubble, it risks becoming exactly the kind of failed establishment it replaced.