iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not news, but Michael Tracey has some issues.

[first Michael Tracey’s tweet]

Michael Tracey • @mtracey • 6d
Rape in the morning, rape in the evening, rape at supper time. When raping's on a bagel, you can have rapin' anytime

[quote tweet]

venus • . @rOsegardenn • 9/28/26

Its exhausting to be a woman. Everyday is just rape rape rape. Rape in the news and rape in the show im watching and at night im running from rape in my dreams. And when i walk alone on the road i walk fast...
• 196 {7 467 © 5.9k ıl| 655k • ¢

[second Michael Tracey’s tweet]

Michael Tracey • @mtracey • 5d/

Talkin' rape with @RichardHanania in a few
minutes: open.substack.com/live-stream/39...
• 86
{7 50 • 479 ı|| 96K • İ

[third Michael Tracey’s tweet]

Michael Tracey • @mtracey • 5d

Nowdays everybody wanna talk like they got
somethin to say but nothin comes out when they move their lips just a bunch of gibberish, motherfuckers act like they forgot about rape
• 98
{7145 ©2.4K Il| 286K • İ

070

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He has pro-Trump posts as early as 2019.

Jack Buhring
14 Dec 2019 •
• • •
Doug Ibendahl *
22 Sep 2019 • O
Reposting. Thank you to everyone who has already shared this new video.
#FakeNews has been ...
Thunderstruck!! Sd #TurnItUp
-

0583

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Whoa, we probably should have stuck with the party that produced these job numbers.

A graph of US jobs creation from 2022 to 2026. The highest job creation occurred in 2022 followed by 2023 and 2024. Thus portion of the graph is circled in red.

Job creation was negative in multiple months in 2025 and 2026.

010

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really hope Trump believes this. Knowing that Republicans losing will hurt him will make those Democratic wins that more satisfying.

Let's talk about the midterms. Do you expect Democrats to take control of Congress?

No, I think we'll do okay if I campaign, and I intend to. If I campaign...you don't give me enough credit. When I campaign, I give people a lot. We did a convention that had 107 million views, and it stupidly was put opposite the NFL opening, and we got more views. They got 25 million. We got 107. Very stupid thing to do, but we did it. Somebody tell you, some person did it.

No, I think that we're going to do well. If I campaign for people, those people are going to win. Lindsey Graham's sister is fantastic. I helped her, I endorsed. And she beat a very seasoned professional named Ralph Norman.

Thomas Massie is a sleazebag, comes from Kentucky. He was semi-popular, but not somebody that could be beaten. And I campaigned against him, and I beat him in the election.

000

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump is like “I got this thing for free” and then goes onto explain a quid pro quo.

Well, you've invested in Intel. You know, you're taking a piece of Nvidia sales. Last time we spoke, you said America is a department store, and you're back to running the department store. So the question is, why let someone else run it?

You say, "I bought." I didn't buy it. I got it for nothing. As an example, Intel. The man came in to see me. I didn't know him. I never met him before. He had a problem that I could solve. I said, "I'll solve the problem, but I want
—not me, the United States of America-to have 10% of your company." He said, "You have a deal." After that was done, the deal was done, the stock went through the roof, you know.

310

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Trust me, I'm, like, a smart person.”

I believe it's still called the Al force, correct? Or you renamed it the SI Force?

What is it?

You've said there's going to be an Al force that you announced?

Yeah, but I'm going to change the name.

What is it going to do?

It's going to be super intelligence.

What will it do?

What will it do?

Because it's much more accurate. It's going to be a group of very smart people that understand it, who will be advising me. But I will tell you right now, I'm not going to be easy because I'm not going to kill a thing based on phony threats. They said that our country was going to burn down because of global warming. Then they changed the name to climate change because global warming wasn't going. They said that we are going to have some of the most difficult times ever. Global warming turned out to be a hoax. Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax.
Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.

So what is the hoax of Al? Who's behind it?

The whole country is based on fake stuff because these people have Trump derangement syndrome.

000

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Same laser like focus on the question being asked.

A screenshot of a famous excerpt from a deposition of Donald Sterling;

Q: Are you one of those men that does that?

A: Well, I fool around sonotines. I do. When a girl seduces me and tells me all of these hot stories and dirty things and tells me how much she wants to suck on me and takes my shoes off and licks my feet and
When I'm in a limousine, she takes all of her
clothes. The limo driver said, what is going on? And she started sucking me on the way to Mr. Koon's house.

And I thank her. I thank her for making ne feel good.

Q: Sir, the question wao, is this your handwriting?

A: It looks like It is.

000

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

JFC, they took turns shooting him!?!

Cover of New York Post: Late City Final edition for Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Grandparents ‘took turns shooting dead’ trans NY Times spouse of daughter

SLAUGHTER IN-LAW

The headline for the horrific murder of a trans man is accompanied by mugshots of the in laws that murdered him and a picture of Jonathan McKinsey at what appears to be his office.

000

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Election forecast after Trump announces steel mill in Iowa:

Jeb Wins Meme: Jeb Bush stand with his as open in front of a completely yellow electoral map.

010

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In his most recent piece, Friedersdorf indicated that it only recently became clear that the right has a problem with racism. He’s professionally clueless.

Changes to content moderation on X under Elon Musk's ownership—not to mention rhetoric and actions within the federal government—have made clear how common bigoted identitarianism is in the
GOP coalition. Republicans who believe in the values of Christianity, the creed of the Declaration of Independence, or the moral imperative to judge people as individuals need to confront the prejudice in their ranks.

2432

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s wild these two paragraphs appear in the same piece. The left cried wolf too many times on racism, so we couldn’t recognize racism. Also, the right seems to have a problem with racism based what I’m seeing on X and what the Trump Administration is doing. He’s so close to figuring it out.

And third, once the left began to treat mere departures from left-identitarian shibboleths as racist, it became harder to stigmatize actual racism or xenophobia, as surely as crying wolf at every shih tzu, tabby cat, and hamster would make it harder to warn against actual wolves on the hunt.

030

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Amazingly, Conor is complaining about affirmative action, which he characterizes as discrimination against white people, while condemning a Republican for being openly racist toward a diverse student body. Again, no links or citations.

Second, not only was embracing race as a factor in university admissions unpopular with voters, so much so that it lost ballot initiatives even in left-leaning California; colleges discrimination against white people and Asians also stoked racial resentment by putting identity groups in a
zero-sum competition.

140

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In Conor’s telling, Trump won by being straightforwardly racist because the left made an issue out of race. As usual, there’s no link to support that assertion.

The identitarian right rise has lessons for progressives too. First, seeking to raise the salience of race and ethnicity in American politics and culture was a mistake-as ought to have been clear by 2016, when Donald Trump exploited that heightened salience for his own ends. As the poliical scientist Karen Stenner argued in her 2005 book, causing people who are uncomfortable with difference to perceive it as a threat to social cohesion can activate a latent predisposition toward intolerance.

110

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even when condemning racism on the right, Conor cannot pass up the opportunity to punch left.

The identitarian right's rise has lessons for progressives too. First, seeking to raise the salience of race and ethnicity in American politics and culture was a mistake—as ought to have been clear by 2016, when Donald Trump exploited that heightened salience for his own ends. As the political scientist Karen Stenner argued in her 2005 book, causing people who are uncomfortable with difference to perceive it as a threat to social cohesion can activate a latent predisposition toward intolerance.

Second, not only was embracing race as a factor in university admissions unpopular with voters, so much so that it lost ballot initiatives even in left-leaning California; colleges discrimination against white people and Asians also stoked racial resentment by putting identity groups in a
zero-sum competition.

110

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shockingly, Conor condemns a Republican for their racist speech. Apparently, the prevalence of racism within the Republican Party is something that only recently became clear.

140

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Tyson and some administration flunkies does not make the wedding star-studded.

1100

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The complaint indicates the dude was trying to set boundaries with her, but Sinema kept going. The husband could have been lying to the wife, Sinema does not come off well either way.

18. Plaintiff maintained the household while Mr. Ammel searched for stable
employment and focused on improving his mental and physical health.

19. In 2022, Mr. Ammel secured employment in a few different jobs. Ridgeline Defense hired Mr. Ammel as a shooting, driving, and breaching instructor. Consolidated Analysis Centers, Inc. ("CACI) hired Mr. Ammel as a maritime operations instructor in Tunisia. Staccato, a nationally recognized firearm company, hired Mr. Ammel to train law enforcement on how to
use their pistols.

20. That same year, in 2022, Defendant's head of security hired Mr. Ammel to work as a security detail for Defendant.

21. At that time, Defendant was serving as a United States Senator for the State of
Arizona.

22. In April 2022, Mr. Ammel began working for Defendant.

23. In the fall of 2023, Defendant's head of security resigned from her position. Prior
to leaving, Defendant's head of security expressed to Mr. Ammel she had concers Defendant was having sexual relations with other security members. She encouraged Mr. Ammel to leave with her, but Mr. Ammel decided to stay due to the financial security of the job.

24. In addition to accompanying Defendant to various work events, Mr. Ammel accompanied Defendant on several trips and went with her alone to Napa Valley, California in the fall of 2023. Upon returning home from Napa Valley, Mr. Ammel appeared uncomfortable and informed Plaintiff that if anyone had seen them together on the trip, it would have appeared as if they were on a romantic getaway.

25. In December of 2023, Defendant requested Mr. Ammel serve as her security for the U2 concert at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Ammel asked Plaintiff to accompany him on

Page 4 of 14

the trip and presented it to her as a "gift." Mr. Ammel expressed that the trip would be a great opportunity for Plaintiff to meet Defendant and would help establish boundaries. Mr. Ammel introduced Plaintiff to Defendant as his wife. Plaintiff met Defendant, Defendant's friends, and
several others on the trip, including American diplomat and Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Cindy McCain. After the concert was over, the group went to McCain's suite.
Defendant offered Plaintiff a glass of Dom Perignon and stated to Plaintiff "Did you ever think you would be drinking Dom Perignon in Cindy McCain's Suite?"

26. In or around 2023, Defendant traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, for a work
event. Mr. Ammel met Defendant at the airport and provided her security for the event.

27. Beginning in January 2024, while Plaintiff, Mr. Ammel, and the Children were residing in Moore County, North Carolina, Plaintiff discovered Defendant frequently messaging Mr. Ammel on Signal, the messaging app. Defendant had knowledge Mr. Ammel was residing in North Carolina at the time she sent the messages, and Mr. Ammel received the messages while residing at the marital residence in Moore County, North Carolina. The messages exceeded the bounds of a normal working relationship and were of romantic and lascivious natures.

28. Plaintiff discovered messages which included a picture of Defendant wrapped in a towel; Defendant offered to help Mr. Ammel work through his mental health challenges and Mr. Ammel agreed; Mr. Ammel stated to Defendant he was intimidated by her and Defendant asked why because she only wants to be intimidating to her opponents, not to people she likes; Defendant suggested for Mr. Ammel to bring MDMA drugs on a work trip so that she could guide him through a psychedelic experience.

Page 5 of 14

29. Defendant messaged Mr. Ammel during the State of the Union Address, and when Mr. Ammel asked why she wasn't attending the State of the Union that year, Defendant stated she didn't need to listen to some old man, President Biden, talk about the legislation that she wrote.

30. Around that same time, Mr. Ammel traveled to Pennsylvania for a work trip with Staccato. During his free time, Mr. Ammel attended a baseball game by himself, but messaged Defendant during the game stating he was going to start a "fuck the troops" chant. Defendant responded stating she would "fuck the hot ones."

31. Defendant and Mr. Ammel messaged about having sex missionary style with the
lights on, and Defendant stated "Boring!"
32. In March 2024, Defendant requested Mr. Ammel serve as her security at the Extra Innings Festival in Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Ammel acknowledged to Plaintiff that Defendant was handsy with him at this event. Defendant held his hand and touched him. Mr. Ammel expressed to Plaintiff he didn't know how to get out of the situation without offending Defendant.
33. Shortly thercafter, Defendant and Mr. Ammel flew to San Francisco, California,
for Defendant's work trip. While in San Francisco, Defendant invited Mr. Ammel into her hotel room, and they stayed together for hours.

34. In April 2024, Mr. Ammel traveled to Maryland for a work trip with Staccato.
While he was there, Defendant invited Mr. Ammel over to her apartment in Washington, DC.

35. In May 2024, Defendant started purchasing gifts for Mr. Ammel and paid for him to receive psychedelic treatment. Defendant paid for Mr. Ammel's psychedelic treatment appointment in Nashville, Tennessee, and then flew him to Napa Valley, California, for him to provide Defendant's security at a concert. After the concert, Defendant, Defendant's friends, and Mr. Ammel stayed in a private Airbnb together.

Page 6 of 14

36. Defendant purchased a theragun for Mr. Ammel and messaged him to bring it over to her apartment so that she could "work on his back."

37. Around May or June 2024, Mr. Ammel stopped wearing his wedding ring. Mr.
Ammel stated it was best for "public optics" so it wouldn't look like Defendant was putting her hands on a married man when they were out at concerts and various other public events.

38. In June 2024, Defendant requested Mr. Ammel travel to New York City to be her
security and guest for a wedding. From New York City, Defendant and Mr. Ammel flew to Defendant's house in Scottsdale, Arizona where they stayed together alone.

39. That same month, Defendant offered Mr. Ammel a salary position and placed him
on her senate staff as a Defense and National Security Fellow. Mr. Ammel then worked as Defendant's personal security guard as well as her senate staff member.

40. Around that same time, Plaintiff discovered more messages between Defendant and Mr. Ammel. Defendant expressed to Mr. Ammel she keeps waking up during her sleep and reaching over for his arms to hold her. Plaintiff confronted Mr. Amnel.

41. In the following months, Mr. Ammel struggled to admit to Plaintiff he was having
an affair with Defendant but was vocal that he was leaving Plaintiff and that they were divorcing.

42. Mr. Ammel continued to work for Defendant as her security guard and senate staff member, traveling to various states and cities within the United States and internationally.

43. In July 2024, Mr. Ammel took their minor child, C.A., to Washington, D.C. for a work trip. Mr. Ammel and C.A. attended the Green Day concert with Defendant, and Defendant provided C.A. a tour of the United States Capitol.

44. In October 2024, soon after Mr. Ammel returned home to Moore County, North Carolina, after being away with Defendant on another work trip, Defendant messaged Mr. Ammel

Page 7 of 14

040

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I wonder if NYT/Siena is making a polling error in the opposite direction this cycle with Maine.

The Maine Senate polls leading up to the 2020 election:

NYT/Siena poll from September 11-16 showed Sara Gideon beating Susan Collins 49-44.

Collins ultimately beat Gideon 51-42.4

010

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These are shows I loved and have watched multiple times. I didn’t pick shows I know are great, but haven’t finished (Madmen, The Americans, For All Mankind), or shows that had one amazing season (Silo, True Detective).

THE 100 BEST TV SHOWS OF THE 21st CENTURY

My Top Shows

Breaking Bad

Parks and Recreation

Battlestar Galactica

Andor

Watchmen (2019)

Slow Horses

Lost

Schitt$ Creek

Stranger Things

Chernobyl

000

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dems that came of age in the 70s and 80s being gun shy about going that far left makes a lot of sense when you look at the 1972, 1980, 1984, and 1988 election results. Obama’s win in 2008 pales in comparison.

1972 Election results

It shows Nixon got 60.7% of the vote and won 49 states and 520 electoral college votes.

1980 Election results

It shows Reagan got 50.7% of the vote and won 44 states and 489 electoral college votes.

1984 Election results

It show got 58.8% of the vote and won 49 states and 525 electoral college votes.

1988 Election results

It shows that George HW Bush got 53.4% of the vote and won 40 states and 426 electoral college votes.

0144

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This made me laugh when I checked to see when their last episode was released.

Ratings and Reviews

1.7 out of 5

Make It Make Somethibg Wor…

Shockingly boring and so, so stupid.

030

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not really news, but Alito has brain worms. “implementing it will also ‘en- hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail’ in order to better detect election fraud” Alito is so sure there’s massive election fraud and he wants this rule in effect to find the evidence.

ALITO, J., dissenting

As for the equities, the Q ernment has a strong interest in enforcing the rule, and Implementing it will also "en-hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail" in order to better detect election fraud 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side of the balance, the aintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not enough to convince me to deny the application.

010

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fuckin’ Kav always trying to have it both ways.

JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring.
In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service's statutory authority. See 39 U.S. C. §401(2). But applying the rule in the 2026 elections would be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections. See 39
U. S. C. §3001(m); 5 U. S. C. §706(2)(A). For that reason, I concur in the denial of the application for stay.

120

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every day in the second Trump Administration

A still from the Camp Krusty episode pf the Simpsons where Mr. Black toasts the school bullies and says, “Gentlemen, to evil!”

010

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Inside Heaven, there are two Che’s.

A screenshot of the two Che Guevara’s waiting in line to debate Charlie Kirk in this ai McNaughton.

030

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That’s an interesting way to pay tribute to Charlie.

A screenshot of a statue of Charlie Kirk sitting with a microphone on a flatbed Home Depot truck thar can be rented for $19.

2154

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m dying. WaPo has a set, three hosts, and a producer presumably making Youtube videos to get 1/50 the subscribers Bouie has with a tripod in his house and a self-stick. Their views are up, but still kind of pathetic. I mean the trailer for the show still has the fourth most views.

A screenshot of the Make It Make Sense Youtube page showing it has 2.07K subscribers and 389 videos.

A screenshot of Takes by Jamelle Bouie Youtube page showing he gad 112K subscribers and 390 videos.

The popular tab on the Make it Make sense Youtube page showing it’s most viewed video has 109K views and it’s fiftm modt viewed video has 9.8K views.

A screenshot of the Takes By Jamelle Bouie Youtube page showing his top viewed video has 183K views and his fifth most viewed video has 122K views.

010

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yeah, Hunter sucks, but the shit people will say because they spent too much time on Nazi Twitter is genuinely shocking.

Dave WeigelO @daveweigel.bsky.s... • 3m
• Bluesky Elder

Been a little surprised at how willing people are to forgive Hunter.

He's handsome and charismatic? Of course he is! He's an evil junkie who's never had to work for anything. You don't need to riff with him on your podcast. 1/2

Dave Weigel O
@daveweigel.bsky.social
• Bluesky Elder

I'm sure he's haunted by the knowledge that The Wrong Kid Died, and his actually hardworking brother was supposed to carry on the family's good name. But too bad! He sucks. 2/2
2:57 PM • Sep 8, 2026

040

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

JFC, did Chait write 5K words on this?

The embedded audio for this Chait article showing it is 20:49 long.

120

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Bouie also gave the woke right nonsense the amount of respect it deserves.

Cottle: Woke 2 is here?

French: Yeah, it's here. It's from the right.

Bouie: OK, this whole, like, "woke right" thing, which I know got some currency a couple months ago, I think is stupid. I'm not even going to be polite about it. I think it's very stupid. I think we can just talk about that as right-wing ideology. It's its own thing with its own dynamics.

060

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This dude has brain worms and seems to think the New York AG has much greater prosecutorial authority than they do.

"If you believe Trump is using (Department of Justice) attorneys to prosecute his enemies and further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish (James) is doing exactly the same thing," Wiesenfeld wrote. "I ask that you not serve as Tish's personal attorneys by targeting her political enemies. Instead, I hope you choose to prosecute crimes and find the individuals accountable, rather than targeting individuals and then finding crimes."

Wiesenfeld also accused James of using
"significant public taxpayer dollars to target convenient public enemies" while taking no action against what he described as "rampant nonprofit homeless shelter fraud and antisemitic
crimes in and around synagogues."

000

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Looking like svelte 239 pounds, sir.

020

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Enhance Enhance Enhance … Good God, what have I done? Delete. Delete. Delete.

A cropped screenshot of a photo of Natalie Harp and her prominent gums. Oh yeah, Trump’s in the phot too.

A cropped screenshot of a photo of Natalie Harp laughing. Her prominent gums are really prominent.

A cropped version screenshot of a demon from hell about to eat your soul or Natalie Harp and her terrifying teeth and gums.

061

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Trump’s candidate selection skills are unmatched. A non-Trumpy Republican probably wins this race by 5-10 even in this national environment, but this psycho Anthony Constantino very well might lose it.

New York 21st
Congressional District
2026: Latest Polls

Survey USA
Aug. 4-8

Gendebien +4
43% Gendebien
39% Constantino

Impact Research

Constantino +1
45% Constantino
44% Gendebien

New York 21st Congressional District Election Results

Elise Stefanik
Votes 216,513
62.1%

Paula Collins
Votes 131,930
37.9%

010

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

These are the first full length books I remember reading as a child.

The original Hildebrandt cover to The Sword of Shannara:

An elf, a human, a dwarf stand before a glowing sword, that is actually not the Sword of Jerle Shannara.

The original cover to The Elfstones of Shannara:

A human holding glowing stones, an elven archer, and a elven woman began crossing a bridge at the base of a mountain keep.

The original cover to The Wishsong of Shannara:

A man and a wonan walk away from a smoking castle with awraity like figure guiding them, who’s actually a wizard not long for this world.

161

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This psycho comes out of the car with his gun unholstered for no reason.

A screenshot of the video in the quote tweet showing a masked thug, I mean ICE officer, stepping out of an SUV with a gun in his hand.

020

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s interesting how the people complaining about how pervasive and destructive wokeness apparently was/is can never be bothered to provide a hyperlink or citation that would support their claims. It seems like it would be pretty easy to if these things actually happened as they say.

For a decade, a highly online horde of academics, journalists, techies, and activists operated like America's unelected
HR regime — a petty administrative state with a mob of reactive nerds attached.
They were authoritarian, coercive, and sustained by the threat that anyone who failed to master an ever-expanding vocabulary could be publicly humiliated, professionally ruined, or expelled from polite society. Latinx one year, Latine the next: choose the wrong suffix, and HR
might open a case file.

Ironically, the AOCs of the world wanted to abolish the uniformed police, even as they behaved like a secret police defending the tenets of hyper-progressivism. Were you a white guy wearing a sombrero on Halloween? You're guilty of a hate crime. A scientist wearing a shirt covered in cartoon women? Made to weep on camera. Wait, you're not putting your pronouns in your email bio — what kind of an asshole are you?

Careers were destroyed, reputations vaporized, and institutions bullied into submission, often over transgressions so slight that nobody outside the movement's tribunal could explain what
crime had actually occurred.

041

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Every supposedly sophisticated, conservative intellectual makes me ask the same question, “What the fuck are you talking about?”

Of course, the left made it easy for them.
The left really did purge conservatives from universities and other cultural power centers. The left really did valorize a
"meritocratic" caste system that privileged the children of the affluent and screwed the working class. The left really did pontificate to their unenlightened moral inferiors on everything from gender to the environment.
The left really did create a stifling orthodoxy that stamped out dissent. If you tell half the country that their voices don't matter, then the voiceless are going to flip over the table.

130

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Bluesky is the least horny place on the entire internet until you search some common word and discover it’s the most horny place on the entire internet.

Matt Ufford
@mattufford.bsky.social
• Bluesky Elder

the discourse is wild, man. bluesky is like the least horny place on the entire internet, then one director was like "I cut nude scenes out of my sex movie" and INSTANTLY everyone demanded nudity. and frankly I'm here for it. let's see it all hanging out, baby. for art. respectfully of course.

9:30 PM • Aug 8, 2026 6;
Some people can reply
70 reposts 1.2K likes 17 saves

000

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Every supposedly sophisticated, conservative intellectual makes me ask the same question, “What the fuck are you talking about?”

After 2020 we tried putting this establishment back in charge, but the Biden era just gave us a more left-wing version of meritocratic hubris, replacing experts with interest groups, maxing out on social liberalism and illegal immigration and then unraveling completely in the end.
Something similar could be said about the Keir Starmer experiment in Britain. There is no evidence that the old elite has a blueprint suited to contemporary governance, no reason to expect that it won't just cycle through the same mistakes and backlash.

But I lived through the years of peak woke, and it was a McCarthyite experience. I lived with the blue-state governance that doctrinaire progressivism encouraged, and it yielded civic and educational collapse.
And I would prefer not to give the far left the power to regulate and prosecute and rewrite the federal budget.

Then, finally, all of these political forces — the unpopular populists, the flailing establishment, the rising left — are displaying their vices in the shadow of the artificial intelligence revolution, which is creating new zones of power in which the friend-enemy distinction is almost impossible for me to parse.

121