Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 3hON THE DAY AFTER WILLIS ACKNOWLEDGED HER RELATIONSHIP WITH NATHAN WADE!!! How does THAT coincide with your post-war commie conspiracy, Mandrake? 010
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 4hReminds me of the expression on Frances McDormand's face in "Fargo" when she realizes the car dealer criminal is fleeing the interview. 021
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 5hSomebody REALLY isn't going to like its answer to this question. 100
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 10hPretty easy for him to say -- he's not running for office in TX or industrial OH in the face of numbers like these. Also, isn't "social liberalism/economic libertarianism" basically Third Way's entire schtick? 100
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 13hAbsolutely the most abhorrent polling question I've ever seen. Like: "If the Führer decides to annihilate the Jews, do you think he will succeed? d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec... 120
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Gosh. Whaddya know. One month before a mid-term election the GOP is losing badly, with the billionaire class in the spotlight, the IRS publicly announces a crackdown on tax evasion schemes for the ultrawealthy. Purely coincidental, I'm sure. 000
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Stocks and Treasury yields going up at the same time? That looks very familiar . . . 131
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Talarico's target voters aren't hardcore transphobes, but they ARE culturally conservative. Things like gender care for minors are "threshold" issues for them -- he has to get past it to get his foot in the door. And the polling on it is BRUTAL. As close to a bipartisan consensus as there is in TX. 330
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Huh. Market isn't buying it, for a change. 000
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The only way to avoid that terrible place is to win elections and appoint judges (or block the appointment of fascist ones). Right now, that means winning elections in places like TX and AK. And this is what Democratic candidates in those places are up against. 210
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026These relative party favorability numbers remind me of the old joke about the two hunters being chased by a bear. First hunter: "I don't think we can outrun it!" Second hunter: "I don't need to outrun it. I just need to outrun YOU." 011
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Well, he does kind of look like Tony Clifton . . . 030
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I thought Whiskey Pete used semen for that -- like Cameron Diaz in There's Something About Mary. 110
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not sure there was much left to debate after this. 100
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The age breakdown was especially stark: The Israel lobby has locked itself into a demographic death spiral. 011
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"He appeared to have blood on his hands." So do these guys. 021
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Ursula, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." 010
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A mid-term election driven by data centers and diesel prices is really just the flip side of 2024's "the price of eggs was too high so I had to vote for the fascist." Not exactly a stable basis for restoring democracy. 100
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Nope. It doesn't take monsters. Just people conditioned to do monstrous things. 1232
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The American political system has reached its Brezhnev-Chernenko era. 131
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Sort of the same way this is being spun as "pacing"? 110
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Approaches like Talarico's are far more effective . . ." You mean approaches like going on Fox News to endorse a ban on gender transition surgery for minors? Not that I blame him, because this is the data (real data, not wishful thinking) his campaign was looking at. For an even WIDER ban . . . 100
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The degenerate gamblers aren't buying it, and I don't think we should either. 000
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"If you’re defending it then you must want Paxton to win." Can't speak to Kaptur's situation, but if you want to know why Talarico went on Fox to endorse a ban on transition surgery for minors, look at these numbers. No pol can afford to be on the wrong side of them. That's just a reality. 100
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 18/09/2026They mean: If the Godfather makes you an offer you don't refuse, you might want to remember how refusing it worked out for Jack Woltz. 000
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Trump Crime Family's answer to Tom Hagen. 010
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Sam Altman is a stone cold pathological liar. Trump caliber. He's just less theatrical about it. 010
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 16/09/2026But do AI labs still have plans to raise more money than God? Bingo! 010
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 16/09/2026That MIGHT be changing . . . (knocks on wood) 030
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Well, here's her problem right here. The idea our "civic culture" is "steeped in resistance to tyranny" is laughable. Our civic culture is corporate and bureaucratic. The only ones who pretended to take "resistance to tyranny" seriously were the Teabaggers -- since revealed as fascist cosplayers. 161
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just great. This kind of support El-Sayed doesn't need. Now he'll get to spend the rest of the campaign fielding idiotic questions about his "ties" to both Hasan Piker AND Tucker Carlson. 031
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Clearest sign the AI industry's doomsday scare campaign is working: Dems signing up to push "safety" legislation written by the industry and aiming for a government-sponsored cartel with anti-trust exemption. While the real problems -- greed, recklessness, criminal negligence -- will be ignored. 021
Peter Principle @peterprinciple.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A reminder that the "NS" stood for National Socialists. 010
