Links 2026-08-06T17:32:41.981Z

The DSA March and Democratic Fracture

In halls once moderate, the radicals advance,
With El-Sayed crowned by slim and bloody chance;
Mamdani booed yet pressing every claim,
While DSA dreams of revolution’s flame.
The old guard yields, the base grows ever red,
Israel damned, the center left for dead—
What thrives in primaries may poison the whole race,
As hate and zeal unmake the party’s face.
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Fauci’s Final Reckoning

One hundred eleven times the Fifth he claimed,
Though pardoned long before the questions came;
The diary of vanity now laid bare,
While Rand Paul presses what the nation dare.
From hero’s pedestal to villain’s part,
His silence thunders louder than his art—
The man who shaped a crisis from the heights
Now sits contemptuous, stripped of all his lights.
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Smithsonian’s Ideological Capture

Once temple of the nation’s storied past,
Now shrine to rage where heritage is cast;
Race, climate, sex-change silliness hold sway,
While founders’ faces fade and fade away.
Hartig’s activism dons the curator’s cloak,
Turning history to justice’s sharp stroke—
Tax dollars buy the self-loathing display
That Founding Fathers would have spurned today.
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Trump’s Wars, Stockpiles, and Stagecraft

Exasperated Trump at Camp David fumes,
As interceptors dwindle and the war resumes;
Hegseth takes heat for missiles running low,
While toddler antics steal the Vegas show.
From Iran’s front to golf-club armed arrest,
The president juggles crisis, quip, and jest—
Munitions scarce, yet humor still holds ground
When little hands near edges of the round.
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Tucker’s New Path and Third-Party Fire

Ninety minutes long the vision he unfurled,
A manifesto ten points for a fractured world;
Both parties collude, the people left behind,
So Carlson charts a course the base may find.
With Massie, Greene, and whispers of a break,
America First reborn for 2028’s sake—
Whether party or pure pressure on the throne,
The gauntlet’s thrown where loyalty once shone.
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Musk’s Doctrine and the Builder’s Frontier

“Don’t chase the gold—make useful things instead;
The money follows where the value’s led.”
So speaks the man whose rockets catch mid-flight,
Whose Grok now codes through terminal midnight.
From Starship chopsticks once dismissed as mad
To diamond qubits humming in a rack,
The builder’s creed endures: create, contribute, rise—
And leave the mediocre far behind the skies.
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Common Sense Versus Radical Individualism

Three armchairs, firelight, and wit so dry,
Cleese and Gervais watch the thinking die;
While Trueman, Harrington diagnose the age
Where self is god and limits leave the stage.
In bots that outrun flesh we find our shame,
Yet common sense still guards the civil flame—
The rarest gift our ancestors bequeathed
Now hunted down wherever slogans breathe.
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Silicon Frontiers and Algorithmic Quirks

Diamond qubits hum at room-temperature ease,
While Pringles claim the perfect chip with AI’s keys;
Suno watermarks the songs its models spin
As lawsuits circle what the machines begin.
From quantum racks that plug into the wall
To flavored stacks that never break or fall—
The future’s code is strange, precise, and sly,
Half miracle, half meme that winks goodbye.
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Miscellaneous

From boiling lobsters to the jet-stream’s twist,
The leftovers that still demand a list;
Internet brain-rot meets a traffic stop,
While weather models map the winter’s drop.
Not every thread belongs inside a frame,
Yet each still flickers with its private flame—
The scrapbook’s edge where oddments find their place
And keep the curated mind from sealed-off space.
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