James "the Perplexed" Landis
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Nurse, aspiring vegetarian, left leaning. Curious about many topics, informed about a few. Not qualified to diagnose, but I have theories.
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It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
It’s pretty wild that the most rabidly anti-immigrant administration in recent memory is comprised of a President married to an immigrant, a VP married to the daughter of immigrants, an assistant AG in charge of Civil Rights who’s an immigrant (Dhillon), & it was all funded by an immigrant (Musk).
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Christian here…what interest does our government EVER have in [specifically] the alleged treatment of Christians elsewhere? “People elsewhere,” sure. US citizens traveling/living abroad, of course. But the USA itself (& its military ffs) doesn’t have a religion. Cuz that’d be…wait for it…unAmerican.
December 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Christian here…what interest does our government EVER have in [specifically] the alleged treatment of Christians elsewhere? “People elsewhere,” sure. US citizens traveling/living abroad, of course. But the USA itself (& its military ffs) doesn’t have a religion. Cuz that’d be…wait for it…unAmerican.
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Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.
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On the list of things that have mass cultural proliferation that I have no personal experience with despite being raised a Christian, the advent calendar ranks very high
December 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
On the list of things that have mass cultural proliferation that I have no personal experience with despite being raised a Christian, the advent calendar ranks very high
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For what it's worth I think it's absolutely rational to think a man who shows a preference for young women, a lack of boundaries, and willingness to hang out with child molesters isn't really trustworthy.
December 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
For what it's worth I think it's absolutely rational to think a man who shows a preference for young women, a lack of boundaries, and willingness to hang out with child molesters isn't really trustworthy.
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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Trump taking "anti-woke" a little too literally.
December 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Trump taking "anti-woke" a little too literally.
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“Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people.” – Rob Reiner
December 16, 2025 at 12:47 AM
“Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people.” – Rob Reiner
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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The US government is now a mafia organization.
December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The US government is now a mafia organization.
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Trump admits he took another cognitive test.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
December 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Trump admits he took another cognitive test.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
They don’t just give those out for funsies.
He also says the NYT reporting on his heath is sedition and perhaps treason.
Whatever news he got must be awful.
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My son was in preschool when Republicans first promised to have a better plan than the ACA.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
Only had 15 years and four different Republican House speakers since ACA was passed.
Roger Marshall on Republicans replacing the ACA: "It's gonna take us a while to figure out the right way to do it"
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
My son was in preschool when Republicans first promised to have a better plan than the ACA.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
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My favorite quote on CEO pay, from Compensation Consultant Graef Crystal: “Plato told Aristotle no one should make more than five times the pay of the lowest member of society. J.P. Morgan said 20 times. Jesus advocated a negative differential--that's why they killed him."
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My favorite quote on CEO pay, from Compensation Consultant Graef Crystal: “Plato told Aristotle no one should make more than five times the pay of the lowest member of society. J.P. Morgan said 20 times. Jesus advocated a negative differential--that's why they killed him."
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Yeah, I bet wealthy fans around the globe can't wait to enjoy a few days of international competition and hospitality in Norman, Oklahoma. You go with that, MAGA.
Monica Crowley claims Trump is "talking to FIFA" about potentially moving the World Cup out of "blue cities," but no decisions have been made
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yeah, I bet wealthy fans around the globe can't wait to enjoy a few days of international competition and hospitality in Norman, Oklahoma. You go with that, MAGA.
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The Matthew effect (or cumulative advantage) describes the tendency of people who already have money or status to accrue yet more money or status. A poetic German phrase that sums up the concept is der Teufel scheißt immer auf den größten Haufen. It means "the Devil always shits on the largest pile"
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The Matthew effect (or cumulative advantage) describes the tendency of people who already have money or status to accrue yet more money or status. A poetic German phrase that sums up the concept is der Teufel scheißt immer auf den größten Haufen. It means "the Devil always shits on the largest pile"
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Pete Hegseth: "You must blindly follow my orders unless they later turn out to be illegal, in which case they are your orders."
December 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Pete Hegseth: "You must blindly follow my orders unless they later turn out to be illegal, in which case they are your orders."
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I think present-day politics makes a lot more sense if we acknowledge that constant interactions on social media can rapidly evolve someone’s perception of reality and their political beliefs, as they try to conform with the vast, unregulated, malformed parasocial mob
December 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I think present-day politics makes a lot more sense if we acknowledge that constant interactions on social media can rapidly evolve someone’s perception of reality and their political beliefs, as they try to conform with the vast, unregulated, malformed parasocial mob
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There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
There is no constitutionally legitimate scenario in which we are being de facto governed by the White House Deputy Chief of Staff using a half-dead president as his sock puppet. We went out of our way to amend the Constitution on precisely this point.
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Like we're past the event horizon of strong presidency, weak president and into the singularity of strong presidency, no president
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Like we're past the event horizon of strong presidency, weak president and into the singularity of strong presidency, no president
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The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
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Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.