Enjoying the view from Limbo
I am sitting in my office on Wednesday afternoon here in Korea, watching the live Tuesday night (U.S. time) coverage of the midterm elections. As things now stand, the Democrats will certainly control both houses of Congress at the end of this affair, in what will turn out to have been one of the great drubbings in U.S. midterms history — especially in...
The First Lady.— I cannot even imagine what it would be like to be the kind of person who would be interested in watching a documentary about Melania Trump — or “Sweet pea,” as her friend Ghislaine Maxwell affectionately called her, though this cute friendship, I suspect, is not mentioned in the documentary. Unaccomplished, vain, apolitical, amoral, a non-entity who, like everyone who...
America Descending / Liberty's Labors Lost
by Daren Jonescu · Published February 8, 2026 · Last modified February 9, 2026
Donald Trump is trying to execute in the 2026 midterm elections the same strategy he used in the 2020 presidential election: Start telling people months ahead of the election that the Democrats are planning massive voter fraud, though without providing any evidence to support this; on election night, stand up and declare that the election fraud he predicted has really happened, though without...
Do you remember back in the days before 2016, when tens of millions of Americans, Republican Party voters, defended the right to bear arms, against all critics, arguing that the real reason for the Second Amendment had nothing to do with hunting or recreational shooting, but was all about the God-given right of a free people to arm themselves against a potentially tyrannical...
To everyone who has ever accused me personally, or any other critic of Donald Trump for that matter, of suffering from the non-existent ailment (but all-time great example of psychological projection), “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” I offer the following: Dear Jonas, Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an...
Ideas and Reflections / Liberty's Labors Lost
by Daren Jonescu · Published January 13, 2026 · Last modified January 14, 2026
The leaders of the MAGA cult, looking at every video of an ICE shooting in Minneapolis, insist that they see, and therefore that you must also see, an honorable law enforcement officer being rammed by a car driven by a domestic terrorist and therefore fully justified in defending himself with lethal force against this act of extremist violence. The cult submits its perceptual...
America Descending / Ideas and Reflections
by Daren Jonescu · Published December 16, 2025 · Last modified December 21, 2025
In the immediate aftermath of the murder of the politically trivial and offensively pseudo-Christian MAGA grifter Charlie Kirk, Rob Reiner, a knee-jerk and sometimes offensive Hollywood progressive (though one who actually earned his living and reputation through honest work rather than by playing up to powerful political factions), offered an appropriate and elegant public statement about Kirk’s killing. Here is the Huffington Post’s...
What men will believe if it supports the rhetorical interests of their tribe. What they will overlook if it undercuts their self-identifying faith in their tribe. And how often the tribesmen will employ the former with the greatest force of absurdity as a psychological bulwark against having to confront themselves with the most disturbing evidence of the latter. Glenn Beck recently hosted a...
America Descending / Liberty's Labors Lost
by Daren Jonescu · Published October 7, 2023 · Last modified October 8, 2023
Jim Jordan, a careerist boob who would sell his soul (or rather has already sold it) to help Donald Trump win the presidency and Vladimir Putin win the war — two sides of the same coin — is vowing, as his primary pledge in seeking the speakership of the U.S. House of Representatives, to support no further financial aid for Ukraine. Rand Paul,...
I love this idea. Several Republican members of the House of Representatives, along with some prominent populist authoritarian “pundits,” are actively seeking to put forward Donald Trump’s name as a nominee to replace Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. One of those sympathetic to the idea, apparently, is Jim Jordan, a prominent member of the House Freedom Fraudsters, whose name is also...
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