Trump's Ennui

Plus: California's races, how not to blow an inheritance, life extension hits the wall, and more...

Benjamin Netanyahu listened, kinda sorta: The Israeli military has stopped striking Beirut, seemingly buckling under pressure from President Donald Trump and others to deescalate lest a regional ceasefire be threatened. (Iran will not make a deal if Israel continues to strike allies.) Still, Israel's prime minister has decided to maintain the military offensive against Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon, issuing new evacuation orders Tuesday for Nabatieh, one of the region's largest cities, indicating that more strikes will follow.

"Trump later said on social media that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to stop their attacks on each other," reports The New York Times, "while the Lebanese government—which does not include or control Hezbollah—said a new truce was taking shape."

"I spoke with President Trump tonight," said Netanyahu yesterday, "and told him that if Hezbollah doesn't cease its attacks on our cities and civilians—Israel will strike terror targets in Beirut. This position of ours remains." Everything looks very tenuous right now, and so naturally Trump is…losing interest!

As for Iran: "I don't care if they're over, honestly," said Trump, referring to peace talks with Iran. "I really don't care. I couldn't care less," Trump told CNBC on Monday, saying the negotiations "started to get very boring." (Reminds me of his wife's iconic jacket that she wore to a…migrant detention center.)

"Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us," wrote Trump on Truth Social yesterday. "But don't the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively 'chirping,' at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever. Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does!"

The White House is trying to make this a catchphrase:

TRUST IN TRUMP.

"Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does!" - President Donald J. Trump. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/CAjU4jM8Jy

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 1, 2026

Nothing about the history of the Middle East lends credence to the idea that "it will all work out well in the end" but I'm glad Trump feels he can ~manifest~ his way into peace. He sounds like a Cali mystic with a dream catcher and some tarot cards and a low price for palm readings if you'll just come down into her basement. Speaking of…

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Replacing Gavin Newsom: California's primary for governor takes place today, with voters heading to their local polling places to cast their vote for who would be least bad (or best, if you're less cynical). The top two vote-getters, regardless of party, will advance, but it's not totally clear who is going to proceed: Possibly Tom Steyer—the billionaire Democrat who is running to the left of the rest of the field and wants to tax his buddies—or Xavier Becerra, who formerly served as California's attorney general and helmed the Department of Health and Human Services during the Biden administration.

Steyer's never held political office before, whereas Becerra is an insider who's been preparing for primetime; it'll be interesting to see whether voters want experience in their governor. Ditto with the Los Angeles mayoral race, which also gets decided today: reality TV star (and intense critic of L.A.'s leadership following the terrible Palisades fire last year) Spencer Pratt goes up against incumbent Karen Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman. It looks fairly tight.

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Scenes from New York: 

Photos of Manhattan's Lower East Side in the 1980s by Tria Giovan pic.twitter.com/UZ8S3PWnIj

— Andrew (@Dub__A) May 31, 2026

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QUICK HITS

• As a Texan, I've been following James Talarico vs. Ken Paxton pretty closely and am left wanting both of them to lose the Senate race. This New York Times piece on Talarico's church is, uh, instructive as to what type of Christianity he practices (not a type that bears much resemblance to mine), and Paxton's name-calling ("low-T Talarico" and "tofu Talarico," along with "Six-Gender Jimmy") is kind of pathetic, plus I didn't really love much of what Paxton did as attorney general.
• How to not blow an inheritance, by The Wall Street Journal.
• "Nvidia Corp. is entering the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel Corp. technology in that arena and modernizing the machines for the AI era," reports Bloomberg. This is huge.
• "When Annual Mammogram Day came around, I was four weeks into what I called my AI year, weaving artificial intelligence into every corner of my existence. Not just at work—writing emails, doing research, testing AI vending machines. I'm talking 24-7 AI livin'. Robots helping around the house, on the roads, on the massage table, at the dinner table. If there was a decision to make or a task to do, I wanted to see what happened when I let AI go first. I tried to make AI my everything. Even when it came to my health decisions," writes Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal. "Two factors make my breasts particularly challenging for radiologists. They're structurally dense, meaning they contain more glandular and fibrous tissue than fat. Dense breast tissue appears white on a mammogram, the same color as tumors, making it more difficult to detect abnormalities. The second complicating factor: My mom is a three-time breast cancer survivor, which puts my risk higher than the average woman's. Based on our family history—including two first cousins who've been through it—I have a 39% chance of developing the disease in my lifetime." Read on for Stern's thoughts on how AI is going to—and is already—changing the breast cancer detection game.
• Really good insight on how we're getting better at reducing death before 80, but not better at life extension, per se:

I think we're on the verge of a golden age in cardio-metabolic health (thanks GLP1s!) and oncology (CAR-T, daraxonrasib, checkpoint inhibitors).

But let's be real about what average lifespans in the 100s would require.

The oldest documented person died 29 years ago. Jeanne… https://t.co/ztk8yy4P04

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) June 1, 2026

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump's Ennui

Trump wept, for there were no more fixtures to gold plate.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"Ok, then just pay me the $10B..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-weaponization-fund-put-on-hold-after-fierce-opposition-from-congress/ar-AA24D1fI

The Republican rebellion was an extraordinary act of defiance given Trump's insistence on loyalty and his threats to back primary candidates against those who do not toe the line.

The fund emerged from a legal settlement between Trump and the Justice Department to resolve an unprecedented $10 ‌billion lawsuit against the IRS over the alleged mishandling of his tax records. The $1.776 billion was meant to pay people who said they had been the subject of government abuse.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Whats funny is reason will see this as a victory and not judicial corruption.

There are multiple times that lawsuits against obamas sue and settle were opened, even by states affected significantly by the settlement. Judges constantly dropped these suits for standing. Yet 2 different judges refused and blocked the funds without even mentioning no standing.

So reason will cheer this and continue to ignore the 10s of millions given to antifa and leftist groups who have reached settlements.

The goal is 2 tiers if justice. Process as punishment only for conservatives, make it worth their time for leftist groups.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Another prominent democrat goes for taking out political opponents.

Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Paul Krugman: “We really need to do a thorough purging of the United States."

“We need a deMAGAfication…similar to de-Nazification."

This deranged lunatic was employed by NYT for 20+ years.

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2061513623327895874

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Israeli military has stopped striking Beirut, seemingly buckling under pressure from President Donald Trump...

WHO IS WHOSE PUPPET

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Qb and petti are outraged that hezbollah agreed to stop firing rockets into Israel as they have for a decade. Iran is panicking and now trying to get the Houthis to get involved.

[Quicktown Brix]

More like amused there's people dumb ("Most people don't know that dumb ends in a B") enough to take that seriously.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"But don't the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively 'chirping,' at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever."

Yes, they do understand. They understand very, very well.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump told CNBC on Monday, saying the negotiations "started to get very boring."

The art of the [yawn] deal.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Leftist DEI policies and largely open immigration set companies on a path for takeover by other cultures. Such as Meta.

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Jeremy Bernier
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At Meta, 90% of my coworkers were Chinese, and non-Chinese were routinely excluded, disadvantaged, and targeted for layoffs. 6 out of the 7 layoffs I observed targeted non-Chinese despite non-Chinese being the vast minority. Certain orgs like ads and MRS are notorious for being Chinese dominated. I think Americans would be outraged if they knew that their own citizens were getting marginalized and laid off at their own companies, while Chinese promote themselves up, conquer entire orgs, and reap millions.

Imagine if Huawei in Shenzhen had entire orgs and leadership chains completely dominated by Japanese people who brazenly spoke Japanese at work without a care in the world that their Chinese coworkers don't understand, imposed their own work culture without respecting Chinese culture, excluded the Chinese, and laid off Chinese people while promoting their own. I imagine Chinese citizens would be outraged, and never allow that to happen in the first place.

(Long post)

https://x.com/jeremybernier/status/2058243373161722185?s=20

We have seen this in many companies where DEI policies and H1B policies lead to cultural groups taking over entire departments. He'll, saw it in university 30 years ago.

In culture promotions, outnof cultural firings, all while firing white citizens. Globalism at its finest.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Put all ccp loyal professors in solitary for 10 years.
Boot out all ccp students and agents from the us

[Medulla Oblongata]

Fat boy and his new taxes. One take is that taxpayers across the nation were paying $8B into Illinois to pay for things Illinois could have paid for on its own.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/illinois-passes-record-56b-budget-with-new-taxes/ss-AA24AP8a

Historic spending plan: Lawmakers passed a $55.9 billion budget, the largest in Illinois history, after overnight negotiations.

New revenue sources: Taxes target social media, digital assets, fantasy sports, and more, while a gas tax hike is delayed until January.

Sharp partisan divide: Democrats cite federal cuts as justification; Republicans warn of economic harm to Illinois families.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Don't worry pritzker lowered the taxes on his house by removing the toilets, so the property got listed as condemned during the assessment

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

They aren't tariffs though. Kmw and Boehm will tell us how making business more expensive in the US is actually a good thing.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...I'm glad Trump feels he can ~manifest~ his way into peace.

We can joke all we want, but the man some crazy how got the remaining Israeli hostages back.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

One would think Ro abd Massie and reason would be all over exposing the pedophile rape gangs in Britain after their epstein bullshit. But nope.

https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/2060686869818388722

@Nigel_Farage
The rape gangs scandal is the greatest state failure in British history.

Public bodies and politicians aided and abetted the mass rape and sexual exploitation of children. Predominantly white working-class girls were brutalised by criminal gangs who were (and still are) disproportionately men of Pakistani nationality or heritage.

Inquiries and words are not enough. State-enabled child sexual exploitation continues to this day, including in Wigan and Makerfield.

For decades, politicians like Andy Burnham, local authorities, the police and the media engaged in a conspiracy of silence - institutional avoidance in the name of political correctness.

It is time for action.

A Reform government will redress the harms caused by public servants in so many Labour-run local authorities. Within our first 100 days, we will:

- Release all files held by public bodies relating to the grooming gangs, going back 40 years.

- Increase police and National Crime Agency taskforce funding by £300m, taking it to £400m, so they can adequately investigate the perpetrators and the complicit police officers, social workers and politicians who enabled them. They will be given every resource they require.

This is our plan to finally deliver justice for our girls.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

What's reasons favorite wealth tax democrat doing like instead?

Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna
I am proud of
@grahamformaine
for having the character to stand up against the war in Iran, against genocide, and against an unfair & lopsided economy. I am proud of him for having a vision for a new deal for our time. Excited to campaign with him June 5!

Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna
There’s a reason establishment figures are afraid of Graham Platner- his campaign is demonstrating the power of building an FDR coalition with moral clarity on foreign policy in battleground states.

Join us in Maine on 6/5:

Defending nazi candidate while blaming jews.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Buy your next car now, not later.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/kill-switch-law-means-your-next-car-could-be-watching-you-opinion/ar-AA24wL0d

Unless Congress hits the brakes soon, an impending regulation could require all new cars to monitor your behavior, specifically whether you are too impaired to drive.

It's a law that has largely gone under the radar, but one that could affect millions of Americans. And before it takes effect, Congress owes the public clear answers about privacy, surveillance and who controls the data these systems collect.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The top two vote-getters, regardless of party, will advance...

Single party rule über alles.

[Fist of Etiquette]

As a Texan, I've been following James Talarico vs. Ken Paxton pretty closely and am left wanting both of them to lose the Senate race.

Yes, but voting is all about who you want to lose less.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

"Our cancelling the 4th of July celebration this year reflects ... an on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness," wrote Nantucket Unitarian Universalists (NUU) and the Rev. Erin Splaine of the Second Congregational Meeting House Society in a letter published by the Nantucket Current on Thursday.

"Our cancelling the 4th of July celebration this year reflects ... an on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness," wrote Nantucket Unitarian Universalists (NUU) and the Rev. Erin Splaine of the Second Congregational Meeting House Society in a letter published by the Nantucket Current on Thursday.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-posh-vacation-enclave-roiled-church-axes-july-4-tradition-over-whiteness-debate-spewing-lies

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Skin color is the most important thing.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Nvidia Corp. is entering the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel Corp. technology...

IT BETTER NOT BE A WHOLE NEW ARCHITECTURE

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

A lot of taxpayer money went to fund anti israel protests.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/biden-administration-misused-funds-pay-anti-israel-protests-and-terrorist

[Medulla Oblongata]

Again? Already?

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/victim-suspect-identified-deadly-atlanta-train-stabbing

An Atlanta woman died Saturday following a fatal stabbing on a MARTA train at the Oakland City Station.

Authorities arrested 25-year-old John Elijah Matthews immediately near the scene of the violent attack. [mug shot included]

At 11:21 on Saturday, the CCTV reportedly showed Swan sitting alone on the train car. Just before 11:25, Matthews is seen on board, walking to the side of the train where Swan was sitting, standing near her alone.

Matthews, 19 seconds later, "is seen walking up to (Swan) and standing just to her right."

Several seconds later, he allegedly took out a knife, opened it and cut the victim in the throat. 11Alive reported that Swan was stabbed 18 to 20 times in an unprovoked attack.

During the attack, the warrant said, the victim was screaming for help as she was continuing to get stabbed. The suspect was then seen on the CCTV cameras "throwing [Swan] to the floor and standing near her until the train arrived at the Oakland City Station," less than two minutes later, according to the warrant.

When the train arrived at Oakland City, according to the warrant, Matthews got out with a knife still in hand as officers rushed to the scene. Matthews was arrested and charged shortly after.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://x.com/HamasAtrocities/status/2061005225876435040

Arynne Wexler did the best roast on Muslims you're going to hear

[Fist of Etiquette]

Really good insight on how we're getting better at reducing death before 80, but not better at life extension, per se...

The System can't afford us living longer.

[Medulla Oblongata]

You've probably heard of the guy who was stabbed, by a migrant, said migrant then accused him of racism when the cops arrived, so the cops handcuffed the man and het bled to death while they apologized to the migrant.

This essay is quite the response. Again, I think there's no saving the UK.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/06/02/the-woke-lynching-of-henry-nowak/

For me, the most chilling thing in the bodycam footage of Henry Nowak’s last moments of life is the cops’ cruel presumption that he is lying. As he writhes in terror and agony and cries out ‘I’ve been stabbed!’, a voice in the background – presumably that of the lowlife who murdered him, Vickrum Digwa – says: ‘He hasn’t been stabbed.’ A female officer responds. ‘I know’, she says. ‘But we have to check, don’t we?’

I know. It is delivered with dry, bureaucratic indifference. Henry is heard moaning, begging, ‘I can’t breathe’, yet here is a representative of the state seeming to agree with his knife-wielding tormentor that he is making it up. That cold, cavalier utterance – I know – will have cemented dying Henry’s great dread: that the police were taking the side of his killer rather than him. As his young, precious life came to an end, he heard himself being disbelieved, distrusted, icily written off as a fabulist. His murderer, meanwhile, was afforded respect. The state blindly bowed to his filthy lies.

The bodycam footage of the arrest of 18-year-old Henry Nowak after he was stabbed in Southampton in December last year is horrifying beyond belief. It is one of the most harrowing two minutes of video I have ever watched. Henry can be seen sprawled in agony in a stranger’s driveway, the place he sought sanctuary after being knifed four times by Digwa. His failing voice is thick with pain and fear. What he wanted in that moment – what he needed – was to be believed. The belief of others was the only thing that might have delivered him from his terror-stricken state. But it never came. He said ‘I can’t breathe’ nine times. He said ‘I’ve been stabbed’ four times. ‘I don’t think you have, mate’, said an officer with chirpy, inhumane derision.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

If they didn't have the body cam footage and family recorded covering it up, this story would be presented much differently.

[Mike Parsons]

They would have absolutely labeled this as "racist attack results in stabbing" from the cowards at the BBC. The only reason they didnt is bc we have footage.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Democrats created an illegal election scheme in Nebraska.

They ran 2 candidates, one as a Democrat and one as a fake independent.

The plan was to have the DNC candidate drop out and endorse the fake independent.

They bragged about this plan on media and even on their social media.

Turns out it is illegal to run for office in Nebraska with no intent to take office. Investigation happening.

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/05/29/complaints-about-u-s-senate-candidates-who-hinted-at-helping-osborn-sent-to-nebraska-ag/

[Medulla Oblongata]

Spiked 2-fer, aka is JFree irish?

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/06/01/israelophobia-is-rotting-irelands-soul/

Israelophobia is rotting Ireland’s soul. The Irish establishment’s frothing animus for the Jewish state is an embarrassment to us Irish who refuse to convert to the cult of Israel-hate. It is disproportionate, hysterical, and so obviously driven by bigotry, meaning these people will go mental over a sports fixture against the Jewish nation but say nada about a sports fixture against an Islamist nation ruled by violent men who treat women like cattle. Let Ireland be a lesson – when you drink too heartily from the Kool-Aid of Israelophobia, you lose your reason and decency. You become so consumed by hatred for a tiny foreign state that you let your own state go to moral rack and ruin.

Defamations against Israel fall from the mouth of every influencer here. Even a sports presenter, following the game with Qatar, could casually say on air that Israel is waging a ‘genocidal campaign’ in Gaza. Nothing to say about Qatar? The team we just played? Which funded the army of anti-Semites that killed more Jews in one day than anyone else has since the Nazis? Of course not. Israel is the all-consuming devil that stalks the fever dreams of Ireland’s pious. It is a substitute Satan in a post-Catholic land. You can’t even watch the footie here without being subjected to self-righteous homilies about the uniquely wicked nature of this far-off nation. It is relentless. It is exhausting.

[Mike Parsons]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWJkIK47ok0

The Woke Lynching of Henry Nowak - Spiked

"The bodycam footage of the arrest of 18-year-old Henry Nowak after he was stabbed in Southampton in December last year is horrifying beyond belief. It is one of the most harrowing two minutes of video I have ever watched. Henry can be seen sprawled in agony in a stranger’s driveway, the place he sought sanctuary after being knifed four times by Digwa. His failing voice is thick with pain and fear. What he wanted in that moment – what he needed – was to be believed. The belief of others was the only thing that might have delivered him from his terror-stricken state. But it never came. He said ‘I can’t breathe’ nine times. He said ‘I’ve been stabbed’ four times. ‘I don’t think you have, mate’, said an officer with chirpy, inhumane derision."

[Mike Parsons]

Britain is lost.

Muslim guy stabs him with a ceremonial Sikh knife. By the way, brits aren't allowed to carry such a knife, but Sikhs are bc its 'part of their culture', wouldnt want to be racist.

Cops show up, he says "no one stabbed him, he was being racist towards me". Cops cuff the white stabbing victim as he lay begging on the ground for medical help. Wouldnt want to be racist.

2-tier Kier said "its just a shame we have a knife crime problem".

They are so fucking done over there.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Diversity is our strength.

[mad.casual]

not a type that bears much resemblance to mine

Because it's not Christianity. It's Marxist divisiveness and cultural subversion and obliteration wearing Christianity as a skin:
Mr. Rigby does not use male pronouns for God, for example, because it is a kind of “violence” to imply to a girl that her brother is more like God than she is, he said in an interview after the service.

It is not 'a kind of "violence"' and it doesn't imply what Mr. Rigby says it implies. It's a co-opting of the word and even the English and ancient languages to send Mr. Rigby's message. That's literally what "imply" means.

[Mike Parsons]

"Because it's not Christianity. It's Marxist divisiveness and cultural subversion and obliteration wearing Christianity as a skin:"

Yup. Its the same thing the marxists do with basically every piece of culture, academia, entertainment. Its a retcon where they find a reason for "actually X thing really supported my current marxist progressive worldview".

In a similar to AOC's retconning of "actually basically every good thing that ever happened in the country was from black and brown people". Its just retconning current day progressive politics into history to push an agenda.

Its soviet style propaganda

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

One of the leftist politicians in France is out this week claiming France gas never been white nor Christian. That the myth of white Christian France is a right wing lie.

Just unbelievable retardation and corruption.

[mad.casual]

I was just thinking this about Chris Nolan's The Odyssey the other day.

Black Helen but no actual Greeks. For all the "contemporary sensibilities" and "historical accuracy", Nolan, apparently, couldn't even find a no-shit Black Greek to play Helen? So is he avoiding telling an inexplicable/epic story about how all the black people in Greece were driven out, left, or just turned white or is he just full of shit?

Even Homer references Andromeda and her relatives in the Pantheon as Sub-S. African/Ethiopian, as distinct from the other Greek Gods but, apparently, Nolan couldn't be bothered to weave the actual cultural diversity together even remotely accurately.

Even within it's own confines, it's a shitty, nonsensical "Hitler started WWII when he bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 11, 1941."

It's not intelligent. It's not honest. It's not even some "We did the best we could with what we had. The story had to be told." virtuous lie. It's just fucking things up and breaking shit because you don't like it.

[mad.casual]

Seriously, even my teens recognize this as peevishly retarded and counterproductive.

To wit:

The oldest documented person died 29 years ago. Jeanne Calment at 122yo. In 30 years, with all of the advances in medicine, NOBODY ELSE has even gotten to 120.

A life expectancy at birth of 110 years would require about 25% of women to live longer than Calment and about 6% of women to live past 150—three decades older than the record. (source: Olshansky et al).

[Patronizing Abominable Snowman Voice] So Derek Thompson is calling for violence against men saying they shouldn't live to 150? [/Patronizing Abominable Snowman Voice]

That's the implication you hear when you read scripture? That's the voice you're repeating when you preach? Even if not the voice, when you read "6% of women would need to live to 150" the important part of the message that you take away is "Men don't have to live to 150"? You aren't a moral, religious, or intellectual leader. You're a fucking moron with nothing to offer but pettiness, grudges, and infighting.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Reminds me of his wife's iconic jacket that she wore to a…migrant detention center. criminal alien repatriation hub.

FIFY

[Spiritus Mundi]

Paxton's name-calling ("low-T Talarico" and "tofu Talarico," along with "Six-Gender Jimmy")

Would not have peg Liz as the 'toxic masculinity is bad' type.

Also, all those characterizations are apt.

[mad.casual]

And not particularly malicious or harmful.

Not nearly as insanely malicious as the "Every time anyone in the English language says 'he', they're perpetrating 'a kind of violence' against women" that he observes *as religion*.