What do you want to hear?

Peter Robbins

01 Feb 2026

Emiliano Zapata?

a poem

DO YOU WANT POLITE WORDS?

DO YOU WANT US TO BOW?

DO YOU WANT DAVID BROOKS

WITH HIS NORMATIVE SCOWL?

DO YOU WANT TUCKER CARLSON?

PEDDLE LIES? LAUGH AND HONK?

DO YOU WANT MS. JEN PSAKI

A LEGIT PR WONK?

DO YOU WANT CHE GUEVARA?

'MILIANO ZAPATA?

DO YOU WANT PETER THIEL?

MUSK? HELL, MOON UNIT ZAPPA?!

THEY CAN'T KNOW TIL YOU TELL THEM.

HOW DO YOU CLAIM A PROPHET?

READ THEIR WORDS, HEAR THEIR STORIES.

SPAM OR RETWEET A PAMPHLET.

we all need to sing and dance together. even if we don't know all the words:

ONE-MOVE CHECKMATE

or Can You Break the Law to Save It? Some questions, you just shouldn’t ask. Is there such a thing as absolute truth? Of course there isn’t. But also, OF COURSE THERE IS. According to what we both mean by truth, and the rules we all agree to

"IF WE DON'T GET RID OF THEM, WE WON'T HAVE A COUNTRY."

the universal and timeless refrain of the fool Xenophobia is not confusing. We know why it is in the human brain. It’s in every human brain. Latent in some, outward-facing in others. It’s a thought that we have. The question is – do you combat that thought with logic?

THE STATES CAN CALL A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

They never have. yet. the following advocates for a particular consideration in (hopefully) near-future Constitutional amendments: better, broader consideration. (at least at first) TO STRAIGHT, MARRIED MEN: Would you ever tell your wife that you don't care what she thinks about important topics? (I would not recommend doing

I'm sad for Mitch McConnell

and I wish he would retire. This time it was only the flu that sent Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the American ALPHA MALE of Senators since 2000, to the hospital. Glad they are being cautious with him. Because Senator McConnell appears to be quite fragile. And that's

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ONE-MOVE CHECKMATE

"IF WE DON'T GET RID OF THEM, WE WON'T HAVE A COUNTRY."

THE STATES CAN CALL A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

I'm sad for Mitch McConnell