After Obama, I don’t get excited about any politician until I see the fucking votes.

Words don’t matter. Someone saying the right things does not matter. I’m going to wait to see what happens once the reins of power are in their hands.

Maybe Mamdani’s different. We’ll see.

Carney is an Obama-esque a-hole who says really nice things but, in fact, is going to drive many more Canadians into poverty. (As one would expect from an international banker-turned-politician.)

But he’s not wrong, and what sucks is Americans really don’t know how trade deals work, so in a year-ish when all the post-tariff trade deals go in, and the supply chain has rerouted itself around the US, we’re all going to be poorer for it except for the handful of billionaires who profited handsomely off the economic chaos.

Ah.

“Operations”

Reminds me of when Bill Clinton rebranded his wars as “peacekeeping actions”.

How stupid can you be?

Dude’s already gotten a sweetheart deal after a literal coup attempt.

I’ve seen a bunch.

Had my phone wish me a happy birthday on the wrong day. I had a whole folder of emails inexplicably moved back into my inbox, and yes, various wacky hardware problems.

It’s clear that a bunch of the people they laid off were QA people.

IT has been an interesting ride the last two months, encountering some of the weirdest bugs I’ve ever seen, after two decades of Windows working just fine for the most part.

My god, the red conservatives and the blue conservatives are so incredibly hysterical.

Love how they’re pretending that an LLM is useful for any task that needs precision.

After Jussie Smollett, can’t imagine why anyone thinks doing something like this is a good idea.

Also another crime of our mainstream, billionaire-owned media.

Most people don’t know this and will never know because the MSM won’t talk about it, and if you’re a Democrat the chances are your algo is trained to tell you all the awesome and meaningless symbolic shit that Dems are doing, and if you’re a Republican, your algo is programmed to keep telling you over and over again how awesome Donald is.

I’m glad we still have the Fediverse.

Important to note here that if you are running Windows or a dual-boot, the new version of O&O ShutUp has a utility that allows you to delete CoPilot.

I have a dual-boot with Linux Mint. I don’t access anything personal from my windows installation. It’s just for games that don’t work on Linux.

And he’s fucking right.

Here’s hoping he wins.

Nothing will be done until it affects the 0.01%.

Which means nothing will ever be done.

Going off history as a guide, I’d expect the following:

Said leftist government would control Washington and the US for at least two decades. That’s what happened in the wake of FDR and the New Deal. In fact, term limits for the presidency didn’t exist until FDR.

Corporate business leaders would try assassinate as many of these leftist politicians as they could.

As for the how, Diaper Donald is showing you and us now. Norms, rules, laws, none of it matters, and frankly, none of it should as the country has so many hardships facing it. It’s shameful that Democrats have allowed the Manchins and parliamentarians and all these goddamn excuses serve as a means to allow the poor and middle class’s wealth to be pilfered by criminal capitalists who don’t even need the money.

Leftists fight back by making it personal. When a Manchin says no, you threaten to have the Justice Department investigate his daughter for running a company that price gouges for insulin. When a Sinema says she won’t vote your way, you pull all of her committee assignments so her value to lobbyists goes to zero and the extra checks stop coming. Every politician has a weakness. You find it and pour salt on it, just like Donald is doing to every person that stands in his way.

In short. You stop saying you fight, get dirty, and do it. After this presidency, no one should ever humor the Democratic excuse that they lack power to create change.

Sometimes I enjoy just basking in the dark morass of my own thoughts.

I’m not generally one to blame the voters because Donald lied to them about everything except immigration, but he spent his entire first administration trying to cut their health care, so it is a little dumb that they voted for a second helping.

I hope they enjoyed the articles about his kickass Halloween party.

Proud that my only pwned password is three decades old.

Nice to see that, at least somewhere on this rock, wannabe tyrants are held accountable.

GOOD

It’s not perfect, but it would be a good start.

There’s far, far too much evidence of negative impacts to children and young adults from social media, particularly in terms of mental health.