I really don’t think it’s that hard.

Other countries have figured it out and nationalized these various industries. The fun part is that there’s still luxury, concierge medical care and insurance too alongside nationalized health care.

I would like to kindly invite this person to lodge their head in a deeply recessed part of their own anatomy.

I’d love that, but I don’t think (at least here in the US) that there will ever be a meaningful change to how killer cops are managed legally, especially after there was zero accountability for Uvalde.

There are only two ways to fix this that I see:

• Settlements need to be paid out of the cops’ pension fund.
• Send more cops to prison.

Neither of which the US is going to do, because here, the cops and law enforcement are a civic religion. Therefore the best most Americans can do is keep their heads down and avoid the bastards as best you can manage.

My brave browser still blocks everything. Very pleased.

Yeah, useless middlemen are kinda a thing in the US economy.

At least for the last year, the only thing that has tempered Donald’s worst impulses is markets.

So in a way, these kinds of movements and deals are essential to international security.

No shit, Sherlock.

This is why I am glad that social media is slowly becoming age gated in other countries.

It’s a bummer the extent to which influencers and careless people have ruined travel.

Absolutely, especially when other capitalist countries are doing universal health care and college.

If nothing else, go on record for posterity.

The registration and comment system is, unfortunately, a little cumbersome to use, but I encourage you all to take a few minutes today and submit a public comment if you can. Maybe mention Musk’s many failures and broken promises, and how you don’t want him to be able to integrate his companies further into our governing infrastructure.

I don’t think that’s accurate.

There was a significant portion of the Democratic base that was dissatisfied with Biden/Harris and made it abundantly clear. Remember when Obama was dispatched to campaign events to lecture young black men? Or when Clinton was dispatched to campaign events to lecture angry Palestinian Americans?

Also, it was a sore point with many voters that Biden was nominated even though the entire Democratic Party seemingly knew he had dementia.

For my part, I think the idea that ‘everyone’ thought Donald couldn’t be re-elected was just because so many consume information only from their algorithm on these shitty corporate platforms like FB/TikTok/Twitter. That algorithm will figure out what you want to see and then construct a reality for you around it, so maybe you saw that Harris was unbeatable.

For my part, I predicted she’d lose. She ran a campaign that was basically opposite that of Mamdani, so it wasn’t hard to tell. You can’t tell people who are living in storage units and working three jobs just to afford groceries that you won’t change anything and expect to win. To become president you have to be the candidate of change. In 2024 (even though he was lying about everything) that candidate was Donald.

They seem awfully quick to ignore Donald’s many failures in the last year. Hell, he was even forced to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

It won’t matter.

We can see by the elections that have taken place so far in 2025 and 2026 that they’ve angered enough Republican voters to kill their chances, whether those people flipped to Democrat or opted to stay home. Dems have flipped something like two dozen districts in the last year, several of which Donald won by double digits in 2024.

Doesn’t mean they won’t try. It is likely they can’t ascertain the scope of how badly they’ve pissed off their own voters though. This is likely to do with the fact that Donald and his inner circle can’t be bothered to take a sobering look at their own internal polling data.

If Republicans can’t rely on the states that voted red in 2024, and they evidently cannot, they can’t adequately strategize in the way Bannon is describing.

And if Republicans opt to escalate their aggression even more, it just pisses off more voters.

I think it far more likely Donald tries to do something on affordability that he can brand with his name before the election. He’ll gladly add another trillion to the national debt and send checks to voters if he thinks it’ll let him grift a few more billion while he’s still able to put two words together.

That’s evidently untrue, given that two dozen districts Donald won in 2024 have flipped this year. The simple fact here is that they cannot adequately deduce where they have enough strength to win at this point. Donald has become that unpopular.

They do not, which is why Miller, Bannon, Rubio et all are begging Donald to invoke the Insurrection Act. With the US military they could do some real damage to the next election.

The problem, though, is that they’re so vastly unpopular that it may not even matter. They stopped the extreme gerrymandering attempts because the evidence mounted fairly quickly that they’d destroyed the coalition they built to win the 2024 elections, so all the gerrymandering was really accomplishing was making them even more unpopular. That has been evident by the two-dozen districts that have flipped in the elections since, all of which were won by Donald in 2024 and most won by Donald by double digits.

I expect that Donald will escalate wildly in the coming months, because even all of the abundant evidence that his politics and aggression so far are losing him the 2026 elections hasn’t been enough to make him stop. He lives by the Roy Cohn doctrine, which means never giving up and never admitting defeat. Ever.

That’s an excellent analogy. Thank you.

Yep, they did. I got something like 25% more than the Presidents Day sale and free delivery.

It wasn’t $1 crazy, but it was pretty clear to me the chatbot wasn’t programmed particularly well.

They will, unfortunately, be radicalized by AI slop in ways we can’t currently conceive of. The stupidity and ignorance will be a huge problem in decades to come.