When we rebuild the global order, I hope I can play a role. I’m old enough to have been taught by the Greatest Generation but not that old.

Not that the Greatest Generation was good at everything. Youth sports coaches in my day had all fought in wars and didn’t care about strategy so much as us listening to orders and being assigned roles based on height and haircuts. It took decades and Kevin Durant before tall people were allowed to be ball handlers and short people could play defense.

I could have gotten a humanities degree and spent 4 years reading amazing books and studying art. Instead, I did math and now know our president is a fucking moron.

I can’t believe I spent 4 years getting a degree in economics and have to live through this headassery.

https://www.doi.gov/ethics/special-government-employees

That’s a Department of Interior site but it’s true for every agency.

He’s not allowed to, legally. Special government employees are allowed to work 130 days a year. If he becomes a permanent employee, he has to disclose financial data and get drug tested and stuff. Trump may not care about that law either but it’s an easy out for both of them.

I would like my retirement savings to be in an S&P 499 where Tesla is excluded. I don’t want to manage my 401k every day but I have zero confidence in the stock and humanoid robots is not making me feel any better. I want robots shaped like the task they intend to accomplish. I don’t give a rat’s ass if my dishwasher is a cube. If anything, I’d prefer it not walk around and ask me questions.

If anyone really wanted to find government waste, fraud, and abuse, they’d be looking at state and local governments. Federal employees are usually underpaid, if anything, and could make more in the private sector.

The highest paid government employees in basically every state are college sports coaches — who are typically actually paid by foundations funded by insane fans — and 4 cops who somehow clocked more overtime hours than is physically possible without a gravity well and a deep understanding of general relativity.

Do they have volunteer positions in Antarctica? I’ll clean the beakers and be nice to penguins.

I think we should deport me to the Amalfi Coast or the Cayman Islands. I’m a snake handler who works with voodoo priestesses. I’ll convert to Judaism if they’re willing to deport me to a tropical paradise where all news and social media sites are inaccessible except one day a week.

The meanest concept in Louisiana culture is “We will not buy your ingredients because you failed.” I’m within walking distance of 4 places that cook swamp animals. Mostly with sherry. But that’s not important. The important thing is that if ~65% of Louisianans can vote antagonistically, Wisconsinites should be able to as well.

I won’t root for the Vikings but try me.

I had a good time in Wisconsin the 2 times I’ve been there but if y’all buy this shit after Louisiana just rejected all the amendments the governor proposed as a solid “fuck you,” you don’t get anymore beer. And we will escalate based on cheeses and how important they are to recipes.

I’m less worried about the closure of offices than Musk thinking he can modernize the SSA administration’s computer systems in 3 months. None of his lackeys have ever worked on anything of this scale/complexity and I’m pretty sure none of them know COBOL since they’re apparently mostly around 25. (And retired COBOL experts likely don’t know more modern languages well enough to translate.)

Don’t get me wrong, the public and private sectors should modernize aging, critical systems that use code written in languages almost no one under 60 has learned, much less mastered. But 3 months probably isn’t even enough time to get through the planning and hiring stage of a project like this. If it were cheap and easy to update those systems, it’d have been done already.

You gotta spend money to lose money.

All the amendments were also weirdly worded on the ballot when I voted today. I do at least a little bit of research before I vote in our elections and they were trying to sneak some power grabs past voters. But no state trusts its politicians less than Louisiana. We have the finest record of both corruption and ignoring laws in North America, if not the hemisphere.

Nola.com has a paywall now but this one should be free: https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/29/louisiana-amendments-3/

American cars are going to go up in price even without profit maximizing (which they’ll obviously also do). It’s a global supply chain. Infotainment screens and other parts aren’t made in America. Foreign manufacturers already produce cars in the U.S.

France is an interesting choice as the first ones to threaten. They might be the country most willing to tell America to fuck off and spend an evening lighting Teslas on fire.

DEI initiatives don’t really exist there like they do in the United States. Their constitution already bans employers from making distinctions based on race, gender, religion, etc. The closest thing France has that I know of is a requirement for corporate boards to be 40% women. They aren’t going to change that law because Trump threw a hissy fit.

Plus, DEI doesn’t even really mean anything specific in the United States anymore. It’s just a dog whistle (like “woke”) Republicans use to signal that they’re racist and sexist and stir up racial animus. They use it when it doesn’t even make sense. Trump blamed “DEI hires” when an ARMY helicopter crashed into a passenger jet even though all the pilots and the air traffic controllers were white men. He blamed the LA wildfires on DEI.

Kristi Noem kills puppies and I’ll debate with you about whether that makes her a hideous troll who eats Billy goats under a bridge. But Marjorie Taylor Greene is haggard and I feel no remorse when I reduce her to someone who looks like a Family Dollar ass Shrek toy.

You’re right. Possums are the last surviving marsupials in the western hemisphere. Game recognize game. I also survive in the Western hemisphere.

I forget who but someone in Trumpworld is dating her and I threw up a little bit in my mouth imagining that concept. She looks like a possum that no one asked to prom.