I suppose his speech could be seen as a shot across the bow of DNC leadership, but I’m not really that optimistic. Even if that’s what it is, waaay too little and waaay too late.

Samantha Bee had a prescient segment (not that it took much observation to get there) about Trump’s spreading taint back in 2017.

I’ve read that he was a bit of a pain in the ass to work with, but I’ve always appreciated the results. So many great rolls. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is great, Tombstone, etc. I’ve not met too many people who mention The Salton Sea. That’s in my top 3 for his performances.

This is part of the mental bulletpoints I use to support the statement that it is over, these are just the aganol gasps of an already dead ideal. They’ve tried for many election cycles to disenfranchise voters. Voting roll purges, lack of voting locations, obstacles to voting, etc…

People are still acting like the Judicial will help things, but they overturned Roe v Wade, promoted presidential immunity, said it was OK for a Constitutionally unqualified candidate hold office.

Maybe the Legislature will help things, they couldn’t even convict trump on two obvious impeachments, in addition to the rest of their crap. Congress is broken, and has been for awhile.

OK, so at least the voters can help things. LOL, look at who keeps getting elected, reelected, on both parties. Voters suck balls, and just to be sure voters don’t get their voices heard, see my first paragraph.

• Congress failing to hold trump accountable
• the SC ruling that Presidents are Kings
• a candidate disqualified from holding Federal office under Section 3 of Article 14 of The Constitution now occupying the White House
• a man who, just to be clear, is a proven rapist, 34 times convicted felon, and a serial failure at business by any metric
• Plus the multitude of Constitutional Crisis moments just the past couple weeks

I’m just not sure what more anyone needs to feel that line has been long ago crossed.

Haha, Blazing Saddles reference. Love it.

Easy, but then people will throw up their hands and say,“That’s not easy, how the fuck am I supposed to know that?”

pdftk input.pdf cat 1-endeast output output.pdf

You know that through man pages, tdlr or whatever. Then if you find yourself doing it a lot, you make a tiny script that makes the process something like

pdfr <input> <optional output>

People buying Teslas: ¯\(ツ)/¯ My bad. I’m sorry, I didn’t know how bad he was.

People voting for trump: ¯\(ツ)/¯ My bad. I’m sorry, I didn’t know how bad he was.

People in this thread: Hey, that’s OK, Corky, you can’t be expected to be informed.

I wish my grandparents had never emigrated from Norway.

I can not wait for the cross-country road trip I’m going to take to piss on his grave.

The dude cried and vowed retribution against one of the two parties in the US…and was still confirmed to the highest court in the country. Fucking wild.

Most people over here have been beaten down almost completely by a sick capitalist culture. The group who is “fighting for who’s the most righteous” (<- a phrase I love, for what that’s worth) is the same group fucking most of us.

There are only a few handful for whom I’d pull the trigger myself, but quite a multitude more that I would celebrate their passing with glee.

There have been many studies showing indisputably that high wealth inequality is bad for society as a whole, regardless of overall GDP. Richard Wilkinson has many talks out there describing the research showing how awful wide wealth inequality is for the world. We aren’t advocating for everyone to be equal, that’s just a straw man at best. It’s the levels of inequality that destroy society.

Haha, yeah, I guess that is definitely the more traditional way!

Same as always. Went out for cigarettes and got lost coming back.

Newsom thinks being more dynamic means pivoting to the center (wherever it happens to be), way before candidates do that. He’s toast. Or at least I hope he is. I said that for our convicted felon president too though, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

My ex-wife tried to argue to me, with a straight face, that tax breaks for the rich help the people building her grandfather’s yacht.