He probably thinks Jack Pershing was woke and tries to revert the Army's organizational doctrine back to state-raised regiments.

RETVRN, amirite?

All the adults were rapidly purged from the government when Trump II started. Its just lunatics, nepobabies, drunks and fuck-ups all the way up and down.

I mean, the signs have been these for nearly a decade now...

My mom's in her 80s too. I practically have to be her on-call IT professional just to keep her TV and phone working because these fucking companies are physically incapable of leaving well enough alone.

Techbros one and all can kindly go fuck themselves with the business end of a rake.

The fact that this stock pump worked at all demonstrates just how broken our financial markets are. There isn't a single investor who actually expects that company to output anything of substance, yet the stock pump happened anyway.

Our lives are held at the mercy of the worlds biggest casino.

George Carlin Interview - On Comedians Who Pick On The Underdogs YouTube video by Repro Batic

George Carlin (someone Chappelle and his cohort claim to exalt) warned about this kind of "comedy" decades ago.

The lessons were right there and he failed to learn from them.

No excuses.

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Same. As much as I wanted to like him because he talked a good game, there was always something about him that just felt...off.

Now it makes perfect sense.

They know. They either don't care or are too craven to do anything. Most of them are betting on Trumps health failing soon enough and don't want to take the risk.

The sad reality is that our cowardly political class has made Trump POTUS for life, betting that will be shorter than his actual term.

What Hasan argues in the clip is that it's important that in the process of defeating the Republicans, Democrats do not become the Republicans. I'm not sure what's so difficult to understand about this concept.

I genuinely believe that people don't appreciate just how much of all the bad vibes right now are still largely a COVID hangover. It was a profoundly traumatizing event for American society, on the order of the civil war or the great depression and we've largely decided to just pretend

Yep.

That power imbalance is weaponized against everyone, not just the direct victims. No abuse happens in a vacuum and those adjacent to it can clearly see what happens when you speak up or push back.

Its the largely unspoken culture of fear that is all-but endemic in the American workplace.

The problem is that way too many Dem electeds don't even really try to do politics 101 because their skills begin and end with fundraising.

In so many respects the Democrats are a party of politicians who neither know how to nor want to actually do politics and are fiercely in denial about it.

It will not happen until the money people say so. There are a lot of major donors who also have sweetheart deals in Israel with the current government.

When big corporate finance turns sour on Israel then maybe Dem leadership will be allowed to pivot but not one second before.

I told someone that I wasn’t looking to buy a smart stove or washer.

They replied, “But it’s okay if people need accessibility technology!”

I just stopped talking and walked off. I already do the internet online. I cannot also do the internet in person.

Hard agree.

Most of them want him gone but nobody who matters in this context is gonna stick their neck out on the first step of pushing him out.

Instead the entire world is pinning its hopes on the actuarial tables while Republicans are rehearsing for a live sequel to "The Death of Stalin."

Great piece!

The entire discourse with Third Way is linked at the hip to the Dem's consultant-industrial complex. The conflict here is between people who want the Dems to be an actual political party and consultants who just want the Dems to do fundraising so they can keep profiting from the graft.

I think the Iran/Hormuz fiasco has changed the game.

Schumer/Jefferies perpetually want to play it "safe" in the eyes the conventional NY/DC political/media groupthink and fundraising bubbles. Trump's Iran blunder made standing firm on this several orders of magnitude "safer" from that perspective.

Its because this happened on the 32nd of never. Standard issue manufactured white victimhood using her child as a proxy.

a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and blue jeans . ALT: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and blue jeans .

No accidents huh?

Harry Potter is a nigh-perfect example of how hard it is to get people to let go of something beloved from their childhood.

The usual suspects ruthlessly exploit this.

Which is of course distinct from the everyday debasement, including (but not limited to) having to wear clown-sized shoes to avoid drawing the ire of Dear Leader.

Fawning access tech Media reinforce the delusional bubble tech execs live in.

Take Nvidia's disastrous rollout of DLSS5; they unironically think that the AI slop look is popular because of the media bubble, such that Huang was clearly blindsided and butthurt when the gaming public rejected it.

I'm in WA, and I'm already buying spare HEPA filters for my fan setup because July-October is gonna be really, really bad.

And that's before accounting for the fact that we can expect zero support from FEMA or the Feds because Mango Mussolini is the world's most insufferable prick.

Legislators are largely clueless about tech in no small part because the only people they've listened to for the last 30 years are tech executives.

The people most qualified are the people with the least input, as is tradition.

"It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it"

-Upton Sinclair

They don't care. They and their MBA buddies have decided that a broken destabilized populace is in their interest and that making a better product is not.

Elder millennial here. I killed notifications because they were making me crazy; I'm convinced that's a feature, not a bug.

Tech oligarchs, like all authoritarians, benefit from chaos. They need us overwhelmed and destabilized so that we can be more easily conned into giving them power.

Why would anyone want to monitor The Situation? I thought people stopped caring about Jersey Shore like a decade ago...

A great many kids are accustomed to something between indifference and hostility from adults. Not being a self-important Karen calling the cops on them for existing is about where the bar is these days.

Nah, Trumpworld has a "don't ask, don't tell" policy on checking IDs before unzipping.