See you next time, space cowboy

The guy who owns Thomas

Harlan Crow

Pretty sure it was Ezra Klein on the weekly show podcast with Jon Stewart. He went into detail about how even just distributing the funds for the broadband bill was just this Kafka-esque insane seven year process of infinite subcommittees and public review processes, and that was what Democrats wrote for themselves; it wasn’t made that way by Republicans to make it shitty, Dems happily blew their own feet off by making the bill’s workings as tortured and slow as possible.

Recent actions taken by mainstream Dems:

• Among the thirty fundraising texts a week I get, I got a text with the wrong name telling me that Medicaid was fried because we “begged democrats to save it” but just didn’t donate enough money :( I can just imagine Pelosi turning to face the other democrats, their faces turned up to her like a bunch of whipped orphans, and sadly telling them that Christmas is cancelled because the donors simply didn’t put enough quarters in her back.

• Chuck Schumer had a perfect opportunity to take a stand and decided that being difficult with the fucking Nazis was just one line we can’t afford to cross just now. I guess Saturn’s in Pisces ATM, and, wouldn’t you know, the perfect conditions for taking a meaningful stand against the republicans have somehow failed to manifest for twenty years and counting. But don’t worry, we might have pushed the quit button for ourselves AGAIN, but if you donate a little bit more money, we’ll definitely get them next time.

• At Trump’s shitty speech, they all sat and waved their stupid signs while the only one of them with a fucking spine got walked out by security. Later, Democrats wearing #RESIST shirts politely walked themselves out of the building during the speech. Then they censured the guy with the spine.

I expect Nazi bullshit from the fucking Nazis. I expect the democrats to fucking show up and DO SOMETHING GOD DAMNIT.

I hate that we’re still thinking about things in these terms. It’s not Americans versus Russians, it’s Americans, Russians, and pretty much everyone the fuck else versus our leadership. Putin fuckin sucks, so does our leadership, and it’s the people of the US, the people of Russia, and all the people we impact that pay the price for it. If the average Russian gets ahead in life over me, it doesn’t impact me. In fact, good job, bud, I’m happy for you. If our fucking asshole leaders get yet another leg up, though, it impacts basically everyone.

I’m convinced that this is it. There’s a dual track effort to defang leftists through first heavily propagandizing the success of “pure” non-violent movements by removing them from their context, then by aggressively stamping out the groups that move past that. The first part is why you see so many people saying “well, why don’t we just march again and wave more signs?” The state has done a very, very, very good job of convincing people that peaceful assembly without the threat of unpeaceful assembly behind it means a goddamn thing.

Can someone do a Ghibli of Luigi?

Merit based hires

How long do you think you can keep me in here, Cecil? I only have to get lucky once, you have to be lucky always.

I’m not sure that pointing out the hypocrisy is even useful. I’m nearing 40 and “but it’s okay when we do it” has always been a core tenant of conservatism. They don’t give a shit that they’re hypocrites, they don’t care, I’ve boxed them in on it before and it always just boils down to “it’s okay for us because I said so”. I think it’s maybe more useful to move past the identification of hypocrisy and start engaging in conversations about accountability. That is, conversations about hypocrisy without conversations about what kind of accountability you’d like to see are moot. So, let’s move past “can you believe this shit? But her emails? Do you feel like the hypocrites you are yet?” to “your boy did something fucking stupid. I don’t care about your excuses, fire him.”

And throwing. “Well, at least they’re over there. If they come closer, I’ll fuck them up.”

… “Did they just yell ‘Heads up, shitass’? What the fuck, is that A FLYING ROCK”

Red clover is native to the west coast, it’s edible, makes a good incense apparently, and it looks rather handsome imo.

Clover and grass benefit each other in my experience, especially because clover fixes nitrogen. Wherever we have clover, the grass is visibly happier and tends to be hardier to adversity.

Let’s fucking go!

Oh, I can’t believe it’s really him! Doug Forcette! Well, if anyone knows, it’s this guy.

Oh look, another day, another reason to blow this asshole out the goddamn airlock. I cannot wait to see someone primary this jerk.

We’re in the post truth era. Get used to it, pal.

Republicans believe in I guess what you’d call individual exceptionalism, in that they always believe that these shitty awful policies are magic missiles that will only target the “bad people” and not themselves or the “good people” they know. I’ll never forget that when they were planning the Muslim ban, a person I worked with was talking about how they’re all the enemy and we should keep them out. When I pointed out that he worked with a Muslim woman, he went “oh, well, that’s different, I know her, she’s a good person” without even ruminating on it for a second. For him, the logic was obvious, the bad policy wouldn’t affect her because he knows her and knows that she’s a good person, so obviously she’d be spared the ill effects of any bad policy. That’s why instead of getting fucking pissed, these people are always confused and astonished when the bad policy they advocated for affects them. “But wait, no, I’m a good person, there must be some mistake”. No, there’s no mistake, dumbass, good or bad person never entered the equation, just in the club or out of the club.

“Noooo haha, you don’t need regulations, you can just sue to be made whole through the courts (lol)”