I’m sure they’ve done some insider trading.
I’m sure they’ve done some insider trading.
They’re just sitting and waiting for their luck to change instead of doing anything.
The courts are corrupted at the top. The system is not going to stop Trump. It’s up to the people.
It’s not a formal conspiracy, but an alignment of interests among the oligarchs and grifters.
Trump has never met a rapist he doesn’t like.
Yeah, that’s it, they’re flooding the zone with horseshit.
Don’t assume anything political is unstoppable. All it takes is clear analysis, organization, and the will to do what’s necessary. Just because they’re giving us the bum’s rush doesn’t make anything inevitable.
(4) They think that, because they’ve been playing the game so long, they have some kind of profound insight that is denied to the hoi polloi, but really, they’re just narrowly focused tacticians with no principles and no strategy, unless smugness is a strategy. And if things go in the way it increasingly looks like they will, when we’re at the barricades, the DNC will be on the sidelines attempting to tone-police us as we fight for our lives. All they were ever good at was playing good cop, and they weren’t even all that good at that.
And I agree that Jon Stewart has been consistently out of touch on this issue. If we are able to turn this mess around, the people doing the turning will have to be made of sterner stuff than that. Resistance is not going to be something that happens with the pinky finger extended. Only after things have returned to normal will people like Jon Stewart again be relevant.
Those people are so complacent that they really think it’s just business as usual. But at this stage, not rocking the boat is collusion. The boat should be in smithereens at the bottom of the Marianas fucking Trench.
Eggs at $5.00 a dozen: price per unit, 41.7 cents.
50 Wincester 9 mm FMJ rounds are $14.99. Price per unit, a bit under 30 cents.
And when the chickens come home to roost, remember those names, and those who enabled them.
Forget Watergate. This is a catastrophe of far greater magnitude, and for justice to be done, backroom deals like the one Jerry Ford brokered aren’t going to cut it. Qaddafi, Ceasescu, Saddam, those are end games to study.
With Trump in charge in the US, if you think the US and the EU are morally equivalent, I hope those responsible for you are providing you with the supervised care that you need.
It would be a much better idea to align closely with the EU and to be as detached as possible from the US.
If Trump visits, entertain him with a laser pointer or gossip about old queen Bess. But be aware that he’ll try to enlist British support for crimes against humanity and treachery against allies. Being a middleman in such a situation is immoral and potentially suicidal. Under no circumstances should you sing nostalgic refrains of “Down at the Old Blair and Bush.” That was a catastrophic shitshow that exposed Blair as the soulless weasel that he is, and caused the deaths of half a million Iraqi civilians. Don’t help Trump beat that score.
The only winning strategy is to ride out the storm until the raging psychopath blows a gasket. Not that his VP, the Hamster from Hell, is any better.
Into the sun would be more acceptable.
They’re obstructing the already shitty lawful channel to force immigrants into the unlawful ones.
What a joke. It’s not Trump’s plan, it’s Netanyahu’s.
When I got into the business in the late 1970s, there was strong selective pressure in favor of people being capable and smart. Back then, software didn’t offer a lucrative career path for people with good memories, conformist instincts and a superficial command of MBA jargon. The people who had coding jobs and who didn’t wash out had it in their blood. There were lots of bullshitters, just as there are now, but they failed rapidly and were driven out.
I’m a bit younger than the OG greybeards (and a lot younger than people like Don Knuth). I’ve been in the business for longer than most coders have been alive. During that time, I’ve reskilled more times than I can count, and I still write code, though it’s mainly prototype and proof-of-concept stuff at this stage in my career, when the development team gets stuck.
And that’s the thing: I’m not there to block new people from submitting pull requests. I’m there to help get the job done. If you find the whole process opaque and need mentoring, just ask.
The thing to realize about MAGAstan is that they don’t want the soap on a rope. They want to be abused, just like Daddy did to them, because they think that means they’re loved.
This is a power struggle, not a debate.
Russia has depleted its store of draft-age young men. The Europeans need to band together and fund a proxy war to continue to bleed Russia. And rather than allow this looting by Trump, Ukraine should go scorched-earth and destroy all of Russia’s pipelines.