His foreign policies were decent. His domestic policies were incredible, especially in the first half of his term. Especially considering he had COVID and its recession to recover from at the same time. If he had been better at messaging to make sure everybody knew what he was getting done and how good it was for everybody, I’m not sure we’d be in this current series of messes at all right now, or ever again if the hamberders keep flowing.
I don’t disagree, but also I remember when the SCOTUS handed the 2000 election to Bush and ordered Florida (incidentally governed by George’s brother Jeb Bush at the time) to halt the recount. They’ve been stealing power for a while now.
Truly behavior fitting of the recipient of the inaugural America First and FIFA Peace awards.
Due to economic, environmental, and cultural state and trends, my wife and I are choosing to not have children. Our dog is lovely. I will not spend my time and energy to give capitalists another generation of cheap labor just in time for this class to flee from rising sea levels, suffer malnutrition, and choke on contaminated air and water. I believe that it is inhumane to bring life into this world with the knowledge that they will endure the hardship and suffering that is so obviously coming.
We will sooner see throuples become socially acceptable in order to make rent than offer any real help to the working class. There is a pedophile running America and the American people are still policing bathrooms to protect against imaginary pedophiles. The priorities are beyond fucked.
As an upper limit? As a lower limit? What do you mean?
Forcing people who don’t want kids to have two is insane. Who will make it happen? Is there a conception agency where agents just go a rape women in this imagined scenario?
Forcing a third pregnancy to terminate is also pretty insane. Suppose the mother doesn’t even know she’s pregnant until pretty far along. Suppose a mother hides her pregnancy and gives birth in secret; is that baby getting killed?
In either case, what is the punishment for violation? Suppose a woman is incapable of having kids when you mandated 2; is she to be executed for being unable to fulfill this societal requirement? Suppose a woman intentionally had more than her government-permitted 2 children; what is her sentence for providing extra mouths to feed?
It’s unethical, it’s not reasonably enforceable, and frankly, I’m not sure I understand what such a policy would even be attempting to accomplish.
Primaries and referendums are happening right the fuck now though. I just voted by mail here in VA regarding the temporary redistricting thing. He might be trying to throw a wrench in any blue redistricting that’s in response to Texas and whatever other red gerrymandering is happening.
America isn’t even teetering on the precipice anymore. We’re tumbling down a jagged cliffside, and 1/3 thinks that it’s a good thing actually, 1/3 says holy fuck we need to curl up in a ball and try to survive, and the last 1/3 has been convinced by the first third that both sides are the same and also there’s nothing they can do and also did you hear what Jennifer Lawrence said about that thing you mildly care about but will pretend to care deeply about when you hear how she blasted it?
America’s day in the sun is done and dusted. We’re irrelevant. We were able to bluff relevance for the past few decades, but the facade has fallen. We’re not militarily impressive. We don’t do anything. Korea won, then Vietnam won, then the terrorists won, and now China has won. The best we can hope for at this point is avoiding total collapse.
Dollars per liter? It’d be a little funny to see this be the reason for a pivot to metric. “Ooh, gas is only $3 now!”
“First they came for… Well pretty much everybody, really. But we were all either at work or exhausted from work, and web 2.0 corporate algorithms carved up our community into tiny, opposed slices who would never coalesce into one unified front, so they were just able to cast a wide net. So uhh, yeah, I guess it can happen here, huh?”
– a future, shittier poem about our shittier fascism
Both are strictly enforced by fascists?
And “undesirable” is just code for “non-white”.
Bo French said at CPAC the other day that he wants 100 million people deported. That’s about 33% of the country. I found the 100 million that Bo could flag for deportation.
Suddenly trump supporters might understand that deporting 100 million people is an absurd number once it’s clear to them that that’s every trump supporter.
The reality is that about 70% of America is white. It suddenly becomes clear that “deport 100 million people” really means “deport all non-whites”. So yes, if you support such a policy and the president running it, you are, in fact, racist as fuck. On top of, as you pointed out, in support of a pedophile.
As a former chef who had an astonishingly abusive boss (he literally violated basic labor laws and I didn’t know any better and felt pressured to impress to advance), Whiplash is maybe the most triggering movie I’ve ever seen.
Anybody who watches that movie and isn’t utterly horrified at the ending didn’t understand the fucking movie.
He could try what Adolf did when the walls were closing in on him. That might be the only thing he could do this week to boost his approval numbers.
He should’ve been ineligible to run in 2024 per the 14th amendment since he participated in insurrection as affirmed by a court in Colorado. But here we are. Laws only matter if they are enforced, and the enforcement only happens for people from certain groups. They no longer bother to hide such facts.
I rage at my Aldi too, but I don’t think I’ve ever had to wait in line to check out. My issue is that every time I’m there, they’re out of a bunch of shit despite ALWAYS moving pallets around and stocking while I’m there. It’s also always packed to the gills with clueless people, usually senior citizens, taking up an entire aisle to figure out which cheese they want. And holy shit, everybody walks in the door, stops just inside, and then reaches in their pocket for their grocery list to figure out where to go, holding up everybody just trying to get in and get their shit. Like wtf, you drove here and don’t have a clue what you need? Just walk 20 feet in and pull to the side if you’re this fucking inept.
In relation to your hill: While you’re entirely correct, that’s absurdly small potatoes compared to industrial water use. Yes, we should be conscious of our water use and limit unnecessary overuse, but a higher priority ought to be regulating industrial use. Data centers are the obvious example of using way too much for bullshit that ain’t worth the water or power. Speaking of power, we could reduce water use by power plants. Nearly all generate power by boiling water. I’m a power plant operator at a plant that happens to use reclaim water as our source water, and we purify on-site for the main process, and we have a brine concentrator and crystallizer on-site to recycle the cooling tower blowdown and remove the solids to a dumpster that goes to a landfill. Unfortunately we burn methane, so I can’t say that we’re green, but we at least discharge zero water into local waterways (except storm drains when it rains).
My hill: Vote with your wallet. If you really believe in something, stop giving money to companies fighting against it. I won’t buy chikfila because the owners actively spend money on gay conversion camps and lobby to reverse the legality of same sex marriage. It’s impossible to research every little thing before every purchase, and sometimes there’s no reasonable alternative, but something like chikfila is easy to avoid. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Little changes can add up, and doing anything even a little bit better is an improvement over not trying.
Bonus hill: Put your fucking grocery cart into the cart corral. It takes ten seconds and prevents cars from getting hit. It’s kind of the simplest measure for societal decency. I don’t believe in the death penalty, but what value are you contributing to society if you’re too selfish to return your fucking cart?
So they want a general strike in addition to this protest? Interesting strategy.
If a group of people states that they don’t condone violence and don’t accept responsibility for this, but offers to crowdfund legal defense for this, is that criminal?
I’m just asking questions.
When we started seeing bullshit about aliens files maybe coming out, my first thought was the moon bears wkuk sketch. I was like okay, this isn’t just a distraction from Epstein, we’re about to invade Iran. I got an electrician to run a 60A 240V circuit to my garage and install a charger for me, and then I sold my Rav4 and bought an EV on 2/26. Bombs hit Iran on 2/28. I couldn’t have timed that better with a fucking time machine lol.
Samesies, but I think my knees are probably too trashed to snowboard anymore, so I’ll just double up on poutine while I watch hockey.