@arthegall i mean, i agree, but somebody did his hands are, um, full.
say what you will about the man, but he had it right. he grabbed Congress by the pussies and they just let him do it.
@realcaseyrollins that's fine. just don't imagine broadly held resentments on their own present a pathway to some bold new future. someone has to actually chart a course towards something they might find less resentable. vengeance and retribution will not suffice to vouchsafe a bright horizon.
there are these people who are like, Trump's massive win means the bright, bold future belongs to resentment personified.
intellectuals, they fancy themselves.
Subscribe to unlock this article.
“He’s ripping out important systems without understanding why they’re there, and then — because he doesn’t understand them, nor even wish to try — insisting that they must be part of some grand conspiracy for fraud.” @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/some-follow-up-questions-for-elon-musk-after-he-admits-he-gets-stuff-wrong-sometimes/
@dpp ha! i love it!
(around the time i first wrote c3p0, i also wanted to do a Berkely DB interface, i was gonna call it bdbd after the sound the robot on Buck Rogers used to make.)
would it make sense to start a crosspartisan campaign to lobby the White House to replace Musk with Bannon as head of DOGE? make a strange bedfellow of MAGA 1.0?
Excellent.
“If a judge orders an action to cease and the executive refuses, who gets to call the police? Who do the police listen to? If people don’t leave their positions, who makes them?” #AlexNorris
maybe Russia will send some economic advisors to help us out with “shock therapy”.
you wanted the world reenchanted, you said.
and so it has been, in the form of a curse.
The Trump Administration is just pathetic at negotiating. It "played tough" and won nothing much from Canada and Mexico with its tariff gambit. It negotiated against itself and conceded all leverage in its negotiations on Russia and Ukraine.
Just pathetic.
we're treating migrants so badly when many of us may need to be migrants soon.
1. Cut social services to the point people who’ve relied upon them become desperate;
2. Protests that can be characterized as disorderly, perhaps even violent, riots emerge;
3. Use the riots as pretext for a crushing response that deters future opposition of any sort.
@admitsWrongIfProven This post constitutes a technological measure protecting the prior post. Any remixing, regardless of whether it might be considered fair use, is therefore in contravention of anticircumvention provisions.
Please do not edit this section.
@billseitz I paste my hard won, carefully articulated thoughts in a text box. I hit submit. I get no real acknowledgment. I end up either back on a contact page, or on some glitchy page thanking me for my "e-mail". It feels like throwing my words into the digital trash. If they had a meaningful system that sent receipt acknowledgement eg by e-mail, I'd gladly use the webforms. My experience is trash. I have no trust my words are saved or read or anything.
I'm going to be producing a lot of postal mail, I think. Very old school. Very time consuming. Our democracy in action. /fin
Trying to contact my Congresspeople. I want to write them. I mistrust their webforms. I want an e-mail address. So I phone to ask. 1/
I call Representative Anna Paulina Luna's office. Someone answers, but informs me that there is no e-mail, just the webform. Postal mail it will have to be. 2/
I try to call Senator Rick Scott's office. There's no phone number on his site, so I call his contact number listed on the official Florida delegation page of the US Senate. https://www.senate.gov/states/FL/intro.htm
Straight to voicemail, at 12:30-ish on Wednesday. 3/
On the same page, I find the phone number for my newly Senator, Ashley Moody.
Again, straight to voicemail. 4/
@Phil you'll get what you want. they need to secure themselves from us. they do understand that.