I vote for the candidate that would do the least harm for the most people, just like I always do, nearly always the Dem

I believe there is a mandate Since the largest group of voters did not vote, they apparently thought everything was fine the way it was They passively voted for the Status Quo There is a clear Mandate for the Status Quo! Winning by less than 1% & losing seats in the house is no mandate to become a Monarchy, to be ruled by Royal decree

Making it all seem like shyt is the GOPux brand
Proving government incompetent by their actions

The Dems keep running on We Suck Less!

In general we would rather critique the bad faith arguments of conservatives than talk about policy, which is mind numbingly boring…

As long as the donor class calls the tune it’s gonna continue Third Way, Neo Liberal…

Qrs don’t seem safe to me
Scanning a Qr allows the installation of malware apps so I can look at a restaurant menu, & ding my card for recurring charges?

https://the-boys.fandom.com/wiki/Vought_International

Only LDS gets to act as a collective in Utah

I got an email from Meta a couple of days ago about an account I had been locked out of for a several years, after logging out, trying to recover my password, which they wouldn’t allow without me providing a copy of my drivers license, which wasn’t going to be possible, since I made up all the details other than the throw away gmail account
I had been restricted & banned for posting meme’s or trolling magats on several occasions prior…

I’m guessing, there was a mass unlocking of previously blocked accounts

Can they use this law to go after the root cause?
Vulture Capitalists buying rental properties for “investment”
Allowing the income to be capital gains, not the income that it is

No We have several systems find waste, fraud & abuse
Inspector General
Government Accounting Office Office of Management & Budget
All of which are routinely ignored by both houses of Congress
If a mandate actually existed the Congress would have no problem actually doing their job & writing some law
It’s no coincidence that every system Elmo is hacking is investigating illegal activity within his companies/government contracts
Another tell tale sign is that DoD, the traditional home of waste, fraud & abuse isn’t the primary target

The way I remember it, Bush deported some Salvadoran gang members from LA, who showed their friends in the homeland how to do the gang thing & everyone came back to the USA for fun n profit
MS13 was born
We certainly have supported a series of despotic regimes in El Salvador for at least the last century, in support of various corporate interests
Isn’t Marco one of those anchor babies? :D

Take a F Fascist with you

The 1% is trying to take over the systems, so they can reduce their costs to corrupt, the ROI on buying elections is pretty good…

The idea of the law is potentially fair
In practice the engaging narrative wins
I’m glad that the legal opposition is fighting
Flooding the zone makes it into a battle of legal resources

Moderation for adults is gonna be tough
Who is going to submit to being under someone else’s control
There are lots of tools available
All require discipline to use consistently

I have my own organizational scheme to reduce distractions
No notifications on the desktop, Three hidden panels: Time/calendar/weather, Launchers, Virtual desktops/window switcher/system tray Different browser & email for different tasks
Virtual desktops Money, doctors, work
Music, books, games [no email or browser] News, critique of peoples opinions,
Forums & sites I’m testing, repair info, linux stuff

All the tabs on the different browsers relate to the purpose of the VD
If I miss, I move whatever it is to where it “belongs”
Keeps me from being stuck doing one thing too long or ignoring things I should spend time on

It was the Powell memorandum starting to kick in
The conservatives have long had a playbook for nullifying our systems of governance

I notice what used to be a 90 minute movie is now a 10 part series
I don’t remember being assigned entire books in grade or middle school [70’s]
The assignments were a chapter or two

Or we could stop encouraging our children to concuss each other

When the Ends Justify the Means
Anything is Possible

There is only Corporate media

Very early we started allowing the parties to administer the the primaries to avoid having to raise taxes to pay for elections
We outsourced elections to the Fan(atic)s because they cost less, They still get paid in proximity to power
Having the occasional binary popularity contest to decide who should be in charge may not be the best method

It been all over since the guy[shrub] who lied us into two 20 year wars & brought us the Patriot act, got re elected
Haliburton won, the DoD who can’t pass an audit continues to have an open checkbook & ever increasing budget

Then we moved to Hope & Change, that turned out to be great for banks & insurance companies

Every cycle is portrayed as vitally important with a platform of
We Suck Less
The Donor Class calls the tune

Allowing money to overtly be speech removed the pretense of representation for the rest of us
The expectations have changed
Avoiding the appearance of impropriety
Degraded to Maintain Plausible Deniability
Eroded to
Prove it in a Rigged Court of Law Beyond any Conceivable Doubt no Matter How Absurd

Enabling all this is a solid 1/3rd of the population that have reduced empathy
Energized by the various corporate media that have been consolidated into unanimous support for our not so benevolent overlords

“German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, says that “carbon capture and storage” (CCS) can be done safely in the saltwater and limestone pores at 600 to 1,200 meters below the seabed. “It will either dissolve as carbonic acid or bind with the limestone,” she says. Injection sites in the North Sea are the German government’s main solution for so-called “unavoidable emissions,” like those from the cement and other industries”

Basically another subsidy harvesting scheme
There isn’t even the expectation that the co2 will stay in porous limestone, but instead end up making the oceans more acidic, which is already a problem with elevated atmospheric co2 levels

A crisis of excess consumption & growth can’t be solved, by growing in a slightly different way

Sometimes when trolling conservatives I’ll exclaim
Stop It
You Know Better
At that point they’ll either shut up or lash out with an ad hominum

Every accusation is a confession
Didn’t Donnie “redirect” HS funds to the border in 2019?