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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • If there are no consequences, the Republicans will find someone even worse to do even worse things the next time around, no doubt.

    Just look at what they’ve done since Nixon. Nixon had no real consequences (though the cons have been salty about him resigning, and are endlessly butthurt that he had to even endure any shaming), which led to Ronnie Raygun - up until donnie anyway, the most criminal administration in history, as measured by the number of indictments. Ronnie Raygun’s assault, oops, “revolution”, on our country then culminated in motherfucking Iran/Contra.

    Next was W and Cheney and then donnie. The Republicans learn nothing, don’t moderate themselves at all and unless they are checked, all they learn is that they can get away with nearly anything.




  • What super-charged his grift was those dumbasses that gave him that game show. He was known in and around Manhattan for being a loudmouth bullshit artist, and I think Stern would give him some time on the air because Stern probably thought it made for good content to showcase this asshole.

    But that stupid show really amplified the grift. It’s interesting how the show creators seem to characterize his “offices” as rather rundown and depressing, and no wonder.

    I bet there is at least a plurality of Americans that still think he’s a great businessman thanks to that bullshit show.




  • You know, there used to be this long-standing myth that being a CEO or being the President [1] was one of the hardest jobs and all of us plebes just wouldn’t understand why these people need to be showered with praise, power and of course, money.

    Well, two unhinged wingers put the lie to all of that.

    1. Elon supposedly runs SIX companies. Hm, weird. I was told that CEOs are like star athletes who work so much harder than any single employee ever does. And yet, Elon has plenty of time to be on his Xitter and such. While supposedly doing the executive equivalent of a being a star athlete…

    2. Same for tiny-d donnie - this guy, possibly one of the stupidest people in American public life and yet got the morons of the country to vote him in, supposedly has the weight of the world on his shoulders, and has all the fucking time in the world to be trolling people online over shit like the names of gulfs, lakes, straits, and now one of the states.

    [1] Also, so many fucking morons, for decades, want to see those roles of CEO and POTUS combined, whether it was in W or tiny-d donnie, or in some wet dream of Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin’s…





  • Unfortunately, this also gives an assist to the conservative plot to get rid of the post office. The fact that tiny-d donnie’s plot to also steal an election in the process is a two-fer - reduce trust in an institution like the USPS while installing conservatives into offices that they don’t deserve.

    But in the short term, I understand why they’d reach for this.

    I would hope that every state, including mine, would find a way to allow voters to print their ballot out, fill it out at their own damn leisure, and drop it off at a drop box, also at their leisure.

    This will give the cons less of a chokepoint in the future too. The net was supposedly designed to treat censorship as damage and route around it.





  • Sinema is almost a textbook example of why I don’t really value representation as necessarily a measure of things that will move things forward.

    She supposedly ticks so many boxes that should have given her all these progressive bona fides (at least among people that tend to fall for identity politics stuff):

    She’s a woman, relatively young, who claims to be bi, is an out atheist, AND she’s vegan?! How exciting. I’m especially keen on the last two things.

    Well, spoiler alert, it turns out she was a total shit show for progress. Given the choice, I’d take an eighty-some year old white straight male who eats lots of meat and dairy and goes to church all the time, BUT votes for progressive policies…people on our side really, really need to work on looking beyond the surface-level bullshit.

    Oh, and ahem - she started out in the Green Party. If people wonder why I give them so much side-eye. Here’s what she’s been up to lately, according to Wikipedia:

    Career after elected office

    In January 2025, Sinema joined Coinbase’s Global Advisory Council to advocate for the cryptocurrency industry and help it coordinate with US lawmakers.[39][40]

    In March 2025, Sinema joined the law and lobbying firm Hogan Lovells as a senior advisor.[41][42]

    In October 2025, Sinema failed in an attempt to lobby the city council of the Phoenix suburb Chandler, Arizona to allow the development of an AI data center.[43] Earlier in the year she founded and became the co-chair of the AI Infrastructure Coalition.[44]

    Sinema has since become a strong advocate for the Make America Healthy Again Movement and ibogaine.[45]

    She’s also a poster child for the horseshoe theory, JFC.