I am so tired of this comment. Yes, I’m also worried about it. But this tired cliche doesn’t tell anyone anything they don’t already know, doesn’t raise any alarms or call anyone to any action, doesn’t do anything but spread more doomerism into an already oversaturated doomspace. It’s useless content, on the level of replying “first!” to a YouTube video circa 2013.

I’m sorry that you had to be the recipient of this tirade. But I swear, I see this comment several times every day, and I can’t help wondering, “so what do you want me to do about it? What are YOU doing about it?” No. We have to assume there will be an election until there isn’t, and then we have to respond. Until then, we have to help each other out and keep on doing what we can. We definitely don’t have to comment the same low-effort doom every time midterm elections are mentioned; it just demoralizes people and makes the Trump fascism machine seem inevitable and unstoppable.

I’ve been burned too many times for real predictions, but I hope we’re about to need all new words for “blowout” soon.

It’s even worse than that. He really wanted to go to Epstein’s Island, but Jeffy boy had his people brush him off.

How about this: the general public treats ICE as well as they treat their worst-abused prisoner. Deal?

Both things can be the reasonable response.

I wouldn’t. I want him to survive long enough to get thoroughly humiliated in court, and I definitely don’t want him to become a martyr. I want him to die in disgrace doing something banal, embarrassing, and publicly stupid. Something so embarrassing that people erupt into spontaneous and uncontrollable laughter just hearing his name. I don’t just want him dead, I want his whole movement to be completely discredited. If he’s assassinated, then forevermore his followers will remember him with fondness and his enemies will remember him with fear. But if he wipes his nose on the Epstein Files, trips on a hamburger, falls face-first into a diet coke, and drowns, he’ll never again be any more than a punchline.

His brain is tapioca. He probably believed whatever Fox was spewing about Walz until he talked to him and discovered that, no, actually Walz is working on this and not just eating bon-bons or something.

You should watch the Technology Connections video about “…but sometimes!”

FYI, you can replace the “shorts” in the link with “watch” and it’ll show up as a normal old video.

They already have access to mineral and oil rights in Greenland. This is literally just about the words on the map, just like Gulf of Mexico.

The women who were presented to America had many more problems than their gender. I’m not discounting the reality that a woman has to be exceptional to be considered adequate by the electorate, but “America will not vote for a woman” is true until it’s not.

The mayor of New York City makes policies that affect more people than the governors of all but the twelve largest states. More than the smallest ten combined. His policies affect almost as many people as live in the rest of New York State.

Mamdani is about to become a massively powerful figure in American politics.

The point isn’t confidence, it’s hope.

Nine points. They won a +22 district by nine. Despite active voter suppression.

Yeah, they should be “fretting.”

Yes, yes, yes! But also, it’s particularly notable that she’s white and blond with no accent because they claim to their supporters to be protecting those specific people from “illegals.” Pointing out that they’re not only doing something awful but also defying their own stated principles is always a good thing to do.

The crazy thing is that their margins are super low, and the subscription fee isn’t super onerous (as you mentioned, there are multiple ways to make it back–for instance, we’ve never yet had a year where we didn’t get our Executive membership totally paid for by the rebate check), and yet they still pay substantially more than other employers in pretty much every area, and they’re still one of the most profitable retailers in the country.

Basically, I think every other big box store’s executive team should be fired whenever they say they “can’t” do something like pay their workers or offer benefits or whatever. Obviously you can, because Costco does.

Somebody once asked him if that was rehearsed, and he said something along the lines of “actually it takes effort for me to not talk like that the rest of the time.” Which, for just about anyone else, I would assume was a lie, but Brennan? Not terribly unbelievable, tbh.

Absolutely. And it’s clearly making enough waves to pull “established” comedians like Wayne Brady and Ben Schwartz, which makes it feel even more like Whose Line.

Totally fair. In the same vein I would also commend dropout.tv to you, if you’re at all interested in comedy and have a bit of disposable income.

Just realized, I had forgotten entirely about appliances and electronics and clothes and stuff. That stuff is almost always 10-ish percent cheaper as a baseline. So if you need to buy that sort of thing somewhat often, it might be a better deal thank I let on.