Oh I remember this one. And it was 🤌

Study after study has been done on every election looking for people who publicly say they are moving if their party lost. They found consistently that the number of people who follow through are in the single digits.

Trump famously said he was going to leave the US when he lost to Biden. We all begged him to go but nope.

MAGAs have repeatedly said they are going to move to Russia or Argentina or other conservative places only to realize they wouldn’t be in the ruling class.

this is, in a round about way, making a right. Democrats are being disenfranchised in Texas and to make up for it, Republicans are being disenfranchised in California. If you want to complain, fucking ask the Republicans in Texas. They can easily and quickly unfuck this whole situation by making no changes to their districts.

Want to know the test on the whether the Republicans want to play fair? Republicans in California should be scolding their colleagues in Texas for redrawing maps unfairly but instead are blaming Democrats in California.

The Democrats are finally starting to realize you can’t play chess with a child who refuses to acknowledge the rules.

Do you remember what the Trump administration promised to deliver two weeks ago?

That’s why it works.

It’s true in the same way that he had a chat with the president of Puerto Rico.

The political process and how to change it in a meaningful and lasting way without risking tyranny profits of the capital class is almost always the problem.

Ftfy.

If we get Bell riots because of this it will be worth it.

The fact that police officers can lie but people can’t shows you the terrible power imbalance in our law enforcement.

Remember: Shut the Fuck Up

I have a very common name. My Starbucks name is Bart.

Honestly, at this point people should use Pornhub.

They history are.

But Trump is threatening to not pay the back pay and only pay those who pledge allegiance to him.

Do you think he fucking cares? He just wants the gold shiny so he can be like Obama.

I point this out every time GOP and ObamaCare and Repeal are mentioned.

Republicans in 2016 fucking RAN on repealing the ACA. It was a full blown blitz. In the final years of Obama, Republican-controlled House and Senate fucking PASSED full repeals of the ACA. Obama, of course, vetoes each one of them. They amounted something like 80+ bills to fully repeal it.

Trump runs on getting rid of “ObAmAcArE!” He wins the White House with, again, a Republican-controlled House and Senate.

Not ONE single bill to repeal the ACA was ever introduced. Famously, Republicans said “TWO WEEKS!” for their plan that never came to fruition.

Republicans know how popular the ACA is. They also knew that Trump would be dumb enough to sign a repeal into law.

This is all performative politics: gaslighting their base so that they will look good in upcoming local elections. Republicans, again, fully control the House and Senate and could repeal the law full-cloth but they don’t. Because they know they’ll get slaughtered in the elections.

The sad (but predictable) thing is that it worked.

Republicans HATE Obamacare. But don’t you dare try to take away their Affordable Care Act Medicaid!!

I set up a tasker job to automatically delete cached pictures in specific directories (e.g. screenshots, downloads, etc.) every few hours. Honestly probably the most useful thing tasker does for me.

Add dual climate control and then I’m with you.

In case folks aren’t aware, AWS status page is not live. It is a human-driven page that is updated manually.

The fortune 100 company I used to work for would be notified prior to the status page being updated for an issue before the status page is updated.

Do not rely on their status page to tell you there is a problem.

Because police officers have qualified immunity.

This ruling only means something if SCOTUS upholds the arrest and conviction. It’s an improvement, don’t get me wrong, but I’m not holding my breath.

His obsession with gold makes me think of the 80s, where gold gilded things was a mark of wealth. It makes me wonder if Trump’s head is still in that world where everything needs to be gold so that he can look good.

Because Trump is all about how it looks on the outside. Hell it wouldn’t surprise me if he couldn’t tell the difference between gold and brass.