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Francisco 2.0

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  1. I take a few days off, then catchup and go away. It's a fucking trainwreck with no end in sight. Some people like to gawk, some avert their eyes, some want to stare and wonder just how bad things will be. Some people crave the entertainment or just to watch the world burn. We do know this----literally anything and everything everything associated with this administration has no limits---morally, ethically, legally, whatever. There are no safeguards any longer. There's perhaps someone within the Trump high command that realizes how hypocritical they are using private email services over the stance that Trump and the GOP had less than 8 years ago. However, they have correctely surmized that it just doesn't matter any longer.
  2. I remember way back in 2016 when private email servers were a major, major issue. Now it's trans and brown people and the price of eggs. Shrugs. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/federal-officials-nervous-about-sending-data-to-trump-transition-private-emails-00195217
  3. Last night, my wife was really beside herself. A refresher; she's a fed and she has to report for work whenever there is a shutdown---she can't sit at home, pick up a new hobby, whatever---her job requires her to show up for work whenever she is scheduled. For no pay, until the shutdown is resolved, then she will receive the backpay. It's not the first shutdown she's ever experienced in her 20 years as a fed, nor will it be the last. What is really grating to her, however, is this was totally created by a non-elected person with a dubious immigration history of his own with a platform that decided to bully the GOP into it. Hell, even Trump was fine with the CR up until the moment he was bullied by Musk. Imagine that. Musk bullied Trump. A man that receives billions from the federal government (oh, and as a contractor, his various companies will receive no money from the feds during a shutdown) has decided that the government needed shutting down, and turned his followers to elected officials who decided that by God, we have to do this because Elon and his congregration have told us to. That's where we are as a country. It's bad enough that hoping for Trump's death was one possibility into getting things back to a semi-normal place; now we have to hope for Musk's, too.
  4. Tell us more about this Walmart, plebe.
  5. Imagine being undocumented, having lived in the US since you were 10 months old. You're 33 now, married and gainfully employed. Yet, your wife's family are all MAGA. And they don't believe that you are in danger of getting deported. Oh, and your congressional rep is MTG. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/us/trump-immigrant-deportations-rome-georgia.html?searchResultPosition=1&login=email&auth=login-email&login=email&auth=login-email
  6. There's a few of my former high school classmates who are postal employees and hard-core MAGA. I'm sure they are thrilled. I can't muster the energy to have a shred of concern for what might happen to them.
  7. Does it actually matter?
  8. Sheeeeeet, by summer you will have the CEO of (fillintheblank) Corporation (whatever corporation is directly impacted by tarrifs or some other tomfoolery at that time) having a photo op in the Oval handing over some giant check made out to Donald.
  9. "You can't believe everything he actually says!" "He doesn't mean everything he says!" "He isn't going to do everything he said he would do!" "Well, the house and senate would never actually go along with him!" "The Supreme Court would never allow that to happen!"
  10. It's cute you two haven't put in a disclaimer the bet is off if there is no presidential election in 4 years. Because quite frankly, assuming there will be a presidential election in 2028 is at best a 50/50 proposition.
  11. Related: https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/
  12. Make Raw Water Great Again.
  13. The great irony is Mitch McConnell, who could have prevented every bit of this back in 2021, had polio as a child.
  14. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-war-press-media-leaks-1235202909/
  15. What could possibly go wrong.
  16. https://newrepublic.com/article/189054/trump-immigration-threats-republican-resistance Suddenly, Trump’s Ugliest Threats Are Facing Surprise GOP Resistance
  17. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/us/politics/trump-administration-loyalty-test.html
  18. Thing is, everyone who voted for Trump would still vote for him even if eggs are $1 each. The man simply cannot lose support. There's absolutely nothing on this planet that will cause this to happen. Nothing at all. He could have the past Congressional Medal of Honor recipients lined up and executed on national tv as he is standing there giving the order to shoot, and he would gain support. Not only that, you would have roughly half the House and Senate eagerly signing onto a resolution fully supporting the executions. Nothing matters anymore. At least with Donald J. Trump.
  19. https://theintercept.com/2024/12/02/location-personal-data-trump-deport-immigrants/
  20. What's even better is some chain, say, oh, HEB will decide they don't want to sell raw milk. But Abbott will sign a law that specifically forces chains like United or HEB to sell raw milk, because freedom. Then one day people will purchase it from HEB, possibly get sick, and then people will bitch and moan about HEB selling tainted milk.
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