Five years ago, the President of the United States instigated a violent insurrection with the aim of retaining power despite losing the presidential election. Somehow, no action was taken about this, and he is once again the President of the United States. January 6, 2021, is a date that should live in infamy, but sadly probably will not. Because everybody just moved on, forgot about it, and lived like it had never happened. Nearly an entire political party, deeply and unhealthily under the thumb of that president, pretended as if it was just a minor incident, no...
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What the fuck? No, seriously. What the fuck. Did Donald Trump actually order an assault on Venezuela and the kidnapping of its leader? Is this a dream? Are we dead and this is hell? Did he really fucking say that the U.S. would run Venezuela now? Forty people may have died in the assault? Did he order and manage the assault and kidnapping from fucking Mar-A-Lago? Not the White House? Did they do it while on camera and reading fucking Twitter? What did Grok have to say about it? That it was a great idea or that...
Continue reading...Predictions, 2026
Wow still not used to typing “2026” even this late into the year. Anyways, everybody else is doing predictions, why not us? Let’s get started. The economy will finally break down Trump does seem to have the ability to escape gravity time and time again, but can number go up forever, despite him doing everything in his power to make number go down? The only thing anybody cares about is rising prices, and all he has done has been to make prices go further up. Despite what he says, consumers pay tariffs. Overwhelming immigration raids make construction...
Continue reading...Opportunity cost
We have wasted so much fucking time on this asshole. A constant theme of my posts since we have been back is how long it is going to take to get back to where we were before this asshole rode down that fucking escalator. People say years; I say decades or generations. We’re still trying to recover from the Reagan era: an era that is still around! We’ve been dealing with this asshole for over a decade now, way too long imho, but we still perhaps have three years left. God help us. Meanwhile, the world is...
Continue reading...Great moments in judicial history
Oh, hey, look: it’s December 12. Season’s greetings. December 12 is, among a very elite few, one of the worst days in and for American democracy. On this date, 25 years ago, the Supreme Court decided a presidential election, baldly and openly on partisan lines and with partisan aims. Funny enough, it was also the first election in which I was able to participate. Yay me. Bush v. Gore was a weird case. For background, the 2000 presidential election came down to the counting in Florida, all the other states having completed their counts and announced their...
Continue reading...Killing Lincoln
Today is the last day the penny will be in production in the United States. It will probably go out unnoticed for the most part, as durable as the reddish currency has been for centuries. Made now out of just a speck of copper (mostly zinc), it’s apparently more expensive to make than it holds as currency, so some people say it shouldn’t be minted anymore. Not a terribly good reason (currency doesn’t hold value as the value of itself), but pennies are pretty worthless nowadays so there are only a couple of reasons why not to...
Continue reading...Sandwich guy acquitted and towards a universal definition of what is not crime
The D.C. sandwich guy™ has been found not guilty of whatever crime they decided to charge him with this time. He’d previously beat a grand jury on a felony charge, so the U.S. Attorney for D.C., in her infinite wisdom, decided to charge him with a misdemeanor. For throwing a sandwich at a cop. It’s laughable. Why? Because if somebody threw a sandwich at me, and I called the cops on them to charge with felony assault, or even some misdemeanor, the cops would laugh at me. “Why are you wasting our time?” they would ask. And,...
Continue reading...Pelosi retiring
The last time Congress increased the federal minimum wage, Rep. Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House of Representatives. You may not be surprised if you think the minimum wage was increased recently, but this was back in 2007, when Democrats retook the House in the midst of President George W. Bush’s disastrous second term. The original bill to raise the minimum wage, from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 an hour, was part of HR 2, which you may notice is the second bill the House took up that Congress. It would eventually run through both houses...
Continue reading...Libbing out, or, what happened last night
Election nights sure feel better when the evil people don’t win, don’t they? It’s a big relief, seeing decent people win in a variety of races around the country, instead of an overwhelming deluge of losses to the worst people you have ever heard of. Just focusing on the executive races, we first had Abigail Spanberger winning the governorship of Virginia. Then we had Mikie Sherrill winning the governorship of New Jersey. Then, to cap it off, we had Zohran Mamdani winning the mayorship of New York City. It was nice that Virginia closed polls at 7pm,...
Continue reading...What cutting down a couple trees tells us about D.C. statehood
So, as you may have heard, President Trump has decided to destroy the East Wing of the White House to build some kind of Bribery Ballroom (name pending, but actually not because it’s going to be called the Trump Ballroom because of course it is). He also, you may not have noticed, cut down a few heritage trees for the same reason. If this were just a normal building somewhere else, owned by a real property owner, this would have been illegal. Mostly due to lack of permits, environmental protection (or lack of report of environmental impacts),...
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