I once had a vintage Jaguar and some jerk stole the chrome lettering off of it. I suppose that is a way to get a good match.

They could make it a big church. I’m surprised he hasn’t renamed it yet, after all Kennedy was a democrat. Surely it is easier to rename than the Gulf of Mexico.

Trump is only successful because he holds a coalition of wacko together with his personality cult. Vance does not have that cult following. He would not be able to hold the coalition together. One of Trumps kids might be able to, but they’ve all been pushed aside by Musk. Musk can’t take the reigns because he is an immigrant. If Trump goes. the whole thing quickly falls apart.

The main push back i get is in order to maintain soc2 compliance the IT department needs to run auditing software on the laptop. Microsoft intune barely support linux and is years behind on the os versions it will work with. IT does not want to run multiple audit software packages.

I’m guessing the “do not call” list goes out the window, not that it actually changes much anyhow.

Miss Scarlet and the Duke

Well said.

Because they thrive on the attention and it is expensive, dangerous, and a complete waste of time.

Soon they’ll have Tesla cops AND bathroom cops. I wonder what happens if I park a Trump flagged lifted F350 at a charging station though?

AOC should have run against him when she had the chance.

He says that instead of regulating the environment with bureaucrats he is going to have partnerships with polluting industry business owners who will do what is in the public’s best interest at lower cost. Instead of using science, they are going to rely on talk show hosts, social media, religious leaders and other more reliable pundits. Scientists are geeks and can’t be trusted.

Having to rewind a cassette tape with a pencil eraser because it got stuck in your Walkman. Broadcast TV was vapid and overrun with ads. People who used email were geeks and social outcasts.

If those guys are supposed to be in uniform - no two are dressed the same. One guy didn’t tie his shoes, another’s jacket doesn’t fit. It is very sloppy and unprofessional looking.

So it has no people. What is it supposed to do while at sea? How does it repair itself - do damage control? Does it return to port in busy harbors without a pilot?

They will need an excuse. A bunch of protests would do it, bit at the moment no one wants to protest. It has been too cold across most of the US. Traditionally protests are largely completely ineffective so it is hard to get motivated to get arrested or shot when it simply won’t matter. Plus getting injured is really expensive. Who has the spare funds for that?

I would add that most of us aren’t allowed to talk about politics at work, and outside of work it is usually so explosive we avoid it there too so we can still have freinds and family. That leaves some social media as the only place these conversations take place.

There is nothing we can do. We haven’t actually been represented by our government in many many years. That doesn’t appear to have changed. For all the talk about owning guns to stop fascism, it is the vehement gun owners who won. A few of my friends and family are trying to leave the country. A few are too old, and a few still think their cult leader will actually make things better.

These rules are not static. They will change the rules and move the goalposts at whim. They don’t play fair. In Ohio they moved the goalposts so far at one point the Democrats were going to lose major party status too. They had to back off a little so the Democrats wouldn’t lose their identity altogether.

You say the Democrats have abandoned progressives. That implies at some point they actually supported progressives, which has never been true.

The system cannot be changed by using the system. It needs significant disruption to be possibly reset in more positive structures.

Ranked choice voting can open elections to more options at the ballot box and occasional breakthrough unorthodox candidates. It is the only modicum of hope I have for seeing any change without catastrophic world spanning events upending the current world order.

I have spent over half a century supporting progressive views, running as a candidate, advocating for friends, ciculating petitions, and observing the system in action. While I remain a humanist, that faith in my fellow humans has been severely shaken. I have no more hope that the current system can be nudged in the right direction.

The image of crypto as some sort of reel currency run by free spirits in hoodies is completely wiped out by this snapshot of old white guys in suits.

So from his point of view, poor people, ie 50% of Americans, are parasites.