Get ready for the mental gymnastics of donnie and his ilk to justify the support of this U.N. vote.
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Clearly he didnât have one before actually making the vote, because he punted at the press conference.
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Are any of you doing anything about this governmental clusterfuck? Other than wringing your hands about it on a niche (my favorite, but niche) message board?
- Are you calling your congresspeople? I know it doesnât seem like itâs useful, but itâs one of the few ways that your reps actually take the publicâs temperature. Comments get turned into bullet points and tallies and get sent up the chain regularly. I guarantee you that your mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging brother-in-law is calling to rant about stuff whenever he isnât daydreaming about buying a new pair of Truck Nutz. Anyway, itâs easy, takes ten minutes, and you can do it daily.
- Are you speaking up within your communities? Basically, are you being a visible person talking publicly about how this shit is awful, and what youâre doing about it? Iâm talking about in professional organizations, unions, church groups, things like that. Being an open example makes it easier for other people to put the effort in too. As an example, I know there are lawyers on here, and I know you saw the ABAâs statement supporting the rule of law. Pretty uncontroversial, but itâs the bare minimum for folks whose job required them to take an oath to support the constitution. Pressure your state and local bar organizations to put out similar statements. Write an op-ed for your little local paper and then post links to it where your friends and family can see. Text your fantasy football group chat about how you called Dan Crenshawâs office to call him a fascist bootlicker and encourage them to do the same.
- Are you looking for or going to protests? It feels cringe, but you donât have to like them, and you donât have to make a sign or join in any chantsâjust grab a coffee and a friend, stand in the back of the crowd at the Tesla store, and talk about grilling techniques. You just have to be a body that makes the crowd bigger and more visible.
Basically, youâve got to meet the moment and we canât shitpost our way out of this crisis. Itâs much easier to do something nowâitâs only going to get harder. The thing to remember is that Congress still exists and they have actual power to do something. With certain vanishingly rare exceptions, all senators and reps are cowards to differing degrees and even the ones who agree with you on policy will sell you out if they think standing on principle will harm their chance at re-election. You have to make your position the least uncomfortable place for those cowards to land, and the only way to do that is by making noise.
In conclusion: Fuck these fucking Nazis. Do something.
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My Congresspeople are Will Hunt, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. Calling them would probably get me (rightly) arrested.
As to other actions, I am planning to take part in the economic blackouts and potentially a march. I need to do better at finding out when they are.
I think we can all agree that only a damn fool would buy a new pair of truck nutz, truck nutz are like the truck itself, they only look better with age.
Resistance comes in all forms.
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So the tech genius didnât build in a spam filter?
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All his spotty programmers are busy identifying waste, fraud and abuse in USAID projects in countries theyâve never heard of.
Five things I accomplished last week:
- I did not give you up
- I did not let you down
- I did not run around and desert you
- I did not make you cry
- I did not say goodbye.
I also worked through the weekend where I did not tell a lie and hurt you.
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This has been a thing on the internet, and itâs great. Stuff like this is why I was on Twitter before it was turned into a Nuremberg rally.
What is the email address? Rolling Stone/paywall.
FWIW, Holt left on his own. Heâs 65 and doesnât want the daily grind. He plans to focus on an expanded role on Dateline.
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Seems like a good reason to continue my streak of not watching MSNBC.
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Update on the Coeur dâAlene lady dragged from a town hall by private goons: all charges against her have been dropped and the security firm who provided said goons has lost its license.
Hopefully now she sues all involved into oblivion.
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You know how the GOP House majority is razor thin such that they can barely afford to lose a single GOP vote? It becomes a real problem when a disturbing number of your caucus are rapey fuckwits with no business being anywhere outside a jail.
The Trump-infiltrated DOJ is doing its best to keep this guy in situ, but the cover up is always worse than the crime and the crime alleged here is rape.
Musk now says heâs going to give these lame government employees another shot at responding to an email. And this time he means it.
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The mystery of how the staff of his non-existent government department were going to review millions of responses (real and fake) has been solved: they were going to feed it all into AI and let the AI decide who did ok and who deserved to be fired.
Itâs like, how much more dystopian could this be? And the answer is none. None more dystopian.
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Trump also weighed in last night and said that employees who did not respond are âsemi-firedâ. If they did, I suppose theyâre on double secret probation.
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Musk said that those who responded first should be considered for promotion and those who were not first should be penalized for that. AKA âTalladega Nightsâ rules.
The online review process that most large companies have adopted (because itâs cheap) is an absolutely terrible, impersonal way of reviewing performance and benefits only bullshitters. Musk has taken that process and shot it up with ketamine.
In this new order, if you replied immediately and laced your reply with performance keywords to pique an AIâs interest, youâll get promoted regardless of whether any of that is real.