RangerJosie

AI Art before AI existed.

Florida passed it with 57% in favor. But Deathsantis had already rigged shit so anything less than 60% meant that the measure failed. They didn't reject shit.

Get your shit together. Of course I'd expect no less from Epoch.

For a good 15 years I have been yelling from the rooftops that America was reaching a breaking point. That it was going to improve and break towards socialism or get worse and break towards fascism. I didn't know which as there was no way to account for all the variables. But I knew it would break one way or the other.

Now I know. I have my answer. I'm not smug about it. Its pretty fucking depressing actually. But it's done. And it wont be stopped. Might slow it down. But the dems have been playing against an ever increasingly stacked deck since the Reagan Administration. Disinsentivizing education, anti-intellectualism, grievance politics, outright lies dressed up as "entertainment" and more.

The Republicans played a long game to engineer this coup that virtually nobody saw coming. Not even they themselves. But now that they have it they will play it to the hilt and twist the blade once driven home. Meanwhile the Democrats have abandoned working people. This began before Reagan btw. When they sold out Labor in the 70s. Since then they've become a rich man's party. Leadership is all billionaires and soon to be billionaires. They're comfortable with the same oligarchs that the GOP answers to. That venn diagram is pert-near a circle. Their actions and policies reflect that primarily in their delusion about US politics. They're so caught up in rules and norms and respectability that they never saw the knife. Had no idea. Now they're reeling. But I don't expect them to learn anything from this. That's not their way. They seem to embody the definition of insanity in that regard. As this is hardly the first time that running to the right has lost them almost everything. The "Schumer Strategy" - “for every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” - has proven time and again to be a resounding failure.

That isn't to say that a hard turn into economic populism is the magic bullet that will save the country. I personally believe it's too far gone. It may flounder on a few more cycles. Maybe a generation. But no one can deny that we are an empire in decline. We have hemorrhaged standing and respect across the world for decades now. Beginning with Bush's War on Peace in the Middle East. Now with our absolute refusal to put a stop to a genocide that all 8,187,000,000 humans on this planet can see happening live on their phones. Because "American Interests" in the region demand we not only allow it but enable it at every opportunity. Our economic warmongering necessitated the creation of BRICS. Which will supplant us in time. More countries are joining all the time, and more of those countries are dropping the Dollar for trade. Of course in western media its all roses and sweet tea. They'll never admit how bleak things truly are. This empire is going down. All of us? We're just home. I have no expectations of surviving it. And no desire to fight through an apocalypse. Be that societal collapse or climate catastrophe. Or maybe I'm full of shit, the Dems pull a coup of their own in the midterms and save the goddamn day. Big damn heroes style. Who knows?

Israel will lose that war.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I very much look forward to the increase in mortality rates among men. Married and otherwise.

Lots of Goodbye Earl energy flying around and I love it.

How it feels to possess reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Oh I have no doubt that the Blackrocks and Birkshire Hathaway's of the nation are absolutely throbbing at the prospect. Literally diamonds. Those dusty old corpses won't need their hourly viagra until 2030.

WHAT

edit - Bought and installing.

They have different lists for different things. Real unemployment is closer to 30% than 3.

May the next sniper be properly trained. In his noodley name we pray, R'amen.

Slavery is already a thing. Happens all the time. All over this country. It never ended, today it's big billion dollar business.

Anyone thinking it won't intensify under Chump is delusional.

I fully expect the US to balkanize eventually.