…until something better comes along

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15/11/24 SplinterRIP 23

…I…don’t think it was my turn…& I’m not in a place with a proper keyboard within reach so you’re safe until probably sunday from the rain of block-quotes

…but until there’s a DOT heres…ummm…a recycled playlist, maybe?

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  1. Yes, Meg is in Cali-FOUR-nya isn’t she? I hope she doesn’t get trapped on the 405.

    Ya know, SNL made fun of Cali-FOUR-nyans’ obsessions with freeways and traffic, but New Yorkers are no better, except the focus of our fury is the subways.

    • There is a guy who I am in meetings with a lot. A coworker and I thought he was day drunk on several occasions. I finally looked him up in our system. No, he’s just based out of our Laguna Hills office. He sounds just like this.

  3. Mine is tomorrow — I thought maybe Manchu volunteered? If so he’s got a lot to deal with.

    Here’s some things that terrify me.

    Batshit Bolton thinks this cabinet is insane.

    Even this notorious GOP jerk thinks Trump’s Cabinet is nuts

    We’re never getting rid of her, are we?

    Marjorie Taylor Greene hijacks pandemic hearing to spew gobbledygook

    Or this one.

    So Lauren Boebert is investigating underwater alien bases now

    And to cap off the horror.

    ‘Blueprint of destruction’: Experts outline ‘chillingly clear’ view of Trump’s next term

    • Well, with RFK. Jr., at the helm of the HHS, MTG, the swinger from the health club, won’t have to worry about vaccines anymore. I will say, though, that in the Golden Age of public education on our first day of kindergarten we were lined up outside the gym and led in one by one and given our vaccinations. We got them all, including polio. I do not have autism. Maybe I do but it’s undiagnosed. 

      We were then taken to the basement and given a tour of the bomb shelter. Just in case. 

      I have met people who have autism, young men. It’s very strange. They were lovely people and quite interesting, they had their obsessions, but you had to move tenderly around them.

    • We were already getting Biden OLD showing up at this point in 2020. Funny how Trump’s mental competence has faded to the background.

      I think it makes the risks even worse. He’s not going to be inert or incapacitated, he’s going to be erratic, overreactive, and vengeful in a way that a more calculating autocrat would not.

      But he’s also going to be incapable of controlling the lunatics he’s brought on board. He’s going to be a chaos agent in a way I don’t think anyone can understand, and his unhinged brain is going to be a central feature. But the sanewashing continues because the press has to pretend it understands.

  4. i think my two new favourite words are “alarming” and “shocking.”

    be prepared for those words to be in every headline from now until the sun runs out of batteries because everyone is just oh so shocked and alarmed by the steps the next administration are taking.

    i mean…who could have seen this coming?

    • We’ll get around to the point where the stories go “Sure, all of these people told us what was coming, but it’s their fault for not saying it in exactly the right way.”

    • The media is a bunch of morans (sic) I remember what they did during the run up to the Steal Iraq’s Oil Op and their cone of silence when there were no weapons of mass destruction or flowers and candy for “allied” troops. Just death and chaos.

    • Rupar is a great reporter, and his point is strong. While it’s a problem that the establishment press went too far to the right, the bigger problem is that they’ve lost their audience share so badly.

      The internet took off over 25 years ago, and news execs decided they weren’t going to adapt, and it’s shown.

      It’s not like this was the first time new tech hit the news industry, though. Both radio and TV were transformative tech, and the industry didn’t say they’d sit still, and they basically came up with new forms and new personalities in less than a decade in both cases.

      And then the right moved into that void. I think it’s fair to say the Democrats were far too slow to react. But I also think the tech landscape tilted ridiculously far toward enabling disinformation and conspiracy theorists.

      The usual argument is that it’s purely economic pressures, except it’s far from clear that turning social media into a swamp boosts those businesses. Facebook has seen its audience stagnate as it’s turned from its roots as a fun place for personal connections and instead promoted the worst things about modern life. And Twitter is definitely not being run as a normal business, and never really was.

      I think it’s fair to say the leaders of big tech think they’re being smart by pushing right wing conspiracy theorists, but that’s different from actually being rational economic actors, and I think the case studies of Zuckerberg and 2016 make it clear he’s completely over his head.

      And of course if the economy crashes or if the autocrats emulate Putin and start taking over private businesses the way mob bosses do, the economic consequences are going to be massive for the tech galaxy brains. They always think they’re safe, until they aren’t.

  6. Chris Hayes on Bluesky points out that we’ve got a blueprint for recovering from an election defeat. Democrats need to rally around a batshit crazy conspiracy theory and trumpet it nonstop for the next four years. Ideally, that the election was stolen.

    Of course, there’s now a BlueAnon conspiracy saying that Elmo stole the election with StarLink. So we’re on our way!

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