Hope everyone’s week went well. I have a temporary internet line in, but they have to come out and dig to fix the line in 5-7 business days.
Oh come on
Trump says he has commuted sentence of former Rep. George Santos
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/17/politics/george-santos-sentence-commuted
No Kings organizers project a massive turnout for this weekend’s protests
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5576461/no-kings-protests-trump
#RIP
Ace Frehley, lead guitarist in Kiss, dies at 74
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/16/nx-s1-5577128/ace-frehley-lead-guitarist-in-kiss-dies-at-74
9/10
Weekly News Quiz: October 17, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/10/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-oct-17-sec
Have an awesome weekend!
holy algorythm batman!
goodmorning
is voting season again here…(yay disfunctional gubment shenanigans)
anyways….i got accosted by an fvd muppet canvassing
was fun showing him my id and telling him i cant vote coz im an immigrant
clearly they didnt have that option in their you must be this white to vote for us chart
8/10 Because I don’t pay attention to the No Fun League much and “Trader Joes”?
i got 7/10….same reasons as you….coz uhh…whats a trader joes? and why do you call hand egg football?
also i misunderestimated the ammount of people furloughed
what can i say….bigly numbers confound me sometimes….but im sure the months job numbers will be just dandy
Can’t say because the statisticians who compile those numbers are furloughed like the majority of federal public servants. I don’t envy them. Especially if the King’s throwing diapers on the wall when the real numbers make him look like he doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing.
yeah….i have a feeling this whole post fact society thing is going to come crashing down
totally unexpectedly like…i mean…the numbers say?
…it’s a sort of interesting bit of cognitive hackery in the abstract…which is to say if you sort of temporarily exclude the parts that make it fucking dire as a real phenomenon…but…it’s sort of like they seem to think things they don’t understand…don’t really exist?
…like…for them the numbers are real but not the things the numbers relate to…so…if the numbers reflect that it isn’t going their way but they can fudge the numbers…that means they won…& if they don’t provide any numbers…they think that means they win by default
…not that they took all the mirrors off their vehicle right before they try to merge on a highway where what’s coming up behind them is moving faster & has more mass than they do
…it’s ok, though…they can’t see it…so they won’t know it ran them over?
what i cant see cant hurt me….said the deer to the bus
AOCs, Mamdanis and Platners are the accidents the powers that be (the rich motherfuckers who donate to the Dim Party) hate. I think it is no accident that the much of the Dim party leadership is feckless and spineless… it is by design. Even when CNN wasn’t controlled by a RW billionaire loon or CBS by dipshit white Barry White.
As someone pointed out, the No Kings Rallies might be the Tea Bagger, er Party moments where a lot of Dim (oblivious) establishment find themselves in a well deserved bad place. I wouldn’t call them DINOs, but more Oligarch Toadies or Friends of Billionaires.
…fwiw…seems like the “regime” set up gov-account bridgeheads on bluesky yesterday
…the desperation to provoke something today they can hang all the pretexts they have prepared on is…thirsty…they made sure to tell their brigades on twitter about it…&…for example…the one that’s known to quote-post to flag twitter accounts for the brigades is…you know
…so…for them as fucks with such
…&…having stuck to my lurking defaults of not liking or posting or re-posting anything…so…just reading stuff & following some accounts because otherwise it sort of doesn’t work for the finding the things to read…a good chunk of the 100 or so accounts that have chosen to “follow” my login are the sorts of “people” you’d have called a sock puppet on kinja
…so…this part does track for me?
…the natives seem to have… thoughts
…that might be the most obvious one…but…there are some others
…either way…big up all the folks headed out under that no kings banner today…if you are protesting & you aren’t instigating violence there’s no reason there ought to be any of that however much the people you’re protesting are so fucking thirsty for violence they need to be protested in the first place…here’s to not giving the bastards the satisfaction?
i cant figure out what funnier…the bring back professionalism complaint…or the 15 weeks of training for a cop
sides from the military…the us of a has a very loose definition of professional
…not really about anything in particular that I could make out but it made me…could have been a grin…might have been a smirk…there wasn’t anyone handy to tell me…but here it is so you can guess?
…don’t think we have peeps from cali that say anything around here…but…I know some people in that part of the world…so…on their behalf…fuck all of this
…it seems like it’s been put out as though it poses a threat when it really seems the threat is the same “don’t speak up or we’ll come for you” bullshit they absolutely can’t do even with all the internet stuff to help them out
i mean….sure the booms might be a little bigger…but isnt live fire just another day ending in y over there?
really…the military doing it shouldnt cause any disruption if you dont give a shit about the civvies doing it to begin with
or do yous think theres different kind of dead?
…I guess to the extremely limited extent that I’ve tried to get into it…it’s not unusual for military to do live fire exercises…but…to specifically announce that one on that day in the manner they made the announcement…paired with a suggestion they might do something like close an interstate…which would be just about unprecedented & stunningly disruptive to more than just the no kings thing…is to pop a lot of smoke
…& other than chicago…which doesn’t have a coast to run up on with things that don’t leave home without missles…LA is one of the bogeymen that keep the tangerine man sweating through his depends
…so that all tracks & starts to come off like it positively screams “desperate attempt to ramp up the chilling effect to dissuade as many “normies” as possible from joining the ranks of the “mad as hell & I’m not going to take it any more” folks because he knows LA can draw the sorts of crowd he claims was there to watch him get sworn in…& that shit is terrifying them so bad they want to kill the voting rights act & stop having government report cards & get to have masked unidentified-agency thugs go full-terrorist on their citizens as an excuse to pursue a fully anti-american agenda to put down the dissent it itself engenders”
…so…kind of the white house equivalent of sending your masked up hoodie wearing guy with a hammer to bust windows while a george floyd protest is happening…& in the same sort of way…it can very much have the effect they want it to on the people they want it to…but…probably won’t if those people get to see it in the context that paints it as the thing they’d do if they were really shitting themselves about how meaningful it would be to see all the different sorts of not-individually-scary people that think they’re a bunch of fuckwits nobody ought to have to be scared of?
oh…i was taking the piss mate…
the military does live fire excersizes all the fucking time… what they dont do…is fire over populated areas…
you know…best tech in the world doesnt exclude unexpected failures…generally you want to keep that possibillity away from the population….
so you know….im willing to bet anyone in the military will tell you this operation is sus as fuck
…fair…but…I suppose one of the reasons I sort of ignored the sarcasm in favor of thinking aloud might be on account of feeling a tad like I’m cluttering the place up already while I try to think of reasons not to do it more…so…maybe I should have used that slot for one of the stack of things I’ve thus far managed to not dump post-length comments about…yet?
yeah…i likewise feel like im cluttering the airways with my shit….
but then i think
i have to deal with the worlds shit 24/7…the world can deal with mine on the occasions i choose to spread it
This is the point. They’re trying to frighten people by demonstrating their “military might.” Same thing Orange did with his stupid birthday parade. Which backfired miserably. They don’t have the numbers to control the US, period. They’re relying on fear and propaganda to do the work for them. It’s not working.
MAGA is terrified of No King’s Day. Absolutely shitting-their-pants terrified. The sheer numbers can’t be hidden by their control of media outlets, because there aren’t any media outlets left that reach a significant number of people, except social media, which is why they went after Bluesky in the clumsiest way possible. They don’t want people to know that MAGA is a dwindling minority of the population, even though they managed to co-opt a significant chunk of the voting population.
Bottom line, the tide is turning on Orange and his confederates and they don’t know what to do about it.
…not sure if you can peg it to the same thing as no-numbers-no-problem…but…the thing about trying to define your rules in order to produce the result you want in specific edge-cases…is…you get bad rules that don’t even do what you want
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/10/democrats-congress-election-odd-scotus-supreme-court.html
…plus…if this is what you do that about…you make it clear that you think universal suffrage equates to your electoral demise…so…probably you shouldn’t try to claim you’re about democracy if that’s you…just sayin’
…if they kill the VRA & *then* lose the trifecta, tho?
…not gonna lie…if we were safely the other side of that…boy would that be some funny shit
…not to go all…dan brown…about it…but…chicago pope might put the kibosh on opus dei
…&…well
…it’s not like I’m out here with a wall of crazy about it…but…that stuff might not be altogether lacking in connective tissue…I mean…they’re not patriot prayer
…but…what with one thing
…& another
…well
…there might be more to it than a dan brown plot-line?
…which…uh…leads to stuff I did not have on my 2025 bingo card?