You’re forgetting that Vance will become president. He might be even worse.

Given that the same puppeteers have their hands up Vance’s ass, that and Vance is not an incontinent geriatric moron, he could be much worse.

In my honest opinion, American exceptionalism should be dead and buried

Should be, but it’s such a deeply ingrained part of their national self image that it’ll take a few generations of consistent effort to make it fade away.

Why does any one country need to dominate trade?

A much better outcome would be that more countries have a larger number of trading partners rather than one behemoth monopolizing all trade.

That quote is attributed to one of Bush’s speechwriters.

He has seen the monster from the inside.

The DNC never seems to undo the damage the GOP does,

It takes a lot more time, effort and money to repair something than it does to break it.

I remember Biden trying multiple times to reduce student debt, only to be thwarted by the Republicans.

The wheels of justice were grinding along at their normal slow pace to convict Trump of some of his provable crimes, all the while being interfered with by Republicans and their nominees.

It takes time to do things the right way. Especially when troublemakers are constantly shoving sticks into the spokes.

It was moving forward, just much more slowly than people wanted

If only there was something they could do do about the reasons for that plummeting public acceptance of their own party and its leadership…

This would also be appropriate.

Would it really, though?

So far, they’re putting up with white people being scooped up by ICE and tossed in “detention camps”.

Women’s rights are on a sharp decline in Israel.

Yeah, that’ll happen in a patriarchal theocracy.

You have to look at it through the lens of American exceptionalism.

At my work, we have a seemingly endless parade of managers and consultants who have to repeatedly learn why our long-running challenges are, well, challenging. And they all try to apply the same 6sigma, lean, etc. tools. And the corporate managers keep buying new people selling them the same solutions that have repeatedly been shown to not fit our specific problems.

That sounds depressingly similar to the last place I worked.

AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human code

As expected

The US doesn’t need any of Trump’s fucked up vanity projects, but they seem content to allow him to do it anyway.

Texas isn’t nearly as red as people think.

When was the last time Texas had a Democrat governor? Or Senator?

Trump freaking won the popular vote!

Assuming the claims of voter fraud (from both sides) are not true.

Historically, the majority of election fraud that has been discovered has been in favor of the Republicans, so it’s reasonable to assume that if there was fraud in the recent election, it was similarly inflating Trump’s numbers.

Between that and windows 11 forcing people to choose between buying new hardware (at currently inflated RAM prices) , remain on win10 without updates oo switching to a different OS, it really could mean the fabled “year of the Linux desktop” has finally arrived.

Unknown could be anything.

Thats not a bad thing.

I’m a big fan of preventing marketers from gaining additional useful knowledge about me.

Sometimes that means anonymizing, sometimes it means actively polluting their data.

Teledildonics has been a promising technology for several years.

Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose

I hope they realize that, while Trump is the figurehead, he isn’t the only one who has intentionally put them in that position.

but it’s not just him.

It’s also the oligarchs who support him as well as the various puppeteers who control him.