I’ve come to the conclusion that it has to get very, very bad in the states before we’ll actually do something about it, and by then it’s likely to be too late. We’re taking the plunge into fascism, and it won’t end well.

I really hope I’m wrong. The 50501 protests have been somewhat heartening. But it’s hard to see them having a real impact on an actual fascist traitor president who no longer has to care about his own popularity.

So it’s hard to imagine this ending in anything but violence.

Nah. It’s not almost like that. Nope. It’s exactly that.

This is weaponized incompetence and stupidity.

I expect it to accelerate.

Rien ne va plus.

He hates being at the White House, with all the rules and procedures that have to be followed there. He’d much prefer to engage in open corruption without all that red tape.

This is going to keep happening. The brain drain is real.

Fair enough.

Germany should immediately seize all of Tesla’s accounts there and pay the workers on sick leave out of those funds.

Nah, DOGE is going to discover that The Atlantic is at fault for this somehow, and have all its management arrested.

We live in the stupidest timeline.

Which, in a two-party, first-past-the-post system, amounts to voting for Trump. They simply could not realize this.

Excellent breakdown. Well done!

And on top of all that, the article is specifically about Microsoft urging people to get rid of old hardware, which I take to mean NOT current-gen, bleeding-edge gaming hardware. So my suggestion was about not being forced to upgrade your hardware to keep having a usable computer.

It actually started the day after the election. People are actively searching for ways to escape this shit-hole country.

I know I am.

Translation: “Install Linux.”

It’s true that the political system is sick, but blaming Obama for it is 100% bullshit. How the fuck would he have “secured the Supreme Court?” How would that have worked?

No he didn’t. Oh, he says he did, but those Democrats should ignore it and continue working until the orange asshole has to send in his DOGE-stapo. It’s not a legal firing.

The answer is always going to be, “Because you’re running the incredibly bloated Windows operating system.”

Indeed. We’ve forgotten our history on many levels, and as such, we’re looking pretty well doomed to repeat it.

It hasn’t been for a long time. SCOTUS already declared Trump king, and Congress has completely abdicated its constitutional role to remove lawless presidents.

Trump is the most obvious symptom, but the underlying cancer is a deep-seated streak of fascination with authoritarianism in this country.

It’s easy to forget this, since the United States ultimately sided against the Axis powers in WWII, but there has always been a sizeable contingent of full-throated fascism supporters in this country.

They’ve spent decades honing their messaging and figuring out how to break the minds of Americans, and Trump is the culmination of that project.

Dang. There’s a QR code in the left side of the mural. That earlier “optimistic era” may have just been a few years ago. Things are getting much shittier very quickly.

Dear early 2014,

Next year, David Bowie will be diagnosed with liver cancer. A year and a half later, it will kill him. It is absolutely imperative that it be found and treated earlier than that, when it hasn’t metastasized yet. Get him diagnosed and treated now. The future of the planet depends on it.

Also, apropos of nothing in particular, here is a bunch of evidence that Donald Trump, the reality show guy who posted all that racist “birther” crap about President Obama, is a tax cheat and a scam artist, and works for Vladimir Putin. Get the IRS on his ass.

Good luck, and may your timeline work out better than ours has.