at this point, I’m guessing he must be glad his legacy in the middle east will be fulfilled.

These Senators know how much power they have

right, none. the fix has been in for a while now, this train’s brakes have failed and all we can do is hang on.

I’m always a fan of torturing a metaphor so yeah, exactly :)

It’s been going on for ages but at this point I don’t really blame the scorpion anymore. I certainly don’t blame the hornets wearing t-shirts, I mean, I don’t like them and I will try to exterminate them but not by trying to starve them out with scorpion overpopulation.

Right. And can buy the scorpion and the frog argument the first time around but this time there was NO ambiguity.

how is it that everyone seems to have forgotten about this: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

trump owns the judicial branch and they put him above the law.

This is what we now have, we just decided the one vote goes to donald fucking trump.

trump assumes that because he sucks up, that putin is his peer. putin knows how easy trump is to manupulate, this first act after him winning shows that he knows exactly how to play him. my hope is that trump is too stupid to realize it because else there will be a dick waving contest among the two most nuclear armed countries in history…

yep, I hate it but at least it’s starting to sink in. come jan. we are in a functional trump dictatorship. there are no checks and balances left, the court assured so and with the legislative branch under his control, the single, only hope we have is that he’s too hilariously inept to be effective.

that is the eventual plan.

oof, bleak.

right now I consider my fediverse and self hosted stuff as my ‘real’ profile. bluesky falls into the same category as linkedin, a necessary evil for my ‘professional’ profile.

So no, I won’t be leaving mastodon (or lemmy).

This one is on the folks who either voted for him or couldn’t be fucked to get off their couch. This time we ALL knew exactly who he was. I would have voted for a ham sandwich to prevent fascism. Dems suck but it’s verifiably true that the electorate can pressure them into action. Good luck pressuring ol’ donny smoothbrain to do anything that isn’t in his own self interest.

jebus, of this is the extreme court, what’s it gonna be in 4 years?

As opposed to the down home folksy charm of a rapist and convicted felon.

It’s been a week but feels like people are finally getting it.

There’s no checks and balances left, of all we have to hope is a line written on some paper many years ago, we’re fucked.

My pet theory was that the tech bros are lined up so that once turnip takes power, jv dunce can 25th him and boom, our government is being run by the puppet of peter theil and elmo.

His lickspittle behavior at the orange palace though might just fuck it all up. 🤞

I have never been an accelerationist but have a feeling it may be our only path forward from here on.

Note- not a plan, will see how things go. Not terribly hopefully atm though.

Sigh, here we go again. I jumped on board because it’s where my friends are. Was pleasantly surprised that most of my old twitter follows are already there. Still, given the history I’m being careful and ready for the next enshittification exodus.

I wish folks would just embrace self hosting and decentralization but we obviously love to make the same mistakes again, and again, and again…

What gets me is how lowbrow and petty all this is and yet so many people just act like it doesn’t exist. I mean, the universe served up the most obvious villain doing the worst job of criming that I’ve ever seen. I mean his antics are nearly indistinguishable from scooby doo, I’m expecting someone to have a mask pulled off, find out it’s trump who then somehow gets away with it all despite meddling from those kids.

I feel like the entire world has been pranking me specifically to see how long I can believe that my fellow humans are capable of believing this.