The language of love

This is pretty good and accurate.

My guess is that one of two things will happen:

• WW3, probably started with China over something or other in the South China Sea, and I don’t think the magats are putting the country in a position to win it, so they’ll be put on trial after the war.
• Civil war, and I trust the lesson of history that shows time and time again that authoritatian regimes never end well.

Either way, there will be a lot of casualties, is the bad news.

And then the country will be rebuilt, long after you and I are gone, it will enjoy a few decades of prosperity, and then it will happen all over again. That too is another lesson of history.

Another face you’ll see on trial a few years from now after the American reich collapses and the day of reckoning comes.

To place blame for an accident while bodies are still strapped to seats in the water is abhorrent

Trump, like most politicians and CEOs, is a psychopath. He doesn’t understand or feel empathy. More disturbingly, he doesn’t feel compelled to pretend he does.

His lack of empathy and whatever rage is burning inside of him, and the fact that he’s the most powerful man in the world, makes for a dangerous cocktail. There was a little mustachioed man from Austria who also made the same cocktail with the same three ingredients 92 years ago and we all know what happened.

Either someone is qualified to fly a plane or not

Exactly.

Or direct air traffic. Or drive a truck. Or operate machinery. Or do accountancy…

If the person is qualified, by definition they can do the job. Whether they’re in a wheelchair or 3-ft tall is irrelevant: if their disability prevents them from doing the job, then they’re not qualified and they’re not even hired to begin with. Otherwise, they’re qualified and their disability has nothing to do with their job abilities - and none of your business to boot.

Trump always talks about merit but all I see is an ableist old man who unfairly targets of people based on their looks, sexual preferences and challenges in life that have nothing to do with their ability to perform at work.

I note that Nintendo had the good sense not to come after Mangione for trademark infringement…

I’m the same age and I’ve been retired for 25 years 🙂

I have a job I really enjoy that I do a few hours a day, for the money sure, but also for fun. And then I enjoy a lot of extra hours doing the things I want.

It’s like retirement but with a few hours of fun stuff I gotta do every day, sure, but it’s still fun. When I retire for real, I just won’t do the few hours of fun no more.

I can tell you exactly what I do, because 25 years ago, I chose to forgo promotions at work and prioritize free time and quality of life over money:

I spend time with my family.
I do the things I want while I’m still young (or rather, while I was still young 🙂).
Generally leading a good life free of stress and drama.

You were given only one life. You have a finite set of hours on this dirtball, and the countdown is running. Every extra hour you give to your employer in exchange for money is an hour you don’t spend with your loved ones, and you can’t buy it back. Retirement age is too late to enjoy your life.

Nobody goes to their graves thinking they should have worked more.

I’m sorry but no.

The people who needed to hear it heard it loud and clear, and they didn’t think it was fake news. Trump himself said what he was gonna do. The J6 riots really happened and it wasn’t a secret. The 34 felony conviction really happened.

Those who voted for Trump AGREED with those things. They either embraced it as the little Nazi magats they are, or they reckoned increasing their buying power was well worth a little fascim and overlooking basic morality.

And you know what? Fuck them.

And everybody knew it. But the price of eggs justifies any idiotic vote!

I’m pretty sure TSMC has the means to hurt the US more than Trump realizes.

Truly a massive Koch.

Trump is all for letting the states do their own thing unless he isn’t.

I with California seceded over this. They would leave the rest of the union in such a disarray…

Now that Trump’s USA scores almost as low as China on the democracy scale, I guess TikTok isn’t an existential threat to the nation anymore.

Anyone up for a massive protest?

Make sure you’re a young white man with rich parents before you hit the street.

I wonder if the American voters realize just how surreal of a situation they cast their country in. Anybody who believes the USA looks like anything other than a weird bad trip is out of his goddamn mind.

Fox News is busy covering the dumpster fire at Mar-a-Lago.

Fast fashion is like fast food: fast stands for junk.