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Cybersecurity engineer, full-time RV nomad, Twin Peaks fan, aspiring Luddite. He/him.
Please. No more speeches on Bluesky about having the guts to stand up Trump when you have voted to give unanimous consent to advancing his agenda 345 times since inauguration.
You are a God-damned coward and a traitor to the Republic, Bernard Sanders, and I'm ashamed I ever thought well of you.
You are a God-damned coward and a traitor to the Republic, Bernard Sanders, and I'm ashamed I ever thought well of you.
February 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Please. No more speeches on Bluesky about having the guts to stand up Trump when you have voted to give unanimous consent to advancing his agenda 345 times since inauguration.
You are a God-damned coward and a traitor to the Republic, Bernard Sanders, and I'm ashamed I ever thought well of you.
You are a God-damned coward and a traitor to the Republic, Bernard Sanders, and I'm ashamed I ever thought well of you.
Outspoken D Senators are like those really annoying guys who talk big about how they'd kick anybody's ass in a fight because they binged some krav maga and bjj videos on youtube, except that those annoying guys don't also spend tens of hours each week supporting, protecting and arming muggers.
February 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Outspoken D Senators are like those really annoying guys who talk big about how they'd kick anybody's ass in a fight because they binged some krav maga and bjj videos on youtube, except that those annoying guys don't also spend tens of hours each week supporting, protecting and arming muggers.
100%. It reminds me of Y2K when software experts freaked out for a decade about the 2-digit year date overflow that would cause systems to treat 2000 like 1900, then nothing happened, BECAUSE EVERYBODY FREAKED OUT AND FIXED IT.
If USA gets better it's because we freaked out, not because we waited.
If USA gets better it's because we freaked out, not because we waited.
February 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
100%. It reminds me of Y2K when software experts freaked out for a decade about the 2-digit year date overflow that would cause systems to treat 2000 like 1900, then nothing happened, BECAUSE EVERYBODY FREAKED OUT AND FIXED IT.
If USA gets better it's because we freaked out, not because we waited.
If USA gets better it's because we freaked out, not because we waited.
When your personal political bookshelf consists of 38 copies of Pearl Clutching For Dummies, it's muscle memory.
February 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
When your personal political bookshelf consists of 38 copies of Pearl Clutching For Dummies, it's muscle memory.
Repeating one point from the thread: Don't organize anything or do any personal business on company-owned devices. We monitor a lot of that shit, because some of your coworkers sell data to criminals or hostile nations.
If you own it, be careful.
If you don't own it, it's definitely compromised.
If you own it, be careful.
If you don't own it, it's definitely compromised.
February 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Repeating one point from the thread: Don't organize anything or do any personal business on company-owned devices. We monitor a lot of that shit, because some of your coworkers sell data to criminals or hostile nations.
If you own it, be careful.
If you don't own it, it's definitely compromised.
If you own it, be careful.
If you don't own it, it's definitely compromised.
Been leaving voicemails for my R Senators and House rep reminding them that opposing Trump costs them no personal or party power, because their D coworkers are idiots and cowards and will still give them everything they want afterward.
No responses in 3 weeks, but I'm telling them the truth.
No responses in 3 weeks, but I'm telling them the truth.
February 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Been leaving voicemails for my R Senators and House rep reminding them that opposing Trump costs them no personal or party power, because their D coworkers are idiots and cowards and will still give them everything they want afterward.
No responses in 3 weeks, but I'm telling them the truth.
No responses in 3 weeks, but I'm telling them the truth.
Dem Senators could have objected to unanimous consent constantly to slow this to a crawl, which would have given us months more time to organize, prepare, and resist.
Instead, they decided they'd rather give speeches to empty chambers and have long weekends.
indivisible.org/resource/exp...
Instead, they decided they'd rather give speeches to empty chambers and have long weekends.
indivisible.org/resource/exp...
EXPLAINER: How Senate Democrats Can Delay & Defy Trump's Agenda with Procedural Hardball
indivisible.org
February 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Dem Senators could have objected to unanimous consent constantly to slow this to a crawl, which would have given us months more time to organize, prepare, and resist.
Instead, they decided they'd rather give speeches to empty chambers and have long weekends.
indivisible.org/resource/exp...
Instead, they decided they'd rather give speeches to empty chambers and have long weekends.
indivisible.org/resource/exp...
And their deliberate inaction and discouraging of grassroots resistance has transmuted a lot of willingness to support into a desire to buy more popcorn.
February 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
And their deliberate inaction and discouraging of grassroots resistance has transmuted a lot of willingness to support into a desire to buy more popcorn.
Introducing legislation? Are you fucking serious?
Can you get other Dem Senators to vote with you, let alone Republicans? Can you get it on the docket and passed in the Republican-controlled House? Can you get Trump's tiny hand to sign it into law?
Try objecting to unanimous consent instead.
Can you get other Dem Senators to vote with you, let alone Republicans? Can you get it on the docket and passed in the Republican-controlled House? Can you get Trump's tiny hand to sign it into law?
Try objecting to unanimous consent instead.
February 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Introducing legislation? Are you fucking serious?
Can you get other Dem Senators to vote with you, let alone Republicans? Can you get it on the docket and passed in the Republican-controlled House? Can you get Trump's tiny hand to sign it into law?
Try objecting to unanimous consent instead.
Can you get other Dem Senators to vote with you, let alone Republicans? Can you get it on the docket and passed in the Republican-controlled House? Can you get Trump's tiny hand to sign it into law?
Try objecting to unanimous consent instead.
"Enshittification" is an actual term worth searching that describes this phenomenon in the tech space. It's as an explicit business model with clearly delineated phases.
February 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Enshittification" is an actual term worth searching that describes this phenomenon in the tech space. It's as an explicit business model with clearly delineated phases.
Plus if they gave a shit, they could ask us directly. And of course no, we won't dial them down, but there's a special level of third-order cravenness in volunteering to carry the water for elected Dems who volunteer to carry water for Repubs who volunteer to carry water for King Diaperfill.
February 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Plus if they gave a shit, they could ask us directly. And of course no, we won't dial them down, but there's a special level of third-order cravenness in volunteering to carry the water for elected Dems who volunteer to carry water for Repubs who volunteer to carry water for King Diaperfill.
Since our two parties are 1) sentient cancer cells and 2) doddering dipshits who met gravitas and self-preservation in a bar once but vomited on their shoes and passed out, the correct framing is absolutely "keep pressuring them hard until we can remove them." They are unwilling tools, not allies.
February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Since our two parties are 1) sentient cancer cells and 2) doddering dipshits who met gravitas and self-preservation in a bar once but vomited on their shoes and passed out, the correct framing is absolutely "keep pressuring them hard until we can remove them." They are unwilling tools, not allies.
I'm coming around to the view that corporate US media is just as captured by inertia and the desire to ground out resistance instead of informing and supporting it as Dem politicians are.
Not suggesting anyone should stop shaming them, obviously - just not rely on them as a lever for resistance.
Not suggesting anyone should stop shaming them, obviously - just not rely on them as a lever for resistance.
February 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I'm coming around to the view that corporate US media is just as captured by inertia and the desire to ground out resistance instead of informing and supporting it as Dem politicians are.
Not suggesting anyone should stop shaming them, obviously - just not rely on them as a lever for resistance.
Not suggesting anyone should stop shaming them, obviously - just not rely on them as a lever for resistance.
Hmm, sounds a lot like you for not objecting to unanimous consent.
We'll remember that your long weekends are more important to you than your constituents, your oath of office, and democracy.
We'll remember that your long weekends are more important to you than your constituents, your oath of office, and democracy.
February 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Hmm, sounds a lot like you for not objecting to unanimous consent.
We'll remember that your long weekends are more important to you than your constituents, your oath of office, and democracy.
We'll remember that your long weekends are more important to you than your constituents, your oath of office, and democracy.
Having made it brutally clear that they value their long weekends more than our lives, they'll realize sooner or later that being primaried is the very best outcome they can expect from the next few years.
To be clear, I'm not threatening them: Trump already did.
To be clear, I'm not threatening them: Trump already did.
February 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Having made it brutally clear that they value their long weekends more than our lives, they'll realize sooner or later that being primaried is the very best outcome they can expect from the next few years.
To be clear, I'm not threatening them: Trump already did.
To be clear, I'm not threatening them: Trump already did.
Their fundraising haul in '26 is way more important to them than democracy, their bosses the American public, and their oaths of office.
Their long weekends are also much more important to them than our lives.
Their long weekends are also much more important to them than our lives.
February 19, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Their fundraising haul in '26 is way more important to them than democracy, their bosses the American public, and their oaths of office.
Their long weekends are also much more important to them than our lives.
Their long weekends are also much more important to them than our lives.