Just as almost all conspiracies end at antisemitism, almost all cults eventually become sex cults. Leader's needs must be met. FLDS, Branch Davidian, Children of God, it's a long list. MAGA is now showing the same signs, beginning by covering for sexual abuse, then excusing it, then embracing it.

Actually far more disappointed in Brian Schatz than I am in Chuck Schumer, who I always had down as an ass.

Can totally imagine Schumer, handcuffed, head shaved, getting a one way Amtrak ticket to Gitmo, then telling reporters: "I look forward to reaching across the aisle to discuss a bipartisan solution to this death train."

I still think this is the weirdest thing to have happened since the election. Trump cannot help himself - when he crimes, he brags. A million ways you could praise Musk - but "expert on voting computers" ain't one of them. Unless, of course...

I'll keep on repeating this until I'm blue in the face. Congressional Democrats cannot fight back effectively because their stakeholders are exactly the same as the Republicans': wealthy white people and billionaire donors.

The reason Democrats are caving I that they are in fact beholden to the same big money interests that Republicans are. It's easy for Republicans - they don't have to pretend otherwise. But Democrats do. Until that changes nothing will change, and Democrats will continue to cave.

Seems clear Trump does not have a clue what he is signing. He's just putting his scrawl on whatever the Heritage Foundation puts in front of him. He has zero understanding of the implications. He has already outsourced the governing of this country to Project 2025's authors.

I just asked Deepseek if Elon Musk is a Nazi, then if he he is a fascist, and got the most cowardly, milquetoast, "get this program a job on CNN" answers. If this shite is the future I am kinda glad that we are doomed.

That the anti-democracy broligarchs are led by white South Africans isn't surprising. I expect they believe, as many non-black South Africans do, that for all of its faults living under apartheid was better than post-Mandela democracy. So of course they think that'll be true here as well.

Deleted Twitter, deleted Threads, now here. Keeping technofascists out of my life is quite the chore.