Prelude to the Apocalypse

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Sengoku Strider wrote: Mon Oct 28, 2024 1:56 pm Just a quick Monday morning Elon Musk update:

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Looks like an African illegal to me.
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Elons idiocy knows no bounds. Hoping his rumored ties to Putin are being investigated, and he winds up in prison and loses SpaceX at the bare minimum.
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Trump held the second most racist rally at Madison Square Garden where self proclaimed white nationalist leader and Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon dropped a racist tirade, Tucker Carlson talked about his White Replacement Theory, and Hulk Hogan said republicans aren’t really nazis and domestic terrorists.

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Bezos blocked the Washington Post’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, causing the paper to lose 8% of its subscribers. He then wrote a condescending tone deaf letter defending his actions today.

Just a normal week in America.
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Second most racist? Small dick energy! Bring the big package racism or get the fuck out!
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To Far Away Times wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2024 2:44 amMeanwhile, Jeffrey Bezos blocked the Washington Post’s endorsement of Kamala Harris, causing the paper to lose 8% of its subscribers.
I honestly couldn't have come up with a better parable for the Harris campaign: spend every drop of your political capital telling your base to go to hell, all in the name of trying to appease an insufferable cadre that will never, ever be appeased, then act surprised when your numbers drop off a goddamn cliff.

On the bright side, I did get a laugh out of this.
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WaPo smeared Sanders and I'll never forgive them. They can go get fucked. I hope they lose a third of their subscribers and sink.
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Ana Kasparian deciding this is the year to become a nazi sure is.... a choice. A little Johnny-come-lately to get on the gravy trough, but here we are.

I even felt bad when I called her a 'garbage person' back in an 'ole tussle with Mischief. Specifically because I didn't feel like I had done enough due diligence on her to be able to make a call like that. She's an extremely minor person in the grand scheme of things so I didn't and won't do any research on her like I did with Elizabeth Warren. I was just going off on vibes - she seemed like an extremely superficial person. But just because I wouldn't want to be friends with her didn't mean she was evil or anything.

One commentator noted recently that she never seemed to be happy, which resonated with me. She can get her expensive house, her dope wheels, her cute poolboy, and she'll still be absolutely miserable. Ladder mentality does that to people - that if only you climbed a little bit higher your life would somehow change magically.

It's not really any different than those Elliot Rodger types who think having sex would change anything. It's a mindset completely focused on external symbols and trophies.

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As for the election, the no toss-up maps say Trump will win. But the margins are narrow enough within the margin of error that I think it might be slightly in Kam's favor. The enthusiasm gap does seem to be favoring that direction; maybe Strider's right about people growing sick of the guy. Or the last four years of electorate churn caused him to dip off the map.

I suppose any election rigging will fix that, though. Reminder Ken Paxton took credit for tanking votes that would have put Texas more into play.

God knows they've gone to a dark place that I don't want the rest of us to follow. I don't want Elon Musk in charge of government cuts and firings. I don't want to revive 1700's laws that'll let the gestapo throw me in a concentration camp. I'm already on at least five different lists for saying I think people should have healthcare and that giving kids free meals is a better thing to spend our tax money on than most shit we spend it on.

Dictator Trump's robot army would do far more than merely check people's toilet licenses when they need to take a dump, or block people whenever they try to masturbate...

... reality is seriously morphing toward those final Matt Bors comics he made before retiring. The wasteland ones with cyborgs n' shit.

BulletMagnet wrote: Wed Oct 30, 2024 12:07 amI did get a laugh out of this.

The cops fleeing a school shooting got a smile out of me. The Onion's had a rough decade lately.

I got around to finally watching their classic autistic reporter series - I deeply regret skipping it back in the day. They're SS+ tier bits, and it's a crime that there aren't more of them.
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Dems have overperformed in the mid terms (at a time where the opposition party usually makes big gains) due to the the Supreme Court’s regression on women’s reproductive autonomy. It turns out people really don’t like losing human rights.

I think Dems will walk away with this one, but I was wrong about 2016.
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Just a quick Friday morning JP Morgan update:

World War III Has Already Begun, JP Morgan Boss Says
Newsweek wrote:The banking institution's CEO Jamie Dimon said in a recent speech at the Institute of International Finance that the current conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East has already begun a third world war.

Dimon previously called Russia, North Korea and Iran an "evil axis" that, alongside China, will hurt institutions like NATO. "And they're talking about doing it now," Dimon said at the event. "They're not talking about waiting 20 years. And so the risk of this is extraordinary if you read history."

"World War III has already begun. You already have battles on the ground being coordinated in multiple countries," Dimon said.

Dimon went on to say that the United States needed to avoid being naive and allowing larger global events to play out without any intervention.

"What we should be thinking about is we can't take the chance this will resolve itself. We have to make sure that we are involved in doing the right things to get it resolved properly," he added.

"I talk about the risk to us if those things go south," Dimon said. "We run scenarios that would shock you. I don't even want to mention them."
The age of deterrence has become the age of control, all in the name of averting catastrophe from weapons of mass destruction. And he who controls the battlefield . . . controls history. War has changed. When the battlefield is under total control . . . war becomes routine.
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NBC wrote:As of Thursday evening, nearly 62 million early votes have been cast, with majority cast by women, 54 percent to 44 percent, according to NBC News' tracker
This might be a blowout.
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Sengoku Strider wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 8:58 pm
NBC wrote:As of Thursday evening, nearly 62 million early votes have been cast, with majority cast by women, 54 percent to 44 percent, according to NBC News' tracker
This might be a blowout.
Who's voting early? Trump won white women in 2020. Inconvenient, but true. White women chose Donald Trump. I'm a little tired of white women telling me they should run the world in their ladyboss pantsuits. They chose Trump. They're assholes. (Yes, when you vote for a crazy orange clown, I'm gonna call you an asshole. I'm not sorry.)

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/20 ... =serp_auto

If it's white women that have the time and mental capital to make an early voting effort, it may favor Trump. As an individual group, white women chose Trump: no man votes required or included. Inconvenient, huh?
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