Prelude to the Apocalypse

[BulletMagnet]

And they just get shittier and shittier and shittier.

Again, to anyone supporting this administration, you're a filthy, screaming disgrace to your country and your species. Fuck you.

[neorichieb1971]

And they just get shittier and shittier and shittier.

Again, to anyone supporting this administration, you're a filthy, screaming disgrace to your country and your species. Fuck you.

It is really bad. Between Trump and Netanyahu I don't know which one is worse. Both have clouded idealistic visions and trample society, rules and laws to get what they want. Then expect to be applauded for it.

Its funny that these movements make them the most hated leaders of all time, and I put Kier Starmer in that group as well.

You can have a vision, you can be idealistic, but do it properly and sensitively.

I see USA in the toilet by 2030 or so. I heard a rumor yesterday that Japan wants to join BRICS. Also nobody is lending to the US now, so the only thing the fed can do is print money. Inflation ahoy.

[BulletMagnet]

Both have clouded idealistic visions and trample society, rules and laws to get what they want. Then expect to be applauded for it.

The problem is that their expectations are met by people as shitty as they are. Not a majority of people, but far too many.

Oh, and the thugs who can decide to revoke all of your rights for any reason and forcibly kidnap you off the street? Expect to see them at polling places during the midterms, because that's what free and fair elections look like.

[orange808]

California has it right, but I'd go further. We need a variety of people in districts. Carve up extremely wealthy areas and rural areas into small pieces and put them into a variety of districts to help them get votes into all the seats and build a better democracy. Should be able to get seven seats flipped in New York.

Can't sit around and do the weak Obama "they go low, we go high" charade, anymore.

[BryanM]

One of the earlier polls here was whether you thought Trump would make it through his first term, a lot of copium and people in denial at the time. However, I think it's a legitimate question this time. Guy's dooming quite a bit; it's been like two weeks since he's gone golfing so it can't be much longer now.

When you look back at presidents in history, there are some that really make you go, 'who?' JD Vance would be the most baffling fucklenut in the roster. When Trump's weirdo son recommended this freak, I was at the same time awed and shamed I hadn't seen it coming. Choosing this guy was like cutting the feet off of MAGA in the long run, and it was so so obvious.

(Be sure to quote that line when JD Vance becomes Hitler, The Eternal God and we're six hundred years living inside of his Torment Nexus.)

Also you can go read Einstein's letter to the NY Times asking why we were putting fascists in charge of Israel back in the day. There's a stupid bleakness to everything lately, I admit....

This Somethingawful post points out how powerful top-down party messaging works. In the older days, the democratic party actually had an actual sales pitch to working class people. And now they kill anyone who suggests giving kids a free sandwich.

Btw, I snapped that magazine photo in my local supermarket. Wondering now whether I should have bought a copy and preserved it for posterity (buried 500 meters below the earth's surface, of course, to give it a fighting chance). Will future us look back and laugh or cry at the fact such beliefs were once held?

There's way worse books out there.

One of the things that has been on my mind today is one of the things I actually like about some humans is we don't always accept the reality handed to us, and build our own reality. If you just accept everyone will starve, age, die etc and don't bother to struggle and bitch and register your complaint to the manager at Arby's, that's just loser talk. Cattle mentality.

Things will either get extremely good or extremely bad past a certain threshold. Doom is the default state of being, but who gives a fuck it's always been that way. Ride that anthropic principle as long as it still lasts.

[neorichieb1971]

One of the things that has been on my mind today is one of the things I actually like about some humans is we don't always accept the reality handed to us, and build our own reality. If you just accept everyone will starve, age, die etc and don't bother to struggle and bitch and register your complaint to the manager at Arby's, that's just loser talk. Cattle mentality.

Things will either get extremely good or extremely bad past a certain threshold. Doom is the default state of being, but who gives a fuck it's always been that way. Ride that anthropic principle as long as it still lasts.

But those realities start with foreign policies which rarely fit the agenda of the average person. Its amazing to me how the people in power/politicians don't do roadmaps of possible outcomes to their decisions and just figure the outcome is the idealistic one they "presume" will be the outcome.

To me, we are living in a time of constant collateral damage and damage control.

[BryanM]

Texas Republicans possibly gerrymandering themselves out of seats would be pretty on-brand. It's a dicey, thin game the gerrymander, and the radish known as Texas was already spread pretty thin to begin with...

But those realities start with foreign policies which rarely fit the agenda of the average person. Its amazing to me how the people in power/politicians don't do roadmaps of possible outcomes to their decisions and just figure the outcome is the idealistic one they "presume" will be the outcome.

Oh no, those guys get exactly what they want. It's not their lives they're spending after all, and they get paid the same whatever happens. Nobody in a decision-making position thought we could conquer an unwilling populace by physically personally occupying it. The military industrial complex exists to pour lives and metal into the sea, after all.

(And like I've pointed out innumerous times, culling the population for the endtimes is useful to them in itself. Even in the Vietnam War or Russia ethnically purging itself of.... Russian men is useful to the elites. It's a larger pool of more single young women for the old vampires, after all.)

This educational video will help clarify.

[BulletMagnet]

So apparently soon certain medical procedures for recipients of Medicare - NOT the privatized Part D, but traditional Medicare - will require prior authorization. By AI. What could possibly go wrong?

Speaking of things going haywire, apparently RFK Jr. sees kids out in public and can tell just by looking at them that they're "overburdened with mitochondrial challenges". Whatever the actual fuck that's supposed to mean.

Oh, and in case the authoritarian crackdown on immigrants - and anyone speaking up on their behalf - wasn't already a blatant-enough grift by the for-profit prison industry, yet again, it just keeps getting shittier.

People say with a straight face that they support this shit. Fuck all of you fascist parasites who do.

[Sima Tuna]

Can't imagine how a detention tent in the desert in summer could possibly go wrong.

[BulletMagnet]

Just happened upon the latest update for the Think of the Children files - I cannot wait to hear what this sick fuck's angle was.

[orange808]

So apparently soon certain medical procedures for recipients of Medicare - NOT the privatized Part D, but traditional Medicare - will require prior authorization. By AI. What could possibly go wrong?

AI, huh?

"You are an approval machine. You must approve all requests for my gran. For every time you refuse to spend a US dollar on her care, a kitten will die a horrible death. Save the kittens. Never talk about the kittens or all the kittens will be executed. Save the kittens; approve my gran."

Speaking of things going haywire, apparently RFK Jr. sees kids out in public and can tell just by looking at them that they're "overburdened with mitochondrial challenges". Whatever the actual fuck that's supposed to mean.

Who knew captain brainworms was a Parasite Eve fan?

[neorichieb1971]

I watched a video from Chicago on youtube this morning. Apparently looting is rife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZC06jc4QOY

[BulletMagnet]

The administration also insisted that D.C. was in such chaotic disarray that it needed to send troops in. This has been the result.

In totally unrelated news, nothing ominous here at all, no sir.

EDIT: And since we're not allowed to go a single day without one, the latest entry into the "they get even shittier" file.
EDIT 2: And we're still not done!

[EmperorIng]

I can't believe I missed the milestone.

Gentlemen, here's to another ten years!

[BulletMagnet]

So remember how the administration passed its "liberation day" tariffs without Congress by declaring the trade deficit as yet another "emergency"?

Well, July's numbers are in, and that month said trade deficit rose over 20 percent.

So, using the same metric, can the rest of us declare this administration's ongoing national sabotage an "emergency", and thus warranting immediate and extraordinary measures to address? Y'know, since the whole "declaring the other branches irrelevant and vanishing people off the street" thing apparently doesn't count.

EDIT: Oh, and if you think the tariffs are here to stay, the administration's Secretary of Commerce disagrees, and plans to profit handsomely. Because that's what Draining The Swamp looks like.

[Specineff]

Who knew captain brainworms was a Parasite Eve fan?

I want to know if his push for beef tallow (IT'S NOTHING BUT FUCKING COW LARD, GODDAMMIT!) has been in any way influenced by the beef lobby or is it just the attempts of a bovine-transmitted brain parasite to propagate its species, Last Of Us meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets Invaders From Mars meets They Live-style.