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OK, that was actually a pretty good quip. You must be in an uncharacteristically good mood today. Somehow.

It's almost as if the only way to keep government officials honest is to do away with the concept of "reelections" altogether. You get one term. Make it count.

Sure is a good thing we're not the ones who have to pay for them, then!

Played a bit during the Free Weekend on the lappy, since it's ironically the most competent gaming system I have left at the moment (and unlike the big desktop monitor, it won't look terrible on the little screen if I run it at a sub-HD resolution to save frames). I learned a few things: (1) If...

Implying Big Oil (and all the other companies who have been using "inflation" as an excuse to jack up prices just because) won't lower prices just to fool people into thinking that a Republican-run country is good for their wallets, knowing that if they lose in 2024, there goes their lobbying...

Ohio's still using the paper ballots you fill in like a standardized test and feed into a scanner, so pretty painless. There's an amendment on the ballot this year to block 17-year-olds from voting in the primaries, so I voted against that... nothing as interesting as the amendment from 2006 to...

For a guy who's not running for President yet, Trump sure is running for President already.

On the subject of political ads, I wonder if any of the more moderate Republicans that managed to survive the primaries have been the subject of attack ads from the far right. Because we've talked about the possibility of them being that petty, but I have yet to see it firsthand.

Semantics. Powerful people (billionaires) are working hand-in-hand with other powerful people (the government) to further erode our rights for their mutual benefit. That's close enough to a conspiracy to me. And how about the Actual Pedophile Cabal that Epstein was a part of, and who continue...

The interesting thing will be seeing what happens to Truth Social when Trump and all the other people who were exiled there are invited back. Will it be shut down, leaving yet another failed investment in Trump's portfolio? Will Musk do the Musk-iest possible thing and offer to buy it out...

Also, it's the DHS. A department encompassing various "security" and "intelligence" agencies (read: the Deep State) at the behest of W during the biggest wave of xenophobia in recent history. Expecting them to be anything but a front for fascism even during a Democratic administration would...

How long is a minute? Because he was kinda nuts during his "feminist" phase too. Just the complete opposite kind of nuts. That's why I brought him up; just like Kanye, he always gave off the impression of being prone to extreme ideas, even before he did a 180 on which kind of extreme ideas he...

AOC, at least, makes sense as a target because she genuinely espouses pretty radical leftist ideals. She's the closest thing Congress has to a 2010s Tumblr SJW stereotype. Pelosi and Clinton are both pretty standard middle-of-the-road Democrats, if I'm not mistaken. To the point where I think...

Yeah, between him, Scott Adams, and the Sinfest guy, I'm starting to think that some people just have a natural tendency towards extremism of any sort, and will just as eagerly side with one extreme as its diametric opposite.

It really does say something about the modern world that a speech about grand efforts to make the world a better place always comes across as a threat now. I suspect we're starting to recognize that there is no such thing in the real world as a powerful hero—that power is something only villains...

My counterpoint to this is that if actual Nazis take control of the government, they're gonna enact whatever terrible laws they want regardless of what they're "allowed" to do because a disregard for society's standards of decency is part and parcel of being Nazis.

And what do you do if the liars are good enough at lying (and powerful enough) to shout those "everyone else"s down? An unregulated marketplace of ideas is just as dangerous as any other unregulated market.

Oh, I'm well aware of that, and I hate it. Like, I guess we've reached the point where the majority of internet users literally grew up in the age of smartphones and apps, signed up for Twitter when they were seven, and have never had any reason to venture outside of that corner of the internet...

Bullshit. Nobody has the inherent right to spread lies. If that's what freedom of speech means, then I'm not in favor of freedom of speech.

They'll never close it. This is a major corporation we're talking about, here, run by people who are living comfortably at the opposite end of the country in the most socially-progressive state. There's nothing the government of Florida could ever do that would inconvenience them more than...