Seen what the liver king looks like layely? Stacking will wreck you.

Who’s still buying this crap?

Simpsons predicts the future again

So many of the “centrist” social democrats from Weimer Germany ended up in the camps or victims of the post-July 20th purge. You’d think the Chuck Schumers in the Democratic party would be aware of that.

I’m still extremely happy Johnson won because the alternative was Vallas. Not looking forward to the next election though because I don’t think Johnson can win a second term and I know they’re going to pull out some Vallas-like creature.

Johnson’s base was extremely hopeful that he would be a forceful reformist and we’ve been disappointed. Carter is a good example, I guess Carter did recently resign on his own and now the CTA has an acting director, but we were hoping Johnson would fire Carter and the whole board and bring in people who actually care about transit. Johnson, however, doesn’t seem to care at all about the CTA and doesn’t want to have anything to do with it.

We were hoping Johnson was the second coming of Harold Washington and even though HW’s term was chaos due to the council wars at least he was fighting. Johnson doesn’t appear to be a fighter.

Johnson has done alright in chicago

Johnson has been disappointing, although he’s been subject to constant and withering Media attacks his entire mayoralty, which is something Mandani can also expect. Johnson’s substantive problem are not his policies but the fact that he’s still a little too machined-up and not quite as progressive as we were hoping. For instance, I guess he owes a lot of south side preachers a lot so he has given them sinecures in his administration. Unfortunately some end up in positions where they’re way out of their depth like Carter at the CTA.

I think we also tended to see a lot of hopes for reform in Johnson where he had no intention of delivering. He mostly ran as not-Rahm-not-Lightfoot-not-Vallas rather than articulating a positive vision. We kinda hoped he had one but he doesn’t really seem to. This is not a problem Mandani has.

I think Trump would not be president if the Democrats hadn’t thrown a horrible batch of candidates at him.

Maybe but there’s this shitlib take that the problem with the Democrats isn’t their shitty candidates or their shitty policies or their shitty consultants or their shitty campaigns.

The problem is the voters are just too deplorable to vote the right and honorable way.

This whole “you can’t change minds with reason” is a shibboleth for these types of people.

These people would rather lose and be self-righteous about being “one of the few good ones” than put any pressure on the dems to stop this country’s increasingly fast slide into fascism.

Since it’s pro-trucker I’m sure it will include:

1. Pay for waiting at the dock and stuck in traffic rather than just per-mile, and alternative minimum wage rules ensuring that truckers don’t end up working for pennies per hour.

2. Fatigue rules like aviation that account for cumulative fatigue and circadian rhythm.

3. Limits on that companies can do with trackers, forbidding their use for “productivity management”.

That stuff is definitely in there, Right?

Reading about this family just reminds me of this:

Son of the Norwegian crown prince. You’ll be unsuprised to learn that he stands accused of many sexual assaults.

Someone told him those bunker bombs were from Canada.

Bombs for peace!

A few months ago I said maybe Canadians shouldn’t put their faith into a globalist neolib banker and got down-voted.

Ok but stay with me. Maybe the bombing was so good it blew up all the radiation?

Well he said “now is the time for peace” in his announcement of the bombing, which is a totally reasonable thing to expect after bombing someone.

He desperately wants to be, yeah. The problem is he’s vile and off-putting even to Trump’s fans. Never has anyone so wealthy and powerful reeked of loserdom so badly.

“Abundance” libs like Matt Yglesias were publicly salivating at the opportunity to start glazing Elon again.

The evidence from the whole white genocide episode is that when Elon tries to mess with Grok he does so in the crudest way possible (messing with the system prompt). He shows a lot of frustration and rages about Grok constantly. I honestly think all they did when making a “non-woke” Grok was train it on a stolen copy of the internet but then not do any LRHF to tone down the natual 4chanic elements you end up with when using that training set.