It’s relevant to why it didn’t matter.

I’m not comparing Biden to Trump. That is just too easy and kind of masturbatory. Yes, I agree Biden was better than Trump, and Harris would be too. The world is more complicated than “red bad, blue good”. The important question is, when Trump is worse, why is he president?

Democrats can continue to be better than Republicans in every way, and it won’t matter. Republicans have a narrative and Democrats don’t. That is the point that matters.

I knew with absolute certainty that Biden would be a one term president and be replaced by a far worse fascist. I didn’t know it would be Trump v2, and I didn’t know Biden would far exceed expectations, but I knew he wasn’t what we needed to turn off that path.

Democrats can’t keep repeating the same mistakes and getting surprised by the results.

True, if very healthy means that the rate of decline for working class Americans was going down. Until that gets aggressively reversed, get ready for more and worse fascists every other election cycle. (For as long as free elections exist.)

The common people - specifically Democratic voters - need to wake up to the fact that the Democratic establishment is also our enemy. All the energy resisting Trump is outside the Democratic establishment. They stand far more in opposition to progressives than to Trump. They are with the oligarchs, and they have proven multiple times that they prefer a Trump presidency to a Bernie presidency.

We won’t beat the fascists until we beat the neoliberals. With their neoliberal protectors gone, the fascists will collapse.

I sincerely doubt Rogan has learned his lesson. There is zero indication that he won’t go right back to slurping the ass of the next dictator wannabe while, again, being completely oblivious to the possible consequences.

As always, most of their effort will be used to try and stifle progressives.

So, he’s mad at Trump for doing exactly what he was campaigning on when Rogan endorsed him?

Meh. The only possible reason to keep accumulating after a billion is for respect and power. I’m pretty sure Elon has fucked up both to the point where most of his money gets him nothing. I’m pretty sure he is headed to a “death of despair” type ending before long.

/raises hand

I’ll do it. After all, I can’t possibly fuck it up worse than the last guy.

It gets a bit more complicated when that four year old is a member of tren de agagua.

I didn’t predict it yet… it somehow feels like I should have.

I’m really interested in Aptera if they can get it to production. It’s probably more of a nitche vehicle, but I could see it fitting the needs of a lot of people.

It’s just a common rhetorical tool used by fascists. If people don’t know when you are telling the truth and when you are “joking” you can say whatever you want and then judge public reaction before deciding whether or not to own what you said.

It’s bad enough to do that in a two party system like the US. In a multi party system, if all the parties are terrible, just form a new one if you care that much.

It’s not often that the most privacy conscious choice is also the most reliable, easy to use, and flexible option for something, but Home Assistant checks all the boxes.

I’m just curious, what do you think that would look like?

Not if you moved to foreign indexes.

Yeah, at this point it’s beyond clear that it goes beyond “a few bad apples”. Any attempt to primary these fuckers will have to overcome a tidal wave of Democratic establishment and AIPAC money.