My dad talks about the air conditioner. He says how people don’t go out on the porch now which leads to talking to neighbors because the temperature inside is nicer. That not talking to neighbors means doing it all on ones own which requires that instant gratification.

I want to argue but this last summer was definitely a staying inside one.

The only difference between round 1 and this time is round 1 there were some in his party that thought they could control him and it was blatantly obvious they weren’t ready to actually win the election. That’s why you had so much turnover and can actually set a political time period of a Scaramucci being 10 days. This time around the Heritage Foundation hitched their wagon to his horse. Remember also, he bought the hotel right down from the white house and refused to separate himself from it so you had foreign influences staying there trying to get cozy with him.

Openly gloating about how profitable the little people’s struggles are, he did plenty of that in Covid, and if you knew anything about the man, plenty before he was elected. This is the guy who’s always been infamous for not paying his debts.

This is Trump we’re talking about. His mask was always paper thin and falling off fifteen minutes after he said anything “politically savvy”

Anyone who has been fooled by him is a fucking idiot.

Yea… I was absolutely shocked Missouri and Kansas weren’t on the list.

Especially Kansas which hasn’t voted for a dem president since 64 and over 90 years since a democrat senator.

We did do that

Not for very long. I grew up in No Child Left Behind which was the last shitshow to screw up the education system.

I think the thing I miss most since Trumps first run is my sense of empathy and sympathy. I used to have a belief of sure there’s disagreement and there’s room for it. Fuck that noise now. Republicans keep voting to hurt my friends consistently. At this point anyone says they’re a republican I assume they’ve lost all sense of humanity, and the head of their party at this point has zero redeeming qualities… even amongst his supporters his chronic backstabbing can’t stop.

What did McConnell say? His goal was to make Obama a lame duck president. Here we go.

I mean, I live in Missouri, Josh Hawley being a piece of shit is a non-partisan thing. But the second it comes to choices, they’d rather that instead of voting for democrat.

I’ll give credit for a conservative doing the bare minimum. It is very difficult for them to remove their lips from the asses of the party leadership.

socialist tyranny of health care

Lot of Gen Z is under 26, which means they can be under their parents healthcare. Have a coworker that’s in that and until my job he didn’t realize healthcare costs for insurance that comes out of paychecks. Like I told him, save up while he can be under his parents insurance.

But anyone older than, at this moment, being born after 10/18/2000 is now falling into the insurance pile.

Sucks… but this is the choice the country made.

He does. They’re not rich, they can’t do anything for him other than vote. Trump doesn’t involve himself with anyone who can’t give him something.

If they were outside his place asking for anything he’d be the first to call security to get the “undesirables” out.

Cool cool cool. So this means we shouldn’t vote for them.

My trans friends on the Kansas side of the border had their drivers licenses pulled because the veto-proof Republican Supermajority in one night made all drivers licenses that had gender not of birth null with no warning and that’s still currently being fought in the courts. Same time they put through a bathroom bill that has a bounty on it for people to call in where someone will have to go to court to prove themselves.

Somehow frankly shocked our Republican supermajority in MO hasn’t done the same, but they’re busy trying to take away our ability to pass laws because we managed to keep abortion legal. Oh… wait… they’re using trans people as the way to entice people to vote the outlawing of abortion again this election.

But we shouldn’t let the dems win.

I think a lot of yall saying this don’t live in red states where the water is already boiling. Best of luck to you, we’re trying our hardest to survive over here.

Trump is an ass, and this is absolutely not how thing should be done. But here we are.

So if I have to go through this shitshow, I can at least laugh my ass off that he’s doing this to Cotton who’s been one of his supporters. That’s what he gets.

Republicans when talking about min wage: “We can’t give out money, or else inflation happens, learn something!”

Republicans when voting comes up: “HAVE FREE MONEY!”

Something has to trigger my memory, but there are things in my head that are easily pre-Internet.

The cool 90s S is the one that comes to mind.

Ooh, I need to bring that one back into my rotation. I loved that one.

One of the very rare moments of AI being used completely for good.

Steam is a good service compared to the alternatives, but corpos will always be corpos

This. I was telling friends back when Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil” because the rule is never trust a corporation.

Then again, I grew up around the home of WalMart so I guess I may have been used to shitty tactics with the veneer of “helping the community”

This is kind of my problem here. There’s a lot of hobby based communities in Reddit that hasn’t made the move and pretty dead over here so it’s what keeps dragging me back.

But gah, the new style is completely unreadable to me.

I was at the early end of when programming was being pushed thing. Found a welding degree was an option.

Get a welding degree, welders will never go out. The 08 slump happened, and suddenly I was coming out of school requiring 2 years of work experience to get a job, but couldn’t get an entry level job because I was too experienced when the local factory moved to Mexico.

Moral of the story, the industries are not your friend and are happy to fuck you over no matter what you pursue.

In the US I’ve been saying “Libertarian is a Republican who wants to smoke weed.” But seeing as they’re not villianizing it much anymore the Libertarians really don’t have a talking point left in the country.