The Abiding Dude

A word, if you don't mind. Winning a primary is one thing. Winning a general is entirely different. Alienating those you will need in a general to win a primary has never turned out to be a good idea. I see far too much of that lately.

We live in the dumbest of times. Someone just told me they don't understand how a transport could be 40% above quote. They quoted 4 trucks and needed 7. I looked at the quote. Done with AI. Space use on trucks fully maximized. AI played Tetris. Problem is that there's no way to load. We'll done.

I'm not categorically against AI. I am categorically against hyper scaling this shit by building data centers en masse so one of the 5 richest assholes in the race can be first to built the model that eventually kills us all.

After 75 years, the United States has finally secured the right to continue having rights it already had, but now with branding.

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I cannot imagine ever being so horny for power that I would cling to it as much as this mummy does.

Happy Sunday! Today is my "No, not even going to think about it" day.

Look, I'm not a socialist. Never was and likely never will be. I'm a moderate. I believe in lasting progress through incremental change. However, I understand that you can't incrementally fight fascism. So, I will vote for whoever is the alternative to the right this fall. We all should. Full stop.

Beating Trump and the GOP will be a most important first step. However, if we want to move this country back on a path to fulfilling her promise, we must take down the entire oligarch system without exception, billionaires and mega corporations alike.

I think I'm close to burning out. Again. Time to pump the breaks.

It will never fail to amaze me that all it would take to change the entire country for the better is about 1 week. If everyone, every single one of us, stops going to work for a full week, the powerful will come begging on their knees. Alas, we think too much as individualists to use that power.

Browser DuckDuckGo. Search engine, same. Navigation, Mapquest. Google can get fucked. All big tech can. I will avoid them wherever I can. They're only big because we allowed them to be.

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

We have become such a horrible country. This can't be fixed by new policy. Tax rates can be fixed by new policy. What we need is a complete reset. What we had before enabled what we have now. What we have now must not continue.

Another 15 minutes to home. This traveling for work stuff is all nice and dandy, but I could totally do without the "5:00am to 10:00pm travel day and then up again at 5 to dig out of all the stuff that didn't get done" crap. Maybe I'm just getting too old for this shit.

Oh,no. Not Dolly!

Know the difference, people.

Once we elect democrats up and down the ballot we must not forget to remind them that going back to what we had is not enough. What we had is what got us here. We need to build something much better.

The president of the United States is a human paraquat.

The Pentagon quietly added 60 more wounded service members to the Iran war casualty count. But that’s only one part of a much bigger story about what the Trump regime isn’t telling the public. So we dug in.

She’s killing this.

I don't post a lot. When I do, though, it's also mostly useless shit.

I work to live. Work is definitely killing me over time. What are we even doing?

Shameful. Absolutely shameful. We are failing as a country.

Looks like at least the spiders are having a good year

Democracy is more than elections. It is the right to disagree without fear, protest without retaliation, report the truth without intimidation, and demand answers from those in power. When those protections disappear one by one, authoritarianism has already begun to grow.

I'm a moderate Democrat. I hate Trump and the GOP just as much as you do. I support many progressive initiatives. I would vote for a DSA candidate over a Republican any day of the week. I want money out of politics and billionaires to disappear. I just know that lasting progress is incremental.

Home bound. Long exhausting week, but in a few hours this is all done with.

He's such a dumbass.

It's too hot in Dallas, TX. That's all.

In case you’re wondering who’s really “begging for a deal”

This seems very highly suboptimal. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

BREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I swear, Comcast Xfinity is the shittiest service there is. Outages every damn week, hoirs at the time. I can't wait until we get a new provider in. Why am I even paying for this shit?

It is entirely possible that I completely forgot my purpose in life

The senior Senator from Kentucky is likely, at best, a vegetable. And everyone just goes on like it's the most normal thing. Those are the times we live in. Peak insanity.

"History will not look kindly..." I don't give a shit. I live today. My kids live today. We don't have time to wait for history to judge this shitshow. We need to end it now.

If you want to know what kind of people kept their newspaper jobs in Nazi Germany, look at who’s attending tonight’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Every republican that allows this to continue should be held liable for intent to commit treasonous acts.

🔥 Jon Stewart Defends Democratic Socialism: “When you call it SoCiALiSm, I think it’s a misnomer — It’s about strengthening a safety net for a country that has suffered too long overvaluing capital and money, and undervaluing labor and work. That’s it.”

Spartanburg, SC. Nice place. Still looking forward to going back home on Wednesday.

Infantino practically had to drag Trump off the stage for the trophy lift. Embarrassing.

With the death of two US Servicemen and injuries to others, this is your reminder: Donald Trump once called our fallen troops "suckers" and "losers." Oh, and he's golfing today. Be proud, MAGA.

Beyond absurd. A budget is a moral document.