Let’s buy Carville, et al tickets to Kushner’s Albanian resort. One way. And then build a really big signal jammer next door.

Give me a gabba gabba hey! If this is your state of mind.

I still get minor solace every night knowing myself and those I respect didn’t vote for an adjudicated rapist, pedophile, racist, blindingly ignorant and evil buffoon. And🤣 when the MAGA down the block has to drive their subcompact while the overblown pickup sits in the driveway cuz gas prices.

You watch. You listen. You shake your head. The RePug motto needs to be changed to “don’t look up.”

I’ve been around long enough and paying attention so this social security stuff has been going on pre Reagan. The differences now are loss of an independent MSM, level of RePug control & corruption, dem leadership cowardice and significant dumbing down of population. No predictions offered.

No hard proof but I get the sense that many dear leader dept appointments have given up any sense of functional responsibility. The exceptions are those trying to remove real or imagined immigrants, and killing voting rights of non RePugs.

What makes “neighbors?” I explained to my spouse why I did want to socialize with individuals who live on the same street (purposely not calling them neighbors): we don’t share the same value system. That’s also what makes a country. Half the population’s value system collapsed. In a nutshell.

Nutshell time: money (wealth imbalance, tiered systems, etc.), media (gotta revolutionize the bitch), mental health (cult, grievance, willful ignorance, trauma, etc.). These are not intractable challenges. Just need to look “off axis” and do something/anything.

Adding to the death watch algorithm: more than two repug house criminals voted against dear leader. Wuh woh. Cascade coming? Let’s watch our millionaires’ chamber.

Not many track Albania. Daughter married Greek citizen of Albanian birth so I follow that shit. Getting in EU is a big deal. When I saw Kushner getting away with another corrupt land deal I told them “no EU.” Looks like Albania is waking up and reading the tea leaves. Ha.

Death watch algorithm: Significant increase in medical activity + increase “bestest health” hyperbole = imminent death

Tried sending message to Gov Sherrill. Server crash. Shock. Message: you fucked up hiding behind state police rather than being there front and center. If you aren’t aware that your law enforcement is largely pro Trump/anti Sherrill you need to WTFU. Do better. Jeeze.

NJ guy here. Watching folks get angry at the governor for not doing anything about ICE facilities is frustrating. ICE is federal and since they don’t take the law seriously there’s not much you can do. However, what she is failing at (same as all Dem leaders) is effective communication.

Thinking a lot about led zep’s “nobody’s fault but mine”cuz it’s true. We didn’t learn one of the foundational lessons from Nazi germany: “but they’re family/friends/neighbors…” we didn’t absolutely isolate/excommunicate/ostracize anyone and everyone who voted RePug. We made it “whatever.”

Absolutely no competition on any the Dem primary ticket at the Fed level (NJ). State level primary had lots of choice. Don’t have access to the data but my engineering brain tells me competition is healthy and lack thereof leads to weakened product. QED.

Every time I read “why isn’t the media covering [insert yet another outrageous RePug criminal action] more?” I want to kick something. Cuz the oligarchs executed a brilliant media strategy of buying everything and the Dem leadership had their collective thumbs up their asses.

What have we learned? Iran doesn’t have the Epstein Files. Bibi has the files.

It’s pretty obvious national Dem org leadership is weak. Seems easy to fix looking at the strength that exists at the state level. What prevents this easy fix? Que bono? Hmmm.

From the nerd land of engineering there is the matched filter. A coherence of getting the most out of energy in a hostile environment. Regardless of the candidate, you need to match campaign to candidate & environ. Progressive candidate/Establishment campaign? Nope.

Regardless of whether you think the DNC forensic report was needed or not, can we finally acknowledge the absolute incompetence of our national leadership? The whole debacle of release/not release, authorship, accuracy, insight, etc. FUBAR comes to mind. The whole group is a brain dead wasteland

Anyone else have their iPhones doing weird shit all on its own lately? Strange.

Every day I wake up (sounds like a song lyric 🙂) and dream of seeing a headline “Dem leadership [some consequential action]…” but reality. Oh well.

My definition of karma is a bit different from both Buddhist & western. You do something, get away with it- you try something “bigger,” get away with it- etc. until the negative action becomes unsustainable. In our current situation I can’t picture “unsustainable.” That’s what stresses me.

What have we learned so far? 1)Repug corruption knows no bounds;2)establishment Dems (polite term) risk aversion [(impolite term) cowardice] knows no bounds;3)a strategy of “let the other side fail” is (polite term) lazy [(impolite term) fucking inexcusable];4)we never seem to hit bottom

Who coulda imagined fuel prices would turn airline check-in into weight and volume extremists🙂. 1kg over is 1kg too much. Volume and weight checks on carry on as well at the check in line. Be prepared.

The only silver lining I see in current redistricting strategies is kind of systems based: there’s never graceful degradation. You hit that inflection point and, boom. I feel we’re getting close to “boom.” Sad that I call it a silver lining but geez, it’s nuts.

One of the many key mistakes Dem leaders make about Repugs is thinking they (Repugs) actually care about how they will look in the history books. You have to read them before actually caring about how you look in them.

Anyone still not believing “if you’re RePug, you’re racist.”

Progressive: “ you know how to tell a RePug is lying? Their lips are moving.” Corporate/Centrist/Establishment: “but the donors! [in a whiny voice]”

You ever get the feeling Dem leaders are arguing around Betamax in a post cloud streaming world?

Redistricting is an end-state situation where one group has/had a plan and the other their thumbs up their ass. Kind of like addressing hanging chad with a team of high-powered lawyers versus “huh? What? But the constitution!” Unbelievable.

How many of you remember ALEC? Which, IMHO, provides one of the key root causes to the current redistricting debacle Dems are facing (more RePug controlled states than Dem ones). Math can suck but not a much as Dem leadership incompetence.

Just another visit to my daughter, grandson and husband in Agios Nikolaos. Fuel prices and food prices have not escalated as in the US. We are being gouged. Just sayin’

Let your inner nerd loose: RePugs will be trying to discover the criminal hyperbolic boundary that will exist between November and January.

Did my WOG (walk/jog) on a route I haven’t done in a long time due to too many Trump signs (yes, even in Hamilton NJ). Not. One. Sign.

It’s becoming increasingly obvious: trump cares more about continuing retribution than the midterms. Why? He’s a Putin (amongst others) puppet and deals are being cut. The literal destruction of US institutions has always been Putties plan. Bingo card entry: Trump has an escape plan post midterms.

Why wasn’t there 100% dem leaders participation in No Kings? Why haven’t dem leaders called for regular national strikes and coordinated acts of national civil disobedience? Why aren’t they, on a hourly basis stating “the president is an adjudicated rapist and documented pedophile!” IDK- cowardice?

Trump image on passports is like a flashing red light on RePug willful criminality matched by Dem leadership willful impotence. Lovely.

After writing so many proposals and reading King Charles speech I still claim the average ‘murican has the intellectual capacity of a bag of rocks and attention span to match. To make a point it’s gotta be 10 words or less. Sorry.

So it’s pretty obvious rape and pedophilia occupy most of Trump’s limited brain. Guilt will do that. Many (most?) of us think the WHCD shooting was staged. Why not have our Dem leaders focus on these two items rather than wasting time talking about non violence.

Experiment: walk away from the news cycle for a couple days. Then come back: nothing new, RePug criminality, cowardice and continued gov’t destruction. National Dem Leadership: nothing. I don’t think they’ve figured out how badly they’ve lost MSM.

Latest poll (yeah, polls - am I right?) 23% “independents” still support Trump. No such thing as an “independent” they are the Lindsay Graham’s of the the RePug party. Unfortunately there are also the 23% toys-in-the-attic cultist. Gives you a better idea of what’s out there.

Just look up Nelson Mandela tactics (re: electoral college apartheid). “civil disobedience campaigns, national strikes and boycotts”. Boycotting is difficult given our crazy monopolized, oligarch-ized supply chain but I’m frustrated our Dem leaders still haven’t focused on the other tactics.

Sitting here after surfing in Ricon (sons “dragged” me here cuz I’m getting old - 65). Lots to overcome: everything RePug, centrists living in denial, SC, complacency, willful ignorance, electoral college, (how many characters do I get?!) and had to explain who Robbie Robertson was. One of ‘em knew😊

It so defines the Trump voters how they get so upset over a stupid AI-generated meme but not raping & trafficking in children. It’s not their children. But the meme attacks the core of their grievance. They alone hold “truth.” This obliterates that “truth.”

Ok folks. My guess is Magyar wasn’t perfect but almost 75% voter participation. 75%. Let that sink in. Complacency. It’s pervasive. 1/3 stood around while the the crazy 1/3 killed off the last 1/3. Yeah, paraphrasing the obvious but…

Even Politico figured it out (and I don’t like Politico). Centrists are OBE. Progressive is in.

You hear that “whoosh”? That was Kushner’s Hungarian land deals going up in smoke.

What’s the over/under of the WH occupant calling Magyar?🙂

So we block the straight of Hormuz thereby declaring war on the rest of the world. Yup, sounds perfectly sane.