As a unitedstatesian, I was genuinely baffled by Brexit - particularly the political establishment’s insistence on following the referendum despite the significant numbers of people who stated it was a protest vote, and all the analysis that said it would be rather economically catastrophic.

But nope: See that brick wall? Let’s floor it and hope for the best, wcgw?

is this an order, sir?

More succinctly: in the vast majority of cases, just-in-time spirals into too late and not enough due to material and consistent lack of investment.

I have and I do. I am under no illusions that the “less bad” party is actually trying meaningfully to improve things, or that it will do anything to stop the fascists. Because they’re not doing anything to stop the fascists.

-Wayne Gretzky

Also the IQ of the population

I was under the impression that the judge actually just recently ruled out the death penalty?

With a single digit quantity of exceptions, the vast majority of our political establishment are somewhere between overt fascists and inept, useful idiots who are manifestly unfit to face the challenges of this fucked up new era we find ourselves in.

No.

She was one of the central players that lost the Republic. I don’t ever want to see her fucking face again in politics.

She was a bad candidate in 2016 and 2020, and she was demonstrably a catastrophic choice in 2024. And by that I mean her lack of backbone in standing up to monied interests shows that she entirely lacks the grit and will that our current era demands. Too much compromise with the neoliberals and hypercapitalists, not enough listening to actually fucking citizens and lived experience. Walz was the brightest spot in her campaign. And then she and the DNC muzzled him, with predictable results.

Which is hilarious considering how so many of them are getting absolutely wrecked by the tariffs. Because they can either eat the tariff and hemorrhage money, or pass on the tariff to customers and hemorrhage sales (and thus hemorrhage money).

I wonder when they’re gonna realize that they should try something other than shooting themselves in the dick? Time will tell, I suppose.

It’s honestly hilarious and one of the reasons I love that movie

Sorry, I munged the quote a bit from memory 😅

Addendum:

Shome thingsh in here don’t react well to bulletsh

Yep, and the CEO essentially says as much on a regular basis. Not to mention, the origin of the name of the company is the scrying sphere that Sauron and Saruman (the bad guys) in LOTR use, so that’s telling in a comically dark fashion as well.

I expect Schumer to fold, because he’s really good at doing that

My shubmarine doeshn’t react well to bulletsh, Ryan.

The FOV can’t actually capture that, if you’ve ever seen wearable cam footage.