Bassed

This video feels lazy. I’d much rather see her playing her bass, because she’s amazing at that.

That said, it’s hard to look cute in a black backless body suit and she does that, so it’s not a total loss. The below, though, is more my style. OMG that bass. I wish I could play anything like she plays the bass.

Check out this move around 1:49. Damn that’s slick. We didn’t know we needed a female Les Claypool, but we in fact did.

Facial Recognition Firm Announces Way To Punish Retail Workers, Shoppers For Forming Relationships.

Trump Voters Got What They Wanted. Those who expect that Donald Trump will hurt others, and not them, are likely to be unpleasantly surprised. Exactly. Trump about to put a hurtin’ on everyone (except a few rich people and Russian oligarchs, Chinese autocrats).

Voters Wanted Lower Prices at Any Cost. Kamala Harris couldnโ€™t outrun inflation. This is as I’ve said before 80%+ the reason Trump won.

Time for Democrats to Abandon the Mainstream Media.

Democrats join 2024โ€™s graveyard of incumbents.

The U.S. Has Failed Its Children โ€“ In the Most Unconscionable Ways.

Canada Shuts TikTokโ€™s Offices Over National Security Risks. The right move.

Boeing Shows Why Squeezing Workers Is Reckless.

America is Anti Family. Why Trump won.

The experts said the economy was doing great. Everyday Americans disagreed.

Millions at risk of losing health insurance following Trump’s victory.

Trumpโ€™s win could accelerate the privatization of Medicare.

Thereโ€™s No Denying It Anymore: Trump Is Not a Flukeโ€”Heโ€™s America. The United States chose Donald Trump in all his ugliness and cruelty, and the country will get what it deserves.

Dom

Whatever you think about Trump, he fucking trounced Harris. He dominated so hard he should go ahead and show up at his next public appearance in latex and with a whip. Damn.

‘Lectric

We are planning now what electronics and imported stuff we are going to buy in the next few weeks and months because those sorts of goods are going to get radically more expensive soon or just become unavailable altogether.

So get your gettin’ on from the gettin’ place, people. Soon all of that will be much more expensive or just not available at all, depending on the exact timing of tariffs and war.

Takeaway

Strange to think my daughter will lose her rights and her affordable health care by the end of next year. And neighbors who watched her for years walking down our street, headed to school or the park, will celebrate.

There is certainly hatred there; that aspect of conservatism should not be ignored. Yes, Trump’s win was mostly concern and betrayal about inflation but this is also an aspect that is present in the diseased soul of conservatism: they don’t want anyone to have anything for “free,” especially anyone young or, even worse, young and a woman or anyone in any other category they despise.

Lest we forget, the core conservatard voter is a Fox News-infected, conspiracy-shouting, vaccine-denying, science-spurning, woman-hating, coal-rolling, homophobic dipshit.

And we should not forget that.

Every Single

Every single one of you motherfuckers was wrong about why Musk bought Twitter1 and I was right. You were clowning on him for “losing money” but I understood the game he was playing because I’d be doing the same thing myself if I had that much scratch. As a financial transaction, it never made sense; but it was never about the financials and was always a political project.

I’m terrible at forecasting political outcomes, but just about everything else I’m pretty damn good at it.

Get used to it because it’s gonna keep happening.

  1. Except a very few.

Cline

California was a good strategic move for us. Here, we will be insulated from most of the worst of the decline Trump will force on our nation. Not all of it by any means. But in many ways, California is kind of its own country and that benefit of insularity and size is certainly a great thing now as we go into a long bleak time of diminution and corruption.

To re-tool something Mencken allegedly said, the electorate voted for this cataclysm and they are going to get it good and hard.

No one will be spared, but being a bit protected is better than nothing.