There are some triggered lib comments on Bluesky. I didn’t share any because they were far more whiney and pathetic than funny. Sad.

But I’m surprised how many libs are finally not pouncing on the bait and they grasp right-wing messaging.

What’s so perfect about this Lindsey Graham tweet is that it’s absurd enough where he can claim it’s a joke, it’s sycophantic enough where he can score points with the MAGA primary voters he needs, and Trump is delusional enough to believe that he means it.

https://subium.com/profile/trumpstaxes.com/post/3lnyigi2vzs2b

President Deals took “Kill yourself and kill everyone around you,” to heart.

In general - why bother? The vast majority of dem governors and mayors won’t fight at all.

[Chorus]
Put me in, Pelosi
I’m ready to go today
Put me in, Pelosi
I’m ready to go today
Look at me, I’m only 75!

Song

She ain’t dead. She’s just asleep!

You would need bipartisan acceptance of anthropic climate change

I don’t think so. I think the GOP can keep saying shit like “the science is unclear”. Thinking it over more - maybe even a massive and insane die-off of sea creatures off Maine isn’t nearly enough. Maybe it’ll take something very weird for the GOP to finally change.

A forested area the size of Maryland could burn in California and the GOP would laugh. But something popped into my head. Imagine there’s a biblical plague-like amount of rain over weeks in a very red state like Alabama. The locals say it probably hasn’t rained this much in that time span in 100s of years. Scientists say the rain might be a one in 1,000 year event. And then there are a few ginormous mudslides that coincidentally happens in a way that kill more than 100 people. The GOP keeps on saying “Climate change isn’t really manmade.” But they change their tune a little. “Still - it’s happening and it’s getting bad. We better control the weather.”

Trump - of course - is the keystone. Trump might put his two oldest sons on the board of EvilCorp’s ClimateSolutions. And Trump might end up reaping hundreds of millions (even more?) in the bargain. If he changed his mind that climate change is a problem and it must be “fixed” - his hogs be very confused at first but they’ll quickly change what they think to follow his line. After all - he’s their prophet-god-cult-leader all in one.

If he dies - I will upgrade him to “useless” up from “worse than useless”.

AOC tried to get on the Oversight Committee but Pelosi blocked her. It’ll be interesting to see which new ancient wreck of a human being is up next…

How dare you make fun of Young Leslie Nielsen Trump AI Morph. If you can’t trust him - who can you trust?

I agree with what you said but not this…

some Democrat in 2075

I think there will be a bipartisan push for climate engineering far sooner. Within the next decade or so maybe. If I’m right - the first sign will be in less than five years when some billionaire like Bill Gates has a one hour special program on MNSBC or similar. The theme presented by the concerned but upbeat billionaire will be “we got this” when it comes to climate change. It’ll be utter bullshit but you have to get the normies used to the idea that climate engineering tech isn’t scary - not at all(!) - and blocking out the sun a bit is no biggie. And - of course - the US plan will be 100% unilateral so it will fail even before the first dollar is spent.

Republicans are literally burning our country to the ground.

Well, shouldn’t the dems be trying as hard as possible to put the fire out instead of saying that we all must step up and also remember to vote! All dem senators (including Booker) voted for Rubio as secretary of state. And only very rarely have the DC dems been willing to unite to fight together in even symbolic efforts.

Too soon.

They did an “on the steps of the Capitol” Youtube thing earlier today. Part 1: An urgent conversation with the American people

I’m actually surprised the news flags aren’t at least twice that size.

In my New Big Beautiful America we don’t need any judges. There’s only one Branch of Government. Me.

Schumer

My constituents are very happy the project is going forward and President Trump was happy to help by providing the necessary federal funds. On social media I hear people complaining that they don’t like “Trump’s Bad word Gold Casino Penn Station”. So what if it will have Trump’s name on it throughout the station. And there will be 30 foot high statue of Trump. And there will be electrified, graffiti-proof artwork of Trump throughout the building. And it will have just some - not much - gold trim. And I must say that TrumpSlots are just a nasty rumor. The important thing is that voters want the democrats to work with…

-–

And he goes on another five minutes speechifying with that shit.

When I think of the typical American mindset - I think of the cliché out of sight out of mind. But what makes me even more depressed is the thought of billions of a particular creature dying in a way Americans will pay attention to. I fear that attention-grabbing horribleness will be paradoxical. The poor American response about climate change will become even worse. I can hear a Fox News talking head in my mind…

“Look, a total of billions of lobsters and crabs and other sea creatures are dying off the coast of Maine. The water got too hot and they starved to death. This is killing the fishing industry there. I talked to some republican scien— I mean, republican researchers and they said this kind of stuff could happen in other parts of the US to other animals and plants. This is a serious problem. How we gonna compete with China and beat 'em? What we gotta do and do it fast is climate engineering.”

I assume words like “scientist” are woke now for the right. In any case - the right finally wants action on climate change. Of course it’s entirely the wrong focus and it’s entirely wrapped up in economics and flag waving.

I watched two episodes. I hated it. This is my note for the second episode.

The original “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” is a simple, scary story. This remake was clumsy and the narration was horrible. Two fundamental rules of narration were broken. One, use as little as possible and two, the narrator should have a good voice. The “podcast narration” droned on and on and I hated the guy’s voice. He sounded like a hack comedian doing a bad impression of a young Danny DeVito. I checked who it was and it turned out Jordan Peele. Fuck me.

It’ll never happen and Trump doesn’t actually want to do it. But if he did and it passed - the dems would be hosed.