Speaker Race 2 Electoral Bugaloo

[detrius]

I put the odds of a November shutdown at 75%.

Happy Holidays

 

[Free]

The posture of the Republican side of the House keep leaning further and further to the right on conservative ideology and election denial-ism and anti-democratic insurrection and the purest bat shit conspiracies I'm starting to wonder how they can manage to stand upright.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The posture of the Republican side of the House keep leaning further and further to the right on conservative ideology and election denial-ism and anti-democratic insurrection and the purest bat shit conspiracies I'm starting to wonder how they can manage to stand upright.

    Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.

    — Werner Twertzog (@WernerTwertzog) August 23, 2017

 

[Beebo Brink]

The posture of the Republican side of the House keep leaning further and further to the right on conservative ideology and election denial-ism and anti-democratic insurrection and the purest bat shit conspiracies.

Despite the fact that their stated ideology does not have majority support by the American people, they are still in office. Fun times ahead.

 

[Free]

It's not the guns, it's the cars.

It's nice he points to mental health as a problem, but I doubt they have "lots of measures pending on that," considering it'll require...funding. Lots of it.

 

[detrius]

He won't last. We're looking at the year of four emperors, and we could be facing a pretty hefty recession if they crash the economy with their foolishness and their disorder sparks even more foreign adventurism. I fear for Ukrane and our allies

The far-right is already turning on him because of his ONE redeeming character trait: he acknowledged the existence of racism because he couldn't ignore that his two sons are being treated differently (he has one adopted son who happens to be black).


I expect him to start rambling about CRT and "woke culture" soon.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Despite the fact that their stated ideology does not have majority support by the American people, they are still in office. Fun times ahead.

I take small respite in the fact that with a Democratic-leaning Senate and a Democratic White House, the damage the insane asylum in the House can do is limited.

Of course, they could shut down the government. That's not good.

 

[Free]

White House hits Johnson over claiming gun violence was a matter of the ‘heart’

The first punches are thrown between the two leaders.

www.politico.com

The Biden administration hit back Friday on Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent comments that placed blame for mass shootings in the United States on Americans’ “hearts,” calling the remarks “offensive.”

In a statement, White House spokesman Andrew Bates said the administration “absolutely” rejected “the offensive accusation that gun crime is uniquely high in the United States because of Americans’ ‘hearts.’”

“Gun crime is uniquely high in the United States because congressional Republicans have spent decades choosing the gun industry’s lobbyists over the lives of innocent Americans,” Bates added.

 

[Noodles]

The posture of the Republican side of the House keep leaning further and further to the right on conservative ideology and election denial-ism and anti-democratic insurrection and the purest bat shit conspiracies I'm starting to wonder how they can manage to stand upright.

Contrary to popular belief from the early 2000's, where the future was hopeful and happy, it turns out that 75-90% of people are "Fucking stupid" and we are in face headed towards a bleak climate destroyed nuclear hell scape future.

Weee....

 

[Free]

Contrary to popular belief from the early 2000's, where the future was hopeful and happy,

Uh, like around Sept 11, 2001? Those early 2000's?

 

[Noodles]

Uh, like around Sept 11, 2001? Those early 2000's?

Actually, "coincidently", that seems to have been the start of the tipping.

Though it wasn't initially completely awful.

 

[Free]

Actually, "coincidently", that seems to have been the start of the tipping.

Though it wasn't initially completely awful.

For the people I was among, at the start of 2000 we were in a bit of a brain fog from the Y2K bullshit which amounted to a nothing burger (the company I was working at in 1999 had spent 18 months and unknown $$$ preparing for that nonsense). And there was the final collapsing of the dot-com bubble, which affected a lot of folks I knew. And then a year later the Bush v. Gore bullshit dropped.

I seem to remember the early 2000's a little differently. Hopeful and happy? We hadn't even gotten our long promised jetpacks and flying cars!

 

[Noodles]

I seem to remember the early 2000's a little differently. Hopeful and happy? We hadn't even gotten our long promised jetpacks and flying cars!

It just feels like from 2000-2012 or so, things in general were feeling hooeful. It was iffy early on in that with 9/11, and all the sort of, collected blind haze of hate towards the middle east. But socity in general kind of seemed like it eas growing generally more accepting.

But 9/11 also created this underlying wave of hate and paranoia. Some people grew out of it, others seem to have completely embraced it and just increasingly become paranoid about everything, outside of "just the Middle East". (The feelings towards Muslims and the ME as a whole in general are kind of a whole other ball of wax for if it was ever "right").

It was, probably not the start, but sort of the catalyst for this current wave of paranoia we see now on the right (especially). It grew beyond "the other" of just Muslim terrorists, reviving a lot of the racism and sexism etc that is getting worse and worse now that really was starting to feel like it was starting to go away.

Then "The Black Man President" happened, and it just broke the brains of the half the population that chose to embrace constant fear and paranoia.

Something along those lines, generally speaking.

It also was kind of spurred along by exploitive types still riding the whole Reganomic sort of train for wealth. People who are just flat out fucking evil, who saw these people's fears and fueled them because it made them easy to manipulate. Pretend to be a religeous zealot, pretend that "Yeah, all these gay people and Mexicans are causing all your problems," to get in power, while behind the scenes working to strip out regulation and law to make it easier to screw over society.

Don't look behind the curtain, look over there, there are caravans of fentenol fueled crazies tearing down the border!

 

[Free]

It just feels like from 2000-2012 or so, things in general were feeling hooeful. It was iffy early on in that with 9/11, and all the sort of, collected blind haze of hate towards the middle east. But socity in general kind of seemed like it eas growing generally more accepting.

If by "feeling hopeful" you mean *some* within our society were enjoying a period where they felt open to antagonize, ostracize and even kill whole groups of brown people, so noted.

 

[Beebo Brink]

For the people I was among, at the start of 2000 we were in a bit of a brain fog from the Y2K bullshit which amounted to a nothing burger (the company I was working at in 1999 had spent 18 months and unknown $$$ preparing for that nonsense).

Wtf, Free?

Y2K "bullshit" wasn't a catastrophic event precisely because companies spent months or even years PREVENTING it. The fact that nothing really bad happened is a sign that all that hard work was a success story.

In contrast, nothing is being done to avert climate change. By your reasoning, that's a good thing, because we won't waste time and money to stop it from happening. We'll prove it was just as bad as predicted. Sheesh.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Wtf, Free?

Y2K "bullshit" wasn't a catastrophic event precisely because companies spent months or even years PREVENTING it. The fact that nothing really bad happened is a sign that all that hard work was a success story.

Yes, I wrote a bunch of inhouse programs for my company. I spent some time around the turn of the century looking for Y2K bugs. I found two or three that probably wouldn't have crashed the programs but would lead to inaccurate results.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Actually, "coincidently", that seems to have been the start of the tipping.

Though it wasn't initially completely awful.

Nah, the tipping started with Reagan. We just didn't know it yet. But it took Newt Gingrich becoming Speaker to really get it going.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Yes, I wrote a bunch of inhouse programs for my company. I spent some time around the turn of the century looking for Y2K bugs. I found two or three that probably wouldn't have crashed the programs but would lead to inaccurate results.

The biggest problem was lazy coding - back in the 80s-90s, too many scripts were written with the assumption that it was the 20th century, not the 21st or 22nd. etc. The fix amounted to changing a program to use 4-digit years. That's mostly it.

Yet the media kept hyping things blowing up or burning down. I worked for a utility and the worst thing that might happen would be some customer bills being dated wrongly if we hadn't reviewed code. I spent most of New Year's Eve playing poker with my managers.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Wtf, Free?

Y2K "bullshit" wasn't a catastrophic event precisely because companies spent months or even years PREVENTING it. The fact that nothing really bad happened is a sign that all that hard work was a success story.

In contrast, nothing is being done to avert climate change. By your reasoning, that's a good thing, because we won't waste time and money to stop it from happening. We'll prove it was just as bad as predicted. Sheesh.

Honestly, I didn't hear anything about this till years after the fact. The way Y2K was covered in much of the clueless media was that it was just a lot of irrational hysteria.... Which is a damn shame since I know many people worked to prevent this.

Likewise, a lot of the (especially American) public is oblivious that the reason climate change hasn't been as bad as predicted so far is because a lot of people and companies actually DID change their habits. I know this, and you know this.... but I'll never convince most of my older relatives

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

The biggest problem was lazy coding - back in the 80s-90s, too many scripts were written with the assumption that it was the 20th century, not the 21st or 22nd. etc. The fix amounted to changing a program to use 4-digit years. That's mostly it.

Lazy coding was involved, sure. But you're also talking about a time when computer memory was at a premium, and every byte saved could be used for something else.