Madison Square Garden: “And yet, behind the lurid carnival barkery of Hulk Hogan and Rudy Giuliani and BeDazzled Alina Habba and the ghoulish malevolence of Stephen Miller and Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk, perhaps the the enduring message here was not the blatant “banality of evil,” or even that “the cruelty is the point,” but the ease with which the enshittification of democracy itself is the real endgame of the Trump campaign.”

And that’s where we are at.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/donald-trump-election-2024-democracy-press-vote-law.html

Easy money?

Or just more work?

“Apple is taking its server safety very seriously. The $3.5 trillion software giant is challenging hackers to break into the company’s tech—and a $1 million cheque is up for grabs to those who succeed”

#WorkForFree

https://fortune.com/2024/10/30/apple-hackers-ai-intelligence-bounty/

“ “Black Insurrectionist,” the anonymous social media persona behind some of the most widely circulated conspiracy theories about the 2024 election, can be traced to a man from upstate New York.
He’s also white.”

Why does this not surprise me?

https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2024/10/the-black-insurrectionist-was-actually-a-white-man-from-upstate-ny.html

Or buy a different mouse.

This guy wants to buy a DIFFERENT computer all because he doesn’t like the design of the mouses power port.

JFC!

“Putting the USB-C port directly in the center of the base of the Magic Mouse is an example of Apple falling off this tightrope. With literally any other wireless mouse, plugging in a cable to charge it doesn’t directly impact your ability to use it — but in the vein of keeping things clean, you physically can’t use the Magic Mouse while it’s charging.”

Or, and let me point out how stupid this argument is, you buy a SECOND mouse and never worry about this again.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/apple-desktops/apple-just-repeated-its-worst-design-mistake-in-the-last-20-years-the-m4-mac-mini-got-magic-moused

@Bix

This is not adjudication: it is SCOTUS violating the Constitution: Congress wrote the law. Only Congress can change it.

The Republicans made shit up out of thin air to justify their decision.

Biden isn’t running for office. Did he already forget that?

“Former president Donald Trump and his MAGA allies pounced Tuesday night after President Joe Biden appeared to call the Republican nominee’s supporters ‘garbage,’ hoping to engineer a backlash similar to 2016 when Hillary Clinton dubbed them ‘deplorables.’”

Harris didn’t say it. No amount of spin outs those words in her mouth.

Trump called Democrats the “enemy from within”—those words came out of HIS mouth.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-seizes-biden-garbage-remark-120754051.html

An incomplete list of Trump insulting America and Americans.

That “comedian” wasn’t an accident.

He wants to be President to avoid prison.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/19/upshot/trump-complete-insult-list.html

Ugh, I am stressing out so much my face is all broke out. Not a good look in your late 60’s. Not like anyone looks at me.

“Luckily, some researchers are genetically modifying crops like wheat, tomatoes, and peaches to make them more climate resilient.”

So they will survive droughts?

I don’t think these people really understand the severity.

Also, I’m not banking on a 20 something having an overwhelming life experience in science to really understand the complexity.

Everything seems much easier at that age.

But, hey, that’s me.

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-home/climate-change-agriculture-myths-student-tiktok/

“NOT THAT LONG AGO, red-flag laws were widely touted as a bipartisan solution to gun violence. Both Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association had endorsed them. But then the laws became a centerpiece of reform for the Biden administration, and a backlash from Second Amendment groups and the far-right ensued. Since 2020, four Republican-controlled states, including Wyoming, have implemented a prohibition on such laws.”

Ban them till suicides drop? What morons.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/republicans-ban-red-flag-laws-states-guns-suicide-1235145367/

Convict talks about America and it is again as if he watched too many Mad Max movies.

Here’s the thing: he is constantly mad. His father, Fred Trump, told him to never show his emotions. This has created a conflict to the point that Trump doesn’t understand what love is: everything is transactional.

You don’t fight in wars unless there is something in it for you.

You don’t donate your time.

You don’t run for President unless there is something for you (no prison time).

This is not your grandfather’s election.

Speaker Johnson is going to kill Obamacare.

Johnson: “Health care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda. When I say we’re going to have a very aggressive first 100 days agenda, we got a lot of things still on the table”

Attendee: “No Obamacare?”

Johnson: “No Obamacare… The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that.”

Killing the ACÁ isn’t reform. It’s massively popular.

So is democracy.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mike-johnson-obamacare.html

Republican tries to both sides it:

“…he then turned the issue on Vice President Kamala Harris, claiming the Democratic nominee also has supporters from the “entertainment industry” who’ve said “vile and offensive things in the context of politics… Not all them were at her rallies, but if you look at some of the lyrics and other production that they’ve done, it is terrible, violent and offensive”

Wait, like movies or songs that were not an all related to Harris???

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-scott-jennings-tony-hinchcliffe-donald-trump-rally_n_67211c25e4b0b5d43560d690

“Harris spoke on Tuesday evening to an outdoor rally estimated by her campaign to number more than 75,000 people at the spot near the White House where on Jan. 6, 2021, Trump addressed his supporters before they attacked the U.S. Capitol.”

Three times the former President’s racist rant in NY.

Let’s face it, she is much more likable and not a fascist.

#politics

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-speak-tuesday-site-trumps-jan-6-rally-2024-10-29/

Look, if you want a group of people who can’t babysit without the kids setting themselves on fire, that’s your team.

“Oh, but I did better…”

We as a country didn’t. Over half a million Americans died on his watch. That is more American deaths than WW I and WW II combined in a fraction of the time.

You can’t have “prosperity” in the backs of the poor and the dead. That just makes one a ghoul.

Trump likes to brag about how he handled Puerto Rico—the USS Comfort, a hospital ship, was sent there. You’d THINK it helped a lot. It didn’t.

“The ship was prepared to support 250 hospital beds, but over its 53-day deployment, which included travel to and from the island, it admitted an average of only six patients a day, or 290 in total.”

You have to wonder if there wasn’t some racist foot dragging.

This is just a PART of how the Trump Admin bungled up response.

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2017/12/06/Amid-the-disaster-on-Puerto-Rico-the-hospital-ship-Comfort-admitted-just-six-patients-a-day/stories/201712060251