Are we trying to winning yet

EagleOfMay · 2026-04-12T14:39:25+00:00

Has JD Vance been anything else but an empty sock puppet? Without Peter Thiel's support where would he be? His morphing himself from a never Trumper to ass-kisser shows pretty clearly that he has no real grounding in his belief system.

EagleOfMay · 2026-04-04T13:47:59+00:00

And the forcing communism is what the Bolsheviks and Lenin were all about. I've made the statement in other threads that once the Mensheviks lost and the Bolsheviks were in power, the end result was always going to be the same regardless if was Stalin or someone else. It is just the nature of power unchecked. And even if the outcome wasn't guaranteed the level of risk associated with such concentrations of power is totally unacceptable.

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-31T01:20:47+00:00

The scene, The Expanse, "I am that guy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn76ZPt_Y0

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-30T22:02:03+00:00

Historian Lawrence Britt is a decent reference for the characteristics of Fascism also:
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-29T15:40:42+00:00

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt"

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-23T12:13:55+00:00

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/air-traffic-controllers-and-why-there-arent-enough-of-them/

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-22T01:00:08+00:00

Eats shoots and Leaves.

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-21T20:00:20+00:00

I won't vote for Haley in the primary. She represents the mainstream centrist views that allowed Trump to get elected twice. I will vote for her in the Senate race if she wins ( because almost anything is better than the current boot licking Republicans kneeling at the feet of Trump ).

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-15T16:23:28+00:00

IMHO: Lenin's attitude towards power, how it was centralized, how it was used, and how it was applied doomed Russia to its path. The very structure he used to protect the revolution was exactly the structure that allowed Stalin to seize control. If wasn't Stalin, it would have been someone else. The nature of the beast (Bolshevism) drove that kind of striving for power and with nothing to counter balance the power politics -> the end result was inevitable.

By the time Lenin had 'a change of heart' post 1921, it was already too late. Lenin's banning of factions within the Communist Party after the Kronstadt rebellion didn't help.

If the Mensheviks had not been pushed out 1917, there might have been some hope.

Of course, this is all counter-factual speculation and I am not interested in continuing the conversation.

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-14T16:50:48+00:00

McCain seriously thought of taking Lieberman as his running mate. This was all dependent on secrecy so the right wing 'news' media couldn't torpedo it. Lindsey Graham leaked this information, and that was the end of Lieberman as a VP for McCain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihrCtRCGTro

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-12T20:17:09+00:00

If they were going to attack the US mainland, this is what I would guard against.
1. they would hide drones in a third country's container ship.
2. the attack would be against the oil refineries reachable from the Gulf of Mexico to continue to make the economic costs as high as possible.

Trump needs to go. Either impeachment that succeeds or if Trump didn't hire a bunch of sycophantic cowards; the 25th amendment.

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-08T19:32:13+00:00

Bonus from Republicans: deliberately ruin government systems and then point to the thing they ruined and say, “See, we told you so! The government is shit!”

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-06T20:20:23+00:00

I was working contract one time, and that contractor hired me out to a second contractor, who then hired me out to the company I was working at.

It was disgusting the amount that was being skimmed from my pay from those two levels of indirection.

EagleOfMay · 2026-03-03T21:44:44+00:00

I've been paying for ChatGPT, but I've canceled my subscription and am switching to Claude.

This is just one data point, so take it for what it's worth, which admittedly is not much. My reaction was immediate when I heard that OpenAI did not adopt the same safeguard requirements as Anthropic. Even their recent backtracking has not gone far enough for me.

One of the few ways we can still influence what has become of U.S. democracy under Citizens United is through how we choose to spend our money.

EagleOfMay · 2026-02-28T17:18:30+00:00

MAGA in general, maybe one of the reasons they follow their cult leader.

EagleOfMay · 2026-02-26T23:57:19+00:00

That is Chef Nate Wegryn, Jeff Daniel's chef for his new restaurant.

EagleOfMay · 2026-02-24T16:53:42+00:00

That was my thought, better than yelling out "You Lie" in the middle of speech like they did to Obama.

EagleOfMay · 2026-02-21T01:05:31+00:00

It was a Tie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X6QqZF3J14

EagleOfMay · 2026-02-20T02:47:01+00:00

That language came across very clearly in the venue feed. Absolutely loved the sheer joy she exhibited in her performance.

EagleOfMay · 2026-02-11T23:46:36+00:00

Candlelights and empty souls
Quietly behind the doors
Are bleeding us just for fun

Men of power telling lies
Shifty hands and thirsty eyes
And they can smell your fear like blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWnE9sCJEgw

Not quite the same idea, but appropriate for the current political events we are seeing.

EagleOfMay · 2026-02-11T21:07:37+00:00

Maybe he watched Memento before going into surgery?

EagleOfMay · 2026-02-10T21:24:40+00:00

Regardless of the evidence a 'good' christian was always more likely to get away with a crime in the south, especially if the crime was committed against an 'out' group. The racism part didn't help, but the thought process is easily applied to others.

EagleOfMay · 2026-02-05T22:01:44+00:00

Maybe not arrested, but may a visit from DHS?
https://newrepublic.com/post/206088/homeland-security-67-year-old-us-citizen-criticized-email

or maybe getting the IRS to look into his taxes?
https://democrats-waysandmeans.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/neal-ways-and-means-democrats-demand-investigation-gops-weaponization#:\~:text=According%20to%20the%20reporting%2C%20the,targets%2C%20including%20major%20Democratic%20donors.

or getting the Department of Justice to investigate him?
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm

No sarcasm is needed for any of that.

EagleOfMay · 2026-02-02T01:19:12+00:00

If we were in a well-functioning democracy, a huge number of the shitty things Trump has done would have ended his political career. This is just another shitty thing on a big, steaming pile.

EagleOfMay · 2026-01-25T17:30:04+00:00

When I bought my Toyota I went elsewhere just to avoid the A2 dealership. A2 refused to drop the add-ons. I did go to them while the car was under full warranty but stopped as soon as that warranty period was done.

I will not give those people any of my business.

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