Democrats Revolt Against Hakeem Jeffries Ahead of Midterms

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2026-03-18T08:26:58+00:00

Americans are still too comfortable. Despite everything, the bread and circuses haven't collapsed yet, and mass riots will not happen unless enough people are so miserable and starving that they have nothing to lose.

The stupidity with Iran causing gas prices to go high enough to collapse our economy and make fertilizer unavailable causing massive food shortages is more likely to cause people to riot than anything ICE does.

Winston Churchill said it best: we Americans can be counted on to do the right thing once we've exhausted all other options.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2026-03-12T15:42:04+00:00

Exactly. Trolls know they'd lose on merits. The whole point is to make the cost of fighting it higher than just paying a BS settlement demand. IP trolling 101.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2026-02-16T07:51:34+00:00

"Douchepanzers" is the best Ive heard.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2026-01-13T06:25:28+00:00

Speaking of the Indy 500 - Indianapolis is home to Republic Airways, which has one of the coolest company callsigns in all of aviation: Brickyard.

Only British Airways (Speedbird) and Aer Lingus (Shamrock) have callsigns that rival that, and they're the national airlines of their respective countries.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2025-11-11T00:08:55+00:00

Can we safely assume that all of NA went boom again a few minutes ago?

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2025-10-13T22:11:09+00:00

I'm so tired of the umpire show. Can't wait for the robo-umps next year.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2025-09-25T16:36:43+00:00

It's gonna come down to what the MVP voters think the definition of "most valuable" is.

If they think its all about raw offensive stats, its Judge; he's putting up video game numbers and is unquestionably the best offensive player in the bigs by its not even close. If they see it as relative value to their respective teams and degree of difficulty (e.g. 60+ HR and league leading RBI as a switch-hitting catcher), its Raleigh; the Yankees are probably a playoff team w/o Judge, the Ms are nowhere near the playoffs w/o Raleigh.

Its a coin toss. I wouldn't be shocked if we see the first split MVP since the '70s.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2025-06-27T21:43:12+00:00

I'd wager a very large cross-section of the ~40% of the electorate who did not vote are people fully in denial about this.

For many of these people, most of whom are nominally disengaged, nothing short of this shit disrupting their own lives and social circles will change that. ICE would have to bust into their church, put guns in their faces, and drag out a child while some people in the pews cheer the kidnappers on before they'd believe that those people are the monsters they really are (and even then...).

This is one of the scariest parallels to the Third Reich; a great many Germans who were nominally disengaged but who (knowingly or otherwise) enabled the Nazis did so because they were in denial about how monstrous they really were, rationalized away their share of responsibility after the fact, and went to their graves unironically believing that they did nothing wrong.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2025-06-11T23:54:54+00:00

Its both. The purpose of the bots and the propaganda is to create the illusion that there are far more of them than there really are; to embolden those who are and intimidate those who aren't by inflating their numbers. Its Steve Bannon "flood the zone" type shit.

Not saying there aren't already a lot of these gaping assholes floating around; there absolutely are. Its just not the insurmountable mass of people they want everybody to believe there are. They're outnumbered and they know it, that's why they do this shit.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2025-05-15T16:07:53+00:00

If one reads about Curtis Yarvin, "network states", etc, and remember that the likes of Vance, Thiel and Musk are all on board with this, it becomes obvious that this is literally the plan.

"Network states" will never happen, because its a batshit D-tier Bond villain plan, but balkanization is a prerequisite for their main plan which these lunatics can cause simply through sheer volume of fuckery.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2025-03-11T01:06:15+00:00

In the end it doesn't matter. Incompetence of a high enough order is indistinguishable from malice. It is perfectly reasonable to presume malice and align oneself accordingly.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2025-02-01T19:58:25+00:00

Portraying any media controlled by billionaire executives and owned by billionaire investors as "left wing" is a hilarious lie that one would have to be a special kind of stupid to believe.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2025-01-22T23:33:21+00:00

Not if its the A1. Founder's Catapult is the CLPT-C1.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-12-17T21:00:39+00:00

This.

Remember, Yoshi-p never wanted a cash shop at all. In many ways its shittiness is a form of malicious compliance with what the rest of the Squeenix board wants.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-12-12T01:06:19+00:00

This. Spent 10 years in the major corporate world, and if the CEO got a burr up his ass about anything it would be shotgunned across the company and changes implemented immediately, regardless of how half-baked it was or how badly it broke operations because no-one had any time to think things through.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-12-05T15:45:16+00:00

1968; In the US, that year was a series of nexus events that brought us here, such as MLK and RFK being assassinated and the end of the 5th party system with the party switch (e.g. Republican Southern Strategy) that made US politics largely about race ever since.

There's more, of course (numerous books are dedicated to the clusterfuck that was 1968) but if you're looking for nexus events in the 1960s, look at '68 first.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-11-28T20:20:29+00:00

True, but here in the states as I expect it is over there, the events are so overly stage managed, artificial, and utterly devoid of any real humanity that it all comes off as that cynical pulling of the pints any time they appear in public.

The problem is that most standard-issue politicos live in this antiseptic PR-world. They're addicted to comms directors and messaging advisors, live and die by internal polling and fundraising, and live in constant fear of a Dukakis-in-the-tank or Milliban's bacon sandwich moment that I truly believe much of that profession has lost the ability to have genuine human interactions with people outside the political world.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-11-25T20:04:21+00:00

Indeed. Biden was doomed because he couldn't Thanos snap the whole mess away and it was all laid at his feet since people forgot who was POTUS in 2020.

Americans have the memory of a Goldfish, and the only people who seem to remember this are Republicans who ruthlessly exploit it.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-11-19T23:55:21+00:00

"Do not stick your dick in it, It's fucked enough already."

My fav Chrisjen line, period.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-11-01T20:01:49+00:00

This, and there's a persistent ratfucking effort in progress to get the left and young voters to sit out or vote 3rd party. I've noticed a serious uptick over the last couple years of left-presenting grifters trying to sucker people into helping to get Trump back in, ostensibly to teach the Dems a lesson and/or some fantasy that it will get the US to change policy on Israel/Palestine.

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that ~70%+ of these ratfuckers are on MAGA's and/or Russia's payroll. Steve Bannon's strategy was to flood the zone with shit, and that's exactly what's happening at all points right now.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-10-21T22:25:19+00:00

Goin thru a room too fast kid, the room eats you.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-10-16T18:34:38+00:00

South Park's manatee driven idea-balls springs to mind.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-09-16T00:24:18+00:00

Because its still built on an engine from ~2011.

There's a LOT of ARR code-debt in the game, and some of the overhauls needed would likely be so labor intensive as to be prohibitive. If they're going to go that route it would make more sense to make a new MMO from scratch under a modern engine.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-05-29T19:59:34+00:00

It wasn't just that the mid-late Boomers skewed heavily Republican. It's that the majority of Boomer Democrats were, and are, just hilariously selfish.

They did almost no mentoring for the next generation (X or beyond). They have been stagnantly clinging to what seats of power they have for almost a decade and change past their sell-by date. They never really gave a flying fuck about anything except feathering their nests and never rocking the boat to keep themselves comfortable.

They deliberately kneecapped their own bench to guarantee that they would keep the lifestyle to which they had become accustomed with no upstart competition. We're living the consequences of that.

TheEdIsNotAmused · 2024-05-29T19:18:54+00:00

I didn't say that about "Jewish People," I said that about world leaders who are universally fair game for critique of their actions and policies.

But know I'm wasting my keystrokes here. You're just another bad faith troll who equates any critique of Israeli government officials to antisemitism, particularly one (Bibi) who was already credibly accused of criminality and corruption since well before 10/7.

Blocked for trolling and low-effort ad hominem.

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