Biden is out, Kamala is in?
Imagine trying to claim you did a good job and that the economy is strong in this environment. Not that Biden could even read these words off a prompter at this point... let alone write them. The man's brain has been turned to mush over the last four years. It's sad honestly.
Why is this man working!?!
Can you imagine?
Jesus.
I'm not sure when we decided that it was okay to drag geriatric mush-piles across the political aisle in a sick show of power but can we... you know. Stop? I'm guessing not. The show must go on! Continue the clown world simulation!
The only question I have at this point is would we still be in this situation if Trump hadn't been grazed by a bullet? The timing is quite spectacular. One week later... on a full moon no less. Biden "get's COVID" and immediately drops out after everyone was convinced he was going to force himself to campaign. The crystals girls are having a field day with this.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9sc14SvvWz/?igsh=MWN1Z3A1Y2t1M3Vu
Bitcoin speculation
Crypto Twitter is full on delusional as always. Biden stepped down and crypto went down the tiniest amount of everyone was taking it as a sign. Hours later it was higher than it was before the announcement. Chill out. It means nothing. Seriously. We are a 6% move away from $72k. Stop speculating unless we are higher than that.
Y2K vibes?
The "attack" on Microsoft turned out to be kind of a big deal. Even though I wasn't personally affected it seemed to have sent shockwaves through the corporate world. Just a stark reminder of our complete and utter reliance on centralization and how systemic failure is much more possible than it should be.
Bam bam bam.
The zingers are non-stops these days I guess.
Never dull.
Do I think Kamala will win? Ah well technically it might not even be her as she's only received endorsements thus far. But also no: she has no chance; nobody has a chance against Trump. Even if he gets assassinated at this point the GOP will win out of shear martyrdom. I don't make the rules. Sorry not sorry.
Conclusion
I'm truly at a loss for words on this one. At a certain point we're just going to have to tune out the noise and focus on things that actually matter. The momentum and shift in energy of today is pretty intense. I'll parse it some other time.
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I actually wrote about the crowdstrike thing for today’s post. It’s one of the worst things about this forced centralization that’s been happening. Most people were t aware how pervasive they were and how vulnerable it all is until someone completely fucks up the QA process like they did. Oops.
I would love to go back to the early days of the internet when there were many companies around doing these things. We have a fair amount today but not as many as then I think. We need to move back to more competition which leads to companies not sucking!
Assuming things go that way come November, it should be pretty easy for me as a middle aged white American male to just keep my head down and do my own thing for the next four years. Others may not be so lucky and that's scary.
As long as they are here legally, I think most people are going to do just fine. With the many millions here illegally though, sorry this isn't a free ride. Come back legally through the gates and I have no issues with them being here and contributing to our success.
It's more than just that though. I'm not diving down the Project 2025 hole, but there does seem to be some targeted attacks coming on the rights of women, and other groups. Whether they actually get implemented or not remains to be seen.
It's not Project 2025 you need to be worried about. It's just the distraction away from what the America First Institute is doing.
https://hive.blog/deepdives/@sunlit7/hooked-lined-and-sinkered-the-true-underbelly-of-trump
You really got to understand the mind of how Trump operates to stay one step ahead of him.
Yeah I'm in the same boat so I'm trying not to be super callous about all this.
It really doesn't help that Trump winning is probably the best financial outcome for me.
Also now Trump is up there saying that Project 2025 was created by right-wing extremists.
Yeah, I am the same way. I was telling my wife the other day that it might not be the worst thing for us and she said "you need to never say that out loud again". I've heard that he is trying to distance himself from the Project 2025 narrative now.
I love your wife😇.
I do too. I felt dirty even thinking it, but I'm not going to be sad about a massive bull run.
Maybe. Remember it was Trump who said if Biden remained in office we'd debank, and we are going to debank.
Like I said above, you got to understand how his mind operates, he loves telling people the truth hidden behind the hype. The hype would be scaring people into us going to debank if Biden stayed in office, but the latter half is more like the truth. Those types of truths, have proven to fall on someone else's shoulders. He even told people three, four times within a matter of days he wasn't coming back in 2020, but nobody heard it because of all the other hype he was talking.
Trump telling the truth? That's hillarious!
I'll give you the big take on that Heritage Foundation 2025 and what's really hiding behind the face of it. If part of it wasn't stuck on my page unable to post. It's not the Heritage stuff that's concerning, it's the America First Institute that people need to be aware of, the Heritage stuff is just a look here not there scenario. Republicans and democrats alike, have been going in and out of back doors in NYC at the AFI and agreeing on a big changeover in government. Come 2025, all those federal workers still working from home will find themselves without a job. Well, at least the ones who lack like mindedness of whatever current administration is in office. That's why understanding the immunity case, what's going to go down with this document case, how Ed Meese amicus curiae, now a Writ, plays out in this whole ordeal that will give the executive branch incredible powers to keep what they are doing out of the reach of the public. One reason the SC specifically made mention of Barr's refusal to write states letter addressing voter fraud was within his right to do, on the other hand, his refusal to do it meant it's within Trump's right to fire him for being insubordinate, so they couldn't use that as evidence that Trump was trying to overthrow an election. That gives them all the right to just fire people at will if they refuse to do something. Basically all they have to ask is, what do you think of this policy I want to introduce, or I'd like you to write up this policy for me, regardless if it's not within the authority of the executive branch of government or not, they can get fired for it. Every administration moving forward who wants to clean house, just has to find a way to get someone who doesn't agree with their policies or policy changes, to say they don't think it'll fly and out the door they go. None of this has one thing to do with making it easier to get rid of the deep state because the intelligence branch of the government are at will hires, they can be fired at will anytime.
I’ve hadn’t heard the fat lady sing.
"I don't care if he poops his pants."
Very true considering the vibe has been:
Wild times.
How are you going to write in your letter that America has the strongest economy lol the F. Such dumb frame worked letters all the time I wonder if anyone really gets anything done in the government anymore it's blows my mind just how wasteful our government has become.
If they put Kamala in she will pull women votes for sure because you know people like to just be inclusive and not really care the skill level of people anymore which is why we are in this mess.
People who identify a conservatives already tend to come out in higher numbers percentage wise to vote. I don't think the assassination attempt moved the pendulum much, if at all.
I'm shocked at the number of "undecideds" who have now decided. There's something about blood. He who bleeds for the people, usually gets the throne. If Kennedy had survived, he would have had four more years.
I mean it wouldn't shock me if Kennedy won. Lyndon B. Johnson won in a landslide against Barry Goldwater. I think Kennedy would have won even if no assassination attempt occured.
Idk what to think, my homie got hurt yesterday by politics.
Well, polític fans.
Venezuela is a little hot when talking about this...
!DOOK
I've seen the news in the morning. Shocking. I'm not sure where this is going as the world seems a less safe place lately, but isn't Obama competing for being a president again?
I doubt he even wrote that or even knows he is out.
The political drama feels overwhelming, but the focus on real issues might help us navigate these times better. But I believe it was an inevitable outcome. He's old and unwell.
This is a new dynamic (presidential race). Many of us on the ground have been holding our breaths. There has been a funereal depression. Suddenly we can breathe. Nobody knows anything about Harris, really. She hasn't been one of those visible vice presidents. Biden didn't do for her what Obama did for Biden. Obama gave Biden a highly visible role in which the VP seemed to be very effective. Harris has been largely behind the curtain. Look past her race and her gender. That's not the formula. She was a very effective prosecutor...so effective that when she ran in the primary against Biden progressives discounted her. She was too tough on crime. She has been a senator. In that role, she handled herself skillfully. She has been vice president. Over the last four years her public speaking skills have matured. She is highly articulate. Thinks on her feet. Put her up against a rambling, vituperative Trump and she will look very, very good.
Add to all of that the issues. Trump's tax policies favor the wealthy, not the middle class. His tariff proposal would be highly inflationary. He was a union buster. He, and he alone is responsible for the Dobbs decision. He has promised to be a dictator, take us out of NATO (or at least neuter NATO). He is pro big pharma. He wants to gut the Affordable Health Care plan. I won't go on. All Harris has to do is make clear the differences. Now that big ticket donors are back in the Democratic fold, she will be able to do what Biden couldn't do.
There is an enormous amount of enthusiasm for this candidacy among the base. It is an enthusiasm that will match Trump's base, without the religious (that is cultist) fervor of his MAGA followers.
Can't wait for that debate. I'm guessing he won't have the nerve to go up against her. He is going to beg off, claiming he promised to debate Biden, not Harris.
These are just a few of my friendly thoughts in response to your post and comments I've read here.
Hope you all have a great day.
Just when they thought it was Biden time, it turned out to be biding time.
Biden did what was right (at least for himself).
Jill was finally offered enough $$$ to say "It's over Joe."
I find it hilarious how one minute he's scoffing at the idea of not running, to this letter which reads as if he's known all along. I wish he had defined "progress as a nation", usually that includes strong borders, clearly defined sovereignty, military victories, diplomatic respect. But under his regime, it's been a disaster on all fronts.
I shutter to think of four years under that witch Kamala... and probably another woman vice-president, since that's a thing now. Double trouble, boil and bubble, MAGA extremest six feet under.
God save our nation.
May you live in interesting times.
It's a total joke. But if you look at it from the perspective that they are intentionally trying to destroy America, it makes more sense.
Wow biden has Covid, I thought that saga ended, it's quite unfortunately that it happened around that time controversial stories will spread and you won't blame people for believing them.
Although I do believe Trump will win as this somewhat is looking like the prediction of Jake Ricard. Thanks for the update on BTC going to make an article on that after I check out more on that.
Honestly, this election is the craziest I’ve ever seen
Why would Biden contest when he knew he was going to quit on the long run
I don’t really trust Trump too though
Good luck with the parsing. Is it all even parsable?? Ha!
With the look of things, I think trump is coming back into power and kamala can't stand a chance with him. it won't be an easy one for her
When Biden stepped down, I read a tweet saying Trump has a greater chance of winning the election now that Kamala
is his contender . We'll see about that I guess!!
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With that said, I left you a comment last night but ended up deleting it after it wouldn't post. Thought it was the start of something else wrong with my account but I guess it wasn't. I've never seen you at a loss for words, especially humorous ones. I think a lot of people really don't see what's been at play here and they really think it matters who gets in office. The reality is this whole political prosecution thing was staged from the beginning. Back in 2017 a guy named James Sherk, a domestic council member under Trump, wanted to find a way to take what he called a constitutional theory that presidents have immunity up to the SC to test it. It was also in 2017 that Liz Cheney decide to hop onto the political bandwagon and ran for office. But this wasn't really about immunity for presidents, this was all about immunity for the executive branch. Reason why was in case of the possibility that something would backfire in the covid scam and vaccine of things. Liz vested interest in playing along to help build a string of political prosecutions would be to protect her dad, who served under Bush as VP where gain of function on corona virus started. Now, with five states getting ready to sue the pharmaceutical companies, it appears their fears were warranted. Instead of write the whole thing out again, I wrote the majority of it in a comment on anther blog site earlier today, to see how it's all run down, just ignore the first few sentences as it's more on topic to the discussion there but the rest is more specific to what I wanted to say last night.
this is gonna be a tight one, let's see how it goes 🤔