zorg wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:18 pm

jfv wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 6:19 pm ^ I was watching that shit live. I don’t need anyone to tell me it was or was not a Nazi salute. It was a Nazi salute. He did it twice just to make sure it was clear (apologies if this repeated what others said previously).

Looks like a Dr. Strangelove nod to me.

Nah, this wasn't that.

It was a GD Nazi salute but like everything else he does (like jumping) he can't not make it weird and janky.

Trump pardons Jan 6 class-traitors: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g-s1-368 ... ary-6-riot It was the first order signed.

'Mexican Drug Cartels' are now terrorist orgs. Three "border invasion" orders. Threatening 100% tariff on all BRICS nations. Withdraws from WHO. Signs anti-trans order masked as protection of women - this was signed last.

Trump proposes joint venture between owners of TikTok and the US Government, and said that he would "consider it a hostile act" if 'China' didn't sell it to 'him'.

It looks like Sharpie made special presidential pens.

I need to stop watching this.

It’s going to be a long four years.

you know @dgraytexas45 just had this one locked & loaded.


25 years ago i would've been thrilled for leonard peltier.
now it just feels hollow.

cakes wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:23 pm It's really an odd feeling to realize in your late 40's that your cynical 15 year old self was right all along.

Goddamn, time really is a flat circle.

What is the Rascal Flatts bassist playing? I have a guess, but I think I'm probably wrong.

PASTA wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:44 pm

DaveA wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:34 pm Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down

came here to say just this. Embrace your community and those you love. Create, build, communicate.

It's more than OKAY to take a day or two with your head in the sand, resting, to prepare for what ever is next. (self care is critical if we have to fight)
Be the small thing that brightens someones day.

Yeah. But I would add that more than a day or two is also fine, depending on one's situation and goals. Unplugging indefinitely isn't the end of the world, in a lot of cases. A person doesn't have to react to each and every low blow or hellish new policy. Not that there would be something wrong about this! But it seems clear to me, what with Trump's laughably incompetent cabinet picks, these early executive actions, and this opening salvo of obscene gestures that more than a couple of these things have been done for the express purpose of getting a rise out of others. That's what they want: attention, reactions, outrage--en masse. In one sense, they become less empowered when normal people see them for the massive needy dorks that they are, that they've been all along. One of the reasons Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and these other ultra-rich fools have gotten in the mix with Trump's politics is that they've realized there's something a bit empty about just acquiring money; in addition to this, they want to be on "the winning side," their end game is to have influence. They want to shape the country, and the world, irrevocably, and when these out-of-touch people's values are pooled together it will almost certainly be for the worse. (For instance, if Musk and Zuckerberg can barely run social media sites, do you want them in charge of the global AI arms race? Did everybody forget about what happened in The Terminator? Laugh now, but poor overall judgement and unprecedented advancements in technology are almost never good bedfellows.)

I first saw the notion of a maximum wage being floated about twenty years ago. Since then, the world has seen more billionaires come about than ever before, in the entire history of humankind. In the next ten years, we will have the first ever trillionaires, of which Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos will be among. "Everyday people" should keep this in mind when they go to the grocery store and do a double take at non-luxury items' price tags.

AttackChimp wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 10:17 pm What is the Rascal Flatts bassist playing? I have a guess, but I think I'm probably wrong.

you watched that shit?

AttackChimp wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 10:17 pm What is the Rascal Flatts bassist playing? I have a guess, but I think I'm probably wrong.

A G on the 5th string 7th fret with an occasional 5th thrown in.