Nope. Johnson.

No, not that one.

Andrew Johnson.

So many ways it could have been better.

He could have punished the Southern Aristocracy for starting the civil war. He could have ensured that the evil that led us there was exterminated forever.

Failing that, they could have actually removed him via impeachment instead of falling just short. That would have at least established forever that the presidency is not some sacred “unimpeachable” office.

You can’t unlock the new fear. You have to read the instructions for the new fear to know how to operate the new fear’s manual release.

I agree. I think we’re at the stage where the Democrats are the Whig party. They aren’t going to change, they need to be replaced with a true progressive party.

Assuming that we continue to be as much of a democracy as we were, now might be the time for that replacement to happen.

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Every four years Jill Stein emerges from her burrow. If she sees her shadow, it will be four more years of fascism.

Goats! You get milk and you can sell your lawnmower!

Perfect solution. Everyone who wants milk just needs to have their own cow.

At the same time, striving for monopoly is the only way some segments can survive. An independent hospital is doomed, but a health system has leverage to get better reimbursement rates from insurance providers.

We have before.

https://immigrationhistory.org/item/​mexican-repatriation/#:~:text=Demand for their labor dropped,million Mexicans and Mexican Americans.

She’s trying to unify the Dem voter base in preparation of 2028

Hopefully she’s trying to unify the base in preparation for 2026. However, we’d probably all be better off if we abandoned the Democratic party in favor of a real progressive party that puts the needs of individuals over the desires of corporations and billionaires.

My personal desktop machine is a Linux box I assembled from $500 worth of parts about 14 years ago. I’ve increased RAM and added about 8TB of storage for an Emby instance.

It still manages to get the job done, but it is obviously way, way, WAY overdue for replacement. We’ve been struggling financially for about 25 years.

Now I’m thinking I need to finally pull the trigger and get it done before January.

I do that with our guinea pigs.

They get a cookie* every day at 5:00 pm when I get finished with work. After 5:00, whether l come in the back door or just come downstairs from my office, they start wheaking and chewing on the bars of their pen (which they think encourages us to give them food for some reason).

Sometimes, after I’ve given them their cookie, I’ll go back up to my office. When I come back, they start acting like they didn’t get the cookie.

I just walk up to them and tell them that they already got it and they aren’t getting another. They stare at me for a moment, then just go back about their business.

I don’t think they actually forget they they got it. I think they just hope I might have forgotten. But it is interesting that all they need me to do is tell them they got it already and they give up.

* The cookie is a vitamin C supplement made of pressed hay with molasses as a binder. The molasses is why they lose their minds over them.

Why should I have to deal with someone else’s dog poop? Just take it home and put it in your own trash.

I don’t. Just carry it home. Why are people so damn irresponsible?

If you don’t want to carry the poop to your own trash, either don’t have a dog, or let it shit in your yard.

The terrorists in the middle east depend on the West not having the stomach to kill women and children.

Tell me if there will be any terrorists left in Gaza after Israel kills every man, woman, and child.

I’d say at this point the left’s response, if they want to stop the decline of the country, is to abandon the Democratic party and form a new party that actually puts the needs of the 99% above the needs of the 1%.

Communism and Socialism have no chance in the US, but a social democrat is probably pretty close to what the majority of Americans want.

Of course, I’m not talking about a group that only surfaces once every four years. The presidency shouldn’t even be a thought. Instead, we need a progressive party, dedicated to people, and working at the local and state level to fix what we can there.

Ah.

If it’s the night before collection, no one would notice or care. People who do that are not the people anyone complains about.

What happens is people dump their plastic bag of dog poop in the empty can. So it stays there.

Next pickup the resident’s trash bags go on top of it. The trash men never manage to get the poop bag out. After a couple weeks of hoping it will disappear next time, the person whose can it is has to dump it out and put it in a bag with their trash.

People who dump their dog’s poop bag in other people’s cans should be force fed the bag.

It worked in the middle east because the government had to avoid offending the sensibilities of the American people. Imagine how it would go if the American people had been indoctrinated completely into a fascist hate frenzy.

That would never happen in America, of course ( /s ). However, imagine what war with America would be like with a fascist government firmly in control.

Imagine what would happen to the minority of civilians who would engage in revolt?

The fact is the U.S. is still a democracy. If there were enough people to win in a fight against the government, they could just vote in who they want. As much as it makes me sick to say it, that’s what they just did.

Don’t forget all the American lives yet to be sacrificed!