The Local Crank
Cranky GenXer who hates this timeline. Former syndicated political columnist. Coloradoan #copolitics
- Never forget, there are more of us than there are of them.
- The fact that there was even the slightest doubt about this indicates just how irreparably the 1789 constitution has been broken
- In case you were wondering, it remains highly controversial to suggest that voters have agency
- Congressional Democrats are holding a shadow hearing on ICE abuses. I mention that since none of the Purity Caucus will.
- Man, it must be weird to live in a country where rich assholes can't just flout the law with impunity
- French police have raided the Paris offices of X and summoned Elon Musk for questioning as part of a cybercrime investigation into artificial intelligence-generated pornographic deepfakes and Holocaust denial. www.ms.now/news/french-...
- In any other timeline, this would be just routine standard stuff but in this hellscape we have to wonder whether or when President Caligula will pardon him
- Republicans hate children
- Not entirely sure how body cams solve this.
- One of the most depressing things about the Trump Era is how easily it could’ve been avoided. No need for an uprising or protests or marches. All people had to do was vote. That’s it. But in 2016 & even more unforgivably in 2024 folks just couldn’t be bothered. I can’t fathom that.
- Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse Five”
