I cannot go to twitter. I deleted my account (which I'd had for well over 15 years) for good on Nov 6th 2024.

Even that was much later than it should have been.

I wasn't saying that. I said that I regretted my own personal vote.

I also, in hindsight, think that 1992 election was one of the most consequential of my lifetime.

I think the further we get down the road from the Clinton Presidency, the worse it will be viewed through the lens of history.

Of all the votes in my lifetime, the one I almost regret most is Ross Perot in 1992.

In hindsight, HW Bush was a good President.

And if Bill Clinton had lost in 92, we likely wouldn't have heard from him or Hillary again.

I don't know a whole lot about Crypto, but it always seemed to me to be Mary Kay for sleezy dudes.

It would be interesting to do random surveys of the public about number two.

I would almost guarantee that what most people think a congressional pension is worth after 5 years is at least 10-15 times higher than the actual number.

Caveat up front, I am no MTG fan.

However, as to your comment ...

1) She's already a millionaire, she doesn't need the pension.

2) A congressional pension after just 5 years isn't nearly as much money as you probably think it is.

It really is as if every ignorant moron you've ever argued with on social media is now literally running the government. 🙄

No rational person (and many irrational people) will ever believe that whatever gets released is even close to the worst of what Epstein had on Donald Trump.

Not sure that's bad (for us, not them).

In some ways a heavily redacted release (and/or something only exposing Dems) probably keeps this going (with the public/press) even longer than if they just release the full files.

Not sure what to root for here.

Given the possibility of a true blue wave next year, this Texas map could be a dummymander.

I'm in a lifecycle TSP fund, so I don't stress much about any of this.

It just seems to me that at some point, those "buying the dip" are going to find that the dip will be much bigger and the bounce back will take much longer than they expect.

Using a poker analogy, "retail investor" = "fish"

... and from the pro's perspective, the best fish are the ones who think they're too good to be fish.

Hard to imagine this ending well for most of them.

To the extent that effective organizing against fascism will happen (and is happening), it will have to include many people who these "activists" currently spend most of their time arguing with.

... that (among other things) is something they just don't seem to understand. 🙄

Dude if you really believe that the fascist state is "imminent" then just having a Bluesky account where you complain about the fascist leader seems pretty dumb.

MAGA wants to be fascists, but they're not competent enough to pull it off.

What's even more frustrating to me is that while this shit is now legal, in most places I can't start a home poker game without risking a literal police raid.

The thing is, I'm not sure now is the time to boycott them.

But when we get back to sanity, the last thing in the world anybody needs to put up with is the NYTimes and Washington Post suddenly reverting to "holding power accountable" or whatever BS they'll use to justify their double standard.

Or even going a little further back, that the great financial crisis started while Barack Obama was already in office.

Many of them will swear on their children's lives that Joe Biden was President during the entirety of COVID.

Nothing surprises me about those whose brains have been fried by years of mainlining right-wing propaganda.

I've often thought that the easiest way for my mental well-being to improve dramatically would be to wake up one morning and find out I was locked out of ALL of my social media accounts.