Same. There's a whole host of these MAGA run public universities on my mental list now as "these degrees aren't worth the paper they are printed on" at this point.

Crazification Factor. kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc...

We are currently negotiating our office re-lease in a building in downtown Oakland that has already been deed in-lieu back to its lender & is maybe 50% occupied. And still they want a nutbar rent. We're literally gonna wind up moving one building over. I don't get it.

Too many commercial landlords in downtown Oakland are completely off their rocker on their rent expectations.

Ube sweet potato casserole & brussels with togarashi butter fish sauce dressing.

Gochujang crab mac n cheese & "gyoza" stuffing.

* grocery bills AND costs of housing. Latter of which was and is a key driver of voter discontent for which Biden didn't do shit. Trump's been a better housing President than Biden ever was. Makes me barf but it's true.

The political tone deafness of the nerds in Washington combined with the geriatric Biden's musty eyed love for FDR style "building more bridges & retaining walls is the answer" was just...infuriating.

Yes. But criticism is also about content. Biden admin blew its political capital wad on infrastructure funding programs (IRA, CHIPS, IIJA) in a country that can't put up a crosswalk without 5 years of meetings & and hose benefits measured in decades while voters pissed over grocery bills.

They also lost in 2022. And 2018. And 2016. And 2014. And 2012.

Particularly when said Inflation Reduction Act isn't going to reduce inflation over any timeframe that at all electorally matters. Pencil neck motherf*kers...

It was absolutely shitty branding. Anyone telling themselves that it was going to do anything about inflation except over a timeframe 10 years hence & 5 election cycles was a deluded techno-lib who deserved to lose to these creeps.

And they had nerve to call an infrastructure financing bill whose cost bending was gonna take years to decades, an Inflation Reduction Act while what the electorate wanted was the immediate relief from post pandemic inflation and the Fed's massive rate hikes. Deserved to lose to a carnival barker.

Exactly. So what did we get for all our pointy headed superiority? Nothing. Even worse than nothing. Technocratic liberals are just so fucking dumb at times.

I'd gladly have sacrificed subsidizing a bunch of wind farms in Texas for not having Trump. Easiest fucking call in history.

Ditch the half spending on energy stuff in the IRA and mail out Biden Grocery Bill Checks instead to every household in like 75th percentile income or whatnot.

When I see his name my brain goes Will STENCIL. B/c his ideas are all like that: the recognizable outline of something but lacking all the internal details to render it fully true.