Rien ne va plus.

He hates being at the White House, with all the rules and procedures that have to be followed there. He’d much prefer to engage in open corruption without all that red tape.

This is going to keep happening. The brain drain is real.

Germany should immediately seize all of Tesla’s accounts there and pay the workers on sick leave out of those funds.

Nah, DOGE is going to discover that The Atlantic is at fault for this somehow, and have all its management arrested.

We live in the stupidest timeline.

Translation: “Install Linux.”

It’s true that the political system is sick, but blaming Obama for it is 100% bullshit. How the fuck would he have “secured the Supreme Court?” How would that have worked?

No he didn’t. Oh, he says he did, but those Democrats should ignore it and continue working until the orange asshole has to send in his DOGE-stapo. It’s not a legal firing.

The answer is always going to be, “Because you’re running the incredibly bloated Windows operating system.”

Indeed. We’ve forgotten our history on many levels, and as such, we’re looking pretty well doomed to repeat it.

It hasn’t been for a long time. SCOTUS already declared Trump king, and Congress has completely abdicated its constitutional role to remove lawless presidents.

Trump is the most obvious symptom, but the underlying cancer is a deep-seated streak of fascination with authoritarianism in this country.

It’s easy to forget this, since the United States ultimately sided against the Axis powers in WWII, but there has always been a sizeable contingent of full-throated fascism supporters in this country.

They’ve spent decades honing their messaging and figuring out how to break the minds of Americans, and Trump is the culmination of that project.

Dear early 2014,

Next year, David Bowie will be diagnosed with liver cancer. A year and a half later, it will kill him. It is absolutely imperative that it be found and treated earlier than that, when it hasn’t metastasized yet. Get him diagnosed and treated now. The future of the planet depends on it.

Also, apropos of nothing in particular, here is a bunch of evidence that Donald Trump, the reality show guy who posted all that racist “birther” crap about President Obama, is a tax cheat and a scam artist, and works for Vladimir Putin. Get the IRS on his ass.

Good luck, and may your timeline work out better than ours has.

NATO will do exactly nothing to help the bloated orange shit-weasel take over Greenland.

Is… is that real? Is this really the world I live in?

“Hey! That hurt! To get you back for it, I’m gonna punch myself in the face!”

It’s a very big “if,” though. Europe has a lot of work to do.

But with the United States falling to fascism and despotism, there’s no one else to step up. And I doubt Europe has any illusions about the size of the threat Russia poses, so they have every incentive to halt Russia’s expansionist goals there in Ukraine.

Putin once said Russia’s borders don’t end anywhere, a very telling sentiment: He doesn’t believe anything but Russia should get to exist. A country that doesn’t respect its own borders is a threat to all of its neighbors.

And because of its expansionist goals, its neighbors are the entire world.

So… Europe is going to massively step up support for Ukraine. It’s possible that unlike the United States, Europe will have no reservations about giving Ukraine everything it needs to not only hold Russia back, but to outright win.

An unambiguous win for Ukraine would almost certainly culminate in the death of Vladimir Putin and a full, systemic collapse in Russia. At this point, Russia is all in on destroying and taking over Ukraine, and if it can’t, it’s basically got nothing else to fall back on.

First job ever: Highschool work program. I slung coffee in a Costco.

First job in a field related to what I wanted to do: Needed any job I could get, applied a bunch of places, got hired by one basically sight unseen because they were desperate for anyone they could get and practically pulling people in off the streets.

First job specifically doing what I wanted to do: Used experience moonlighting and doing stuff somewhat related to get a full-time job doing the actual thing I loved.

Current job: With experience under my belt and a better resume, I applied at a better company (that paid well), and got the job. Planning to stay with this company until I can retire, if possible.

Something something Obama something tan suit something cornpop.

Ergo and some other Latin words.

And it’s going to get far worse.