call me old fashioned, call me naive.

but i say impeach, convict, remove. rinse and repeat.

no. they won’t do it tomorrow.

but motherfucker may become pretty unpopular before very long.

maybe it’s worth just saying, as an american to our remarkable neighbors, i’m really sorry.

this is ultimately our responsibility and we’ve sure fucked it up.

“let’s break the world and see what happens.”

i like to think these are targeted.

there was a fire in the kitchen and just when mom put it out i left the shower on in the bathroom i am so awesome i saved our home.

@admitsWrongIfProven You too!

@admitsWrongIfProven That's what we're going for, but then you ghost us!

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@tuban_muzuru (i mostly write scala now, but still in JVM-land! this week i’ve been working on a 20+ year old Java library which i claim still supports Java 7. can’t get that on a Mac without Oracle, though i can be less lazy and test on openjdk/linux i think.)

@tuban_muzuru but there’s no reason my account should be authenticated any differently than anyone else who signed up from the public website for an Oracle account. i get in general that the message says i’m supposed to be authenticated in some different way, but it makes no sense in context. my account doesn’t come via some third party with a relationship to Oracle that might authenticate or some such.

@BenRossTransit It’s not punishment, any more than a general is punishment. That framing is just the bullshit they’ve used to lock themselves in.

Primaries are giving the public an opportunity to weigh in, and reducing the US’ catastrophic incumbency bias.

The legit question, in my mind, is what effect it would have on the general. If it leads to more Republican elected, that’s the problem. Not that incumbents have to stand in front of their base as well as their donors.

@mattlehrer how does one encourage redefining the game if you don’t alter the incentives on the players?

@ItsThatDeafGuy each of us individually have very little likelihood of rubbing shoulders. but all of us collectively run the restaurants they patronize. we caddy their golf games. if many of us collectively choose to shun and express disgust towards them, they will experience that.

we can’t boycott everything, no. but we can condition our purchases. i can’t never buy amazon, but i avoid it. online you and i both obviously seek alternatives.

we can impose costs. we’re not powerless.

Should people who openly bribe the President, even if they are “respected” lawyers or CEOs or whatnot, doing it because “it’s in the best interest of shareholders” be welcome in polite society? Should you serve them in your restaurant? Speak politely with them at conferences?

@BenRossTransit It doesn’t “punish” anyone. It requires more accountability.

The status quo is social democrats are disproportionately primaried. It’s only “punishment” when some are and some aren’t. But that’s the mistake, the problem.

The public, especially the Democratic-primary-voting public, is to the “left” (on economics / social democracy) of the center of Congressional Democrats. How on Earth would having to answer to primary voters drive them to the right?

@BenRossTransit (I mostly don’t know them. But I think I would primary everyone, the ones I love, the one I hate, the ones I know very little about, because democracy demands it under circumstances where general elections are gerrymandered, because the ones I do know I support are primaried anyway, because overall, collectively, Congressional Democrats have become a complacent jobs program rather than an effective agent for any worthwhile politics.)

This is fine.

Musk wanted access to the literal spigot of Federal money in a way that made the totally nonpolitical guy who supervises it, a guy Trump and all his Project 2025-ers had been happy to reappoint, feel like he had to resign. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-systems/
ht @emptywheel @marisakabas

We are all so proud of our great American corporate champions. cf @40Years https://40yrs.blogspot.com/2025/01/ecch-tweet-of-day_30.html