I have one word for that: GOOD!

Gotta get the cockroaches out of the cabinets before you start in on cleaning the house.

That is going to be the tough part, 'cos you know there will be a fuckton of pre-emptive “pardons” being given out at the end of Trumplestiltskin’s term…

States may have to step up…

Thing is, this has been a right wing plan for the last 46 years, so let’s not fool ourselves that any solution is going to happen overnight.

It’s going to be a bitch to pry those right wing termites out of the woodwork they’ve tunneled themselves into.

Leaving the unelected out of it, won’t solve the problem.

It’ll just get latched onto by the right as the perfect solution to downsize the government even more as the average government workers quit to find better paying jobs. (AI be heavily pushed by the tech bros to fill in a ton of the clerical work slots that open up.) The American public will grumbe, sigh then resign themselves to the new reality as the pivot happens. The TV propagandists wil spin it into savings for the taxpayer and the government will throw a couple hundred bucks back to each family for a year or two to pacify them.

Then everything shuts down as the emboldened billinairs fund the political machine to suit them and their agandas - abd they’ll be barefaced about it like the public has never seen.

Secondly, do we miss that most politicians are millionaires by the time they get into office?

They, more than most, will be able to buy whatever services they need to run their politicial affaris and get all the cash they need fron the ultra wealthy…

It’s actually the elected that need to be the first people to be pinched by minimum wage incomes. Hard.

My dream would be that it’s done, then a week later the rock lets go and it slides off like The Old Mam of the Mountain did in New Hampshire. It can be the Trump National Rubble Pile.

Those of us Europeans with long term roots in this continent, we have speckled history.

Really though, we have nothing to apologize for… We weren’t involved and for many, any familial benefits realized are long gone.

My own ancestors came off the Mayflower, and all but eradicated the Pequot tribe in Connecticut decades later.

The history is pretty ugly and for sure there was lots of hypocrisy, lies and theft.

No romanticizing my ancestral past… It’s not like I had anything to do with it and thankfully those people are dead and their wretched worldwiews went with them.

Yaah, they were assholes. Sucks that it happened.

No elected government worker… I’m not down with bridge and safety inspectors or air traffic controllers making minimum wage, no matter how “just” it seems - for a millisecond. Let the judges and elected officials have the minimum wage - WTF, it’s not like they’re not already millionaires by the time they get into office.

Remember the SCOTUS is giving too much power to a President. Precdent has been set, so let’s vote for the next President that will use executive orders with as much abandon as ever, to claw back those billions. What we forget is that Trump is singular with his cutthroat aporach to thuggish-gangsta style “leadership” due to WHO taught him how to act: Roy Cohn, who is now dead and no one can replicate. JD Vance will be eaten alive by the Senate, and the Mitch McConnells are tottering on their graves and “capitalism” has become so toxic to families in it’s late (or end-) stage form, that social problems won’t be fixed by it, leading to political ones. Mamdani isn’t an outlier… he’s the slowly arriving future.

Oh, it’s been a shitshow since before the IPO.

Ack! No one has the 4TB Ironwolf Pro drives!

This is bullshit.

F’ckin’ datacenter pricks.

So that’s a console game setup, yes?

I use an older PC so everything is backed up on a storage drive but currently right now I’m stuck with a 500 GB SSD to run the games I’m actively playing. It’s nowhere near enough space for what I want to do. Ugh. Am waiting to see when I can get my mitts on a 4TB WD Gold drive (I have two on my MacPro systems) and slap that into the PC for the storage and then get a similar sized SSD (or an NVME drive in an adapter) to use.

I think when I get that sorted I’m also going to switch up to running Bazzite for the games and bail on the Win 10 Pro…

Am not surprised given how large games today can be. You can have a disk to launch the game when you first get it, but chances are the Playstation will still have to “update” it with the full resources…

I don’t have a playstation, but FFS, I can’t even get the full Halo: Master Chief Collection onto my gaming PC - I just don’t have the drive space. Some game packages are huge today.

My dad lost all his assets to cancer bills, as did my father in law, and my husband’s family lost the house built by their grandfather due to having to settle the nursing home debt after my mother in law died.

I do not expect any inheritance from my mom, since I want her to use it all to take care of herself.

We really really need a single payer healthcare system. Those last dozen years of a person’s life are where the medical industrial complex makes obscene bank.

I can not begin to explain the level of my contempt for networks like FoxNews…