* The inflation is minimal and, regardless, is “temporary”.

not sure what they said at the time, fact is, it started under Trump, it was covid, it was worldwide and it came during Biden. Then Trump started his epic failure and it shot up again

Inflation is now at 3 percent - not anywhere close to Biden’s high of 9 in 2021. Inflation shot up about more than 6 percent in 2021 mainly because Biden started printing gobs of money in an already overheating economy - exactly as Larry Summers, Obama’s former lead economist, warned Biden would happen if he printed gobs of money. And, no it wasn’t worldwide. That’s awfully jingoistic. Yes, Europe’s went up mainly for the same reason - money printing, but also knock on effects due to their dependence on the U.S. economy. But inflation stayed relatively low in Asia - barely moved in China and Japan - which both had COVID too, but didn’t try overload their money supply.

* The border is secure, and cannot be closed any further without new congressional legislation.

not sure what you call secure, but whatever, hard working people are good people

Secure equals a border open to those with visas or that absolutely need asylum. Our economy obviously wasn’t ready for a massive record breaking influx of (mostly) unskilled labor. Nor was it ready for massive influx of criminals - murders dropped a huge 60 percent in Denver in 2025 right after ICE deported its drug gangs early in the year. And yes, it’s undeniable that the border was quite deliberately opened wide.

* Judging by identity instead of character is democratic. (The Atlantic has a particular insightful article about this.)

trying to correct the racism/sexism bias is a good thing. Meanwhile, Trump is discriminating against smart people, and non-white, let's take in the refugees from the horrible totally real white genocide in South Africa

Correcting racism and sexism is definitely a good thing. The good news is that MLK, Lincoln, our constitution, “Trump”, republicans, moderate democrats, all have exactly the most proven formula for addressing racism and sexism: blind justice and free speech. The bad news is that too many in today’s activist left questions both - calls them racist - due to their pet “critical theory”. There are articles in the Atlantic about this - celebrating the idea of dropping blind justice in favor of judging by identity. The most popularized form of modern CT is a toxic mix that labels literally every classical liberal ideal “fascist”or “racist” - a ripe formula for violence and totalitarianism.

* Decriminalizing crime and defunding policing are wonderful ideas.

really ? not sure what decriminalization you're referring, but defund the police is about bringing some order and sense into the police, it's a fact that the police are too violent

Defund the police literally defunded policing in dozens of cities, much to the left’s delight.

See NYT op Ed “Yes We Mean Literally Abolish the Police”.

See The Guardian “These US cities defunded police: 'We're transferring money to the community'” quote “More than 20 major cities have reduced police budgets in some form, and activists are fighting to ensure that is only the start”.

Yet, per Gallup 80% of Black Americans oppose defunding their local police. Yes they want improvement, as does virtually everyone, but, unlike white progressives, the vast majority of them opposed actual defunding.

As for decriminalization, see California decriminalizing shoplifting up to a 950 dollars for several years (made it a misdemeanor). They recently walked that one back. I wonder why. Similarly, see Portland, and Seattle, initially allowing open use of hard drugs and then later walking it back.

Also see NPR’s infamous treatises in defense of looting.

* Violent crime rates haven’t spiked.

just because you feel in your gut that it has doesn't mean it has, that's why people use statistics and not anecdotal and false stories (do violent crimes include eating dogs and cats ?)

You’re the one running on “feelings” instead of facts. Murder rates in most major blue cities spiked dramatically in 2020, and, in many, still haven’t sunk below 2019 levels. New Orleans (which defunded policing and later reversed) is typical. Here’s the number of murders there starting in 2019 and finishing in 2025, my numbers may be slightly off but they should be fairly close:
    2019: 121
    2020: 195
    2021: 230
    2022: 266
    2023: 200
    2024: 125
    2025: 121

* The working class is doing well economically. Low paid non-citizens weren’t responsible for the vast majority of job gains.

non-citizens do the job americans don't want to do

True. That’s because they accept the lower salaries and non-existent benefits that citizens won’t. I understand it’s important to some that the rich have cheap nannies and lawn care, plus very low paid farm or factory labor - but that seems off to me. Living wages are FAR better, and are much more likely to be broadly achieved in an economy that doesn’t flood in cheap immigrant labor.

* The laptop is a Russian plant and the Steele Report is gospel.
the laptop really, stop watching morons, have you seen the actual rampant corruption in Trump family ? Even if al your Hunter Biden fantasies were true it would be peanuts compared to the swamp shit going on
Steele Report was real, doesn't mean it's true, but credible enough. Meanwhile the Muller report did find collusion between campaign people and Russia, no matter how much he screams the report exonerated him

The laptop obviously wasn’t a Russian plant. The FBI verified it. As did the NYT eventually (reluctantly).

The Mueller report found zero collusion. Read the executive summary: “Although the investigation established that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the Campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts, the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.”

The Steele report was oppo research commissioned by Hilary - a well hidden fact for years - and its only “true” parts weren’t even remotely scandalous.

* Smollet was attacked by MAGA.

it's one guy, you want a list of maga liars ? take any maga list

* The lab leak theory is not at all credible.

it's unproven, no matter what some morons on fox news says

A plurality of US and European investigative agencies now lean towards the lab leak theory. The circumstantial evidence is huge: proximity, time, the type of research at the lab, the banning of such research in the U.S. by Obama due to its inherent lack of safety, the lab director initially theorizing publicly it came from the lab before the CCP told her to retract, Fauci and others hiding their close relationships with the lab for years and hiding they moved the related research to get around the Obama directive, etc.

* The GF riots were “peaceful”.

January 6th was a day of love dude.

No. It wasn’t! Yet thankfully it was FAR smaller in scope and a single incident, plus immediately and vigorously condemned by ALL sides - left and right, and immediately prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

On the other hand: the massive, widespread, multi-city, deadlier, costlier, GF riots were often termed “peaceful” by the left and not even mentioned at the 2020 Democrat National Convention. One tiny example: several hundred pharmacies were looted in Philadelphia alone in two giant waves, but this was barely mentioned in the national news.

* Extremely adult books in grades schools are appropriate.

talking about gay people are not adult books, and if I'm not mistaken the actual graphic books were not for young kids. Late teens need sex education.

They may have been “not for young kids” but they were definitely in those kids school libraries. Talking about extremely graphic sex to minors isn’t simply “talking about gay people”!

Here’s a challenge. Copy full book quotes from the following article, which were found in books in grade school libraries, and send them to your local PTA:
https://www.newsweek.com/do-th...
Be sure to tell them you want their grade school kids to write an essay about them and report back.
Good luck.

* Hormonal and surgical transitions for children are scientific and moral.

I'm pretty sure surgical transitions for children are not a thing,

Do your research. Children should not be turned into political footballs! Hormonal AND surgical transitions of minors were definitely “a thing”. This was widespread and happened very often. It’s a mistake to assume minors are capable of informed consent for irreversible hormone and surgical procedures.

For the UK, see the UK Tavistock scandal and subsequent extremely thorough nationally funded “Cass Review Report”.

In the U.S. google up “detransitioner” and “WPATH scandal”. Look up the Dallas Children’s hospital transitioning scandal - there were multiple similar scandals. For detransitioners, the names Fox Varian (just won a lawsuit) and especially Chloe Cole come to mind.

For Sweden, see the “U Turn” literature - interestingly, Sweden was among the first to push transitioning of children, among the first to scientifically question it, and among the first to outlaw it nationally.

* The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success.

The timing was thanks to Trump, so he shares a big part of the responsibility

There’s plenty of responsibility to go around, dating back to the initial invasion. But the Afghanistan timing wasn’t really up to Trump as A, he was no longer in charge, and B the agreement had flexible cut-outs based on ongoing evaluations by our military. Biden overruled his own military’s recommendations. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, and CENTCOM Cmdr. Gen. Frank McKenzie all testified that they advised Biden to keep around 2,500 troops there to prevent collapse.

* Restarting Nord Stream 2 and stopping PennEast are helpful actions.

don't know enough

The Nord Stream 2 pipeline was intended to give Putin a way to get more Russian natural gas to Europe while bypassing Ukraine.

Nord Stream 2 construction was green lit by Obama against republican objections, stopped by Trump (pressuring Germany to stop construction, etc), and restarted by Biden. Construction then completed and testing started. Then in Sep 2022, Ukraine (or someone) later blew up BOTH Nordstream 1 and 2

* Refusing to arm Ukrainians is a great idea.
you mean the extortion from Trump ? Or do you mean doing far less than Biden did ?

Obama infamously refused to arm Ukrainians.

Joe Biden also infamously froze money meant for Ukraine until the prosecutor investigating Burisma was fired. He publicly bragged about this. Coincidentally, Burisma was the same company that hired Hunter due to his vast long experience in Slavic NG companies, he definitely was not hired due to his connection to Joe Biden. Mysteriously, Hunter isn’t known to do any NG work today, but is known to have money troubles.

Trump actually armed Ukraine, unlike Obama. The “extortion” was a clumsy attempt to get Ukrainians to investigate deep corruption instead of firing investigators.

Biden then slowed arms shipments for his first 9 months (some of his cabinet members were worried about angering Putin).

When Putin invaded, it was Ukrainian’s using mostly Trump’s Javalin missiles, and other armaments, who ultimately stopped Putin from rolling over the entire country.

Biden then heavily ramped up arms shipments,

* Funding Hamas and Iran is smart.

there was no funding of Hamas and Iran, but now there's about to be, so thanks Trump

Hamas is an Iran proxy. Literally plane loads of cash were sent over to Iran by Obama, and sanctions lifted. In addition Obama distanced from Israel and used Russia as his Iran intermediary. Trump 1 reinstated sanctions plus refused to use Russia as an intermediary. Plus he created the Abraham accords to establish rapprochement between major Middle East nations and Israel, largely based on their mutual distaste for Iran. Biden again removed sanctions on Iran. Trump 2 destroyed Iran’s nuclear and military capabilities.

    * The Houthis should be removed from terrorist watch lists.
just give Trump a little time, he's getting there

Won’t happen. He isn’t as foolish as Biden, nor is his cabinet as foolish as Biden’s.

* Biden is fully mentally competent.

2 things, first there is the apparent decline and the mental decline, you can talk like a very old man and be sharp, or you can talk normally and be mentally diminished, or both. there is no proof he wasn't mentally sharp. Sure he didn't "aced" a cognitive test though. (for the ones in the back, you don't "ace" cognitive tests, there are just to test if you're mentally impaired or not, when there are reasons to think you might be, and spoiler alert, no Trump did not "ace" it)
second, it doesn't matter so much, Biden did put competent people at key posts, as he's supposed to do, Trump's guys are just yes men, which is very dangerous if the president start doing even stupider shit than usual. I know, I know, hard to imagine, but don't underestimate Trump.
Now about Biden running again, that was a mistake, I would have thought they would go through a primary, they should have. Trump might still do much worse though, again, don't underestimate Trump, he might just try to run again if he's still alive.

Under Biden, the country was run by a disparate group of barely cooperating and largely unimpressive cabinet members, many of whom were specifically placed to ensure each “identity” was represented. They uneasily and inefficiently divided power between them. His VP had never won a national election - and just barely won her California election - plus was given minimal real responsibility (supposedly tasked with “closing” the border without much discernible success). It was chaos. The cabinet rarely met and rarely publicly interviewed.

Say what you will, but you will convince few truly intelligent folks that Bessent, Rubio, Vance, Gabbard, Sachs, etc are incompetent or don’t spend many hours of their time with all corners of the press.

* The majority of Black Americans: support defunding, oppose school choice, oppose VoterID, or support illegal immigration.

I don't even know what you mean, but yes police has to be reigned in, voterID is an unnecessary attempt to silent mostly democrat, and illegal immigration, well at least some of it is very helpful to America. More importantly Black Americans, or as Trump would call them, low IQ individuals, would be very stupid to vote for a racists morons.

But Trump! Nice try. Per Gallup, between 75 and 80 percent of Black Americans support Voter ID, support school choice, and oppose defunding their local police. About 50 percent strongly support controlled borders.

* The government isn’t telling social media to suppress dissenting empirically backed information.
I guess you are referring to wild rumors about the covid vaccine, yes you shouldn't spread lies during a national emergency, just calling them "empirically backed" doesn't make them so

No. The supposed “wild rumors” that supposedly absolutely needed censorship included such horrible stuff like “natural immunity was helpful” or “draconian long term lockdowns are self defeating”. There were ALSO some that were obviously political, such as “the laptop wasn’t a Russian plant”, etc. Even The Great Barrington Declaration - an extremely well researched statement by many very prominent scientists - was censored. The Twitter files were truly scandalous, as was mass campaigns to suppress advertising money to outlets on the right. Google and Facebook executives later confirmed their regret over their own censorship. Multiple massive court judgements have been won to hopefully prevent a recurrence.

Absolutely! He’s simply incoherent and angry! I am sure you’ll forgive me for repeating myself, so here, again, is definitive proof that the Truth has a well-known left bias. It’s a Biden-era fact check guide that was carefully constructed by the finest left wing minds to debunk far right media:

* The inflation is minimal and, regardless, is “temporary”.
* The border is secure, and cannot be closed any further without new congressional legislation.
* Judging by identity instead of character is democratic. (The Atlantic has a particularly insightful article about this.)
* Decriminalizing crime and defunding policing are wonderful ideas.
* Violent crime rates haven’t spiked.
* The working class is doing well economically. Low paid non-citizens weren’t responsible for the vast majority of job gains.
* The laptop is a Russian plant and the Steele Report is gospel.
* Smollet was attacked by MAGA.
* The lab leak theory is not at all credible.
* The GF riots were “peaceful”.
* Extremely adult books in grades schools are appropriate.
* Hormonal and surgical transitions for children are scientific and moral.
* The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success.
* Restarting Nord Stream 2 and stopping PennEast are helpful actions.
* Refusing to arm Ukrainians is a great idea.
* Funding Hamas and Iran is smart.
* The Houthis should be removed from terrorist watch lists.
* Biden is fully mentally competent.
* The majority of Black Americans: support defunding, oppose school choice, oppose VoterID, or support illegal immigration.
* It is “fake news” that Kamala was a border czar, donated to free GF rioters, and was rated the most liberal Senator.
* The government isn’t telling social media to suppress dissenting empirically backed information.
* Mississippi is fascist, and isn’t measurably doing a far better job teaching Black American children than progressive California

Now, also, we must be very careful. These far right folks are sneaky. I’ve seen misinformation from far right folks that classically liberal right leaning ideals like blind justice, free speech, decentralized governance, property rights, capitalism, free agency, rule of law, empiricism, falsifiability, judgement by merit, and the sanctity of individual life are NOT actually causes of fascist bigotry, but are empirically proven necessary for a flourishing humane government. Do NOT listen to them! Reality has a left wing bias!

Yep, the last thing the woke, Marxists, whatever they're calling themselves want is for you to know they exist.

Check out the article on Donald Trump. It's absolutely absurd.

Take your blinders off. Stop obsessing with “cope”, “X”, “Russia”, “republicans”, “democrats”, and “Reddit” - do your own research. All of the items I listed are easily proven false. Understanding this is key to making the world a better place. Here’s just a small sample of what’s actually true:

Gallup shows that approximately 75-80 percent of Black Americans actually support Voter ID, support school choice, and oppose defunding their local police.

And Black American Mississippi fourth graders are more than twice as likely as their California counterparts to be reading proficient. Also, per https://oxfordeagle.com/2025/0... :

“Notably, African American, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged Mississippi 4th graders outperform their peers nationally. African American students rank No. 3 in the nation for reading and math scores, Hispanic students rank No. 1 for reading and No. 2 for math, and economically disadvantaged fourth graders rank No. 1 in reading and No. 2 for math.”

Yes. And they got a Pulitzer for hiding the Holodomor.

It’s a hundred year pattern. The NYT was also pretty happy early on with Lenin, Trotsky, Mussolini, Stalin, Spanish Republicans, Mao, Ho Chin Min, Pol Pot (!), Khomenei, Ortega, Chavez, and Putin. Give the NYT a leftist narrative and odds are high that it’ll glaze it.

They’re the “paper of record” after all.

Exactly right brother! Need proof? Just take a look at these Biden era left-approved fact checks:

* The inflation is minimal and, regardless, is “temporary”.
* The border is secure, and cannot be closed any further without new congressional legislation.
* Judging by identity instead of character is democratic. (The Atlantic has a particular insightful article about this.)
* Decriminalizing crime and defunding policing are wonderful ideas.
* Violent crime rates haven’t spiked.
* The working class is doing well economically. Low paid non-citizens weren’t responsible for the vast majority of job gains.
* The laptop is a Russian plant and the Steele Report is gospel.
* Smollet was attacked by MAGA.
* The lab leak theory is not at all credible.
* The GF riots were “peaceful”.
* Extremely adult books in grades schools are appropriate.
* Hormonal and surgical transitions for children are scientific and moral.
* The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success.
* Restarting Nord Stream 2 and stopping PennEast are helpful actions.
* Refusing to arm Ukrainians is a great idea.
* Funding Hamas and Iran is smart.
* The Houthis should be removed from terrorist watch lists.
* Biden is fully mentally competent.
* The majority of Black Americans: support defunding, oppose school choice, oppose VoterID, or support illegal immigration.
* It is “fake news” that Kamala was a border czar, donated to free GF rioters, and was rated the most liberal Senator.
* The government isn’t telling social media to suppress dissenting empirically backed information.
* Mississippi is fascist, and isn’t measurably doing a far better job teaching Black American children than progressive California.

Brilliant!

The anti-trust, the cost, or the market cycle timing are all top issues - but there’s also the rent seeking.

Right now the main obstacle to a massive planned new Micron memory module plant in Syracuse NY is a California non-profit suing to stop construction. Its lawsuits demand further environmental review and a guarantee of “equitable hiring practices”.

The lawsuits strategically started flying this January just as ground was broken, after years of preparation and all NY permits were already approved.

https://www.syracuse.com/micro...

Yes, he turned a leaky reflecting pool that at least reflected into an algae-bloomed waste pool filled with partially-decomposing petrochemical film from using TRUCK BED LINER on a GRANITE SURFACE.

Literally anybody could have told him that wasn't going to work. And as it turns out, two weeks in Virginia summer heat was all it took to make that reality known to literally everyone.

He made it uglier, and more dilapidated than when he found it. Like literally everything else he touches.

But here you are, apologizing for him yet again. Why are you so complacent to such complete incompetence?

You think having a common and predictable operating environment across various system types has no value?

I don't want to have to remember a completely different stack of commands to use in an ephemeral test environment that doesn't work on core infrastructure. That creates "tribal knowledge" silos within organizations, longer onboarding times for engineers to know systems, etc.

One common service scheduler across all systems eliminates that bullshit, which eliminates the need for a "special cabal" of on-call people that have to deal with the bespoke systems that act different from every other damn thing out there.

I could do without them treating it as the "kitchen sink" and putting unrelated crap like DNS resolvers into it. That gets in the way more often than it helps.

So your position is that nothing should ever change because when things go wrong, you want to be anchored in "the days of yore"

No.

Systems get upgraded over time, and when defunct shit from 30 years ago is no longer sufficient for modern systems, that defunct shit gets deprecated and replaced.

Am I saying that systemd is the right fix? No, because I don't have enough information to make a good decision there, but the distro maintainers do and they keep choosing systemd instead of staying with 30 year old stuff that you are demanding.

Nobody chooses to take on all the work to adopt systemd for arbitrary and silly reasons. Adapt or die.

There's one born every minute.

When the commie left agrees with the stupid right, you know it's the worst possible possible idea.

The Model Y surprising confirms the article, albeit for different reasons than most might think. The Model Y:
- is relatively expensive in China compared to other EVs
- is built in China with Chinese sourced parts and labor
- is frequently a best seller within its segment

AND YET is sold at approximately the same price as the American version in the U.S. - within 5 percent or so.

This tells us that its cheaper competition is indeed subsidized, plus perceived as significantly lower quality or at least significantly less capable by savvy Chinese buyers. (It also eats into the myth that lower Chinese labor costs, subsidies, and lower environmental enforcement are insurmountable advantages - advanced manufacturing techniques are leveling the international playing field.)

The "Chamber of Commerce" Republican Party of Mitt Romney is gone, and it's never coming back.

It's time to let go of the nostalgia of conservative-leaning politicians with consistent views and predictable results that also relied upon ethics and morals. None of that exists any more. All of those people either gave up on ethics and morals, retired, or were primaried out.

Anyone that used to believe in the supremacy of individual liberties have turned into "anti-woke" crusaders more interested in having government regulate who you can love, than getting the fuck out of it altogether.

What we have left are just assholes who want to pull up the ladder behind them. They are, for all intents and purposes, 100% descendant from immigrants (with the vast majority of Republicans being white), and want to prevent further immigration.

They are supported by uneducated hayseeds that have been bilked into thinking that everything somehow gets better by government doing less to make things better, not ever getting to the idea that nobody else is going to do anything when government stops trying.

They're big on corporate welfare for the "Too Big To Fail" crowd, but want to take food assistance and health care away from poor people.

They're big on cutting taxes after bitching about spending for 4 years under Biden, and then want to throw 1.5T at the Department of Defense alone.

They. Are. Hypocrites.

They have no moral compass. They have no policy direction outside of "whatever Trump wants." And they are unwilling to perform their Constitutionally-prescribed government oversight to make sure the government follows it's own laws, and is working for We The People, rather than Him The Tyrant.

I also will not accept "bothsides!" arguments here. Yes, there are some shitbag Democrats out there too. No, there are not as many of them, and the ones that get "outed" are quickly shown the door - ask how Eric Swallwell is doing right now as an example. Democrats don't have a unifying tyrant that they all line up to lick the boots of the way the Republican Party does - they have to govern by consensus, which by definition means moderating in order to achieve consensus. And they've shown the ability to conduct actual oversight of the government, even when the president is a member of their party.

Government by consensus will always be better than authoritarianism, because there are release valves if the consensus shifts.