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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • You’re making a very big leap in assuming I don’t condemn the Democrats and their attempt to convince voters everything is fine.

    They’re a party led by geriatric, upper-class rulers. No shit, their doubling down on “the economy is fine” didn’t work—they don’t understand or care to understand what the people want. All they care about is what their corporate donors pay them to care about.

    The failings of the Democrat Party don’t absolve rural conservatives and undereducated voters of their part in this, though. The literal definition of economy is the wealth and resources of a country as a whole. The economy was doing fine because we had our lovely billionaires and mega corporations consolidating all the wealth and skewing that number while the average person was under growing financial pressure.

    The problem was—and still is—the wealth disparity. We have multimillionaires and billionaires absorbing more and more money from the 99% while paying a pittance back towards helping the people they’re screwing. They get to dodge taxes by reinvesting their profits into assets they own, hoard resources, and act with impunity.

    A voter base that took the time to understand what they were asking for would have seen straight through Trump’s sensationalist bullshit, not barreled straight into it. It should have been obvious that he wasn’t going to fix wealth disparity. He associates himself with the billionaires, he sees himself as one of them, and he wants to keep it that way. He doesn’t give a single shit about wealth disparity, let alone ever acknowledge it as the problem. Instead, he won his campaign on vague promises about a word that means something completely different to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that cast their ballot for him.



  • The economy wasn’t “doing fine” for more than half the population.

    People who think like that are the reason Trump got elected.

    the economy ≠ standard of living

    The problem was purchasing power, wages, and inflation. People’s standard of living was suffering, but the “economy” wasn’t. Conflating the two is why Trump’s stupid rhetoric resonated so much with the uneducated Magats that voted him in: they thought he was promising to fix their standard of living, while the reality was that he was promising to “fix” something that wasn’t broken.



  • Between EmuDeck and RetroDECK and having used both, I 100% prefer RetroDECK these days. It’s a single Flatpak install, it Just Works™ out of the box, and it doesn’t clutter my system with random crap sprawled everywhere. I also appreciate that it has a Steam Input template providing a way to do basically everything emulator-related that I could’ve ever wanted.

    Major props to the team behind RetroDECK and the excellent work they’re doing. The future is looking bright, and I can’t wait to see what’s in store!



  • Tomorrow:

    ACTIVIST judges HATE America! The Democrats, corrupt Hillary, they call it “checks and balances”. LIES. Checks and balances are NOT politics. Checks and balances are MONEY. The founding fathers, they told me themselves. “Mr. President, make big checks and tremendous balances. We made America great. You make the best deals, make it great again.” CANCEL the FRAUD checks and cut Democrat balances! America writes the checks! Stop the ILLEGAL DEI spending!

    Edit: Attempt 2

    ACTIVIST judges HATE America! The Democrats, NASTY WOMAN HILLARY. They call it “checks and balances”. LIES. It’s not politics, it’s MONEY. Big checks. The biggest, even. These things, they make the BEST nation in the world. Tremendous balances, That’s why America is great. The greatest, even. The founding fathers, they wanted it that way: the BIGGEST economy. They told me themselves, you know. “President Trump, make big checks and tremendous balances. You make the BEST deals.” They’re right. Nobody makes deals like I do. Tariffs, they’re fixing things. CUSMA, what a BAD deal. TERRIBLE. This is why you don’t elect DEMOCRATS. They get ripped off, they want to give AMERICAN money to TERRORISTS. I’m fixing it, you know. China, China. They’re begging me “Mr. Trump, we need your business.” We’re making a deal. The BEST deal in the history of deals. But the Democrats, they want to stop it. Try to make ILLEGAL deals behind America’s back. Terrible deals. Truly BAD deals. Anti-American DEI spending. And they got away with it under BIDEN. NO MORE. CANCEL the FRAUD checks and cut Democrat balances! America writes the checks! Stop the ILLEGAL DEI spending!