{{sigh}} I went and voted today (because my husband). <<too tired to argue with him and explain why I wasn’t planning too. Anyway, the precinct volunteers always seem to grate on me. They are just sooooo giddy and happy to see people voting. Listen, some of us had a looooong day. I work retail and I get being friendly and chatty. But read the room guys. If you keep repeating your same joke and you see I ain’t laughing, then please just rip off that ballot strip so I can feed my ballot into the feeder and leave. No I don’t want a sticker. Who is paying for those anyway?

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@Malice Your link from USA/Today sparked lots of thoughts about the DSA takeover.

People just don't understand how fucked-up Europe was under Communism. It's impossible to explain how filthy everything was. I remember riding around Budapest on the oh-so-clean electric buses with the overhead mesh that hung between the dirty buildings. It doesn't look that way now. You don't think you're gonna go through the roof of the car when you come off the nicely-paved Austrian street onto the Hungarian one. In fact, you might well miss that you'd even crossed the border; going from Maryland to Pennsylvania across the Mason-Dixon line.

I'm very white-pilled on AI. My experience at Georgetown yesterday reinforced it. https://control-h.org/index.php/2026/08/04/14-8-5/

Also walking through the reax to Pirro dropping the charges on the Reflecting Pool.
Um. Why would Trump fire her for refusing to go on with a case she's going to lose? Yeah, he's probably going to snipe about it for a few ...