Not that I really want to shill for Wal-Mart, but in light of all these posts on how to stay alive in the face of Republican hard-heartedness….
Gourmia 6 Qt Manual Slow Cooker with 3 Heat Settings, White – Walmart.com https://share.google/b0lOf8hmR864jk22j
Coupla good quotes in here. Here’s one:
«Writing in The Washington Post last week, former Gov. Mitch Daniels, a Republican, urged Indiana lawmakers to resist the push to redistrict. “Someone has to lead in climbing out of the mudhole,” he said.
“Hoosiers, like most Americans, place a high value on fairness and react badly to its naked violation,” he wrote.»
«The president in July touted agreements with Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines as the White House raced to secure as many trade deals as possible before a self-imposed deadline to raise tariffs. But beyond the celebratory social media posts, the White House provided little detail on the terms to lower U.S. duties. The three countries openly disputed some of the things Trump claimed they’d agreed to. And aside from a fact sheet on the Indonesian agreement, the administration has not released further updates in the ensuing months.»
Uh huh.
I’m sensing a pattern.
«“DOGE never really left, it just looks different now,” one of the SAMHSA employees said.»
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/25/hhs-shutdown-layoffs-doge-vought-00620786
Which we kind of already knew, right?
Heard Delta Rae in concert last night. Glad they’re still including this song in their playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/track/17SAOawsquYcePsBHBoP9W?si=PfnJyje1TuuVNV4a4_afYg
«If Kamala were President, we’d be having BRUNCH.»
«“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad,” British energy supplier Octopus CEO Greg Jackson told the newspaper.
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And it’s not just a desire to keep margins low through the automation of human labor.
“China has quite a notable demographic problem but its manufacturing is, generally, quite labor-intensive,” Bismarck Analysis analyst Rian Whitton told The Telegraph. “So in a pre-emptive fashion, they want to automate it as much as possible, not because they expect they’ll be able to get higher margins — that is usually the idea in the West — but to compensate for this population decline and to get a competitive advantage.”»
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/western-executives-shaken-visiting-china
Bear this in mind the next time you see some article talking about population decline in China.
Meanwhile, OrangeManBad et al. just want to go backwards in time, to muscular white men making steel with big hammers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/11/autocracy-resistance-social-movement/684336/
Brooks, with all his words, is probably right; we’re in an emergency.
And *The Bulwark* is generally right.
And all the “formerly conservative” (or whatever they are) are probably right
But here’s the thing: 15 or 20 years ago, when the current moment was building, they were absent. William Buckley, William Safire, all those people, were absent when racists were running racist campaigns. There was just the mildest tut-tutting by them.
And I have seen very few mea culpas from them. Brooks, yeah, maybe. Nobody at The Bulwark, as far as I know. It’s just “how on earth did this come to happen?” No admission that maybe tactical appeals to racism during campaigns brought us here.
I don’t recall any particularly strident warnings about racism from Republican political strategists. It was all Democrats, who, by themselves, were just easy to dismiss as partisan polyannas.
So, yeah, “formerly conservative” (or whatever you want to call yourselves, “never-Trumpers”, whatever) we need your help now.
But history will render its verdict, the same as it did the German politicians in the 1930s who enabled Hitler. We see you. Especially if you revert to your former behavior if and when this crisis passes.
It’s NO FUN.
🙁
(I blame Republicans, btw, along with voters who just don’t give a shit.)
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