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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 04:38:06 AM EST
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Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m.

If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? While you are thinking, I'll give my answer: Anytime before January 20, 2025, when our country began its downward spiral away from democracy and into authoritarian madness with a Manichaeistic despot at the helm, who appears more often than not to me to either be loony-tunes batsh*t delusional, or so narcissistic that he thinks he owns the world.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    He's definitely going to want one (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 03:50:08 PM EST

    While the American leader touched down in a dated Air Force One, the French PM outclassed him by arriving in the mighty Concorde flying at Mach 2 and 60,000 feet.

    Double post? (none / 0) (#1)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 09:30:46 AM EST
    I forgot anyway.

    Yes, I just deleted the second one (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 10:29:30 AM EST
    Glad you noticed.

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    What G-man said (none / 0) (#3)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 11:56:17 AM EST
    "The rules of the game have changed. Now, we have to rewrite the new rules."

    -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), quoted by NBC News.

    Newsom (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by Ga6thDem on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 12:53:47 PM EST
    has really shown leadership through all this along with Pritzker.

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    I want a politician (5.00 / 2) (#5)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 01:08:01 PM EST
    A president, who is going to say we gotta fix this.   We gotta pass a bunch of laws to make these easily avoided so called NORMS into laws.

    There needs to be a wave of post Watergate type laws to stop this from ever happening again.

    I think many want that and I think the person who frames that best is going to be the next nominee.

    I like Pritzker but Newsome is doing it right now.

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    I agree. (none / 0) (#9)
    by Ga6thDem on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 03:02:25 PM EST
    And I think a bunch is going to be needed. I doubt the ballroom will be finished by 2029 but even if it is it needs to be destroyed.

    This nonsense of being under US law and having no representation needs to end. Statehood for PR and DC and maybe even Guam. Supreme court expanded to 13. Take districting for congressional seats out of the hands of the state legislatures. End the electoral college albeit a harder one there. Get rid of Citizen's United. And I'm sure there are more that I cannot think of right now.

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    Foundational to (none / 0) (#12)
    by KeysDan on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 05:04:40 PM EST
    the fix is reform of the Supreme Court (expansion and other changes), without which efforts for de-MAGAtization and de-fascistization will be thwarted.

    If the Grand Ballroom is not to be demolished, it should be given over for use by Planned Parenthood and a clinic for gender-affirming therapy.

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    I want someone (none / 0) (#15)
    by Militarytracy on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 12:42:14 PM EST
    Who's going to go medevil FDR!

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    Nigeria = distraction (none / 0) (#6)
    by desertswine on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 01:27:53 PM EST
    Look over there, not over here.

    The overt privileging (5.00 / 1) (#7)
    by Peter G on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 02:13:13 PM EST
    of conservative Christianity over other religious groups by members of this Administration is frankly shocking in its blatant unconstitutionality.

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    What does (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 02:51:27 PM EST
    a 4 rating mean?

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    To me? It is disagreement with one point (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by Peter G on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 03:53:38 PM EST
    in an otherwise excellent comment.

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    Distractions (none / 0) (#13)
    by KeysDan on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 05:18:38 PM EST
    from the distractions--trying to keep all the plates spinning. and doing double duty..  Venezuela has oil. Nigeria has oil. Venezuela breaking bad with  drugs in fishing boats --blow them up.  Nigeria persecuting Christians, blow them up, catnip for the Evangelical base.  And, all that oil.

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    Also --making a new immigration policy that (5.00 / 2) (#14)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Nov 02, 2025 at 08:59:07 PM EST
    favors Christians in South Africa, who happen to be white.

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    Did any of them even (none / 0) (#16)
    by Militarytracy on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 12:44:25 PM EST
    Stay that showed up in the first dump? I read that some weren't all that impressed with our country and returned to South Africa a few months back.

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    Well (none / 0) (#17)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 03:24:12 PM EST
    it's not like we're running over with job opportunities these days. They dumped all those people here without even checking to see if their skills matched any needs. I had thought they were going to be farmers? But farming is a mess these days.

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    So I was reading this thing about (none / 0) (#18)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 06:56:17 PM EST
    how Paramount+ was going to assimilate HBO and there was is interesting bit.  Interesting if you have been following the news about the "news" at CBS.

     

    A particularly intriguing element involves news operations. Warner Bros. Discovery's CNN could tap into resources from Paramount-owned CBS News, enabling shared reporting assets, bureaus, and talent pools. This synergy might amplify coverage capabilities, blending CNN's global breaking-news prowess with CBS's deep domestic journalism bench. While no formal restructuring details have emerged, the setup could yield cost savings and enhanced storytelling, though it raises eyebrows about editorial independence in an era of media convergence.

    They make it sound so positive..

    Might be time to switch to MSNOW.

    Link (none / 0) (#19)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 07:13:52 PM EST

    The End of HBO Max? Paramount Wants to Merger The Service Into Paramount+ Putting an End to HBO Max



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    I don't know what to think Capt (none / 0) (#20)
    by Militarytracy on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 09:58:08 PM EST
    HBO has been groundbreaking since I was a teenager. I think all these conglomerates owned by specific oligarchy will actually end up leading to stunted creativity and anemic products.

    I think the wealthy fear the free  expression of our feelings and storytelling as they now begin to squeeze us.

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