The word you're looking for is Kakistocracy.

Sure, everyone like Dow, but he's kind of dropped the ball on Metro funding this past decade. Style over substance.

The fleecing of America has begun. Trump was right about one thing; you're not going to have a country anymore. We're serving it on a silver platter to the global fascist fossil fuel oligarchy. Americans' tax dollars will be siphoned to enrich the global elite. Russia has engaged in a war against public health, national security, and our very way of life in order to revive the worst tendencies of human nature. All philosophy, history, and good science is not exchanged for skin-deep identity politics and demagoguery. This will not be over quickly. We will not enjoy this.

https://youtu.be/-TUkxrrDiUc?feature=shared

is now exchanged*

"He also promised to end youth detention and close the child jail, which he’s kind of skipping out on."
He failed at this because he aimed too low -- we will accept nothing less than candidates who promises to eliminate the Root Causes of violence, once and for all. Shouldn't take longer than a year or two to accomplish.

I could be wrong, but I suspect Nathalie got a desperate call this morning from Viv or Hannah to do Slog AM.

"Hell is empty and the devils are here: A Michigan community theater put on a production of 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' Several Nazis gathered outside waving swastika flags and shouting racist and antisemitic slurs."

Jesus.

now Everyone
wants to be in djt's Cabinet.
Expect this to Multiply like sex-crazed vermin.

@5

it's easier
to just say
it's too fuck-
ing Late by now:
the 'American Dream' has
become the Nightmare on Main St.

so just Get
Over it.
thnxs!

did Constantine actually PROMISE end youth detention and close "child jail", or did he say he'd look at it, it was a good goal, blah blah? You know, prevaricate like a good politician should when confronted with absurd idealist demands?

what's next for him - take over for Patty Murray? Ferguson's got the Gubnerz office locked up for a good while.

I'm glad Trump is giving First Lady Elon Musk something important to do.

when Elon gets too
Big for his Britches
etrumpfster'll have
him shipped off to
Mars. there's only
Room for ONE
Mister Big and
djt's got an
Article II.

8 according to a bunch of articles I found when I googled his name and youth jail it’s explicitly clear that he promised to do it and was actively working on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUTS5zWVtSQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvVSG0V41g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLan0PQjlkg

Confederacy of Dunces it is then, except the person they are all gathered around is also a dunce? An unruly puppet at the very least.

@8 He promised to close the facility in June 2020 during his state of the county speech. It was a foolish promise to make and as has been noted the entire council has now backed away from that commitment including Girmay. When you have things like this (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/teens-flee-police-then-crash-killing-3-homeless-people-in-everett) the idea that you can eliminate the need for a youth detention facility is clearly not realistic.

The good thing about Jack Smith resigning before he gets fired is that he can write up reports before he's canned. At least it'll be in the historical record, not that it will slow Trump down. I'm not optimistic that it will actually /change/ anything mind you, just that we'll know for the future.

Biden is a cross breed between a wet blanket and a doormat.

@16: That's not being very charitable to the Trump sandwich president.

The country has bigger problems than a fucking youth jail.

@16. He's being too charitable to Trump. When they go low, we go high? No, Biden enables everyone who negotiates with him in bad faith. Like Charlie Brown trying to punt the football, he never learns.

I was joking with friends that Trump would nominate Janine Pirro for AG. It's worse than that, he just nominated Matt Gaetz!

I wonder if the TS will finally kick their zombie Twitter habit (1 million plus has joined Bluesky since election night)?

@19
I concur.
dfg wouldda
had smokin' Joe
executed, but Joe's
happy just to get the
Fuck outta there. he Missed
his Pull-date by about 1.5 yrs

& likely cost us The Election.
couldda had Better Legacy
mr President! + Statues!

@21
Bluesky.
hmmm ~ you don't Say

will MUX buy it? get
a Buzz and end
up Owning it?

@21 Maybe Nathalie saw the article this morning about The Guardian not posting on x.com. I hope it's the beginning of the end of x.com here on SLOG

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x

@20 Janine's intravenous boxwine did not pass Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy's budget survey

For now twitter is still the best source for fast news because all the reporters and legacy media outlets are still there, but now that people seem to have agreed on Bluesky as the new microblog social app, it’s only a matter of time before the media catches on and Twitter will become an even sadder, angrier husk of its former self. Musk’s nazification is almost complete but he got the president he wanted so I suppose it was worth $44 billion dollars only to burn it all to the ground.

@25
plenty More
where that pittance
came from. our 1st Trillionaire

should he
Survive
tng.

where tf's
Sean Connery
When we NEED him?

@15, Judging by the evidence of the historical and archeological record, what makes you think this knowledge will change future decisions by humanity? Rinse, wash, repeat.

28 your failure to understand literally everything you read should be studied in a lab

@24: I imagine she goes for the rosés. So convenient for her.

@25 all the MAGAs are already on the ironically named "Truth Social," if all the libs go to Bluesky the echo chamber-ification of social media will be complete. The only question (for me at least) will be which app has the breaking sports news.

@15 - time for some SERIOUS leaks. Reports, the investigation files, evidence, etc. could easily fall out of a briefcase somewhere. It'd be a damn shame, but hey, shit happens. And the House report on AG-nominee Quagmire should be next.

Who knows - if the kompromat pix that Fat Donald has on half of Congress get leaked, maybe they will lose their incentive to go along with him? Sure, the photos of Lindsey doing whatever he does for fun (live boy? dead girl?) will be nauseating but once its out he's a free man (unless, of course, the boy or corpse is underage).