Not great that every time I hear a helicopter hovering now I have to wonder if it’s because someone needs a water rescue or if the government is kidnapping a neighbor.
What gets me is the one thing that could launch a full scale national protest movement is Trump attempting to rig an election, so the entire goal of the next year should be to force his hand by making such an attempt undeniable.
Hard not to see parallels to the early stages of what is going on in the US, but what struck me was that when mothers of the disappeared had the courage to protest together, the junta first instinct was to make fun of them and call them crazy.
Getting a Board request for information in a very specific format is fun now because I know they are not going to read it and just put it through some LLM for analysis
It’ll never stop amazing me that the stock market is valuing “old man responds to negative stimuli” but not “old man is clearly unhinged and unwell and may stop responding to negative stimuli.”
The most dangerous dynamic in US politics right now is the power struggle behind the scenes between the factions of Vance and Miller as Trump declines.