Where’s that image from?

After my latest contract gig expired, a friend called me up telling me about a job fair at his company that was interviewing and hiring on the same day. Before this all my engineering jobs were temporary 2 year stints working for major biomedical companies but under job agencies so they can avoid paying benefits and treat people like me as second class citizens. We had different color badges and wouldn’t be welcomed to company parties or have bonuses like the regular employees, it was demoralizing.

I think the Northwest Passage being referred is the Elizabeth Islands which is a geographical choke point not unlike the Strait of Malacca. If the Arctic sea ice fully melts then it’ll be a very important location to control traffic going to and from the Eastern Seaboard. The only way around coming from Russia is to go East of Greenland. Trump wants Canada and Greenland to act as a shield against Russia and to a lesser extent, China.

When you’ve been relying on a free source of defense for decades, it’s attractive to divert investment into something more directly beneficial to the citizenry. Better late than never, at least.

The American entertainment industry’s been on a steep decline these past few years so it’s kind of a problem that solves itself.

Societies being run by brains in a jar still sounds better than our current system.

The saying “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” is apropos to the situation. Voting for him the first time may have been excusable if they didn’t vote for him a second time. They knew damn well the kind of evil he was and still they flocked to him. These idiots will vote for the next Republican to come along because they want tax breaks, or a lazy bigoted scapegoat, or any other selfish reason because they’re unrepentant self serving assholes.

A lot of the things we want run completely counter to their values. Yes we can agree Trump is evil, but what about treating women as more than walking incubators? Or minorities as human? How about increasing taxes on the rich to pay for social services? Can we at the very least all agree that law-abiding undocumented immigrants don’t deserve to be separated from their families and shipped to Guantanamo or be deported shackled in a military plane?

You’re right, we should be like the Democrats who started cozying up to Liz Cheney for conservative Never Trumpers, that strategy worked really well for them. They’re only going to drag us further right with them if we ignore their bad intentions for having voted Trump in the first place. They will still see minorities as something to hate, they’ll still want to tear down the government to “hurt the right people”, and they’ll still hate you.

Right wingers fucking around: “Yeah let’s deport all the ILLEGALS, lower our egg prices, and make the government fascist! MAGA!”

Right Wingers finding out: “Boohoo my benefits are cut, Canada boos at our National Anthem, and I have to sell my left kidney to buy groceries!”

Fuck these people. Conservatives were drawn in to Trump because of his hateful rhetoric and they only changed their minds when they were personally affected. They’ll vote with a hard R the next election cycle anyway and don’t deserve our sympathy. They were around and even voted for Trump’s first administration and wanted more of his hate.