2024

I hope you are wrong. I hope there is enough good people in government to preserve democracy and even hope the media has over blown shitheads dictator dreams. I also think that the best thing we can do is carry on with a positive outlook. Have something snarky and intelligent to say when talking to Trumpers. Yet not insulting if possible. Politely point out the failures as they happen. Remind them we don't hate them even if it's a struggle. And stay positive. If you let them ruin your mood he not only won the election. He won a free spot where your happiness could be.

I'm going to finish my breakfast beer and go back to work and smile and tell everyone to have a nice day though.

100%. I was not suggesting we should roll over and just take it. Absolutely fight like hell! But do it with integrity and a smile!

No one is going to do shit. They know it. They're sitting in rooms having meetings about it.

Prove me wrong then

I watched this movie last night, 'How to Blowup a Pipeline,' about pretty much that. Group of young people who realize that gathering to wave signs, put a bumper sticker on their car, or even knit a hat, though done with good intentions, ain't gonna make a dent. The petroleum industry is perfectly fine with that and prefers it to people taking direct action. So they do what the title suggests with the goal of hitting the oil companies in their pocket, disrupting the flow to impact future profits, and to inspire people to do the same before it's too late and this shit can't be mitigated to some degree more effective than waving a sign will ever do.

I love a good 'No compromise in the defense of Mother Earth' story where those concerned take matters into their own hands instead of hand wringing. Very cathartic and better use of an hour and half than reading or watching the media talk even more about Trump.

I'd like to hope at some point over the next four years there'll be some disgruntled federal employees (whether current or new Trump hires) who consider the following:

There are many examples of physical sabotage in wartime. However, one of the most effective uses of sabotage is against organizations. The OSS manual provides numerous techniques under the title "General Interference with Organizations and Production":

- When possible, refer all matters to committees for "further study and consideration". Attempt to make the committees as large as possible—never fewer than five
- Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
- Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
- In making work assignments, always sign out unimportant jobs first, assign important jobs to inefficient workers with poor machines.
- Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those with the least flaw. Approve other defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye.
- To lower morale, and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.
- Hold meetings when there is more critical work to be done.
- Multiply procedures and clearances involved in issuing instructions, paychecks, and so on. See that multiple people must approve everything where one would do.
- Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside information.

From the section entitled, "General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion" comes the following quintessential simple sabotage advice: "Act stupid."

Hot ass fucking pheonix...

One thing is for sure...

Trump is the baddest mf'ing gangster who has ever lived.

He's got "scoreboard" on The World.