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Cake day: September 19th, 2025

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  • I’m also 100% sure if this gets enforced the way the administration is hoping, it will be used to target any political opposition to GOP policies.

    And the targeting will start with MAGA people. You need a certain threshold of people and the right flashpoint to have a revolution. Because DoJ acting against someone “on the right” will incite fewer people to take up arms, it’s almost an anti-flashpoint and one step in normalizing this kind of targeting.

    I mean, James Comey already. Plenty of people who aren’t fascists don’t like Comey, some of them are definitely going to be less enraged by his indictment, even if the indictment is total fascist bullshit.

    Then they’ll haul in some loose cannon MAGA chode who’s gone and “shown hostility to traditional American values” and hold them up as an example of how they’re totally fair, and a bunch of left-leaning people are going to be okay with that, some of them will even cheer it on.

    After that, then we’ll see the Republican party get purged of elected officials who aren’t “loyal” enough, definitely starting with people who are kind of universally hated. (Ted Cruz has been practicing fleeing to Mexico.) The seat will be filled in a “special election” that will certainly require heavy federal oversight to make absolutely sure it’s free and fair. Wink, wink.

    If they feel they can expand control of the House, we’ll have midterm elections. If not, we won’t. Either way, it’ll be after that point that the opposition purge will pick up speed.

    Drip. Drip. Drip.















  • For early EVs, where the battery life is “relatively short” (think 100K miles), yes. But ICE engine life up until about the late 80s was around that, too. Now it’s more like 200K miles before a major engine repair costs more than it’s worth doing. EV batteries are getting to around the same 200K mile threshold, and while the battery replacement will be expensive, it’ll be the same “not wortht the cost, time to buy a new car” that a comparable ICE car would be.