Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

Only it ends badly because the whales don’t want to talk about it any more. Or can’t talk about it because they’ve been cooked to death.

This is the right meme for the class war.

It’s doubtful his health will fold out through this term.

Yes.

The 1950s created the middle class and boomed with prosperity for working class because of government subsidies to the working class. Never before had this occurred in America. Always, prior, it was the industry/corporate class who were supported, and, drum roll, tariffs.

Then, Reagan flipped the script in the 80s, saying greater efficiency in that prosperity could only happen if we subsidized the corporate/industry class again. And this trickle down economics was born. And never rolled back by DEMs.

This legacy of corporate subsidy began to squeeze hard -2015, theb exponentially in 2020 and beyond.

This was not felt much in the 90s. It’s important to realize the lack of immediacy to any of this on the timeline. Including the Trump fallout. He’ll likely be dead of his medical issues and old age before his damage really hits.

To be fair, the Biden admin did start to roll back a bit of Reagan but 4yrs is never enough time.

All the good with the FCC, for example, including making internet a necessary utility, like electricity, was wiped, with Trump. Consumer protections roll up, rolled back, with Trump. Attempts to undo trumps education secretary damage in the first term, fouled by Congress, and rolled back entirely by trump. Oh. And tariffs are back. So taxes on everyone at the grocery store and beyond. We can’t even get free shipping on cheap items any more, he removed that too.

What’s great is full fruition of his damage will still move slowly such that it will only really be felt in full after 4-6yrs.

The fact that billionaires even exist now shows how absolutely wrong Reagan was with trickle down.

A middle class cannot exist organically in capitalism. Capitalism needs to be tempered by regulation and subsidies to working class or we end up here.

The manipulation is reliant on people who back away from confrontation and simply pay. As such, this will likely continue going forward. As long as they gather more money than what they paid for the system.

It’s like the adventurer party that shows up at your keep in NWN1, looking for work.

How is progress on the Crazy Horse monument? I’ve swung by once a decade since I was a teen, but it’s been 11yrs since my last visit.

Nah. I think he did it and was on his way to the next one, stopping at McDonalds instead of Starbucks this time. I don’t think he’s insane. I think he’s just “crazy enough” to do what he did, in the same vein as all those 20-somethings engaged in the American Revolution all of whom pushed past that internal barrier.

People forget most of the famous names of the time were 20s & 30s, with a few “old” guys, like Washington, in their early 40s, likely lending a paternal endorsement to the whole thing.

By the patterns of history, a dam could’ve broken with Luigi, but it didn’t and likely won’t going forward, or it would have already. That ignition point has passed.

This is like Paul Revere getting arrested on the way and everyone just kinda going “ok”, and then watching a cat video or going back to, idk, what are the kids playing these days? Minecraft? Roblox?

So how does that work? You’re in a court of law, which makes that an oath, right? Correct me if I’m wrong. Yet juries can render any judgement, including jury nullification, and it’s all legal.

Given the nature of this administration, and the level of mutual gratification occurring between billionaires, CEOs, and this administration, I would not be surprised if they try to break jury immunity in the event of a Luigi verdict that involves jury nullification or innocence.

That and Luigi’s fate likely rests in the same place as all the whistle blowers of 2024. Bill Burr is right. Corporations are the new mafia, they’re simply backed by the law this time.

I only read the headline on that one.

Microsoft is now, essentially, a bag of dicks.

The Trump dictated FCC that could hold up or stop the merger if they didn’t pay $16 mill and fire Colbert? That CBS?

Reading these incredible comments has revealed a large piece of what was named as the reason for lemm.ee shutting down.

This is a safety feature of women social groups for time immemorial. It’s a piece of how we survived prior to the last 50 years, and it continued as we moved forward into the era of liberation. We talk to each other.

I realize the “guy code” is one of silence. Cheating? Bros won’t say anything or warn anyone, by this code. In fact, the opposite is demanded by that code. Woman do the opposite, that is how the woman code works. I’ve witnessed fallout in friend groups when these diametrically opposed codes meet on regards to another friend. Apparently, having lunch with the cheated on woman and letting her know what is happening is applauded by women and enraging to men.

The piece regarding cheating is about integrity and treating people right in addition to safety. The rest of it is usually just about safety.

We survived millennia between being treated like prized horses. uteruses/vaginas with life support systems attached, and animals to be beaten, by talking to each other. Warning each other. Helping each other, where able.

The anger here, from you, is 100% expected, but the ordinary nature of that anger doesn’t make women wrong for exposing safety concerns in the dating pool. Given the myriad of diseases, including the incredible comeback of syphilis the last couple years, cheating is also a safety concern. Cheating should be exposed, always.

Why is everything we do, when we band together, seen as suspect and dangerous?

I’m old, so I’m more familiar with before me too than after. I believe a piece of what she is trying to say is the doubt that permeates any initial accusation. Doubt was the standard approach to any mention of rape or assault for decades.

Back in college, in the 90s, a good friend was followed home from a party. She made it home, thought she was safe. While she was showering in her basement (house) apartment, she looked up to see hands and a nose pressed to the frosted glass of the window, trying to see in. She called the police. A pair of cops showed up and the first thing they asked wasn’t: are you ok. Or. Did you get a good look at the guy. No. They asked her if she’d been drinking tonight. Then: Well, what were you wearing when you walked home from this party?

Footprints and knee prints in the dirt consistent with someone tramping into the flower bed to kneel down by her bathroom window. Hand prints and a nose grease smear on the glass. No attempt to investigate further. Chastised to drink less. She was not drunk, yet this was the takeaway message of that encounter instead of her safety. Encounters like these regarding the sexual safety of women were so common in the 90s.

The salient point here is this post likely is not about flipping the innocent until proven guilty narrative. This is about the preliminary circumstances that would lead into a case and taking the woman’s safety seriously instead of ignoring perpetrators who leave evidence behind.

If no one listens to you or takes you seriously, or avoids asking the relevant questions, that is a problem. Worse it’s a problem that was the status quo for decades.

So, when OP says maybe we should listen to trumps accusers that’s what it likely means. To listen. Not to flip the innocent until proven guilty narrative.

The network was talking about signing Colbert again for next year in May.

I’m here for the high quality content of tenforward, and some comics, but I was distracted by politics.

It’s a joke.

Someone needs to make Trump a Make the Epstein Files Great Again hat. Flood the White House with them.