asRomeBurns1979

Weirdly what we need is for Trump to not pop his clogs before ‘28. He is the best example to floating voters of the realities of a Reform government. I worry that President Vance would be shrewd enough to roll back the tariffs and encourage the billionaires to throw enough handouts at the economy to make people forget about Ice.

Good shout 😂 Wonder where I got that from.

I work at a FTSE 100 in London. My black colleagues reaction to the pushback on DEI from the right has just been so depressing. They’re not remotely surprised and seemed to have suspected that this ill will was there all along. The west really was just putting makeup on a dog all these years wasn’t it.

I love EQD pedals, the Avalanche Run being my staple Reverb/Delay for almost a decade now. Tariffs suck but I do wonder if a lot of this is down to the boutique pedal industry getting greedy and people moving to modellers as a result. The gazillion dollar pedalboard kind of had its time and in an economy where disposable income has tanked, paying $250+ for a slightly tweaked clone is less appealing. I really hope they survive though, great company and lovely dudes.

I love EQD pedals, the Avalanche Run being my staple Reverb/Delay for almost a decade now. Tariffs suck but I do wonder if a lot of this is down to the boutique pedal industry getting greedy and people moving to modellers as a result. The gazillion dollar pedalboard kind of had its time and in an economy where disposable income has tanked, paying $250+ for a slightly tweaked clone is less appealing. I really hope they survive though, great company and lovely dudes.

The pedalboard equivalent of a Kerry Catona Iceland buffet advert.

Indistinguishable knock off Louis Vuitton bags are everywhere. I think it’s good that the brand who did the R&D is still around and it’s good that entry to those tones has been democratised with Chinese clones. There’s room for both as long as Boss gets the credit.

That holding onto a grudge from childhood and refusing to forgive is a sign of weakness.

You’re joking but this isn’t far from the truth. Self destructive behaviours wiping out species not clever enough to change their behaviour is as old as the earth.

This era of American politics will be studied for centuries. Like the fall of Rome. I’m sure that after he’s gone the truth will come out about who was really driving. His coddling of Russia in the context of Republican history is the biggest red flag. Especially when you take into account his penchant for money (bitcoin rug pull, Qatari Force One etc etc)

What is it the kids say? ‘Cope.’ Just like us in the UK after Brexit, you need to just face up to who you really are as a country. You re-elected Trump in free and fair elections after Jan 6th and Georgia. We voted to leave the strongest most influential trading block in the world because we’re idiots. Face it, accept it, start to fight it.

‘Why don’t you stop us?’ After decades of the US using its financial might to tip the economic and political scales in its favour on basically every front. You’ve relentlessly stripped power from even your closest allies and now you’re whining about the results when they don’t work in your favour. Happy to pursue war and regime change in foreign countries or prop up genocidal lunatics, at the expense of civilian casualties. Just too cowardly to do it in your own country when the risk is yours. ‘Why don’t you stop us?’ You couldn’t write it. Unless you’re American.

I mean if you’re a pro-gun, pro-life, capitalist evangelical who wants less immigration - not voting is the best we can hope for.

‘Oh it’s ok, they’ll still do it for the of it despite being poor, I’ll still get my music.’

This sums up modern society so well. I don’t even think it’s ill intentioned, just that the Epstein class has convinced us that individualism is ok. Conveniently.

I was watching the new David Attenborough show here in the UK Kingdom and I realised that all the orchestral work that is done to align with moments on screen will probably be AI soon. The tech is defo there already and it’s an easy way to cut budget. A shame.

Thanks for the chuckle this morning internet stranger.

We are territorial animals. Creating a shared enemy for your tribe/pack/herd etc to fear/hate works better than anything, even to the extent you will turn a blind eye to your sides leaders blatant incompetence and corruption. He might be shit, but he’s our shit. We did the same thing when Biden was a gibbering doddery oap, and Labour are doing it now in the UK despite Starmer and Co governing from the sodding right.

I think she’s cleverer than most people give her credit for because she’s also batshit. The MAGA movement is going to eat itself as the reality of Trumps policies ramp up and polling tanks. She is distancing herself early so she looks like she was right all along when the bullshit excuses run out. She’s being cordial and making sure not to look opportunist but I guarantee you in 2027 she will start saying the ideas aren’t wrong, just the implementation. She will run on cutting aid to Israel, pulling out of Venezuela and retaining ICE but with some optics only ‘humanitarian’ guidelines.

She might be bonkers but she’s shrewd and seen the way the winds blowing. She’s going to do a Liz Truss and position herself as the ‘sensible’ option for change in the MAGA movement, when Trump either pops his clogs or the Epstein Files drop.

I would have thought cunning is a form of intelligence? Using strategy and planning to apply knowledge? I’m intrigued, will have a look. Cheers. I just think people are desperate to pretend Musk is stupid because he’s turned out to be a nasty piece of work. They want to strip him of his intelligence as a way of getting back at him. I can’t take people seriously who think he’s stupid. Tesla and Space X. Come on.