Hi. Back in the late 1800s (feels like) I was here on Daily Kos as Fishgrease. I won Rant of the Year back in um... 2010? I think? I wrote stuff here that was quoted by William Gibson.
When signing up this time I left out the "g" in Fishgrease. Because I'm old. Like Joe Biden. Also I've never been accused of being ostentatiously competent. Like Joe Biden. Most recently I've been writing on TPM. What I saw there in the last week were the same swallow-a-camel fissures I'm seeing develop here.
I'm here to tell you not to worry about that.
See, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo transcended mere 'blog' status back when Pentium Pros were considered uselessly fast processors. These outfits have become full blown, impossible-to-kill Progressive Institutions. Flood them with DDT…
(dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane -- Markos knows what it is -- he was in the U.S. Army back when you sprayed half a can of this shit on your cot before you piled in for a couple hours sleep)
... and they'll drink it up and spit it back at you. I mean, you know, be nice every chance you get, motherfuckers, but don't worry about these two places being taken over by whatever insects are squirming shallow beneath the skin on Donald Trump's face (I'm pretty sure he was infected while in close proximity to Sheldon Adelson).
This is just a stress test. Not like the phony, impossible-to-fail stress tests they occasionally one-pass over the U.S. and International Banking Systems. This is the genuine article. This thing has teeth. But we will be fine. Way beyond fine, we are going to kick ass and take names. If our Presidential candidate is Joe Biden, we will surely kick ass and take names. If our Presidential candidate is Kamala Harris, we will just as surely kick ass and take names. Any other Democrat other than Joe Biden or Kamala Harris... hey... I'm willing to listen but prepare to watch me fidget and eventually make move-it-along signals with my hands.
Anyfucking way, it feels nice to be back. Let the YAAAYs and WOOOTs commence amongst the olds!
Not certain how long I'll be here this time, but I'm never certain of that. My son is an AI engineer and just as soon as he tells me it's relatively safe to upload, I'm gone. I might pop back up as some ninth-dimensional-screened version of Max Headroom but that's not something I'm planning on. He lied. Marginally better looking than Max Headroom but not as cool as Max Headroom. Because lets face it nothing is as cool as Max Headroom.
(anyone capable, feel free to reformat these crap paragraphs -- I'll pay you -- he lied)