収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

Honestly I could just keep reposting this over and over again:

I do note that the fact he felt it necessary to go back over and over again to the rawest of red-meat hate-mongering – taking so many dives into the blood pool – implies to me that he is aware of how hated so much of his agenda is, even amongst his supporters. Some of them are starting to recognise that it’s real.

All those booing crowds at those Republican town halls are having a real effect. Keep it up. Be aware that the more successful we are, the more he’ll lash out at queers in general and trans people in particular – he’s picked up Putin’s hate for the queer community in its entirety, and will do his best to use it as a whip to keep his cult in full froth.

Fun fact: Ever wondered by Putin hates “LGBT” so much? It’s because Russian queers – with their underground communication networks back in the Soviet Union – were critical in stopping the hardline coup d’etat against Gorbachev. They kept communications open where no one else could. That coup attempt – and more, its failure – ended the USSR. Putin was on the side of the coup, and has had a special burning hatred for LGBT people ever since.

In obviously unrelated news, I finally checked a box off my to-do list and have an amateur radio license. I’m KK7ZLU and my cheap low-power starter radio should arrive next week. If you’ve ever considered doing the same, the test is pretty easy, the ARRL Ham Radio License Manual is affordable, or you can use this online study guide for free instead if you prefer. You can even practice the exam as many times as you like online, but don’t just memorise answers, that’s silly.

Starter radios are cheap these days too. You can buy functional if very basic 4W portable transceivers like the Baofeng UV-5R for literally $20 on places like eBay. (eta: or the slightly higher-power GT-5R for almost the same price, see comments.) If you still have an old license but haven’t had a transmitter in ages, maybe it’s time to pick one up.

I mean, it’s frankly amazing how little you have to spend for all this kind of thing at the moment. I expect it’d be pretty useful in an emergency. Particularly with the Asset and his puppetmaster dismantling disaster response.

Just a thought.

But regardless – yeah, his whole agenda is incredibly unpopular, and the more people face up to what it actually is, the more people hate it. It may sound like 44% of people reacting very positively to his SOTU speech is incredibly high, and very bad news, but somehow, according to the reporting on it from this morning, it’s literally the worst number for a first-year SOTU in polling history. It’s the first time anybody’s been below 50% on this metric. Yes, that includes Joe Biden.

So when you hear people quoting that (or the other number, which is higher), keep in mind: they’re both the worst numbers in the history of this kind of poll. Americans like first SOTUs for some reason, even when they’re horrific, and despite everything, most people still have no idea what he’s been doing. They’ve ignored it all.

Brave hearts, folks. It’s gonna be a long and bumpy ride – but not just for us. He’s feeling the shocks, too.

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