What’s wrong with being “performative?”

In this context it means a politician who makes extravagant promises then doesn’t fulfill them. Someone like Barack Obama. It’s just absurd given Mamdani’s diligence so far as mayor.

Same. My TV is a second monitor and really only gets use during football season. Who wants to watch TV in real time anymore anyway?

It’s been wild watching these do-nothing centrist bastards criticize him as a ‘performative’ politician, when just in this short period he’s been in power, he’s delivering on promises and finding practical solutions for things previously thought impossible, like efficient snow removal (and his plan for that was also employed something like 30,000 people temporarily, insane) and a targeted tax on the billionaires.

I am very glad to have been wrong about Mamdani. I thought it was more likely he would go mask off and be another Obama.

Planned obsolescence is one of those things that just infuriates me so much about capitalism.

I think my LGTV predates a lot of this, thankfully. I’ve had it since 2020, but there are still several settings (like ‘ad personalization’) that I have turned off, and I never connect it to the Internet on purpose.

This has always been a thing, and we know it definitively from the Epstein files, as several of the declassified emails show that Epstein met with heads of state to discuss how to maximize their own timing of anticipated market events, like the 2008 crash.

Prediction markets and Donald’s own corruption have just made it a publicly normalized thing.

Oh I am.

Donald’s candidates have lost every election in 2025 and 2026, most by double digits, in both red and blue states. The majority of these losses occurred in districts he won by double digits in 2024.

And he’s doubling down on unpopular governance.

He’s so unpopular they can’t even gerrymander because they can’t adequately project where it will help them.

Don’t forget about the primaries!

Maybe that’ll work locally, but Dems rig their national primaries.

My local protest had, easily, twice the turnout as June.

And a lot of Republicans were there. November is going to be a bloodbath for the red party. (Just wish it were possible to elect actual progressive Dems.)