Right. So on one hand we have a gang of undisputable thieves (GOP), on the other hand we have honest but "not half decent" politicians (Dems). Tough choices all around!

Sort of a meta-observation, but consistently folks on the left have that take and then are confused when they lose.

“If only all those idiots on the right and in the center could see they should vote for the bumbling but well-intentioned candidate over the obvious liars and thieves” is an explanation that feels good to tell yourself, but also incredibly patronizing and prevents actually understanding why people vote the way they do.

I find the arrogance of the left pretty abhorrent. I also despise aspects of the right, but boy does the left rub me the wrong way.

If you find the arrogance abhorrent, I wonder how you characterize some of the actually bad stuff that politicians get up to.

Personally, I don't expect people on the right to come around. I am mystified by people on the center who looked at Trump and Harris and decided Trump was the way to go, or even just didn't care. If you'd like to enlighten me why they did that, I'd be interested.

My real confusion is people on the left who did this. They decided that Harris didn't say the right things about Israel, or they were upset at not having a primary, or they were still upset about Bernie, and decided to stay home. That is baffling.

One factor was that Trump was a known quantity.

He already was president for 4 years, which - aside from a lot of crazy talk - was a pretty stable and prosperous time.

OTOH, Harris had no track record to talk about, and hardly impressed anyone in any way.

> already was president for 4 years, which - aside from a lot of crazy talk - was a pretty stable and prosperous time.

you did NOT just write this seriously???! :) I hope you are being as sarcastic as one can be or did you sleep through it. just check how much of the total national debt comes from his first term… it is arguably the least “stable and prosperous” 4 years any American who is alive has ever seen

I think people forget when in the year the election is held and associate 2020 with Biden. Certainly much of that year's craziness was not Trump's fault, but his absolute uselessness was on full display, and he was the guy in charge.

we want Presidents who step up when the shit hits the fan, not take our kids out of schools and lock everyone up in their homes and then add trillions of dollars of debt they will eventually have to pay up.

It is easy to be the President when shit's easy. I don't follow politics at all anymore, stopped right around the time someone like Donald was able to get a nomination for a political party in the United States so this isn't a liberal bashing Donald, these are just facts that he was about as worse of a President in his first four years as we've ever had. The jury is still out for these 4, we'll analyze that in 2029 :)

I would characterize a lot of the behavior of politicians as despicable, antisocial, and un-American.

The short answer to your question is that the Democratic establishment in general and Harris in particular repeatedly lied throughout the Biden administration, culminating in the bald-faced lie that Joe Biden was completely competent. This was done with the attitude of “well what are you going to do? Vote for the other team? Don’t be ridiculous.” There were so, so many other things throughout the Biden administration, it felt (feels) like a race to the bottom.

So Trump, who is notorious for lying, won. To be fair to Republicans, Trumps lies are more like crazy exaggerations sprinkled with outright bullshit which somehow is more palatable than being gaslit.

If the defense of the Democrats is “Well look at how bad Trump is!” it should at least be acknowledged that is one of the worst defenses possible. And in general, if my options are to be stabbed by person A twice, or by person B once but person B expects me to be grateful, I might just go with person A.

The end result is we will keep toggling between the two parties until one of them decides to run using sane people. I sincerely hope that will be the Democrats this year.

Befuddlement at the choices of the American voters is not a defense of Democrats. They could do so much better. But even with the choices we have, I don't understand how people come to the conclusions they do.

Prices will keep increasing, as US consumer spending was resilient in 2025 and kept going up irrespective of tariffs. Consumers can be charged even more than previously assumed.

But I was certain that now that the tariffs were overturned the merchants would voluntarily lower their prices to pre-tariff level and not just hope the consumer doesn't notice that the only direction prices go is up.

Ooooh, if freedom.gov helped bypass copyrights on sports and streaming websites, that would be fantastic!

True American freedom requires free NFL for all

> Pushing European and global "allies" to show their cards. Some citizens will support more censorship, while some will start questioning. It's good to know where your rivals stand.

I don't think European countries have been shy or sneaky about their restrictions on online content.

That's a good point.

Have you tried OAN or Fox News?

Many many such negative opinions.

The only difference between channels is which government official is criticized.

I expect data center electrical design to go modular and maintainable in a completely automated way.

It is for the wealthy. And nobody cares what the economy is like for everyone else.

Ah, but we are now in deeply puritanical territory. There is a haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be enjoying the use of AI to create code.

I have yet to see a native email client that offers search as fast and as capable as Gmail

Searcv in Gnome evolution is super fast

Singularity has arrived for software developers, since they cannot keep up with coding bots anymore.