Castle Magus

"On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission will vote to restore net neutrality rules years after the agency voted to repeal them."

Sure, that's great and all, for now, but it'll last only right up until Trump becomes POTUS again, at which point he'll kill it deader than dogshit yet again.

(EDIT) Just going to link to this again. (/EDIT)

"Hi. Here is all the other terrible news you missed in 2020 while surviving a pandemic."

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*looks down* Uh, I... think I got all the appropriate tags in there, at least for the stuff I have tags for, anyway, as there was a lot of stuff that I don't have tags for, like wildfires and boars and time travel and murder hornets and other such things...

And yeah, I kind of agree with Cody (except, you know, seriously instead of facetiously) in that I sort of wish that they could make these things without the time travel shenanigans and the hand puppets and whatnot. Oh well, at least Cody's jokes are slightly less non sequitur and forced than the ones on Last Week Tonight tend to be, so that's something, I guess?

As far as Tenet goes... I'd never even heard of that movie at all prior to watching the above video, so I had no idea what the joke was about, even when he explicitly said it was a Tenet joke. For some reason, at first, I thought he was saying "Tennant," as in David Tennant, and I was like, oh, has he been in something since Doctor Who? (And, apparently, he has, though it's nothing I've seen personally.)

Wow... how in the fuck have I not heard about this Article 13 horseshit until now, after it has already been passed?

It's basically this shit all over again, except this one actually succeeded.

"NRA honors FCC chair with rifle for repealing 'net neutrality'"

What in the actual fuck. ಠ_ಠ

Also this:

"The award is a Kentucky long rifle that will stay at the NRA’s museum in Fairfax, Virginia. The NRA was not allowed to bring the weapon on stage, said Carolyn Meadows, an NRA official.

"It was not immediately clear why the NRA was not able to present the long gun to the FCC chairman. The FCC, CPAC and the NRA did not immediately respond to questions."

Which just makes the whole thing even more ludicrous.

#TaxScamBill

So, the goddamn GOP managed to get that godawful tax bill passed, almost none of which the vast majority of them had even fucking read before they voted yes to pass the thing.

If this enraging farce is how the GOP plans to run the government, then maybe the Democrats should stonewall whatever budget bills are in consideration now, because at this point I honestly think that we'd all probably be better off if the US government just entirely shut down indefinitely.

Here's the thing. Even if America was, today, right this very minute, able to somehow shed the dead orange skin that is Donald Trump, that would only be the beginning, because the cozening dickcheese GOP dumbfucks in Congress would still be there. Before this country can begin to heal from this, those asinine assholes are going to need to go (home or to hell, I don't really care which, as long as they're voted out), too.

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...man, is that incredibly exhausting sometimes. Every day, even.

I don't rant about Donald Trump here on Dreamwidth even remotely as much as I used to. (Unless you count posting those videos by Keith Olbermann.) These days, I tend to confine most of my copious anti-Trump ranting mostly to Twitter, but sometimes... something happens about which I just have to blow off more steam than that, even beyond the usual "Trump is in collusion with Russia" stuff or the "Trump is a sexual predator" stuff.

Right now, what's getting to me is all the net neutrality bullshit, what with how Trump's FCC apointee, Ajit Pai, has pretty much vowed to undo the Obama-era net neutrality regulation.

So, here, have this Youtube video from the Chocolate Rain guy, explaining all of this shit. Granted, that particular video was uploaded on April 27, 2017, and is in reference to another bullshit article written back then by Ajit Pai, different from the Wall Street Journal article I linked to above, but his video is just as timely now as it was then, if not even more so.



Fuck Ajit Pai.

Fuck that banal "light-touch framework" bullshit phrase.

Fuck Donald Trump.

#SaveNetNeutrality

I recently sent messages via their websites to Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr and to House Representative Mark Walker concerning the Trump FCC attempt to destroy Net Neutrality, undoing the good work that President Obama had put into place supporting it.

This is the response I received from Senator Tillis:

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In other words, to put it bluntly, Senator Tillis has opted to be a part of the problem, rather than the solution. I don't know why I was expecting otherwise. As such, as I did in the past, I will be voting against him again the next time he is up for reelection in 2020.

Fuck Donald Trump in his orange asshole, super hard, with a corncob. I mean, sure, this was to be expected and all, but it is still enraging.

Well, of course it would. Net neutrality is, after all, a threat to the profits of their cronies in Big Cable™freedom. Maybe if we lived in Bizarro World, freedom actually would somehow be threatened by net neutrality.

(Via rabbitucker, over on Facebook.)