RustyVenture

“What kind of slime would I marry?”

I love how this basically gives up the game that the only real activism these people believe in is voting.

Like we know you’re not going to be fighting for us; you never have before!

The "if this were Trump doing this" thing is touching the Earth's inner core at this point but we'd never hear the end of it if he were the one with nothing but donation links and a merch shop on his website.

HOOOOWWWW does this asshole still not have a single issue or policy listed on his campaign website?! Like, not even anything about first term accomplishments. Not even some vague building back better bullshit. Not even anything promoting his own fucking party which he's the leader of. It's ridiculous.

Meanwhile Trump's website has a full spread, including a "mission" page and two types of issues pages, plus a "news" page where some of the "stories" are just dunks on Brandon.

Huh, so there were! I guess I forgot all about them, especially since I saw those earlier on, then the destruction escalates quickly. I had just assumed there were only the skibidi toilets and camera people, and they were foolishly destroying their own cities and world doing this arms race (and with the skibidi toilets resisting some form of oppression).

Just scrolling past the thumbnails of the last 15 or so episodes…yeesh. Much clearer to me now. I think I'm glad I haven't caught up.

Damn it really do be like that, don’t it? I never even considered the Skibidi universe had humans in it, either. What a horrible world

Wait, they are? I thought the camera people were the bad guys lol. Always viewed the skibidi toilets like an insurgency fighting a repressive surveillance state backed by an evil empire. Full disclosure: haven’t watched any vids since last fall so maybe there’s something I missed.

Atlantic Ocean to Florida:

I was saying "boo-lets"

Now he's back in the US working for Amtrak on high speed rail, but haven't heard much about his progress since he started last year beyond corridor studies (and I know he's once again been handed a pretty shit deal, since HSR wasn't a funding priority in Amtrak Joe's vaunted infrastructure bill).

Also, how does the Governor have any say over the city subway system?

The MTA is a state run agency that was formed in part to undermine the downstate political machine led by Robert Moses who is like the archetypal 20th century carbrained racist that was instrumental in the destruction of poor and minority neighborhoods to build highways and who purposefully sabotaged the development and operation of New York's mass transit systems for literal decades. His legacy lives on in the lack of rail connections both in NYC proper but also across most of Long Island. There's also a rich history of belligerence between the state government and city government, and like a lot of places especially in the northeast US a product of that is a spaghetti bowl of adversarial, duplicative, and parochial governing and rulemaking bodies that all get to have a say and dip their beaks.

Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo constantly fought over shit like petty children. Cuomo's enormous ego tripping was especially noxious, leading to high-profile controversies like the last-minute shitcanning of the repair of an old but crucial subway tunnel that ran under the East River that got flooded during Hurricane Sandy. This also resulted in nixing a really promising busway pilot the MTA had planned after an extensive, nasty community engagement process that would've seen 14th Street in Manhattan closed to mostly everything but buses that would replace subway service during the 18 months it would take to do the repairs. This, among other political encumbrances, was likely a large factor in Andy Byford's resignation barely two years into the job. Cuomo is that much of a shitheel that he sandbagged and ostracized a guy his own board appointed either as a way to stick it to the NYC mayor or because Byford was actually trying to turn things around, getting recognized for it, and putting pressure on Albany to act.

All of this type of shit has left scars all over the state and it's just sad in the end. So many communities decimated by poor planning and political dick-swinging. As much as I miss living there—because it is truly a cool place to live/work/visit and riding trains and buses everywhere is dope and it's one of the only places in Amerikkka you can actually do that—I don't think I could ever hack it in NYC today. It just seems like it's become so much more of an oppressive place since I moved out a decade ago, but maybe it's also that I'm not a carefree lib anymore lol. Either way, fuck all these pigs and fuck this absolute clown shit.