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95 democrats voted to honor the mofo so are we still doing both parties are not the same shit? They are exactly the same lol. Want more proof – look at H1b backlash and support across the board for it. If you are a centrist Democrat right now you are delusional. This party needs to be dismantled and rebuilt.

Did I post about the loony “Hindu” Punjabi uber driver we had in Vancouver who drove us back to airport? He hated mofo Modi but also hated the liberal Canada government so much! He was like I love Trump and everything he is doing for you and then told us a customer he worked for in 2019 had told him about Covid and how it would start back then.

I fully support the Trump 100000$ per person per year fee on H1b. This will be the end of body shops as we know it and many of them were trump supporters so I will relish in their demise. The “proclamation” gives exceptions so most big companies will be just fine – and they will just ramp hiring in India, which if India plays this well is a great opportunity to become an innovation center. It sucks for people out of country right now though and my heart goes out to them as apparently if you are out on h1b and want to come back to USA you have to pay 100k at entry.

I think we give Americans too much credit by saying they were stupid by revoting the current president to power. By saying they are stupid, we give them the benefit of doubt of being ignorant, or victim of a scam, or they are not smart. The reality is people were not stupid – this is exactly what they voted for. Don’t be under any impression that majority of this country is stupid. Trump is doing exactly what the majority wanted. Don’t blame the messenger – blame yourselves!

In Vancouver we spent a good time at bar talking about our current administration. Everyone had words galore to say so but almost all my colleagues said the exact same thing – they still won’t vote for Newsom in 2028 if he is the nominee 😖. White progressives truly are a delusional bunch. That said Mamdani is a brand and these colleagues were from all over the country and everyone of them loves him and hate how the establishment is still not supporting him. The democratic leadership still hasn’t understood the need of the hour either.

If Tucker Carlson could rebuild his brand without Fox News and using online reach, so can Colbert and Kimmel. I hope these two comedians decide to use this opportunity to free themselves from restrictions of legacy media world and build their own brand online. There is no reason they cannot, and I sincerely hope they do. We need them to break the shackles and go all in. We don’t need them to apologize or just wither away in shadows. We need them to do what Tucker Carlson did.

My bold prediction for Virginia governor election is that Winsome (republican) will win it over Spanberger even though right now Spanberger right now is ahead by almost 9-10% in polls. Even if Spanberger wins, the margin won’t be that big. Winsome is clearly gaining ground while Spanberger has gone into the same mode as establishment democrats do and trying to win over moderates middle with their absolutely stupid “I am a bipartisan” candidate bullshit. In today’s time being a bipartisan candidate means you actually think Charlie Kirk was some hero – yeah that’s were the moderate line is right now. She is turning off more people in the Northern VA area who are way more progressive by pandering the moderate bullshit. Please for heaven’s sake, learn a fucking thing or two from the general election.

Major pipe burst in our sprinkler system. One thing no one tells you about owning a sprinkler system is that literally on a year basis you have to repair underground pipes that burst. It’s the cost of convenience I suppose coz I have seen how useful they are hard to go back to pre days. We inherited it with the house and they hadn’t even said it was put in, and I have spent money on yearly maintenance but this is one equipment I won’t get rid of.

My intention of moving to a self-hosted platform (WordPress for now) was that I wanted to own the content I had. My experience with micro.blog was middling at best, and while I liked the platform for community, I couldn’t take the platform seriously that operated on whims and fancies of its founder who later seemed to have questionable views. Incidentally I pay less for my self hosted blog than I paid on micro and I have not lost any of the community aspect yet because of cross-posting to Bluesky or Mastodon using echofeed. When I look at my North Star of owning my own content, I have also begun to slowly start making my WordPress blog also slightly more private. A few changes I have put in now are no comments, no tags or categories on any post, no homepage with scrolling posts anymore, and no search. The only things you will see are movies and tv. If you want to read a specific post, the only way to get that post is if you reach it via my BlueSky or Mastodon account. I don’t know why, but given the highly charged political environment of this country I actually feel like I need to do this to protect myself and my account. And yes, my domains are also now private so dig/whois/nslookup won’t reveal my personal info. And if you’ve known me long enough you will know that I have also completely made my private blog… umm, more private.