Unfortunately she just got elected and after her 4 year term VA doesn’t allow immediate re-election for governor anyway.

Best option to remove her would be a signature drive, have to collect 10% of the total number of people who voted in the election. I think between the pissed off leftists on labor rights, and the pissed off right wingers on AR ban, that is actually doable.

But then, in VA the recall then goes to the state circuit courts for trial. Based on what we’ve seen from them recently, I’m not optimistic they would proceed with the recall.

We shouldn’t just hand over credentials of course.

But, the way I see it, this ship already sailed. DOGE stole all our financial info by accessing the treasury databases, in fact that seemed to be one of their top priorities last year. If you don’t think Elon turned around and sold that data to any willing buyers, well…I’ve got a bridge to sell ya. And this is on top of the myriad credit agency hacks, which there seems to be at least 1-2 every year now.

All this data is being sold to people like Altman.

And, I’m starting to think they’re using it to apply pressure to municipalities where they want to build new data centers, but I’m still working out that particular theory…

It’s good to be out enjoying nature, often does wonders for your psychological well being. As a very tech-centric person, I intentionally moved to a more rural area with excellent outdoor amenities to enable me to do so frequently. It helps, but doesn’t necessarily solve all problems in my case. More like a critical piece of the puzzle.

I’ve been researching and planning a “forever home” in this area with my partner for a few years now, so I can share some thoughts I have about this based on my read of your situation. As a caveat though, I haven’t done it yet - still planning.

Try not to underestimate how much work it will be. You will need the necessities, food and shelter as you pointed out, but also some form of income because it will cost some money to build out new things and do what you need to do (clothes, utilities for internet, electric and plumbing, equipment for farming food forest, fencing to manage wildlife and protect your crops, chicken coop, etc etc). Are you planning to build a shelter, or live out of a van? I assume the latter because of your use of the term “caravan,” but it isn’t quite clear. If you’re doing a van, realize that a decent one can be quite expensive. Like over $120k expensive. You can definitely get creative with stuff like a used U-Haul or something to save money, but if this is going to be your home for the foreseeable future, you need to be comfortable in it. There are a ton of great content creators on YouTube and whatnot with ideas here, so do your research to know what you’re getting into. For me a van won’t work because I can’t do cramped spaces for extended periods, but if you can the mobility benefits would be pretty awesome.

Speaking of - would you be comfortable living in such a cramped space? Usually you’ll have like a single cooktop and maybe 2-3’ of counter space for your “kitchen” in one of these setups. Would that be enough room to prepare all the wonderful food you want to grow in your food forest? People often do a sawdust bucket for a mobile bathroom solution in these vans. Is that something you’d be comfortable with until you can build an outhouse on your land?

It’s a deep topic, plenty more to consider but I think the above points are a good place to start. Tl;dr: really take the time to research and plan out what will work for you. Recognizing where you are now isn’t working is a great first step to build up motivation to act and change things, just make sure you look before you leap =]

This timeline is bullshit.

I thought Israel already admitted the mass protestor killings were a fake false flag operation?

E Pluribus Unum

Privatize the gains, Socialize the losses.

I know you joke and I did have a chuckle. The tech jobs offered by these projects are so few and far between it is truly laughable.

We’re fighting a data center construction by Google in our area. One of the major obstacles is that blue collar workers, electrical hvac etc, all believe this will bring them new jobs and continued work in maintenance of the facility over the years.

They aren’t necessarily wrong on that point, and it’s a challenge to convince them that infrasound noises they can’t hear will make them sick over time.

I wish they were this excited about building and maintaining solar and wind projects instead of data center generators, but alas, many of them are constantly subjected to propaganda painting green tech in a negative light.

More like president for Israel, and he did it for free. They didn’t even have Epstein files on him, he just did it for the love of Zionism.

Well, no. Pretty much the only bills that get passed in modern era Congress are omnibus budget bills. MTG’s Israeli funding reduction was a specific amendment to one such bill, which AOC chose to vote against.

I’m sure the rest of what got passed had all sorts of whacko conservative garbage within, because they control the entire federal government at this time. This is likely partially why AOC voted against the actual bill as well.

That said, if you consider Israeli control of the US government an existential threat, which I do, then that makes it even more important to find opportunities to work with the conservatives in power to curtail Israel’s influence, which MTG’s amendment would have done.

AOC could have had her cake and eaten it too, by voting to pass the amendment to remove some funding to Israel, and then casting a performative nay vote for the overall budget bill.

So yeah, I’m disappointed that she chose partisan politics above achieving an impactful, measurable result. But that’s liberals for you. The only reason I care is because I hold AOC to a higher standard than most of them, because she is by far the closest to representing my own values in terms of her actual voting record and what she claims to believe in.

Perhaps. But just to put a fine point on this matter - I am glad that AOC came around to the correct position on whether we should continue funding the terrorist nation state of Israel, in that we absolutely should not. They are literally using this money to buy off our politicians so that they don’t work for us, instead they work for Israel. It’s wrong in every possible way.

I sincerely hope this is how AOC will vote regarding bankrolling Israel in the future, regardless of whether the authors of said bills have an R next to their name, or whether she perceives them to be a hypothetical future opponent in a presidential race.

The future is now!

Cash is fungible. Israel doesn’t care what it’s earmarked for, giving them money further enables the genocide. The important thing is that the US attempt to apply leverage by reducing what we give them.

My positions on Israeli genocide and the shameful involvement of the US, due to our government being captured wholly by Israel, have been consistent throughout.

It’s funny you make this claim however. The bad faith argument was from AOC claiming that she had to vote no because of offensive weaponry, when in fact she did so because her esteemed colleagues told her to heel. After the vote, she changes her position. Interesting.

Ok well MTG isn’t running for president, nor would I vote for her if she did because like AOC, I don’t trust her at all.

However, when she drafted a bill to reduce aid to Israel by 500mil, AOC voted against it. AOC claims she is about results, but then does her own purity tests like this which further enable genocide. It is damaging, divisive, and disingenuous of her to do so.

MTG was in congress when she drafted a bill to reduce military aid to Israel, and AOC voted against it.

You don’t have to trust MTG in order to work with her across the aisle to sign legislation putting an end to funding Israeli genocide. The two things can be true together.

This is an infuriatingly divisive lib take by AOC, and sadly further evidence she’s just not ready for a presidential run. I truly hope she reconsiders and goes after Chucklefuck’s senate seat instead, it would do way more good for the movement that way.

That’s the thing about gerrymandering - it’s dangerous because you set up those razor thin margins to get the most seats possible, but what happens when there is a political landslide?

This is precisely why Texas has been going purple and outright at risk of turning blue in the last 10-15 years.

On the other hand - while It’s likely going to be a total shellacking of Repugs, this regime hasn’t shown a willingness to accept defeat and the “opposition” party hasn’t really shown a willingness to hold them to account for their crimes and flagrant disregard for the law. The future is very uncertain, and I’m not convinced at all that it’s possible to vote our way out of this mess.

I hung in watching this show for way too long, and somehow it went on for multiple seasons after that. It’s pretty funny to me how much money these entertainment studios will spend to avoid having to create something new or innovative.

Yep, Fox led the charge in manufacturing consent for the ensuing legal “justifications” outlined in the comment above.

It is a rather incredible cast of characters considering current events, to say the least.

Oh hey I know that guy. He won a presidential election, but then Fox News said “nuh-uh!” and for some reason everyone just sort of went along with it and handed the reigns to a war criminal instead.

Perhaps he would prefer “Eradicate the rich.”

(Through even more taxation, of course.)