Notices by Tom Shafer (tomshafshafer@toot.community)

In my 30 years in IT, I’ve never heard a more irresponsible and frankly, ludicrous promise. Even if a full code replacement is possible, the parallel testing alone would take months to insure that recipients are not interrupted. This is a disaster in the making.
https://gizmodo.com/doge-plans-to-rewrite-entire-social-security-codebase-in-just-a-few-months-report-2000582062

No long write-up of my 2024. Just continued thoughts and donations to groups providing support to western North Carolina in the wake of Helene. One group is BeLoved Asheville. Please consider giving.
https://www.belovedasheville.com/

@aaron.rupar
Judge clarifies: Yes, Trump was found to have raped E. Jean Carroll
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/

James Earl Jones has died. A true craftsman of character. Long before his genre-defining role of Darth Vader, he was in a little movie called Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
https://youtu.be/QSbPqin3L6E?si=P0GHlpumgQABdelf

Nothing cryptic about it. If Trump wins, he intends to be President-for-life to stop all criminal and civil cases against him.
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-cryptically-declares-you-wont-have-to-vote-anymore-if-he-wins-second-term/

"ALMOST EVERYONE" is Trump-speak for the clown car of Trump sycophants, fellow grifters and non-lawyers like Tom Fitton, who holds a B.A. in English from GWU. Trump was indicted by citizens. He's on trial before a jury of his peers. Justice will served.

Oh, the crimes are real, Gregg. They were committed by a career criminal, Defendant Trump.

@freemo Assuming that you're not trolling - for now - I'll point you to this article for starters.
https://time.com/6260190/giuliani-trump-ukraine-igor-novikov/

Trump claims in a recent post that he offered 'PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH', when in fact he weakened our global posture in multiple ways:

- He withdrew the US from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal. This gave Iran the green light to restart uranium enrichment and further failed to contain Iran's Middle East ambitions.

- Trump threatened to pull the US out of NATO and constantly complained about the financial contributions other members made.

- Trump brags about the lack of war in Ukraine, when he sided with Putin at practically every turn during his Administration. Why invade when Trump almost handed Ukraine to Russia on a platter?

- In general, Trump courted strongmen regimes to the detriment of our allies. He admires Viktor Orbán, Kim Jong Un and of course, Putin.

The furkids are waiting for their treats on Christmas night. #CatsOfMastodon

@georgetakei I guess we should mark Dr. Carson in favor of Fascism Lite, as opposed to Full Fascism. Although, once rights have been stripped away, it's nearly impossible to tell the two apart.🙄

It's totally legal and totally cool, Insurrectionist-in-Chief.

Trump had worst jobs numbers since Herbert Hoover. Currently, we are producing more domestic energy (source: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/imports-and-exports.php ). Trump walked back ISIS caliphate claim (source: https://www.rollcall.com/2019/10/28/trump-walks-back-claim-of-defeating-100-of-the-isis-caliphate/ ). Trump is a loser, his Administration a failure.