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wkenn's avatar

I do not believe it all can be destroyed. The low hanging fruit gets destroyed, the obvious and slightly less than obvious hiding places cleaned out.

Every email, every text, everything written here is swept up, compressed and stored somewhere. The task is finding, following and unwinding the digital trail.

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Alzaebo's avatar

That's what fusion centers are for, innit? To hoover up every scrap under the Blob's control.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Too much low-hanging fruit? Just imagine yourself in Bondi or PatelтАЩs shoes right now, the wall of shit they are facing. It will take a year just to figure out what to do first.

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wkenn's avatar

My take is the priorities were developed during the intervening years (46 as resident), dealing with the actual impediments being implemented is the current status.

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Lugh's avatar

Yeah so the obvious answer is promise everything and then hold up binders of useless information. Fire the Bondi publicity hound.

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Blackbird's avatar

If she didn't know what she was holding before us ("binders of useless information"), she is incompetent.

If she did know that she had nothing, but tried to fill our dog bowl with it anyway, then she is corrupt.

Neither is a very good qualification.

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Strange Bedfellow's avatar

~ Bodybuilding Bondi ~

Bondi's face, maybe even underlying physique, reminds me of those bodybuilder women's.

If she ever got into bodybuilding, she could always gain some extra muscle by lifting everyone that needed to be removed, out.

It might make for a fun AI short; Bondi lifting a couple of suits by their 'wedgies' (to echo Beth's mention in these threads) out of some government office-building, maybe with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the background, just outside the lobby, spurring her on; "That's good... good... very good..." and then placing his hand in a kind of ceremonious gesture, like those tv evangelists, on each suit's head as he says, "You are terminated."

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Blackbird's avatar

Not bad, except for recycling Ahnold. Actors playing the role of President (or any other government official) is such an old joke in this country now that it isn't funny anymore. The irony is appropriate, but I would prefer to let lying dogs sleep.

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Strange Bedfellow's avatar

Well it was more for his bodybuilder role and cute Austrian accent and voice, rather for his reprised role as The Governator, but fair enough.

(Newsom might make a great liquid-metal cop. Think of his hair, too, only textured metal, and there's fire everywhere behind him and he's smiling and running after you, through patches of fire and at high speed. Maybe someone secretly taped 'land-speculator' on the back of your shirt. That's the stuff of nightmares. Or maybe it's just his way of catching up to you and offering to buy you a drink. AI/Robotics can be weird like that.)

Also, there's that videoed interview still on You Tube where at one point, Schwarzenegger predicts that Trump won't win. Trump not winning of course was a no-brainer, given that there'd be attempts on his life and stuff like that, but still.

It's possible that, since those attempts and a ton of other stuff, Trump has probably lost his mind, or some of it, already anyway, but I guess we'll see.

Like the title of that Stranglers tune, 'If Something's Gonna Kill Me (It Might As Well Be Love)'.

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Blackbird's avatar

"...cute Austrian accent and voice..." Hey Ahnold - you're cute!!

Well, that's the last we should hear from that Zeppelin-inflator.

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Lugh's avatar

She is Woman, hear her roar!

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