Supremes

Well, today is the day that Republicans will nominate Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

It will break exactly on party lines. The infamous Collins and Murkowski pair will NOT grow a pair and vote against him. They never do.

Dr Ford could have come in yesterday with witnesses, DNA and photographic proof that Kavanaugh did satanic sacrifices of babies and then ate them, and they would still be voting him onto the SCOTUS this morning.

Why?

Because there are some other goals being attacked here.

We have quite a few people who are very uncomfortable with some things that have happened in the last 100 years (well, more, really, we all know what), and the SC is the "long game" approach.

The "long game" is:

1) Repeal Roe

2) Repeal Obergefell

3) Repeal Civil Rights Act

4) Repeal SS and Medicare

5) Repeal Obamacare

6) Make (white) America Great Again (via getting rid of brown people): be a bully around the world. Because that's great. It's how you make friends.

7) Make it ok again say certain words again when referring to those disgusting people that all need to leave the USA or die.

So Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed. No matter what. Because the Republicans in Congress (and the voters they are afraid of) want those things.

Why is it so many folks need to act stinky towards others?

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Update: Yep. Went as above, except that Murkowski got a safe out where she got to do a harmless NO vote. Had it not been harmless, well, she'd have voted yes. And Manchin voted YES--otherwise he was going to lose re-election.


There's another subtle item. Trump wants someone there who will agree that he can pardon himself. Because you know that could end up being important, once all his past "deals" get fully exposed. You know that is going to turn out to be full of shady-to-illegal aspects. Back in the day (and maybe even now) you didn't get things built in NYC without the mob.

You know why there are so many unemployed people here?

Well, one reason is that we fired them from their phone-answering jobs and replaced them with really stupid software, and then hired dummies with foreign accents to answer the phones.

Bought a piece of software today, that is delivered via download. That wasn't easy itself. I created a login with the software vendor, that part is ok.

Tried to register the software. That wouldn't work. Not clear why, but after it failed, there's a dialog window that says "Please call XXX-XXX-XXXX so that an agent may assist you".

So when I call in on the phone to do this, I do get someone. An ESL person. First problem: their system software is stupid. I have called in on the primary phone that is registered with the vendor. But apparently this guy can't (doesn't?) know or see it, so that instead of having the number itself include my registration info, I have to tell him this over again. Then I explain what I'm trying to accomplish. Again.

I am trying to accomplish "Online Registration". The software itself has asked do I want to phone in, or do online. I want to do online--in theory, that should go A LOT faster.

He says "I need to have someone in this other department help you". OK, that's not necessarily a surprise, happens often enough.

The problem is, he's misunderstood the word "online". Partly because the vendor has misused this word in a way that encourages this misunderstanding.

Vendor has an "online version". I want to do "online registration". BUT NOT for the "online version", it's the desktop version.

So first guy shifts me over to the "online version" Helpdesk. As he is doing this, I realize his last words to me are taking me the wrong place.

So that's where I go, I explain immediately that we have done the wrong thing and that I need to do "online registration of desktop version of software". Which eventually does take place properly. But it took nearly 90 minutes to get there.

But really, vendor people, your phone software sucks, your support software sucks, your name choices lead to poor results with your Helpdesk people. Yeesh.


Most other places I have had to call in, they know me from the phone I call from, there's no asking over again why my name/info is, etc.

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So the software above is QuickBooks. It was/is at least as much a nightmare getting QB connected to my bank account. Something is not working correctly.

And now I'm back on the phone with QB. Their software is still terrible. Good god. And this particular problem is a paid solution--I have to pay them to have them to explain why their software doesn't work. (Pretty sure I can write better software than this)

It's now just under two hours on the phone. Today.

I'm going to have to go to the liquor store on the way home.