Mitch's Blog

For the people who still support Trump today, no revelation or action will cause them to give up on him.

Based on what we know so far, it seems likely that Trump engaged in vile, depraved sexual practices. His business was a massive money-laundering operation. He openly and nakedly accepts bribes in staggering volumes. He falls asleep in meetings and demonstrates mental incompetence.

And yet Trump’s approval rating stands at 40%. Two fifths of America voters look at Trump and think that he’s their boy!

If the Republicans are soundly defeated this year — and pray that happens! — the people who support Trump today will continue supporting him for decades and believe that he was betrayed.

The game now is to activate the apathetic voters, the people who believe that Democrats are no better than Trump, and that there’s nothing we can do to make things better. That’s the Democrats' job, and the Democrats have been shit at it so far (which a few exceptions — hi, Zohran Mamdani!).

An important update on my earlier “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” take: I am informed by car-guy friends that Citroëns were sold in the United States until 1975, so it is perfectly plausible that Giles would have been driving a decrepit Citroën 25 years later.

Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work. In case you wondered about that.

We did not watch the new Star Trek last night, because we watched The Pitt instead. I plan to watch the new Trek tonight. I’m not the only one making that decision, but I expect Julie will agree.

I hated the previews of the new Trek and planned to stay clear, but the consensus online seems to be that, yeah, the previews are dreadful but the show is good-to-great.

As for The Pitt — I’m still having feelings about that.

My oatmeal was the perfect consistency this morning so I know it’s going to be a good day.

I’m going to need to take a personal day from work tomorrow to recover from watching “The Pitt.”

Do you know the secrets hidden inside your AI models? Enterprises and telcos face security risks from AI models and cloud infrastructure controlled by rival geopolitical powers, says F5 executive Chuck Herrin. My latest on Fierce Network.

Julie and I were mega “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fans. We tried a rewatch recently and one thing that jumped out at me was that the show is set in SoCal and Giles wears tweed and sweaters ALL THE TIME, which is ridiculous. Maybe 20% of the days in the year here are cool enough for tweed.

Also, Giles initially drives a decrepit 1963 Citroën, to comedically illustrate his nature as an impoverished eccentric English academic. But how did he get a Citroën on the U.S.? Did he have it shipped from England? Where does a high school librarian get that kind of money?