It takes FOREVER to get anything dowloaded. And I'm on Hi-speed internet! Are there THAT many add-ons, plug-ins, advertisements, youtube links, video clips and whatever parasitic glom-ons built into the basic DKos page? And forget trying to download a diary with more than 50 comments --- holy crap, start loading it, go make dinner, then come back and it MIGHT be to where you can scroll down the page and ONLY wait 30-45 seconds for it to shift. WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?
Is it the anti-spam programs on my computer? Or certain servers are crap when handling DKos? Or is DKos bugged by so many government security agencies with spyware and keystroke copy programs that keep track of all us subversives they slow down the transmissions?
I mean, this is BAD. It's even slower than my video feeds from Comedy Central, where I get a sort of one-tranmission-per-10-seconds-like-a-rover-from-Mars video herky-jerky picture with no flow of movement. But the soundtrack comes through, obviously the TSA NSA FBI RNC whoever hasn't been able to screw with that.
Al Jezera, weirdly enough, comes through to me fast and clean. Come on, CIA get on the ball!
However, maybe that's what the government surveillance is aiming for. Gumming up DKos so we just get tired of waiting for the screen to scroll down so we can read the next part of the diary, or get bored staring at a blank screen waiting for the "add comment" box to come up, or the cursor to re-appear so we can write something down. So we just give up on going here.
That might explain the bubbling impotence of the stuff I read here, or the angry "let's get a gun and get rid of the bastards" sentiments. Can't change the country, can't steer the politics, and now can't even get to read or post political stuff we want to. Road rage comes to the internet highway.
Maybe it's for the best. The only people we put into office nowadays are millionaires, who then go ahead and legislate the best government for millionaires -- what else did you expect them to do? And then have to read how the failures we elected cave in, or turncoat, or have affairs, or expose themselves on Twitter, or ... well, all the stuff vain, arrogant millionaires do.
So DKos is turning into DeeKlog. I suppose it's fitting for a political website to accurately mirror the exact processes of its government. Way too slow, way too much corporate money (ads) involved, way too much arguing and damn little results. I guess people not only get the governments but the websites they deserve.