Cory Robin’s book on Thomas taught me that you can learn a lot about the supreme court justices by reading the opinions they’ve wrote. I don’t have the time to now, but if you’re genuinely curious it would be a good starting point.

is this one?

Probably petrochemicals.

I often wonder if they believe this themselves, or if they just cynically say crap like this out of contempt for people.

I’m not sure that’s accurate. I mean, Heusinger, who was a high-ranking member of the Wehrmacht, was later a West German general, and a Chairman at NATO. Definitely striking, but not the only similar example. Denazification was woefully incomplete.

Only his election chance are dead… Orban got off easier than the Pope.

Someone finally listend to their lawyers

“Possible Twin detected. Please send verified lab results of your DNA’s methylation pattern to unlock your computer”

Yeah. It’ll solve itself when the habitability of the planet declines enough to prevent the continuation of a high-tech global economy.

Unfortunately we’ve lumped a bunch of agencies under DHS, notably FEMA, but also some other things like cybersecurity, customs, and WMD mitigation agencies. So, while I would love for ICE, and a bunch of other fascist-ass agencies to be deleted, thia particular route to doing that also shuts down some agencies that are undeniably important.

Yeah, but the trend has been significant revision downward for months now. Anyone who’s been watching was expecting this.

If the choice is “be poor” and “sign up to be on call to murder brown people”, surely we can agree that “be poor” is the better choice.

This is really what I’m wondering. Like, he definitely doesn’t understand this, but since when has “not understanding something” stopped Trump?

Maybe, but the other guys with lidar are using 1.8 RDP’d in Filipino drivers (without US driving licenses) per car… so maybe its a pipe dream either way.

Thanks for the insight.

He’s afraid.

Yeah, but have you considered that this kind of technology can’t sustain the delusion idea that you could replace all workers with a chatbot?

You’re asking the wrong questions. The institutions which created the conditions for what we are seeing now will not be able to un-create those conditions without being fundamentally altered. The reality we Americans need to internalize is that “no institutional actor will be saving us”. If we make it through the next several years without a significant, socially disruptive rupture, we will not have been saved. We will have mearly postponed it. If Democrats take power in the house, senate, and presidency, and try to recreate the pre-Trump political period, they will create a fallow field in which a less incompetent analog of Trump will grow.

The only way this stops is if Americans reject the things which have made it possible to occur, for instance, the expansiveness of the military, the legal imperviousness of the president, the inaction of the legislature, the “apoliticality” of the supreme court, the expansion of the surveillance and security apparati of the state, militarization of police forces, ect (by no means exhaustive). The people in power will not voluntarily give up power to allow this to happen.

Much of what we’re seeing now has happened before, and Americans have never rejected it before. From this I can only assume it will take a lot more deterioration before we see it end.

Great. Now i can get that “real book feeling” of wrestling the books pages to lie flat enough for me to read them as I lay down.

I’m noy saying money doesn’t matter, but Kamala Harris outspent Trump by, like, 2:1 iirc in 2024 and still lost. Clearly money is not the only factor.