…or is he too busy being chairman of his board of “peace”
CENTCOM is cocked locked and ready to rock, yet it's just as plausible we wake up to news he wrote a love letter to the Ayatollah as it is we blasted a year's worth of production of JASSMs and TLAMs at random dirt outside Tehran as it is we're bankrolling Pahlavi's attempt at an unpopular front
and that’s not something you can assert wjth any certainty when there is little proof we know he’s issued any order
…& you know someone mentioned to him that there was a staging element on chagos so the deal that gave the US that base but the rest of the island gets to have itself back…which…the US said was good less than a week ago…he…had to say was a mistake
Why the fuck are we going to war with Iran?
…maybe there’s an actual reason…but…I can’t altogether rule out the possibility that he wants the “wartime president” bump because they want all stops pulled out because their internal polling is telling them they are going to get destroyed if they can’t rig the shit out of those mid-terms…doubt seems entirely reasonable that anything they do is for reasons they’re prepared to share, anyway?
because KSA and Russia both benefit from the threat of war to juice oil prices
…I might not get to end of this…rishi fucking sunak is claiming AI will be the greatest democratising force in history because it can deliver education & healthcare to everyone…like…the fucking diamond age but somehow it took AI on the phones of african mothers to make the issues they have surface in time to get them help…all of which sounds like if you can do it with anything we currently hock under an AI label…you could have done that shit already if you wanted to…just…fuck you…I didn’t miss you began this smoke blowing exercise with “AI *could*”…because…the can is somewhere down the road & you have plenty of kicking left in the tank, I guess
disrespectfully, what the fuck are you talking about. you don’t need an ID at the library. you need a library card, which anyone can get.
Leavitt: "You need an ID to go and purchase alcohol. You need an ID to go to the library and check out a book. So the president thinks you should have an ID to vote in our nation's elections."
also you need ID at the liquor store to prove you’re OLD enough for the alcohol, not to prove citizenship or any other BS.
this woman has never been inside a library and would immediately defund and shut down all libraries if given the opportunity
YOU DO NOT NEED AN ID TO GET A LIBRARY CARD. YOU NEED PROOF OF RESIDENCY. IF ANYONE ELSE SLIDES INTO MY REPLIES TO ARGUE WITH THIS ACTUAL FACT YOU WILL BE BLOCKED ON SIGHT. DO NOT CARRY WATER FOR VOTER SUPPRESSION IN MY MENTIONS.
shutting down replies. better things to do.
A lot of people go through Aaron Rupar quote tweets to “Um actually” them.
I was wondering why there were so many idiotic replies. loser behavior.
…I’m telling you…being embarrassingly stupid actually being truly embarrassing…like…the sort of embarrassment that blows past “social anxiety” & hits high gear…could save us all…but…in at least some seriousness…nobody I knew outside of the comments on kinja was remotely interested in how clear you could see it…but…I’d have loved to have been able to feed the whole of kinja into some suite for comms analysis & chart out some of what you could observe from that & then get the analyst & the right media studies & IT dev types to get into how to use it like a fucking decoder ring…I expect there really are people who do that because they’re natural born losers that way…but…acyn/atrupar…bunch of others but those two are pretty much the entirety of a load-bearing service that gives away the video equivalent of news clippings & the suggestion that their replies aren’t riddled with responses that are in the business of diluting what might be derived from that in terms of making it harder or less embarrassing to not divest yourself of whatever stupid you had with you when you got that far…for free…for money…with bots & burners & whatever…that’s…par for the course at this point…above a certain level of “profile” just about anywhere with comments open to the public…that comes with the territory…&…most of us aren’t in a position to determine who really is a who who really is just a random dumbass who can’t handle a keyboard responsibly…& when it’s the product of shiftwork they might not believe…or just an automated dead-end to waste time & energy getting people to tilt at it like quixote…so…I would’t try to claim you can avoid it by sticking to bluesky…there’s probably instances of that ATProto thing that are personally moderated & curated such that they keep it out of their little pocket…& various bits of the mastodon fediverse of which it’s also the case…but…anything that forms part of some sort of ecosystem big enough for people to have heard of it in an online context…that stuff will be there…maybe it wants you to vote reform…maybe it wants to scam your pension…maybe it wants you to want a gun or hate trans people…maybe it wants you to admit you doubt truths that are not properly compatible with those…some of the “people” doing that stuff will appear to do so much of it that if they are indeed a person they must either not have the usual overhead required to pay a person’s way…or…that’s the way they pay their bills…I know how it sounds…but…I also fail to see a logical explanation that can describe the internet without a significant tranche of all traffic falling into the vague catch-all band I’m alluding to…&…mostly…if anyone does try to poke away until they get to the core of a particular onion it’s generally surprising how few people are involved given the amount of stuff they cast out…some specialize…scam A on platform X for one crew…scam B on platform Y for another…or scam B on platform X & scam A on Y…your fraud-via-emotional-hook gig is different if you’re fishing on…skype, say…for guys with a pension that could be yours…you want a different face on the thing than if you’re trying to hook a girlboss mid-career…all that…but…eventually…you get the ones who fancy themselves on a digital front-line…fighting their idea of the good fight…&…loads of that does seem to be in earnest & derive from all manner of earnest actual people…but…eventually you get to the handful of known state-sponsored “hackers”…&…in that context…be reasonable…if you don’t think there are all manner of monied or otherwise vested interests protecting those interests by doing what works for them to not let the internet go giving anyone any bright ideas about how many people actually don’t struggle to tell wrong from right…you…probably recently bought a bridge…sight unseen…or…more likely…you…mostly don’t think about that stuff that way because you aren’t fucking crazy or about to try to get that way on purpose
Mail ballots currently lean overwhelmingly Democratic and the party is likely to be disproportionately affected if thousands of votes are tossed out because of bans on grace periods for mail ballots in Ohio and elsewhere.
…plainly…if the mandate of heaven was up to the fronting this alleged administration is all about…they wouldn’t need to do any of this…but…as it stands…the sheer weight of decades of having to try to impress upon people how un-rig-able the US elections are at the level of votes-cast-get-counted only still works for them if they don’t go full-vlad & just announce the numbers they want went the way they wanted like they stuffed the ballot boxes before they set them out…but…they need every deck they ever stacked to dial that shit up to 11 & they’re still freaking out so hard they might go to war with iran
Brutal new polling finds Trump's net approval is -16 — down 22 points from inauguration day.Every authoritarian action he's taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity. He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness.
…oh…& palantir is moving HQ to…miami, I think it was…florida, anyway
“Here’s the bottom line: DHS is buying warehouses across the country to build out concentration camps for caging and deporting immigrants, and WEXMAC TITUS is allowing them to be operational in a matter of weeks.”
The thing that worries me is that a Data Center financial crisis may beget a general financial crisis. So much of this money is coming through private credit instead of traditional banks. But that's just a polite fiction. Private credit firms borrow from their parent banks then lend the money out.
…don’t worry…I’m still leaving that lane mostly to ed
We’re nearing $1tn in big tech capex since the start of the AI bubble, and with that growth has come a massive dependence on debt, all to support companies of which cannot survive without endless billions of investment, and demand that doesn't match capex.www.wheresyoured.at/data-center-…
…dude has definitely done more homework than me…&…there may be stuff he isn’t privvy to that changes various things…but…even on a representative basis when you look at the stuff he has accounted for in that effort…there’s just too many more ways the numbers don’t work than there are any ways they even *could*…so…hopefully…it’s not as bad as ed thinks…because that is very, very bad indeed…but…even at my most hopeful…there does not appear to be any legitimate way in which any of that is actually “good”?
Can we talk a bit about the terms “First Amendment absolutist” and “free speech absolutist,” and whether they have any agreed-upon meaning?I promise to try, to the utmost of my ability, to Be Respectful Of Other Opinions./1
…look…it’s not a trivial problem…to raise the funds to do the thing that nobody’s done before at some point someone has to say they can & be convincing enough that someone fronts the cash to let them…so it’s hard to make a rule about where the line is…but…at some point…pretty sure somewhere in our rearview on the big-money-tech ticket…this became fraud…like the election lie is fraud…like the wholesale global embezzlement racket is fraud…like calling these people by the titles of offices & jobs that have nobody in post because their job is to see that job not done…the whole thing is fraud…& i can’t snap my fingers & make the reality I inhabit accurately reflect it…but…in some meaningful ways…the squatting mess that calls itself the official US state…is…illegitimate
/2 OK. For the moment, let’s talk about the United States context — meaning the law of the United States and people talking about or criticizing it, including from the perspective of other countries that for the moment are sovereign.
…it’s what that means…it’s not that I set out with a desire to make that claim…it’s just…the correct word?
/3 American law is not absolutist about free speech. First Amendment law is not absolutist about free speech. There are a number of well-defined exceptions to First Amendment protection for speech.
/4 Moreover, there aren’t really any First Amendment Absolutists. Justice Hugo Black was probably the closest to saying “the First Amendment says NO LAW and that means NO LAW,” but his view did not ever prevail. Read his dissent in Braden to get a flavor.www.hugoblacklibrary.org/research/u-s…
/5 Black’s “absolutism“ was more or less “we keep adding these judicially created multi-factor tests and shit to create exceptions that aren’t in the text,” and, fair, we do. But again, for as long as SCOTUS has analyzed the First Amendment, it has recognized exceptions.
/6 So what do people mean when they call someone a Free Speech/First Amendment Absolutist?It’s usually one of the following things. I will, again, endeavor to be polite.
…if speech were absolutely free…ken wouldn’t need to be polite…but…then…for some of us the only need to be is to be free to use the word that carries the meaning…others…need to be…unreasonably free to abandon that aspect of language
the, huh, what wasn't there a more normal way to phrase this www.theguardian.com/technology/2…
🇺🇸 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify at a ground-breaking social media addiction trial, summoned by lawyers representing a plaintiff who alleges Instagram and other platforms were deliberately designed to make young users addicted. ➡️ u.afp.com/S6AG
The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people. n.pr/4qGcdJu
…maybe zuck didn’t do that shit on purpose…back in the aw shucks days of dorm room delights he just wanted a thing that let him & a bunch of other guys who had equally poor chances of successfully shooting their shot with any of them compare with one another which women they most wished might like to fuck them…at its inception…facebook was for incels who hadn’t learned to call themselves that…back then…they were just regular-ass maybe-not-getting-laid-today people…now…they think we all live in their reality…& a statistically significant slice of their revenue comes directly from facilitating fraud on their platform…like…they don’t even argue that isn’t true…it’s a line item
/7 Very rarely it’s people who put Free Speech Absolutists or First Amendment Absolutists in their social media profiles.They don’t mean it and they are silly and may be disregarded.
…but…ultimately…they can’t police that fraud stuff better because people are free to lie in pursuit of illicit profit…provided you share zuck’s perspective on where the liabilities & responsibilities lie…over there…no anywhere near him or his profit margins or his fiduciary obligations to maximize stakeholder profit…by burning ungodly gobs of money on stuff like legless metaverses before pivoting to a palantir friendly facial-rec rayban kinda life
/8 Other times, it’s a purely derisive epithet for some ill-defined group that is not, in any meaningful sense, absolutist. Like you might sneer at Trumpists as “free speech absolutists,” meaning to contrast Trumpian proclamations about restoring free speech with Trumpian rampant censorship.
/9 Other times it’s an insult for insufficiently emotional people. Like, this speech is awful, you are not reacting to it with sufficient emotional vigor, you are a First Amendment Absolutist. This is more or less “objectively pro-Saddam” injected in the First Amendment world.
…back in the day…when vanity fair was the onion of its age…you wouldn’t have got the gag if you didn’t know the stuff that had been spoken on the floor of congress…the actual speech, mind…not just who spoke…the extent to which…say…oh, hell…so many people have done this better than I could before I go back to ken…but…the significance of washington walking not riding when he went among the people of an afternoon was not lost upon his contemporaries…& any of those…let alone the man himself…would consider the urgent necessity of the modern age to be very possibly a bigger exercise of disenfranchisement than the current shitheads…because the degree to which their whole scheme was predicated on people grasping the enormity of the thing offered in exchange for holding up their end of the deal meant that being the sort of proud american voter all these assholes claim to be…meant being fucking informed…not that you had to agree…but that you had to understand the question being put to you to which your vote was the means of response on the days those were solicited…but…in between…you did the fucking homework…shit…there’s an episode of the boondocks that imagines MLK not having died but been in a coma & then waking up…him & george would probably go get drunk in a corner, basically
Bezalel Smotrich, ministre israélien d’extrême droite, veut « encourager l’émigration » des Palestiniens et annuler les accords d’Oslo
…they razed the strip…they’ve declared that they are the arbiters of the land registry for the territory of the west bank…& there’s three years before they think there won’t be something else to keep the world from sticking its nose in…maybe more if they really do try to make iran go all the way…because he gets that thought re-up-ed regular enough to seem like he can keep an idea in his head for…I dunno…a whole week?
Why didn't Farage just answer the question about Reform's education policy?Why did he seek to mock and ridicule the journalist asking a perfectly legitimate question and try to deligitimise the FT?Easy. That's who he is. An arrogant man who doesn't have any policies beyond pointing at the sea.
A heartwarming tale of a former Marine turned NSA "ethical hacker" apparently working on an app to allow everyone with said app to crowdsource any given person's location based on their medical implant device's Bluetooth signal
"I the past three years, a group of Nigerian families has moved into the area. Most are employed as engineers or health and social care workers."So Govt's main policy offer to this area is to try to kick these people out. Both futile and wrong.www.bbc.co.uk/news/article…
…I dunno as I can pinpoint where prospect’s prospects would see it on the spectrum from the new statesman to the new republic to newsweek to nah-nah-nah-I-can’t-hear-you…but…usual T&C’s & such?
This is a microcosm of the Government's political strategy on immigration. I wrote here on why it is doomed to failure:www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/724…
/10 Other times, it means “I believe this speech should not be protected by the law, and you think is protected by the law, so you are an absolutist.” A close cousin is “I believe this speech should not be protected, and you are articulating the legal rules by which courts decide that, that’s rude.”
In less than 24 hours, Colbert's interview with Talarico is at more than 3.8 million YouTube views. The video is already one of the two most watched videos on the Late Show's YouTube page this year.
Also, just as a comparison note: In the week of Feb. 1, Nielsen ratings counted an average total audience of 2.32 million viewers for Colbert. latenighter.com/news/ratings…
Yeah, there it is. Most watched Late Show video of the year — in its first 24 hours online. (It appears to have been posted at midnight because that's when it rolled over to 1 day.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ…It is easily going to be over 4 million views still tonight.
In a rare move, the White House recently took down a racist post from one of President Trump's social media accounts. Extremism researchers say it fits a pattern of mainstreaming extremist ideas. n.pr/4tIwocA
…look…I know…rawstory…via the bulwark…but…the quote is something to think about while I wait to hear more than the “so they arrested the andrew-formerly-known-as-prince…at sandringham, apparently” part of what might be kind of a big deal today
“It does not matter to the Ellisons at all what the ratings are on CBS Evening News and how much money CBS News loses as a division or makes as a division,” Last said. “… And same with the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos doesn’t give a s— what the Washington Post loses or makes as a business. What he cares about is Blue Origin.”
“So, Blue Origin has to get a bunch of government contracts in order to succeed,” he continued. “… And so, in order to get government contracts to make that succeed, the Washington Post has to lose $100 million or something like that. And that’s like the weird web in which we now exist, where all of these media properties are only valuable as ways to signal to the strongman that other companies are deserving of favors in government business.”
“That betrays the fundamental lie that like defenders of Bari Weiss and defenders of Bezos engage in when they try to talk about this as if, ‘Oh well, these were stagnant businesses and you need to shake it up and try something different,'” Miller said.
“They want to make it seem like that’s what’s happening because what they’re actually doing is corruption,” he continued.
…I mean…yeah…pretty much…were we meant to have been unclear about that part…because I passed the point of struggling to see how anyone could need that part pointed out…ummm…okay so it’s years ago…plural…which…seems like it shouldn’t be a thing you can say about stuff that hadn’t happened then but it depends how you look at that & he pretended to be president already & was himself for a whole bunch of time before he pretended he wanted to be one of those
"Prosecution forensic experts paid 50% more than defence experts, leading to fears of prosecutors buying guilty verdicts through offering more cash. “Grave concern” defence scientists are disincentivised from appearing in court, risking miscarriages of justice".www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02…
…so…yeah…years…technically…decades…& frankly it does rather seem like the thing that really holds us back from addressing this shit is that nobody’s truly comfortable that it won’t turn out the line isn’t the side of them they want to continue to believe they’re on
/11 Commonly the term “free speech absolutist“ is deployed in a very Pompey sort of way: “don’t quote laws to men with swords,” for meanings of “swords” that include “agitated social media posts.”
/12 Commonly also, “free speech absolutist” is deployed by speakers unaware, and uninterested, in what laws actually govern the question of how and whether the First Amendment applies to the speech and what legal doctrines govern.
today i am wearing my Destroy AI t-shirt to the office and i met the manager of my manager’s manager in the office kitchen and i got such a LOOK
it’s by @kim-hu.com whose work is extremely good
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It’s now quite hard to sustain that ex-mining, pro-Brexit, Labour-to-Reform swing seats (via levelling up) have been overlooked or forgotten by Westminster. They’ve been the axis of politics 15 years. Why it hasn’t worked is the question
This is absolutely true, and why, in times past places just got abandoned.
The other thing I’d add is that where an answer does exist, its often “high speed travel to big city and lots of housing”, and guess what people also don’t want.
Why hasn't it worked? Because there isn't an obvious way to regenerate communities once reliant on mining, but nobody wants to say this.
…do you know who wrote that…or indeed knocked it out as a holiday project that made a bunch of well-thought of wordsmiths admit she had them beat comparing that to what they came up with in the timeframe?
…did you happen to have ever thought about how fucked up blaming eve for original sin is?
…well…fucking mary shelley fucking did you unmitigated moron…but maybe expecting you to have noticed…or braved milton the way our luigi has been…which…she had…so…fuck…ok…maybe that’s too subtle…but…she wasn’t the first or the last & I know you know jane austen was a thing…the fuck do you even think philosophy is?
Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think
…you don’t think if you don’t know any female philosophers it’s because there never were any women better at thinking than your ass…when you can’t fathom how much of a fucking idiot you just proved beyond philosophical doubt you fucking have to be to be serious about thinking anything you think is serious…fucking do one
…you know what…all these motherfuckers need to get right with the part where they are vol-cel all the way…because it is a fucking choice…& all your fucking choices are to not see what you could about how long none of your shit has been working on women that weren’t born fucking yesterday
/13 Recently I have gotten the “you’re a free speech absolutist” when I’ve explained that a multi-factor test governs whether speech is protected AND SUGGESTED THE SPEECH PROBABLY ISN’T PROTECTED, which diverges from my understanding of the term “absolutist.”
…people…people…we are fucking embarrassing ourselves…some more than others…but…I don’t rightly see how in some degree it doesn’t have to work out as all of us?
/14 Anyway: the most common usage just means “if that’s the law I don’t like it and don’t agree with it.” ”Absolutist” for the most part is not serious.I’m just saying I think “you’re pro-Nazi-speech, you‘re a Nazi” is more honest and even respectable than “absolutist.”
…& I just about guarantee you’ll have a better time with any of her stuff than this
/15 In short, if you use the term, I don’t think you should feel entitled to have it taken seriously. It is not, in the vast majority of applications, serious.
1968: Esquire asks every member of Congress:1. What idea, work, or thinker most influenced your political philosophy?2. What music do you prefer?3. Who is your favorite painter?4. Who is your favorite poet/novelist?5. Name one of the movies you most enjoyed6. Theatre, ballet, opera, or sports?
…there’s all sorts of hidden benefits…for example…not only might I struggle to answer #3…the other 5 questions I’d never be able to finish answering so I could never be in that article so I could never hold those offices…see…it’s a safety mechanism is what it is
…there…may or may not be more to come…but…if it does…I’ll try to not bury the good bit…so…maybe I’ll stick it above this either way?
…but…seems like they legit perp-i-fied the ex-prince…& the talk is all of misconduct in a public office & to do with the “financier” part of the epstein connection…but…they…maybe didn’t say they were coming to call on the guy where he lives…so…potentially a spot of pith &/or moment be in the mix of our present moment?
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The chart on progressive vs. moderate is very interesting. It makes me think of @clevernamehere2 talking about the voters being out for blood. Because I’m pretty sure they are.
I still don’t know if the wave will be high enough to crest the many barriers Texas has against going blue but I’m pretty sure Democratic voters would happily crawl over broken Trump-branded glass to vote blue this year. (And they absolutely do not want “and I will bravely stand up and tell him sir, you must REDUCE your TARIFFS by TEN percent and cut ICE funding by UPWARDS OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS”)
I’m starting to get more concerned that we will make significant progress, and feckless Democrats will misread the “will of the voters” (ah, who am I kidding — do the bidding of their corporate overlords) and not attempt meaningful change. If by some miracle we get control of both House and Senate, they need to make sure this NEVER happens again.
Their absolute goal is to win power and do nothing with it, 100%. Should they get there, they’ll stop the most egregious PR disasters to show they’re doing “something” but they absolutely will demand to not rock the boat because [excuse to be named later].
That said, I don’t get the sense that’s gonna be quite enough for voters, and a do-nothing Congress opens the door to the AOC wing a whole fucking lot in 2028 in a way the party desperately fears. I don’t know if they’re smart or savvy enough to ride that wave, should it arrive, but I don’t think the “we’ll just let Trump finish out quietly” is an option that voters are gonna be give a big thumbs-up for.
Fuck it, imma reply twice because you’re so right: How in the actual fuck aren’t Schumer and Jeffries running around with their hair on fire that El Presidente cannot just declare wars without, you know, some sort of note from Congress? I get that they don’t really want to put in the work — I mean there are just so many donor meetings and all — but holy fuck, we’re getting to the point where we should send the Bobs into the well of the Senate to ask “so what is it you say you DO here?” because they’ve basically outsourced everything. (And if they expect that to continue should a Democrat get the White House LOL LMAO LMFAO I got a bridge to sell you puds)
I saw skeets about this yesterday, and of course we were talking about attacks on AOC as a potential candidate, because we have our finger on the pulse of … whatever this mess is that we’re in now. Still makes me want to throw a chair, though.
Second, thanks, because it reminds me to post this about Trump naming things Trump. If you’re thinking it’s raging narcissism, well, you’re not wrong. But since it’s Trump, there’s a grift.
…the palace made a statement that the law should run its course & the still-royals would be the very personification of assisting with *those* enquiries…but…since those would be ongoing & all…it wouldn’t be seemly to further comment…AKA…don’t any of you get any ideas about asking any of us what we know about the guy…& this isn’t because that one guy heckled chuck on a day out the other day…just…we’re bloody royalty, let’s not have anyone make any unwarranted assumptions about who gets to take what view of whom…don’t call us…we’ll…say something at christmas, maybe…depends how horribilus the annus gets, really?
I’m struck by the number of online references I’ve seen to Andrew’s arrest being the thing that’s going to blow the whole Epstein ring wide open. And I’m like, “Huh? They’re just letting one of the disgraced scumbags take a fall to convince the public that the criminals are being punished.”
I’d love to be proven wrong but I’m not going to bet on it.
That may or may not be true but at least Europe is trying to act like they are doing something. I’m betting they will uncover or release some things that Bondi has burried.
Oh, no, I give them full props for taking action. I just don’t think it’s going to morph into a huge attempt to take down what is clearly a global sex trafficking network. I’m thinking it’s more “Well, Andy, old boy, you’ve drawn the short straw. Now be a good lad and keep that stiff upper lip. We don’t want to find you hanging in your cell now, do we?” And to the public it’s “We’ve got the guy responsible. Move along now.”
A good point I saw made: Charles has seen other monarchies fall and feels compelled to take action, just like South Korea and Brazil have had juntas in living memory and feel it necessary to not just let things slide. Consequences, yes, but also upholding a particular system.
American exceptionalism is usually thought of as us projecting outward, but we can certainly project it inwardly, too! We haven’t had a system failure and presume it can’t happen; there’s gonna be some real sore assholes when we find out that’s a bad bet.
…I can’t decide quite how I think I’d characterize it…but…back in the blair era there was a big deal about this science guy that turned up dead on a park bench & somehow by the end of the public enquiry a failure to determine that…I dunno…tony had him whacked or something…I never really got how it was all meant to be elided…but in terms of people trying to stay abreast of what they were mad about today…that verdict was the total exoneration barr conferred if you took his word for it about the mueller thing…only for the iraq thing
…it’s hard to explain without immersion in the way UK crazy is cracked different than US crazy…but…it’s like cutting bait…de-prince-ing the guy was like a dishonorable-discharge version of what happend to the now-less-official spare heir…but a lot of that is to keep the part that overlaps epstein business with government business with inter-state relations business with royal personages…strictly at a nothing-to-do-with-us-mind-your-manners-&-show-some-respect arm’s length
…it’s a point in someone’s favor that they took that to heart enough to show up at no notice & seize him & whatever else seemed sensible to…& sandringham…which had to have had at least some heads up for the security not to lose their shit…apparently didn’t give him that courtesy…which is fairly significant if true…&…seems to be?
…but the offense mentioned anywhere I’ve seen get specific is the same ballpark as what did for mandelson…misconduct while in public office or somebody the sort…& it’s basically like insider trading mixed with foreign relations & business interests that span borders
…I dunno if the rake stepper can come good…but…starmer was a pretty effective lawyer & an effective prosecution of the network modelled by the epstein mailbox some enterprising people have rendered as “jmail” to make it easier to search/navigate like a google webmail…would need a lot of places to clean house at least enough to cooperate about trying to just catch *these ones* for *this stuff*… international courts not recognized by some places they’d need to be…making it so a president can get done as easy as andrew tate…not tate getting off as easy as a president…that kinda thing
…but that is a heavy lift
…cutting don’t-sweat-can’t-sweat-it’s-a-condition loose like losing the foot to save the leg because the foot can’t stop shoving itself in the mouth so it all falls on its face or its ass…& britain doing it nudges that state ahead of the others as they try to keep outrunning the bear?
Did you guys see the doggo who crashed the Olympics? It made me laugh because he looks exactly like my old dog who would also totally do a derpy thing like run wild with joy at the Olympics. We didn’t look too closely into her heritage because wolfdogs are a no-no in a lot of places (especially as a renter). The one at the Olympics is a Czechoslovakian wolfdog.
…I did…though I can’t tell a wolfdog from a husky…& have known at least one husky that was soppy enough I imagine it would not have survived in the wild or hauling any sleds
…either way…the dog had a great time & if you get it the view from the camera on the tracks beside the track that it ran fast enough to catch up to was kind of a delight but I don’t think I have a link to hand?
…if it wasn’t quite so apposite it would have been funny as fuck…but…it’s…basically spot on…which sours it some for me…sadly…I could do with laughing until that was what hurt?
…some of the seats on the board ponied up their piece…$1billion for the…plate…seat…privilege…hmmm…probably that last one fits best?
…plus…quatar holding that sour crude cash…&…there’s the USAID money that didn’t get spent making the one guy from the epstein circuit feels like he had enough security to survive being lutnick?
…saying the money is there provided he gets to count it is sort of how he thinks it works now…based on observable reality?
reasonably sure…that long as you dont eat them… headphones are really quite safe…and probably wont turn me into a girl…
hell…pretty sure most parts what actually come into contact with skin…are..kinda made of the same stuff every day clothes and whatever are made of too….
tho i guess i can almost apreciate the feminisation of males threat…keeps things fresh i guess… normally studies just show everything causes cancer
The chart on progressive vs. moderate is very interesting. It makes me think of @clevernamehere2 talking about the voters being out for blood. Because I’m pretty sure they are.
There’s something happening in Texas
I still don’t know if the wave will be high enough to crest the many barriers Texas has against going blue but I’m pretty sure Democratic voters would happily crawl over broken Trump-branded glass to vote blue this year. (And they absolutely do not want “and I will bravely stand up and tell him sir, you must REDUCE your TARIFFS by TEN percent and cut ICE funding by UPWARDS OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS”)
I’m starting to get more concerned that we will make significant progress, and feckless Democrats will misread the “will of the voters” (ah, who am I kidding — do the bidding of their corporate overlords) and not attempt meaningful change. If by some miracle we get control of both House and Senate, they need to make sure this NEVER happens again.
Their absolute goal is to win power and do nothing with it, 100%. Should they get there, they’ll stop the most egregious PR disasters to show they’re doing “something” but they absolutely will demand to not rock the boat because [excuse to be named later].
That said, I don’t get the sense that’s gonna be quite enough for voters, and a do-nothing Congress opens the door to the AOC wing a whole fucking lot in 2028 in a way the party desperately fears. I don’t know if they’re smart or savvy enough to ride that wave, should it arrive, but I don’t think the “we’ll just let Trump finish out quietly” is an option that voters are gonna be give a big thumbs-up for.
Fuck it, imma reply twice because you’re so right: How in the actual fuck aren’t Schumer and Jeffries running around with their hair on fire that El Presidente cannot just declare wars without, you know, some sort of note from Congress? I get that they don’t really want to put in the work — I mean there are just so many donor meetings and all — but holy fuck, we’re getting to the point where we should send the Bobs into the well of the Senate to ask “so what is it you say you DO here?” because they’ve basically outsourced everything. (And if they expect that to continue should a Democrat get the White House LOL LMAO LMFAO I got a bridge to sell you puds)
I saw skeets about this yesterday, and of course we were talking about attacks on AOC as a potential candidate, because we have our finger on the pulse of … whatever this mess is that we’re in now. Still makes me want to throw a chair, though.
The New York Times is back on its Democrat-smearing bullsh-t
America: Elite capture (derogatory)
UK: Elite capture (laudatory)
Is Trump sending any of the new Epstein-class battleships to the Middle East?
First, *snork* I damn near spit coffee.
Second, thanks, because it reminds me to post this about Trump naming things Trump. If you’re thinking it’s raging narcissism, well, you’re not wrong. But since it’s Trump, there’s a grift.
Here’s the real reason Trump wants to slap his name on airports
Prince Andy… arrested.
…less of the prince, if you please
…the palace made a statement that the law should run its course & the still-royals would be the very personification of assisting with *those* enquiries…but…since those would be ongoing & all…it wouldn’t be seemly to further comment…AKA…don’t any of you get any ideas about asking any of us what we know about the guy…& this isn’t because that one guy heckled chuck on a day out the other day…just…we’re bloody royalty, let’s not have anyone make any unwarranted assumptions about who gets to take what view of whom…don’t call us…we’ll…say something at christmas, maybe…depends how horribilus the annus gets, really?
I’m struck by the number of online references I’ve seen to Andrew’s arrest being the thing that’s going to blow the whole Epstein ring wide open. And I’m like, “Huh? They’re just letting one of the disgraced scumbags take a fall to convince the public that the criminals are being punished.”
I’d love to be proven wrong but I’m not going to bet on it.
That may or may not be true but at least Europe is trying to act like they are doing something. I’m betting they will uncover or release some things that Bondi has burried.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yqr8eggvwo
Oh, no, I give them full props for taking action. I just don’t think it’s going to morph into a huge attempt to take down what is clearly a global sex trafficking network. I’m thinking it’s more “Well, Andy, old boy, you’ve drawn the short straw. Now be a good lad and keep that stiff upper lip. We don’t want to find you hanging in your cell now, do we?” And to the public it’s “We’ve got the guy responsible. Move along now.”
A good point I saw made: Charles has seen other monarchies fall and feels compelled to take action, just like South Korea and Brazil have had juntas in living memory and feel it necessary to not just let things slide. Consequences, yes, but also upholding a particular system.
American exceptionalism is usually thought of as us projecting outward, but we can certainly project it inwardly, too! We haven’t had a system failure and presume it can’t happen; there’s gonna be some real sore assholes when we find out that’s a bad bet.
…I can’t decide quite how I think I’d characterize it…but…back in the blair era there was a big deal about this science guy that turned up dead on a park bench & somehow by the end of the public enquiry a failure to determine that…I dunno…tony had him whacked or something…I never really got how it was all meant to be elided…but in terms of people trying to stay abreast of what they were mad about today…that verdict was the total exoneration barr conferred if you took his word for it about the mueller thing…only for the iraq thing
…it’s hard to explain without immersion in the way UK crazy is cracked different than US crazy…but…it’s like cutting bait…de-prince-ing the guy was like a dishonorable-discharge version of what happend to the now-less-official spare heir…but a lot of that is to keep the part that overlaps epstein business with government business with inter-state relations business with royal personages…strictly at a nothing-to-do-with-us-mind-your-manners-&-show-some-respect arm’s length
…it’s a point in someone’s favor that they took that to heart enough to show up at no notice & seize him & whatever else seemed sensible to…& sandringham…which had to have had at least some heads up for the security not to lose their shit…apparently didn’t give him that courtesy…which is fairly significant if true…&…seems to be?
…but the offense mentioned anywhere I’ve seen get specific is the same ballpark as what did for mandelson…misconduct while in public office or somebody the sort…& it’s basically like insider trading mixed with foreign relations & business interests that span borders
…I dunno if the rake stepper can come good…but…starmer was a pretty effective lawyer & an effective prosecution of the network modelled by the epstein mailbox some enterprising people have rendered as “jmail” to make it easier to search/navigate like a google webmail…would need a lot of places to clean house at least enough to cooperate about trying to just catch *these ones* for *this stuff*… international courts not recognized by some places they’d need to be…making it so a president can get done as easy as andrew tate…not tate getting off as easy as a president…that kinda thing
…but that is a heavy lift
…cutting don’t-sweat-can’t-sweat-it’s-a-condition loose like losing the foot to save the leg because the foot can’t stop shoving itself in the mouth so it all falls on its face or its ass…& britain doing it nudges that state ahead of the others as they try to keep outrunning the bear?
https://people.com/dog-crashes-2026-winter-olympics-cross-country-race-11908483
Images from people.com article:
Did you guys see the doggo who crashed the Olympics? It made me laugh because he looks exactly like my old dog who would also totally do a derpy thing like run wild with joy at the Olympics. We didn’t look too closely into her heritage because wolfdogs are a no-no in a lot of places (especially as a renter). The one at the Olympics is a Czechoslovakian wolfdog.
…I did…though I can’t tell a wolfdog from a husky…& have known at least one husky that was soppy enough I imagine it would not have survived in the wild or hauling any sleds
…either way…the dog had a great time & if you get it the view from the camera on the tracks beside the track that it ran fast enough to catch up to was kind of a delight but I don’t think I have a link to hand?
My turn to spit my coffee: 4chan.gov
😂 but also 😭 😩
…if it wasn’t quite so apposite it would have been funny as fuck…but…it’s…basically spot on…which sours it some for me…sadly…I could do with laughing until that was what hurt?
Today’s nominee for biggest asshole in congress…
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/cory-mills-florida-investigation-profile-stolen-valor-trump-sex-workers-pacem-restraining-order-miss-us/
Mills is utter scum. He makes Ted Cruz look like Abraham Lincoln.
How exactly does this grift work w/out Congress authorizing this funding?
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5745297-trump-funding-board-of-peace/
…some of the seats on the board ponied up their piece…$1billion for the…plate…seat…privilege…hmmm…probably that last one fits best?
…plus…quatar holding that sour crude cash…&…there’s the USAID money that didn’t get spent making the one guy from the epstein circuit feels like he had enough security to survive being lutnick?
…saying the money is there provided he gets to count it is sort of how he thinks it works now…based on observable reality?
reasonably sure…that long as you dont eat them… headphones are really quite safe…and probably wont turn me into a girl…
hell…pretty sure most parts what actually come into contact with skin…are..kinda made of the same stuff every day clothes and whatever are made of too….
tho i guess i can almost apreciate the feminisation of males threat…keeps things fresh i guess… normally studies just show everything causes cancer