HOW IS HE STILL THIS STUPID? HOW DID KNOWLEDGE NOT JUST OSMOS THROUGH HIS HEAD?
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HOW IS HE STILL THIS STUPID? HOW DID KNOWLEDGE NOT JUST OSMOS THROUGH HIS HEAD?
In addition to giving him the medal, he's appointing Rudy as Administrator of DOGE.
As an old, I was working at Hollywood Video when this movie hit home video. Store TVs had to be playing either G-rated movies or the terrible trailer loop. This became such a favorite that we wore out copies, and this may actually be the movie I have seen the most in my life. So, here for it.
Limits on posting are good and smart, but I wouldn't want to miss THAT party if it wanted to happen on a day off.
The past few months has definitely worn me down to the point of expecting SCOTUS to make up some king bullshit, but I'm going to cling to the faint sliver of hope that this is the time they say no. Nothing I can do about it either way, but might as well dream I'm not in the literal Worst Timeline.
I think it makes sense as a political horse-trade acceptable to most of the GOP but I'm unsure they could get Trump to play along. Being FORCED to fire someone he appointed would activate his stupidest and worst impulses. He'd demand the filibuster be sac'd before RFK, I think?
Bondi and Noem can be Derpy and Sussy. Gwi-Ma is Putin. It's all deeply stupid, but so is everything these days.
In "Stupid Things I Can't Stop Thinking About" news, Trump's hand sent me down this "What if they're Patterns?" spiral and now I'm mentally recasting the Saja Boys with the Trump Admin. Trump as Jinu, Vance as Baby Saja, Hegseth as Abby because I hate everything, RFK as Mystery, Rubio as Romance.
Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?
The fact that this gif isn't showing up EVERYWHERE in Our Current Times is proof it was criminally under-viewed.
So much of Discourse is 'This Dem pol stands out for doing good thing; here's why they must/most not be the nom in 2028!' We can just normalize Dem politicians doing good things as part of the jobs they already have! It's ok! We shouldn't feel like they're only doing it to audition for President!
Do they ever test messaging that sounds like how 'regular' people, the ones with the kitchen tables they're obsessed with, actually talk? Every single message they tested is going to sound like the teacher in a Peanuts cartoon to anyone who isn't already invested enough to already know these things.
Trump's One Special Boy status pollutes trying to discuss policy he's enacted, because nobody paying attention thinks the rules will be applied the same way to anyone else. And if we're going to fantasize impossible policies we won't be allowed to implement, I don't think this one makes the list.
Withholding Congressionally approved CHIPS funds and threatening to demand a CEO be replaced so that a company gives him a stake doesn't scale beyond Trump. There's no expectation a non-Trump president could do exactly this and get away with it; GOP Congress would stop him, SCOTUS maybe.
I have no idea what he goes on to do professionally, but at this point I 100% expect it to include a post-loss announcement that the Mamdani proves the Democratic Party has gone insane and he's being forced to join the GOP. Like he is absolutely going to go in for the party-swap grifter angle.
NPCs? Really? This is a bit, right? This whole entire guy is some exaggerated bit, time-traveled from the distant past to watch someone fall down the GamerGate pipeline in a quaint and nostalgic way?
Nobody at any level should support a single man arbitrarily taxing just, sort of, whatever however he wants by abusing emergency powers. Calling the self-appointed king's backroom deals a wealth tax taints the concept and makes a real one a harder sell in the future.
This post was the spot in the thread revealed a business name I could Google and, sure enough, Hwy 99. 10/10 no notes
I've spent the past day trying to figure out what this guy's picture reminds me of, and it's literally just this:
Chat, is it bad when the President jokingly suggests we'll be in a war in three and a half years and won't be able to have an election?
I'm pretty sure it was announced last week that after speaking w/lawyers they'd be doing this once California had established their counter-gerrymander plans. This isn't a breaking pivot, it's expected--CA to counter TX, legislators go back to do things like flood relief.
He also seems to be rewriting video game history to try to make this seem like a new development; while we went through a period of 'woke' game dev being in-vogue, online gaming has always had a heavy cesspool bias. GamerGate literally gets credited for helping make the alt right a thing!
Super weird to know that the president of Ukraine + a bunch of EU leaders are going to be in the White House tomorrow to meet with Trump, and my biggest hope is that they tell the US president to eat shit and kick him out of the coalition. Trump is just Putin's creature, and not to be trusted.
It was my favorite on initial viewing, and someone on here did a list of 'what your kid's favorite KPDH song says about them', and they had What It Sounds Like as "You're never going to be able to tell this kid shit", or something, and... yeah. Good song and it meets the moment IMO.
Frankenstein shows the world he has taught his monster to shake in pre-summit photo op. Not-pictured: Post-summit demonstration of the monster's grasp of 'roll over'.
We used to think John Roberts cared about the legacy of his court; no way to believe that now. It's not even about the corruption; Trump's level of desperate, slimy patheticness is hitching levels of cringe to the Roberts' court that science previously thought impossible.
I absolutely hate that all discussion of what Newsom and Pritzker are doing is met with HE SHOULD GET THE NOM IN 2028. Normalize governors standing up for democracy. Using the power their voters gave them to fight for those voters should be the bare-minimum expectation, not grounds for promotion.
What we actually need are billionaires going "Here are some things I actively do more than the bare minimum; here's how we can convince others to do the same." You want to be seen as on our side? You have the capital to do good in ways we can't; use it to do good and help us make that the default.
This a billionaire on Team Rich explaining how plebs can bribe the wealthy to exploit them less. They'd just exploit loopholes to maximize tax breaks with as little benefit to us as legally allowed. That's not innovation. They already do that.
To me the scary part of ChatGPT's inability to count letters isn't that it gets the answer wrong; it's that we're however long into this and the model still presents that it can count letters. It's getting better at getting the right answer, but it will still present confident, wrong answers.
LLMs can lie. They do lie. They're incapable of not lying, because there's no intent--there's insanely impressive pattern matching, statistics and such I cannot comprehend, and there's presentation that calculates what a human is likely have said to give the appearance of thought... but no intent.
People en masse understand computers to be relatively reliable because they're all 1s and 0s, can't lie, and follow set programs. Moreover, computers generally behave in intentional ways--bugs and viruses and human dishonesty can lead to unexpected results, but there's a why behind it.
The point of the 'lol AI can't count' isn't that AI is bad at counting characters. It's that this is a basic deterministic computer task AI companies have apparently made no progress in figuring out how to integrate with LLMs, OR how to make their models refuse to do.
Thrilled to come here and find multiple people already citing Kpop Demon Hunters. Because yeah. It's that.
If you see this, post a castle
Why do you assume AI (by which I assume you mean the LLMs people are trying to shove into everything at the moment) would be the right fix here? Why is the push not a generalized 'what are Dems going to do to reduce the barrier to entry', and instead 'how can we use the latest fad to do it?'
Starting to really think the future of Trump's connection with his base is going to depend on how the Rogans and Theo Vons take the BS they're about to pull with Maxwell. Trump's connection with his base is fraying; I really think the base is going to follow where the 'outsiders' lead.
I understood how secretly promising her a pardon to be revealed at the end of his term would let him placate his base--they wouldn't know. I don't understand why he thinks telling them he might pardon the sex trafficker work.s Which doesn't mean it won't, just that they continue to do the dumbest.
Didn't we just go through a major uproar because SCOTUS is, for reasons they refuse to explain, letting Trump effectively fire enough people to render the DOE nonfunctional? If SCOTUS had stopped that, maybe Fetterman has a point but... he's already basically firing everyone en masse. It's happening
Honestly shocked by this, thanks.
Filed in Florida, so they're fishing for Cannon?
What's fascinating to me is that Trump is stupidly denying the letter entirely, instead of just calling it locker room talk from before Epstein was outed. He could absolutely be getting away from this clean w/his base, but he's so determined to control the narrative that he's enflaming it all.
It's a lie but I enjoy that the lie they're going with is 'Trump is a soft boy whose delicate hands cannot handle handshakes.'
I know the Golden Dome thing is out of the news right now, but I will give $20 to any journalist who asks Trump if he's at all concerned that the Golden Honmoon South Korea's been working on will technologically outstrip it. If he acted like he knew about it, the resultant memes would be legendary.
The MAGA conspiracy I'm currently hoping catches on: That Trump flip-flopped on the Epstein list because he learned that one of his sons is somewhere in it. I don't believe it, but I do like that the "fatherly love" angle lets them start believing he's doing the Bad Thing for a 'pure' reason.
It looks like the Hall of Justice after being taken over by Lex Luthor in a future Superman movie.
I am both intrigued by and terrified of how the Trump admin is going to try to spin this to get Trump off his base's shitlist.
Years of "He's just doing it to distract us from..." from various corners of the internet, and now we're hitting a point where he's going to try to destroy the US economy as a distraction because he's losing control over his own cult. This is the stupidest timeline.
I half want to start pushing a theory to MAGA that Roberts is somewhere in the Epstein files, and Trump is keeping them secret in exchange for favorable rulings. Not because I believe it, but if I have to live in this stupid timeline where nothing matters anymore, why not.
Every time this comparison comes up, I feel like I need to defend Camacho. He put the smartest man in the country in his cabinet, was willing to penalize Joe when he tanked the economy, but immediately pardoned him when it turned out his plan worked. Trump would never.
Saying his human-intelligence-surpassing program has to be carefully spoon-fed only approved ideologies because it can't come to a 'sane' conclusion when exposed to unfiltered base data shows zero dissonance with his free speech absolutist/community notes will adequately stop disinformation stance.
Trump giving big Ramsay Bolton 'my dogs would never harm me' energy; he spent forever working up their appetite for the Epstein stuff. Now they're ravenous and his genius plan for handling it is "Trust me, bro."
Early Discworld is not great; Pratchett grew a lot and the early books feel wildly out of place. Writing off, say, Night Watch because of The Light Fantastic is like writing off Andor bc of the Star Wars Holiday Special. (Not trying to convert, just agreeing early DW is hard to get through.)
This is a totally fair and rational read. Luckily for Bondi, the people most invested in the Epstein client list are famously rational and willing to believe common-sense explanations that don't feed into a fantastical worldview; they should have no problem accepting this answer.
Love that it's nonsense from the jump--three Senators to swing key votes only works if the rest of the Senate is actually divided and those votes swing the win. If we have a uniparty, and current opposition is pageantry, his senators get ignored as the other 97 coordinate.
This is a very, very funny worry viewed through the unitary executive theory Trump's operating under.
Sarah McLachlan was singing about someone "far away from here"; the quality of my discovery feed says that categorically cannot be Jerry.
I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope. She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive. But the FDA recently denied its approval. Now, her health hangs in the balance. Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵
News today has had a lot about the marine's wife who unknowingly missed a court appearance as a minor and thus had an order for removal entered in 2018. Today this, so SCOTUS just gave Trump the go-ahead to ship her to Libya with zero chance for her to protest?
Trying to imagine explaining to teenage me that I just signed up for a for-pay search engine because it's better than Google because the Google I have is infinitely worse than the Google teenage me had.
If the thing about him only notifying the GOP leaders is true, I absolutely DO NOT want to see it reported anywhere as he notified "leadership." Should not let them transform that wording to only mean his side.
Why is the news acting like this is Trump playing some kind of genius long game, when what we saw this week looked more like Netanyahu leading him around by the nose? America's role in this feels more like dumb henchman with impressive strength than, you know, the mastermind.
Is there a Nobel Peace Prize equivalent of the Razzies? If not can someone make one and award him literally every category? 50/50 chance he shows up to accept.
I like to think they're not letting him in the War Room so he's sitting in the hallway, fuming and posting through it.
Usually I think the "guys, they're trying to distract us" stuff is overplayed, BUT. JD Vance trying to bully trans people and pick a fight on BlueSky is absolutely about getting us to waste energy for his amusement. There is no point in rational discussion with an admitted liar. Block and move on.
We know he thinks it's ok to lie if it pushes his position; during the campaign he said this re: the eating pets lie: "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Admitted liar lies again.
A lot of the soldiers in vehicles were waving and seemed enthusiastic to the crowd. I choose to believe he's specifically angry at these two, who definitely were not interested in his strong man BS.
The best part of this coming from this AI-obsessed administration is that the one thing AI is not is direct and brief. Gonna die if this whole reproducing-most-of-Churchill's-memo thing is just that they hate reading ChatGPT's writing.
OK but each MAGA American is worth like 5 non-MAGA traitors so while you may only see 50,000 bodies there are the equivalent of 250,000 loser's worth of spirit. ...no? Not buying it? Can we talk about President Trump's strong support amongst the Ghosts and Phantasms demo? YUGE. That pic is packed!
And honestly it looked like some of them were trying to show enthusiasm *for the people*, not for the propaganda. I have no idea who these two are, but them choosing this gesture in that atmosphere felt like it was for us, not Trump.
Most of the footage I saw had a weirdly low percentage of bystanders wearing red hats, too--Trump's loyal MAGA soldiers failed to turn out in uniform. Terrible, terrible day for his dictator branding. I can only assume he's going to lash out at blue states over this.
It's a lot less threatening coming from someone who sounds like their dentures are coming loose.
Why are the songs being played at the end of the 250th parade for the military some random guy singing about, alternately, his addiction to a bad relationship and getting the electric chair? Happy 250th, here's some shitty music!
Had a legit Awww moment at CSpan broadcasting one pair in a tank making heart-hands to the crowd. I am so sad these people's parade could be so much cooler with literally anyone else in charge.
Trump's parade is failing so hard even Jerry's making good posts.
Everyone just looks so bored and sedate in every bit of footage I'm seeing. It's the military parade equivalent of a child's birthday party largely attended by kids whose moms made them come.
Trump's snoozefest of a military parade is embarrassing for the nation--No, not for the reasons you're thinking. If there's one thing America does well, it's entertaining spectacle. Dude managed to make a propaganda parade less entertaining than North Korea. It's just so... cringe.
I figured it'd be under-attended, but that honestly surprises me. I assume the whole route's not like this, but really thought they'd have ensured the whole route had enough people around it for carefully curated angles to look full.
Guy being convincingly cop-disguised can't help; tensions between law enforcement and protesters were already expected to be high. Now there's a bad actor out there disguised as law enforcement who would likely take the opportunity to create violence, and protesters will reasonably be more wary.
They kept him until they could hand him off to civilian law enforcement, and civilian law enforcement ultimately released him. I'm not blaming the individual Marines, but I do think it's worth concern that the 'threat' level that warrants military intervention is apparently crossing caution tape.
"The troops are authorized to detain people who pose a threat to federal personnel or property, but only until police can arrest them. " He... crossed a line, was asked to stop, immediately complied and they detained him. His crossing the line was sufficient enough threat to warrant arrest?
This is horrific and I'm trying to articulate the very important thing it's showing us about who the people doing these horrible things really are. I can't word it properly, so I'm just throwing up this Discworld quote:
This is arguably where the "Twitter is the public square!" argument is most harmful--social media sites have their own cultures, but if they convince their users they're representative of reality and the users stop thinking they need to look beyond them for different viewpoints they become bubbles.
BlueSky movements that work well together. WITAOD? Not Tom Homan, he's a bitch.
People are rightly dunking on the summary here, but the entire article is like this--Running around gathering both sides quotes. You at no point describe the events in the video, despite embedding video into the article. This is shameful.
Of all the silly relics of the 00s that I never expected actual politics to remind me of, this one wins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eztg...
Wild that the GOP's argument amounts to a Senator not properly identifying himself, while they send masked men who refuse to identify themselves to yank people off the street and use pushback against *that* to send in the military. They're not even pretending the rules apply to them anymore.
This reads uncomfortably like trying to create a paper trail to further push the narrative that blue states are lawless and on fire. Anybody in HUD working from home? Proof innocent federal employees are being intimidated. etc. Showing fed workers concern, but for bad-faith ends.
Once the Birthday Boy hears about this, I bet attendance becomes mandatory.
Seconds Ago: I read this, went to go look at my AppleTV remote, came back, and saw someone already posted a picture. Currently: Having an existential crisis worrying a Jerry post has gone over my head.
So much the second Trump admin feels like a shitty older sibling in the back of the car, waving his fingers in your face and playing the "I'm not touching you!" game. It escalates to poking you in the eye and claiming the car swerved, all to try to provoke a response and get you in trouble.
We have seen this administration repeatedly use court delays to escalate situations to a point they can declare the requests moot. Legitimately worried about how much they could inflame things between now and 11 AM tomorrow.
End of the Biden admin, I had a MAGA family member try to angrily lecture me on how close we were to nuclear armageddon bc of Russia/Ukraine, with the thrust being we should abandon Ukraine to avert nukes. This 100% feels like an escalation of that; Putin has to be appeased or look at how scary!
I seriously can't think of a more craven and embarrassing role than GOP legislator at this point--the admin lies to you, immediately betrays assurances they gave you, and you're so terrified of the MAGA base you can't even work up the courage to say they shouldn't.
That whole 'in-group the law protects and doesn't bind/out-group the law binds and doesn't protect' has extended to include that professionalism and decorum are demanded of the out-group, but are also indicative of belonging to the out group. The in group gets to be vile; Noem's right at home.
Musk's attempt at smoothing things over via suck-up Tweets appears to be going swimmingly.
The thing is I'm not sure this can stick--Trump is almost certainly going to take future potshots at Elon to gloat/show dominance, and Elon is likely to eventually have another snit over it. Really easy to see this turning into a series of ego-driven mini-explosions. Or not. But I can hope.
