Ironically, that’s the same reason I don’t trust LLMs.

I’m pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anyway

That should work out since most boomers didn’t get anything from their parents either.

I’m not sure he even makes it to the inauguration.

I’m so confused.

They’re doing it to influence Trump to get Musk out, which is important work, not just messing around. Showing Trump as a puppet on Musk’s strings or a dog on Musk’s leash, etc. is the way to do it. Trump hates dogs so equating him to a dog here is especially effective. These memes need to be seen everywhere so Trump sees them. Musk’s days in Trump world are numbered.

True, even though it’s supposed to be a jury of the defendant’s peers, not a jury of the victim’s peers.

I agree that Elon’s money is probably the only reason he’s lasted this long, but I think there will be a limit. Even if he’s willing to keep paying forever, I think Rump’s ego will be the deciding factor in spite of the money.

The best way to get Musk out of there is to keep referring to him as the real president, saying that he’s calling the shots, and that he’s manipulating Trump. Trump’s ego will not be able to handle that and will get rid of him.

CEO’s: Second degree murder is the highest you can charge him with for killing a CEO in NY? But we want to torture him and make an example of him so the proles don’t get uppity!

DA: No problem sirs, we can make that happen.

The House R’s have a very tiny majority and their constituents will not be happy about this idea and will let them know it. So I feel like they won’t be able to get the votes to do it. I also think they’re going to prioritze things like more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations first, as well as the border stuff, before they would get to that. Ya never know, but that’s what I’m hoping for.

Eat those faces or at least scare the hell out of those faces, my pretties.

I propose a simple solution. Take the median salary of their constituency and make that the pay. It should make it livable at least, and give incentive to get that number up.

I disagree. That would make reps of the poorest districts at a disadvantage while reps of the rich districts will live the high life and have more money to invest and grow their wealth using the usual ways the rich get richer.

I have a TP-Link router. Oh no! Anyway…

But will they pull out in time?

So we have guardian angel, “death”, and “joyful laughter” associated with 444, that all fits.

DDD

444

Out of curiosity I looked up “444” and there’s a bunch of links saying it means a guardian angel. Appropriate?

Mitch as the Repub leader could have prevented all of this, by voting and allowing other R senators to vote to convict in either the first impeachment or the second impeachment, which would have prevented Trump from being able to run again (and the trials against him would likely have been carried out by now). McConnell bears a huge amount of responsibility for where we are right now.

The most important thing is that Vance wouldn’t have the hold over the whole party to be able to make them bow to his every whim like Trump does. Yes, they would still try to get project 2025 implemented, but they’d be less likely to be able to keep enough of their party in line to do it.

I used to think one of the biggest reasons there’s so many antivaxx people is that, because they’re so effective, people no longer have the fear of seeing their children in an iron lung, struggling to breathe.

Yes, I think that’s absolutely right. The antivaxxers are people who didn’t experience what it was like before vaccines.

Then Covid respirators happened and antivaxx fucks somehow got worse

I think part of it is that the effects of Covid were hidden from the public. The hospitals didn’t let anyone in to see the rows of beds with people on respirators, so the public didn’t see that on the news. They showed the refrigerated trucks but not the bodies in the trucks. So in the “pics or it didn’t happen” timeline we’re in, people didn’t believe it was that bad. Even the aftereffects of long covid are barely recognized or mentioned. The whole thing has been bizarre.

In olden times, everyone saw the dead bodies openly carried off on carts, or saw piles of them buried in mass graves. Their relatives died right there in front of them, not hidden away in a hospital where they themselves weren’t allowed to enter. Before, everyone directly experienced the crisis and suffering it caused. This time, the ugly reality was hidden from most of us other than the direct caregivers.

Side note: during the Vietnam war, reporters and camera crews were there and it was all shown on TV, the bodies, the wounded, the chaos. But the powers that be learned lessons from the horrified reaction of the public: do not show your failures on TV; keep your population in the dark. And we never saw our war casualties on TV again. Cameras were there, but we were shown nothing but scripted “reality TV”, if anything at all.

They followed the same script with Covid. This is supposed to be the information age but we’re more in the dark than ever. Real information is either not provided or is buried in misinformation. Remember the Florida whistleblower who leaked how the State was skewing their covid statistics and was quickly arrested and smeared?

(edit: I think I misunderstood your comment so deleting my comment which wouldn’t have made sense)