bramp.bsky.social
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Some consultant gave moderate dems a message... that is completely idiotic.
These things are not "distractions". They're full fledged atrocities that need to be triaged as second tier just because there are so many atrocities being generated by Trump and his hyperactive squad of flying monkees.
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Mau mau muumuu
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AI regurgitates what you feed it - what you train it with - until now the various LLM teams have probably been feeding their products a mix of sources that are reputable. Musk will instruct the Grok team to feed it more Murdoch style bullshit and its answers will start to reek noticeably.
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Some things are so obvious it's almost not worth saying. But these fools who both sides'd us to the brink of fascism make my blood boil.
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Chuck "No Shit Sherlock" Todd strikes again.
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LA County seems to have had a problem asserting control over the Sheriff's Dept for over a 100 years. The county has a weak government structure of 5 supervisors and a hired CEO. The Sheriff is elected and seems to report to no one - including the electorate. Odd situation to persist so long.
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All the people with guns (LAPD, LACSD, CHP, NG, Marines) behaved themselves during the day when they were outnumbered 20 to 1. None were out-all were on perimeter defense at facilities and always in groups of a dozen or more. I guess they felt emboldened when the crowds diminished late in the day.
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Perversely they'll probably continue grabbing people playing by the rules who show up for their appointments. But no more raids at good republican businesses.
Checkers level strategy. They can't look even one move ahead. Yrump is so fucking stupid and he's surrounded by toadies and whackjobs.
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The Marines are in town to prevent tagging of federal buildings. Will they be issued live ammo for this task?
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Yeah but the goddamned SC keeps backing him up once cases get up to them. The lower courts are doing a decent job with a few exceptions (i.e. the ones auditioning for the SC). But the SC is a disgrace and fast tracking us to fascism.
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Hopefully Oberunterfuhrer Miller will take an aneurysm on this news.
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Leisure Suit Larry lives!
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I appreciate the point you're trying to make but I'm really trying to avoid seeing the names Mayorkas and for that matter Garland ever again. I like Biden and everything about the last admin is 1000% better than the current but he really made some bad hiring decisions related to those two...
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Fwiw my ex Texan friend swears OK is at least better than TX...
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I recall knowing that Star Wars and a lot of the post 9/11 security theater was a waste of money because it would be easier to deliver a weapon by ocean shipping container with door to door precision. Satisfying to see the first application of this strategy to be righteous instead of terroristic.
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Remaining people with common sense are avoiding telling him the truth. It would cost hundreds of millions to convert any civilian aircraft into an Air Force 1. Seems like the Air Force generals are afraid to level with him. Everybody is probably hoping someone else will do it. So stupid so greedy.
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In the context of an establishment such as a bar - to 86 someone is to ban them until further notice and perhaps permanently. This is done as a result of egregious behavior. Seems to be the best fit.
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I'm not sure but I'd guess "real" AF1s are hardened against nuclear attack in addition to the obvious anti missile defense features. The whole thing seems absurd to me from the technical as well as the legal sense. I don't think it could be used as AF1 BUT COULD BE WAITING FOR HIM POST PRESIDENCY...
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The amount of retrofit required to turn a 747 (even a luxurious one) into Air Force 1 is tremendous. It SHOULD take a few years. Presumably Trump could short circuit the process and leave some of the necessary security and comms features on the hangar floor.
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Someone has to do a writeup on HSI. I'm imagining it's something that existed previously as a small entity under Homeland Security but has now been expanded greatly and staffed with really questionable people. You know the type that feel really comfortable when they're just following orders..
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Stop cooperating with them on other issues. Just hard no to them on (almost) everything.
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What about rogue comets, asteroids, and alien invasions?
This guy's brain is addled on bad sci fi. It's almost as bad as the juvie dorks who got high on Ayn.
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The fact that they have effective anti-aircraft capability only highlights how bad the signal leaks were. Telling SAM operators when attacking aircraft will be overhead is just so damned wrong. Even a drunkard former major has to know how stupid this is.
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It has no *best* to send.
It's a-holes and maroons all the way down.
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Ah the 3D chess moves come into view. By causing a recession (perhaps depression) this will greatly reduce migration. Then they can claim they solved the "crisis". The smoking ruin of the economy will be collateral damage. At least we got rid of the funny sounding people...
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The Great Enshittification.
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So sometimes revenge is a dish served red hot?
Welcome to Bluesky.
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Not in every case?
You mean only when a republican is in office?
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Particularly a few with the largest endowments. Harvard and Princeton are probably working on contingency plans to try to buffer likely Federal grant cuts to some limited extent with their own funds. Not sure if less wealthy universities will have as many options.
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Two of them are all in on fascism. Two are fash curious. Two others are wondering if they can still achieve their now "modest" goals (e.g. nationwide abortion ban) while avoiding a total constitutional meltdown.
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Everyone has plausible deniability since Tesla hasn't changed the appearance of their cars in years. Except for the cyber dumpster of course. Anyone who bought one of those knew full well that Musk is a Rat.
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It seems like a gradual decrease in population that is managed by rational policies would be a good thing. Of course, if you take "gradual" and "rational" out of it, things get scary. In the US these days, those concepts are in short supply.
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Trump is conducting a Bust Out on the whole country.
That's the more appropriate analogy.
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Dems better have a "project" underway throughout 2028 which is set up to tear down and rebuild DOJ from the ground up. People need to recruited and vetted for immediate hiring including career civil service - not just political appointees. Need to fire people that were hired or acquiesced to Trump.
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He thinks his job is safe, but DOGE just hasn't gotten around to NASA yet. Musk is actually thinking through cuts to that agency since he needs to retain the parts of it that provide him business revenue. He'll use a scalpel there as he uses a chainsaw everywhere else. Dude might still be cut.
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Yeah. The SS trust fund will deplete much sooner. Expect that date to advance significantly the next time an analysis is published. That assumes there's anyone left at SS to crunch those numbers...
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I remember visiting WI four years ago and wondering why a purple state with a progressive history had such a bad congressional delegation. You and your team fixed it! Congrats on a job well done. Might I suggest you move to NC for awhile after recharging your batteries? Or perhaps DC?
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Main reason for the rise in autism is probably better diagnoses. In the good old days it might be said that little Bobby's a mite tetched in the head. Now we recognize he's on some sophisticated spectrum of worm eaten.
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And why do you assume they are not also merging in campaign contribution history?
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Is that an extra long deluxe 40 round mag for Brownshirt Barbie?
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Well, not exactly. He is solely responsible for overriding his engineers and removing all non visual sensors from Tesla vehicles. This guarantees that they'll never be safe in self driving mode at night in inclement weather. Part of the reason he had to capture and destroy the regulatory agencies...
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What a relief for his remaining editorial writers. It's almost like no restrictions at all...
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The summer heritage intern came early this year. They used a Wikipedia list of countries AND TERRITORIES to create this idiot spreadsheet of tariffs.
They didn't have anyone with a brain review and edit the spreadsheet that the frikken moron intern produced.
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Musk will have to launch his corpse into an orbit around the sun to avoid everyone peeing on It.
Of course, laminate face might pre decease him.
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Ok so from this thread I've learned what the Senate dems need to do. Engage the Tuberville Maneuver. Withhold friendly low overhead consent for all lower level appointees moving forward. Pick one outrage against a popular program or group to curtail. e.g. screwing around with veterans and/or SocSec.
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You should go to work for Josh or Maddow. Your analysis is spot on.
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It's always about themselves and immediate family. Everyone beyond that circle is on their own. Lack of empathy is the #1 determinant of "conservatism" which is actually just a codeword for selfish.
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Oh sheesh.
Enron was the precursor to this nightmare
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Not a savvy business move these days.
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Going to be interesting to see what happens when obviously illegal orders start going out to the troops.
Would be interesting to get an order to invade an ally. Who resigns and who obeys...
That will do to the military what they're doing to the DOJ. Only the crap remains after awhile.