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IMO, the worst part is the "though it's unclear whether FDR busied himself with..." part. He could've literally just read FDR's EOs (or a summary of them) to see if that was the case instead of having to hedge here. The incuriosity combined with the smug tone is simply awful.
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They use every dystopian theory and story as a blueprint. Any day now, one of them will proudly announce they've successfully built the torment nexus, and that hooking into it is mandatory.
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They've started attacking them, too. They're now upset at groups like MoveOn, for crying out loud. It seems that the only people they want were moderate Republicans, and those people still voted for Trump.
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A lot of them aren't even whining about it to the media. Some of them are whining to the media about their constituents calling them to ask them to do literally anything. Worse than useless.
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People are starting to get angry at Democratic Party leadership over their constant inaction? Quick, let's find a voting demographic to blame! That always works.
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Even this is minimizing the impact by focusing on Chinese e-retailers instead of the fact that it will essentially end directly selling goods from any non-US company to Americans. Big win for resellers and distributors who can handle the import paperwork and take a markup as a result.
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"Gourd" is simply an euphemism for head (or brain/mind in this case), so he feels like he's going out of his mind, or to simplify further, going crazy.
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All the responsibilities that are supposed to lie with Congress are being quickly vacuumed up by the executive. Congress is running out of time to avoid being totally dissolved by this administration.
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Top Democrats are hard at work at their most STERNLY worded letter ever! Chuck Schumer is reportedly threatening to bring out prime time TV level profanity if this balderdash does not end as soon as is convenient!
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hustling, hustling, every day crow's hustling
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Unfortunately, this is Costco playing dirty with its union on the eve of a strike, not some gesture of good will.
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It's nice that Costco managed to get this "buy-in" scheduled coincidentally right before the strike started. I'm sure there was no coordination going on to burnish the company's reputation right before.
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Stew also drinks his own urine. Or at least has others on to promote that idea.
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But I thought Juan Guiado was the US recognized president of Venezuela. We're not doing that anymore?
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She's been trying to rebrand as a longtime Elon critic and people are letting her get away with it. She's not the worst of the tech press, but she's a fair representative of it.
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And Cuba regularly reports that it has not cashed any of the checks. Not that they likely could given the brutal sanctions on that nation.
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Because the Democratic Party is also so corrupt that it's one of the few kinds of misbehaviors that the two parties don't completely share.
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At some point, experience and wisdom is what you should be using to teach a successor, not using it to desperately cling to power. Failing to pass the torch means your legacy ends when you finally expire because someone else has to rebuild it from scratch.
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They don't want to fight. It might sour their friendship with their Republican buddies.
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And I posted this once today, but I'll add it again here, because most people don't seem to realize that Guantanamo has hosted mass detention for immigrants before, with some very grim results. And that history is a key part of how it wound up used for torture and other inhumane ends after 9/11.
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It's possible they're doing some electrolysis to make bubbles, and then pretending that's somehow useful.
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They're big, but the perspective on that last image makes it look bigger than it is. The bird's head would probably be about waist level if it was a straight-on shot.
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I seem to recall them saying they were going to end "kids in cages", but all they managed to do was rename it to "migrant facilities for children" or "border shelters", and have now effectively handed that infrastructure back over to Trump.
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Probably the Open Societies Foundation. One of the few places actually getting those supposed Soros bucks.
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No, they will absolutely "find" that Deepseek somehow stole the data, but they will not provide any proof to the public. This is a PR and lobbying exercise and nothing else. They want the US government to further sanction and/or tariff China to protect them from competition. Jingoism at its worst.
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That's right. An enthusiastic hand gesture. The mistake this guy made was thinking that the (lack of) rules that apply for Elon would also apply to a nobody like him. They do not.
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PAC to the Future? Seriously?
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I doubt they will come for anyone's guns because it's not a threat to a government that can fire death and destruction upon you at 20,000 feet. Instead pay attention to the moves they're making to use drones as part of policing.
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It wasn't even jst a general "Trump wouldn't be that bad." It was "Trump won't get two Supreme Court nominations", which is incredibly specific AND literally happened.
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I think he's suggesting to use this as an excuse to get an Iran war started.
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They were fine with the cruelty, but not the uncouthness that is accompanying this incarnation of it.
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People weren't even demanding the cessation of the genocide itself but just that America stop directly arming it. Activists would be well within their rights to demand that America use its own military to stop the genocide, but they weren't even asking for that.
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The entire university "legacy admissions" system exists to propagate nepo babies.
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Yeah, but if you give it to everyone, you can't foster a sense of resentment between the beneficiaries and the ones who don't quite qualify. And it seems like this is the actual purpose of means testing.
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The cross is their camouflage, and it works on a disturbing number of people.
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Yeah, but the less said about Matt Ygglesias, the better.
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A dictator is a leader of foreign enemy state that the US state department would like seen overthrown, regardless of if they were democratically elected or not.
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Also, I don't believe them. They've constantly lied about their tech up to this point, so I don't have any reason to believe them now.
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This seems like some pure copium. They simply cannot accept that someone else could surpass them, so it must be that the Chinese firm lied or stole or used something they weren't supposed to have. The only thing they're sure of is that they deserve the credit.
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The bad idea was giving the internet to the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world, not creating it in the first place.
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I think we all know that every step along the way, they'll be there to help make excuses for the atrocities committed by the fascists. We can see it already with the crackdowns against migrants, homeless and trans people.
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Seems like every time they say this, they instead focus on business issues. The CHIPS act and much of their previous infrastructure bill seems to be a good example of this. Sold as economic action but mostly just enables business.
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Well, in the famous poem there is no clause about them coming for the milquetoast centrist liberals, so they're pretty sure they're gonna be fine.
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They're the loyal opposition, emphasis on "loyal". Not to the American people or principles or anything sappy like that, but to power.
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Foiled by the darned parliamentarian! They said Americans aren't allowed to have nice things that cost tax money. Oh, our proxy state needs another $15B in military hardware? Done!
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Fair, but it might be the other way around: The career staff might be the ones who did the reupload with the scrubbed metadata as they try to fix all the errors their new bosses are making. The desire to "weather the storm" can be high in these kinds of jobs, especially if you're decades into it.
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Turns out that empire collapses are generally more "wet fart" than "violent implosion".
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Being Justin's right hand woman might just get her the job in the party, though, even if it does mean they lose badly in the actual election. It worked for Paul Martin, after all.