rhettoreck.bsky.social
A single tree has more value than 10 magats.
No unity with fascists, kill them all.
Everything bad began with Reagan.
Tom Homan, gargle my balls.
Less boastin' more postin'.
That's all the important stuff.
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Screw you, NYT, posting teasers to paywalled articles like a cheap O/F whore. Label your ads for what they are, or I'll go find me a cracked NYT app.
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Blame is what you make of it. It's accountability if that person is denied a chance to do it again, or is re-trained, or must pay restitution, etc.. I see no officials who are just looking to blame for no reason other than to have someone to blame. I think you're addressing a non-existent issue here
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IIRC, you seem to be implying that finding out who was responsible was just casting about for someone to blame. I think it's a lot deeper and more important and no system can be so good that when someone screws up, finding out who it is doesn't matter. These inquiries aren't done to "blame" someone.
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Yeah. That's too good for trump's 'Murica. Those people weren't making money for their betters. Buncha lazy bums, weren't even paying rent. We wanna go back to family values when 3 generations of 2 families shared a 2 room tenement near the factory where their kids worked with their parents.
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Among which is not, and should not be, idiot proofing. I didn't expect they'd be like 19th century ships when not under sail., but this idea that all manmade systems should, or could, be designed for immunity to stupidity with an eye toward being failsafe is...well, stupid, especially in this case.
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Run it by one of those companies that makes silver-infused sheets and blankets and pitch them for a sponsorship. We could drape the boats at night with one of their comforters to keep the vermin warm and active.
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Or, value them at the border at $5M each and make Oz pay the 25% tariff.
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Great. Okeechobee. That's the Everglades. There's no way to contain anything that gets loose in the Everglades National Park. Not pythons nor diseases that'll wipe out the already severely depleted bird population.
This is the height or irresponsibility and Canada shouldn't allow those birds to move
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No. I hadn't seen that. That's insanity. I guess we can call Oz's farm "Wuhan II"
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We ARE a service economy. We run surpluses in trade for services. I wonder why other countries aren't imposing tariffs on our services since we're obviously ripping them off by 1870 mercantilist standards.
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Strangely though, it WAS happening over the last few decades, right up to Jan of '25 when a cataclysmic catastrophe shook the world and knocked the US back into 1870, the year chosen for us to be great again cuz our Dear Leader's first choice of 1850 had bad optics, given slavery and all.
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Rudy used to sell them, but trump's largely cut out the middleman. He sells them himself openly now that criminals' agents go straight to the wholesaler. Anyone close to him can sell their influence as a side hustle too, but I suspect he demands a big cut from anyone they've bird-dogged for him.
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Ask them for a titanium-silver alloy. The silver may be helpful with bacteria, of which there tends to be a surplus in a typical gibbet. Wouldn't want our guests to get infections.
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What's the saying?
Bad men do bad things.
Good men do good things.
But, for a good man to do bad things...that takes religion.
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I encourage you to watch a doc about old sailing ships to realize that it's ludicrous to try to idiot-proof one, or build in significant backups or failsafes. Even if they could, it would be stupid. It's a training ship, not a passenger ferry. It is what it is and they were never built to be safe.
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This is a 19th Century sailing ship, not an airliner or a modern cruise ship. It's a naval training ship, not built for safety. You will never make a complex sailing ship robust against human error without changing it such that it no longer resembles what it is or is useful for its intended purpose.
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Look at the mercantile economies of the 1800's. Trump is not a capitalist, he's a mercantilist. His sweet spot is 1870-1899, the day of Robber Barons, company towns, tenement slums, belching smokestacks, child labor and industrial accidents.
Hoovervilles were far too advanced, modern and opulent.
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If there are unethical ways to attract necessary campaign funds, there are ethical ones too. I'm not going to play cynic here and claim every rep is taking bribes. That gets us nowhere and I'm not prepared to lose elections on the altar of performative ideological or ethical purity.
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Until we enact public campaign financing and repeal C.U., Congress is run by auction, and having a strong donor base is critical whatever you think of its ethics. I'm not talking about bringing in personal wealth, so whatever Pelosi's doing in the market is irrelevant to this discussion.
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That's why we don't let children command ships.
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I abhor reality tv so I don't even know who these scumbags are. All I know is that the higher one scores on the POS scale, the more likely it is they'll be pardoned by trump.
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Sometimes a name or a sob story said into his ear. Guiliani used to try and sell pardons as a side hustle. Or, the idiot will read an account on some crap website and think someone was railroaded, cuz he knows more than any jury. If a stranger brought him a case he didn't know about, big money works
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Trump's a cheap piece of shit, but even he isn't that cheap. If he was, I'd be writing him a check myself.
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Ok. I can buy that. The others looked a bit fat to me for mealworms and def weren't maggots, but I'm no worm aficionado.
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Honestly, I don't think they are cashing in on pardons. This is trump's personal cash cow and he don't share. They allow it for the same reason they let him do anything else. They're stupid, spineless, traitorous, lowlife worms so low they'd get altitude sickness descending a mountain of whale shit.
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There is zero excuse for that vessel not to have been controlled at the moment of impact by a pilot. You don't take a ship that size into or out of a harbor or bay that size without a pilot who knows the local conditions and waters like his own child.
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Hint: A magnificent and beautiful vessel, an environmentally friendly living creature in and of itself, quite unlike modern monstrosities designed to serve only the rapaciousness of their investors, to carry as few crew as possible, and to foul the oceans with their excrements and ugliness.
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So much more efficient to scrap the NTSB and just stop recording accident data. This system worked for Covid hospitalization and death rates, health stats, economic data, poverty rates and soon, Bird Flu, unemployment and inflation rates.
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With your method, a problem person just continues to be a problem.
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If you find a person responsible, you've identified the problem by definition. Get rid of the person and you've fixed the problem. If you've identified the problem as the person and removing him doesn't fix it, that's your mistake but it doesn't negate the value of assigning responsibility generally
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No need to even watch. Sans mechanical breakdown, the pilot is to blame. From the minute he takes over, the pilot is in charge and responsible for that ship. They don't get treated like royalty and paid giant cash dollars for nothin'.
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What do you do for a living?
Oh, I retired early from my career hurling racist insults at 5 year olds in playgrounds.
Is there a school for that?
It's a gift.
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There used to be a protocol involving a board, prosecutors, prison officials, etc. Trump just decided to skip all that and go straight for the payoff. There should be pardons, but like all our laws, pardon laws were written based on the assumption we wouldn't elect an active and committed criminal.
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That's unnecessary. Bribery is perfectly legal as long as it's done after the deed being paid for is completed and it's called a gratuity.
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Those are mealworms. Unlike magats, mealworms (and maggots) have some value. Don't slander mealworms like that.
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It is a Golden Age for fraudsters and any white-collar crime. Even without the pardon store, the DOJ is a clown show and nobody's left there who's smart enough to read a spreadsheet. If your typical fraud is $1M, you're home free. If it's $100, then look out, Pam and Kash are on your trail.
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Good on them. My dad was born and raised in Somerville but I grew up in the South. Somerville is prob a big reason I'm here instead of on Truth Social right now.
So, thanks for that.
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As someone who rarely enjoys a good night's sleep, I find that somehow non-consoling. Ppl like him don't even want a good night's sleep cuz it interferes with their hating time. They just don't get the same juice by hating in their dreams.
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Seen our SCROTUS? The appeals courts will reach the same conclusion as the USCIT right up until it gets to SCROTUS where that freak of nature and conjoined disease, Thomalito, and at least 3 of trump's other hands will grant him whatever he wishes cuz he's the King.
All Hail King Donaldus Trumpus!
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He understands the word sovereign only because of the sovereign wealth funds of dictatorships that he covets so much. Otherwise, he'd have never bothered to find out what the word meant.
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Microencephaly would be closer to the mark.
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That's what I propose. The Dems need to adopt a process, an age certain by which time you'd best be mentoring like a maniac in anticipation of stepping down or lose the support of the party. The big prob is that the old guys bring in the most money. Hard to train up a successor to do that honestly.
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I want all the parade participants to look upon a sea of backs. If they're eating tacos, all the better.
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Or, if you're skiitish, Trendy Taco.
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Name all the trucks for the new gang, Tren de Taco, and use an orange color scheme. Is there an orange taco shell?
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Might be time for a revival. Just update the tech a smidgeon.
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You also grow an invisible, yet impenetrable shell to ward off facts and data. It only becomes visible when you open your mouth.
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Some might say it would depend on the disease.
I'd just say yes.
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True, but that degree of gullibility opens you up for all sorts of stupid beliefs, like trump is a good negotiator or that he ever tells the truth, so is covered under the general diagnosis of brain dead.
I was gonna say brain dead and stupid, but it felt a bit redundant.