The door on the closet this guy is trapped in is shaking on its hinges...
like Trump and a lot of Pro MAGA people, their trick is to say things that aren't explicit so they can lie later and say that's not what they meant.
Gabbard and her defenders will take each individual statement or act without context or predecessor and lie claiming that specific instance doesn't prove anything. They'll object to putting them all together to make the tapestry they represent.
I agree that taken each on their own with no context and no history, nothing Gabbard has said or done constitutes evidence of compromise.
But 20 years of her bullshit makes it absolutely clear that she's either an asset or a straight up agent.
after Gaetz dropped out i told a friend of mine that if I could have only one other person kept from the new administration, it would be Gabbard.
She is absolutely compromised, and it must be very, very deep. Whatever she afraid of, it must be massive.
Either that or she's actually turned and loves (Soviet) Russia.
Half of all people are dumber than average the median.
Shhh... you'll wake up the pro Putin tankies. They're worn out from gaslighting Americans to vote for Trump...
90% of them were Russian/ Iranian/ Chinese/ North Korean trolls or bots. They got what they wanted, so it's on to the next thing. Probably undermining support for Ukraine.
What we do in 2026 and/or 2028 will basically seal our fate. If MAGA thrives after our neighbors see what they do while unrestrained, then America is definitely going to become the next Nazi Germany.
If the elections of '26 or '28 get canceled or otherwise don't happen, then it's too late. (I'll go ahead and include typical autocratic tricks like jailing opposition candidates.)
Since MAGA has a trifecta, they are able to go full ham. They will show their whole ass to America, including our neighbors who think they're just another political party who will do just another political 4 years. And the neighbors who think MAGA was mostly just blowing hot air. Or that MAGA wasn't so bad for 2017-2021.
Yeah I'm on Lemmy and Mastodon. I also still watch YouTube. They haven't passed whatever my threshold is for suckitude, yet. I'm sure it's coming.
FWIW there's a way to bridge Bluesky accounts to Mastodon
if something like this works (I am guessing only if many EU countries follow suit) then maybe us Americans can suffer 4 years of Trump in exchange for Ukrainian freedom.
hmm unfortunately for this plan everything nuclear is a bit more difficult for the President to do willy nilly.
less dangerous but more funny would be for him to resign and let Harris be the 47th President. you know Trump and his cult have plowed millions into "47" merch that would suddenly become worthless to them.
(there are a lot of things that he can do that SCOTUS has preemptively granted him immunity for, though...)
This is an inaccurate claim by Sanders. Biden was the first President to walk a picket line with striking workers.
With union negotiations, he was pretty balanced. He did come down on the railroad strikes some after both sides got stuck, but they did get improvements beyond what management wanted to give. With the ports, though, he stuck with the workers and forced management to negotiate by refusing to override the strike.
Could the Democrats do more? Sure. But they're still recovering from the fever that took the party over with Clinton in '92. There are a lot of people who believe that win was a meaningful approval of the pro corporate but not racist Democratic Party platform, when in reality Clinton only won thanks to Perot.
I don't know that there was any magic messaging that Harris could've deployed this time around. I'm not sure there was any likely alternative even from a short post-Biden primary that could've done better than her.
Trump has everyone thinking he has some magic way to boost salaries and lower prices. And he railed against the elites more stridently and apparently people believed him.
On the other hand Google saw a lot of traffic with people asking if Biden dropped out so who knows what could have been done to avoid Trump 2.
considering how stridently the Republican Party has been attacking public education for the past 50 years or so, this is a predictable result. They don't need every American to be incurious and shallow, they just need enough to tilt elections in their favor.
I have qualms about casting Harris as a "career" politician. He first election for DA was in 2003. To get from running for DA to running for US President in 21 years is a very short ride. She was born in 1964.
Hell, Trump ran for President (Reform Party) in 2000, so he's been a "politician" longer than Harris. So if she's a "career politician," then so is he.
Not that there's anything wrong with being a politician for a long time, as long as the politician is serving her constituents to their satisfaction and avoids corruption.
I don't want to sick anyone too badly but it was Reagan who tricked them onto the path of evil.
(and Satan is a pretty decent cat, on balance)
I believe the VP only becomes "acting President" and doesn't assume the actual office until sworn in by a proper authority (usually the Chief Justice of SCOTUS but I believe contingency plans exist). So it would be interesting to figure out when the immunity attaches.
my point is that "if there's an obstruction, stop" means these cars are going to be stopping and requiring human intervention all the time. That's semi autonomous at best.
I don't know if you've encountered intransigent geese in your driving adventures, but the only way to deal with them is to slowly drive through the flock until they move out of your way.
fully autonomous cars are never going to happen without major changes to our roads. we'd be better off investing in more busses and trains.
I realized self-driving on roads is impossible for so-called when someone pointed out what human drivers do when there's like a flock of geese camped out in the middle of the road.
We know that we should slowly move forward until they get out of the way, including bonking then with the car (gently). Do we want cars deciding that some obstruction in the road is "ok" to hit? I don't. So what's the solution? Something other than pure autonomous self driving.
We can probably have some very high level driver assist. Maybe.
then we should be fine as long as she also has a lead in final day voting and mail in voting and all the or kind of voting.
I'm not going to let anyone trick me into complacency like they did in 2016...
any 3* or 4* that get overpowered in Rim Zone?
I'm playing with the chargeable supervisory speaker and the damage increase on fire example Typhon is silly, but it got me thinking about all these niche 4* operators and wondering if stacking SP regen or attack speed might make some of them broken...
Obviously this would only apply to the Rim Zone but it seems like that's a permanent fixture now.
Building up my 4*
So I have a great stable of 6* only really missing Typhon, maybe one day...
For some of the events that use randomly selected operators, I want to get whatever 4* guys I could use best.
So if you look at this list, what guys do you see that I should E2?
Luo Xiaohei Bubble Matterhorn Ambriel Shirayuki Greyy Sussurro Dobermann Rope Indigo Perfumer Scavenger Beehunter Jackie Quartz Dur-nar Meteor Totter Pudding Purestream Roberta Gavial Conviction Vermeil Mousse Aciddrop Arene Estelle Jessica Myrrh Podenco Earth Spirit Gitano Haze Outage Pinecone Humus Caper Verdant
Thanks!
What are some of the earliest "firsts" that we have a definite date for?
We only know about when humans mastered fire or started using metal. But we know the exact date when the first powered flight took place. What are some really early "first ____" we know the date of for sure?