My father loved this meme. My favorite memory is of reading this meme with him sitting on the couch with the family puppy. He died tragically ten years ago, hit by a runaway dildo delivery truck while taking our puppy to the vet to have puppy aids treatment. I cry every time I see this meme.
How can you shame that which is shameless?
I hope there is someone keeping track of this firehose of sewage so we know what needs to get cleaned up in the less-dystopian future (if we’re lucky enough to have one). Do we start a Project 2029(?), to return the country to sanity?
Again, I’m not sure we’ll ever have the opportunity because the horizon is pretty dark. But it’s overwhelming just trying to keep track of how many of the country’s worst people are implementing their dream agendas with no oversight or limitation whatsoever.
I’m sure you are not one of the problem hosts, but his will harm the renters more because they’re the ones already subject to the bigger power imbalance - by definition not near their home and relying on Airbnb to ensure a safe place to stay - and Airbnb is reputed to be pro-host against renters.
For example, there was a trip to Europe where a host physically threatened us in writing, Airbnb kept transferring us around rather than offer any solutions, we left for our safety, the host claimed we didn’t cancel and owed the full stay, Airbnb took the host’s side without evidence despite our evidence of their threat in writing, we did a chargeback, and Airbnb disputed it for 4 months in apparent bad faith.
Anecdotal, but a case study why black-holing renters’ contacts seems more damaging.
What’s worse than defunding education, forcing teachers to live on poverty wages and to buy class materials out of pocket? Making them train a generation of kids to be crackpot conspiracy theorists.
I’d say it’s incredibly stupid, but with everything we know about RFK, the Occam’s razor explanation is that the point has always been to limit vaccine availability.
This just supports that he’s not even going to do it above-board, he’s going to use bad faith pretexts to do it.
Wow, I’ve been curious who did that. Good to know Rubio’s got that blood on his hands.
Asked about the technical support Musk and DOGE have provided to the federal government, Musk pointed to the overhaul of the country’s air traffic control systems, which is still a work in progress, as well as an upgrade to the White House’s own internet, provided by Starlink, a Musk-owned company.
The upgrade is complete, NBC News confirmed when an aide provided the password to the White House Wi-Fi and reporters logged in to the high-speed service.
Oh, good. Unsecure Starlink connections are certainly better than dedicated fiber lines shielded to prevent signal leak, connected directly to the agencies who protect government communications from hacking. Viva la upgrade.
Clarification: This jar says “Jam.” Is water?
You’ve just doomed us all.
And this is actually a very pointed verification this is a cult and religion and not politics as usual, and also why - to those not in the cult - Trump really is subjecting the entire country to captive narcissistic abuse.
He continues to demand loyalty to the dogma over the empirical facts, and that loyalty prioritizes himself over the cumulative well-being of 300 million people. Moments of cognitive dissonance, of competing realities, are - like in a religion - seen as a test of faith and loyalty.
And like in a narcissistic abuse scenario, we are locked in a continual boundary-pushing test and punishment cycle to cement his ability to determine reality for his victims. Similarly, those who the abuser favors and performs for - friends, family - think you’re all making it up and overreacting. I hope eventually someone treats this as a case study in mass narcissistic psychological abuse.
Considering that they’re making completely unsupported allegations re: Abrego Garcia, I have no trust whatsoever that they did more than elementary school research into the crimes they’re attributing, and assume that nearly none of them are supported by court convictions.
Attention is invisible until you take the time to acknowledge it. People will never treat it as a resource of the same value as these companies, because they don’t even recognize it as something being taken away from them (despite that it is actually the most precious resource - our literal lives), and that disparity will always be profitable.
They have a right wing anti-EU, anti -LGBTQ populist candidate polling in the 20-25% range that - surprise, surprise - wants to withdraw Ukraine support.
Poland as well. It’s honestly happening everywhere, and I suspect Russia is funding a lot of it worldwide.
The 2002 law was designed to modernize the voting process. Under it, the Election Assistance Commission was given a number of mandates: distribute $2.8 billion in federal money for new voting equipment; create voluntary guidelines for voting systems and establish a federal testing and certification program for them; oversee the national voter registration form; and gather data about federal elections.
Just like DOGE, this is Trump attempting to hijack an existing, congressionally-approved group with one or two words in the title relevant to his goal, and completely disfigure it into an executive branch tool.
Trump isn’t smart enough to have planned either of these - this has the smarmy self-assured gloat of Stephen Miller all over it. A reminder that voters didn’t just vote in the cancer that is Trump, they voted in full metastasis.
At least we have Everything for local search.
“I’m up here working on the initiatives for President Trump, who’s been in ministry for 40 years and understands it,” she insisted.
Tom Emmer is one of the worst. That’s been clear for years. He supported interfering with the 2021 certification to give “legal” cover for the coup, and this isn’t a surprise either.
He flies under the radar for many because there are so many attention grabbers among the GOP authoritariat, but he’s someone, like Miller, ahead of the fascism train actively laying the tracks.
Oh, disagreeing with the post, huh? Looks like we found the AI troll, get 'em everyone!