Always two there are. And they’re both full of reposts.

Just had a conversation with my mother, this afternoon, in which I tried to explain to her that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet were not working in the best interests of the country.

It’s the thing American IP companies care about the most.

As always US wants the data, they just don’t want anyone else to have it for free

I guarantee you that American data is going to Chinese companies. Temu has your data. Alibaba has your data. Bilibili has your data. They’re just getting it by purchasing from American data centers.

Steve Bannon travels to Israel, unzips his pants, tributes the Wailing Wall, hands Netanyahu a fist full of US nuclear codes, takes another hard pull from his flask, and stumbles back to his airplane.

NYT: “Trump advisor, in controversial trip to Jerusalem, provides aid to a trusted American ally as they celebrate their heritage.”

Good news for any aspiring commercial web developers interested in filling an underserved niche.

I was spitballing. I did not verify whether the domain name was taken.

The NSA manages something on the order of dozens of Zetabytes of information. I am not particularly worried about them linking my IP address to “FartSnifferFanatic.toot”

However, I am very concerned with FartSnifferFanatic.toot littering my browser history and cookies cache with trackers that Amazon can then use to suggest purchase ideas.

“You can’t take American taxpayers who paid for roads and block them out and say you can’t access this unless you pay additional money,” Duffy said in the administration’s defense.

Guy who has literally never heard of a Toll Road

I miss Norm

Most people are perfectly content to pay a reasonable price to get access to the things they want. But if you make that impossible, they’ll find other options.

That’s a sliding scale, though. Streaming comes at a fixed price.

First sitting president to ever waste his time going to the fucking super bowl.

I mean, Presidents have been going to sporting events practically since they were invented. The Seventh Inning Stretch came out of Calvin Coolidge showing up incredibly late to a baseball game. It’s crazy for someone who needs the security detail of a President to get into and out of a location as insecure as stadium box seats. But that’s more a logistical hurdle than a cultural one.

Its the genocide I object to. Its the concentration camps on the border and the bombs dropped across the Middle East. Its the gutting of health care and mass transit and financial regulations I find disconcerting. Going to the Super Bowl is the least bad thing Trump’s done since taking office.

Listen, I appreciate the perspective, but this is just an ad.

He’s happy enough to create a whole hill of martyrs. Just ask any Gaza Refugee. Republicans love killing people.

Christ, remember when Leftists like AOC suggested COVID be an opportunity to advocate for universal healthcare and got screamed out of the room for being too divisive?

Imagine if Joe Biden had said this in 2021.

Circus subscriptions just went up again.

You, a socialist: “Please, I’m begging you, sports should be a municipal amenity not a profit driven cash grab.”

Me, an American Capitalist: “And then they made me pay for parking! And then I had to give Ticketmaster an extra 12% on top of the entrance price! And then half the stadium was just 20’ advertisement billboards! And it’s all going into the pockets of a dozen extremely rich oligarchs, most of whom don’t even live here!!! JUST LIKE COMMUNIST RUSSIA!”

“And you’ll live forever if you just never stop doing Ketamine.”

Unitary Executive Theory is a throwback to the Bush Jr Era (and if you dig deep enough you’ll find it back to Truman/Eisenhower/Nixon). Its a relic of the Cold War, when Americans were poisoned to the idea of popular government by the horrifying threat of Soviet infiltration.

You consolidate power in the executive branch - under guys like Hoover and Dulles and McNamara - so they can do the grisly work of squashing the Tankies at home and abroad without squeamish liberals in Congress or the courts getting in the way. Then we can have our liberty back, right after we have guaranteed our domestic security and our international sovereignty. Right after we’re confident our people will make the Right Choices at the ballot box.

This isn’t something that will end in 4 years because its something that has been ongoing for the last 80.