It was really candid! Here’s a transcript:

DJT: I want a deal.
Xi: Fuck you.
DJT: But you need to make a deal to access the American market!
Xi: Fuck you.
DJT: Maybe I could lower my stupid tariff to half the stupid value.
Xi: Do what you want.
DJT: Can we be friends?
Xi: Fuck you.

Morality lessons from Bill Gates. The mind boggles…

Nah. Those evil henchmen look menacing. This is a real photo of a Trump cabinet meeting:

Youtuber Johnny-come-lately gets way too much attention.

With such sharp partisan divides, the GOP having unified control and the rich having a vested interest in keeping this dead horse of an economy alive, that’s not a realistic option.

I guess what I meant was, how do even GOP critters stand for this? It’s supposed to be the party of law and order, and they behave like servile little yes-men fascist enablers.

I’ve never had any great love of the Republican party, but even I admit that the staunchest traditional Republicans had 10 times more morals and principles than those MAGA asswipes and would have done something about their rogue fascist racehorse with the Democrat minority. The current crop of fake Republican magats is appalling. That’s what’s truly unbelievable.

Any past POTUS who would have said or done a thousand of what this demented orange peel says and does would have been impeached faster than you can say “Does that guy sound fascist or is it just me?”

How is this madman still in office? How is that even possible?

It’s high time open source projects and anything to do with software freedom and privacy relocated outside of the US. It wasn’t great before that a lot of them are hosted in the US, but now it’s urgent. It’s not even a matter of principle anymore.

Calculating the number of hours I had left on Earth, and realizing that every hour I spent fretting about shit that doesn’t matter is an hour I won’t spend having the best possible time on this dirtball with my family and my friends before I kick the bucket.

Once I “let go” and decided nothing really mattered, it felt like my whole body finally deeply relaxed for good.

Er… duh.

Facebook’s entire business model consists in invading as much of everybody’s privacy as possible and monetizing people’s private data. Its “products” are just honeypots to attract marks to milk for private data. You didn’t really think they turned a profit selling electronic sunshades did you?

If someone is stupid enough to buy a pair of those and put themselves under surveillance by Facebook, it’s their problem. But if I ever see anybody looking at me with those glasses on their face, they’d better remove them pronto when I ask them to or I’ll become bellicose rather quickly.

All Trump’s cabinet picks were doomed from the start.

I have an idea: I’m gonna tattoo “NOT” on my knuckles, so that when someone photoshops “MS13” on my hands, Trump won’t deport me.
Genius!

IANAL but my attorney once told me he witnessed a guy defending himself in court for involuntary manslaughter saying “I didn’t see the red light because I was drunk.”

some of them have shown you they’re Nazi sympathizers

It’s been known for years that the magats are Nazi sympathizers. And if you had any doubt, very senior figures have warned everybody very bluntly that Trump was a fascist.

So if any of your friends and family was a Trump sympathizer, you should have known long before the election that they were at least Nazi-adjacent.

Therefore the only difference between this reality and the one in which Trump is six feet under is that the American 4th Reich hasn’t happened yet in the latter (but most likely will, because Trump is only a symptom of something deeper and profoundly disturbing in the American society).

The alternative reality Earth where Thomas Matthew Crooks aimed ever-so-slightly more to the right.

It’s way worse than that because what’s on the line here is the ability of the GestapoICE to wait for immigrants in courts, effectively depriving them of due process. Because who’s going to show up in court when they know they’ll be arrested and sent off to a Salvadorian concentration camp?

The judge didn’t need to be cuffed and stuffed. This was a show to warn other judges that this shit is coming to their courthouse too.

I think Trump set the stage for normalizing this,

Oh hell no. I’ve heard politicians use that trick literally for decades.

Answering a question other than the one that was asked is a common avoidance technique used by politicians. It allows then to simulate a conversation and fill the air without actually saying anything.

Paying a modicum of attention to the actual content of what a politician says and rating how relevant what they say is to the matter being discussed is a very effective way to quickly determine whether you’re watching a guy with real convictions you want to vote for or a con artist.

I don’t find Poilievre’s performance wild so much as depressingly common.

Politician spews BS to avoid answering question about why one of his aides wore a stupid red MAGA hat.
Random Youtuber comments.

It’s okay if you’re fully in control and it’s built with redundancy.

Nope. Guillotines take care of current Trumps.