Because the rules for conservative and liberals are very different.

Democrats, by in large, respect the rule of law and their base will reject candidates that don’t. Conservatives simply want to be the ones giving orders and not necessarily following them. So the Venn diagram of mutual interests only intersects when a democrat does something that both sides disagree with.

Republicans cry foul whenever a Democrat exceeds the debt ceiling but you don’t hear a fucking peep from them when Trump causes the national debt to lower our credit rating.

We need to purge ourselves from conservatives. And the window to do so is closing quickly.

Because he is good at popping pop corn right? Because it was a meritorious hire. Right?

Right?

Exactly!

There’s only one party that cares about hypocrisy. And it’s not the fucking Republicans.

Her average constituent sees turban and thinks Muslim.

She represents her district in more ways than one.

There was a study or survey or something that showed people are leaving the office earlier than they did before the pandemic, the average being between 3 and 4 pm.

100% true for me

I know that Trump fans and Elon fans share a lot of the same people but I’m curious as to who will win.

My bet is on Elon mostly because he has the money. Trump could deport him immediately and take his money, but on an even playing field I have to give the advantage to Elon.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

The Art of the Deal.

I suspect there wasn’t an error in math. My Occam’s Razer here says that they had a conclusion in mind (i.e. the Education department spent trillions of dollars on a do nothing program), wanted to say it on CSPAN so that they could have the sound byte.

The correction isn’t going to be aired on Fox or OAN.

One of the interesting characteristics of Musk is that he’s able to assess the check he wrote and knows that the check won’t clear. It happened with the twitter purchase, his days with the government, and with challenging Zuckerberg.

I just wish he could have that thought before he says something stupid.

I implicitly trust FOSS more than closed source but because that trust has been earned through millions of FOSS projects.

On occasion, I will dive deep into a codebase especially if I have a bug and I think I can fix it.

You can’t do this with closed source or even source available code because there is no guarantee that the code you have is the code that’s been compiled.

There are a segment of Christians that truly believe he is the second coming of Jesus.

They are absolutely bananas but they exist and, perhaps more importantly, they vote.

They were told that the President of the United States, the leader of their military, would speak at their graduation event.

They didn’t really have a choice.

Mexico and Canada famously came back to the table only for Trump to renegotiate a deal that they both were already going to do.

I honestly haven’t kept track but it wouldn’t surprise me if some of the smaller countries that are dependent on US sales have renegotiated their deals.

He’s using tariffs as a sword to show off his power.

Tariffs is pretty much the most dangerous non-military weapon that the President can use without any legislative action. You are correct that his goal isn’t chaos itself, but we would be remiss if we don’t understand why Trump is using them.

Trump not only wants to look powerful, he wants to feel powerful. He is like a kid who knocks someone else’s blocks down so that people can see he’s in charge. Through his eyes, he sees someone else’s suffering from his actions and then he can see the pain of those people as they look at him in disbelief. Trump is using tariffs as a stick to cause panic in those countries so that he can see them grovel at his feet.

That’s why he doesn’t care that it hurts his supporters. I would go so far as to say he wants his supporters to be hurt so that they can know that he’s in charge.

This is authoritarianism. This is about him. Even if whatever trade deals come out of these tariffs are worse than they were before him, he claims victory because he forced the other side to the table.

How long until Tim Cook offers Trump a bribe to reduce tariffs?

I’m guessing two weeks.

Of the schools that can afford to mount a defense, it’s Harvard.

This is going to be another Panama files isn’t it? Overwhelming evidence that billionaires are shits and world governments everywhere collectively do fuck all about it.