Can he stoop any lower? Get any more corrupt? This has got to catch up to him sometime, he won’t be in power forever. I doubt he thinks that far ahead.
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As Adolf had Speer and Goebbels and Bormann, so Orange has his planning and policy personnel to think a few steps ahead and plan the next reprehensible moves.
The more things change and all that.
I don’t know … I’m not sure there’s a bottom, but more and more people who I have respect for who write on this topic, think Trump has finally gone too far, mainly over the $1.8B slush fund thing. More and more GOP legislators and parts of his own administration are turning against him. Major legal decisions are cutting him off at the pass on multiple fronts.
BUT the problem is that this just makes him more cornered and desperate and dangerous.
It’s reported that there’s a carrier battle group off the cost of Cuba, ready to strike and take that government down. The pattern seems to be, just keep escalating. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
That last one just felt personal. Damn right he’s went too far. He’s a man who’s smugly bragged about assaulting women. How many women has he done this to? Dozens? More? A woman finally calls him on it and he sends his goons after her. The charge is absurd, that she perjured herself by responding with an answer that was true at the time she said it. I can only hope his machinations bite him in the butt.
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t-Rump went too far when he itched his daddy’s loins. And at worst, he should have been aborted…
Franklin
EDIT: Should have added: And at best, t-Rump’s parents should have been aborted.
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No surprise to me. I grew up in the Triad region of NC. To this day, NC still has laws that allow any adult to use ANY force to discipline unruly children in a “school” setting. Basically, that law still allows any teacher, including the oxymoronic Sunday School Teacher, to beat the child to death, if necessary, utilizing corporal punishment. Sometimes, I still think I have bruises to show 70 years later…
Franklin
I don’t believe this. Please cite these laws.
Finally found NC rescinded that law when the ACLU and others sued against that law. It was rescinded in the 1990s.
Sorry, and thanks for the call-out, I just thought it was still on the books since I never heard that story about that lawsuit. Officially, it was removed from the books in 1996.
I now stand corrected. But when I was a child, they were allowed to use corporal punishment to discipline “unruly” children. Most of the abuse I received was in the church. Almost never in public school. And “unruly” was never defined by the church. But it always seemed to apply to any child that asked a question they could not answer, or would not answer.
Thank You, CyberLN
Franklin
Went out looking for some new sunglasses, and spotted this. Fuck no! Who the hell wants creepy spy shit like this?
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Remember Google Glass? That was what led to the coining of the term “glasshole”.
These guys never learn from such experiences; they are always trying to cram products down our throats that we didn’t ask for.
While the possibility of augmented virtual reality could be interesting for some niche uses, anything that inherently requires a camera – even if it has a recording indicator that people can see, as those can be defeated in various ways – just makes it a potential invasion of privacy and a vector for the surveiliance state.
Someone writing about this the other day said they encountered a receptionist wearing these and asked, “those aren’t recording, right?” It took her a minute to realize they were asking about her glasses. She said no, she was just listening to music on them. Well use your AirBuds for that then.
Never seen them in person. Revolting. As is the Meta privacy-invading spy fuckery shit.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. But sometimes you should not try at all, and just leave it with the thought.
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I’ve seen plenty in person, but I worked in Silicon Valley for decades, and things like Google Glass (and, hence, glassholes) tend to be more common there.
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Maine Republican knuckle dragger: trans kids do not exist, because Noah’s Ark:
“I’m being very factual,” he said. “We know the Bible has a very clear understanding. Noah didn’t take 27 genders of animals. He just took two as far as I remember… There’s only one God and he makes male and female and that’s the way that will always work.”
Source (via Reddit):
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This is a common tactic of such people: misrepresent the position being decried in some extreme way (implying, here, either that someone claims there are “27 genders” or that this is the “anything goes” endpoint we would eventually get to) and that it would also lead to even more ridiculous identifications such as claiming to be a cat. Thus the reader is invited, not to examine the facts before them, or making the slightest serious attempt to understand the perspective of someone with gender dysphoria, but to enter into some sort of moral panic about the imagined / feared world that would supposedly result.
Once you have the reader hyperventilating and pearl-clutching, you are pulling them along in your direction without having presented a single fact or actual argument.
I have to admit in fairness that some people’s life choices are challenging even when you’re relatively open and willing to listen. For example I long since came to understand homosexuality, and transexuality (helps to have a trans grandchild) but I’m still a little incredulous about “gender fluid” where someone just decides randomly on a moment to moment basis whether or how (fe)male they are at that point in time. This is starting to sound a little bit random and entitled and confused to me. But then the appropriate response is to really listen to such voices and make a serious attempt to understand them rather than do the easy thing and avoid thinking and just dismiss it out of hand. For me the jury is still out about some topics, but at least there’s a jury deliberating and my views are provisional based on evidence-gathering instead of simply emotional knee jerk reactions.
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In short, the good christian values of willful ignorance and deception.
This is the way.
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Oh my…went down a rabbit hole. Here are some stops along the way.
So how much did you buy then? 
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If anything belongs on a WTAF list, it’s today’s SpaceX IPO, which made Musk, at least on paper, the world’s first trillionaire.
It’s difficult to know where to start. Nearly everything about the IPO – the valuation of the company, the non-existent basis for it, the unprecedented performance that would have to be pulled off by a company with a long history of vaporware, broken promises and – not incidentally – monetary losses, the physical impossibilities or vastly underestimated difficulties of the things it wants to do (put a million people on Mars, data centers in space, AGI) make it little more than an obvious pump-and-dump scheme.
I think that the financial industry going along with this (for the most part), managers from Schwab bursting with pride for pulling it off, accepting as the leader of this company a man who just the other day drunk-posted on what used to be Twitter, this gem:
Bitches
Money
No Taxes
Party
… all of this is just another example of how bereft of common sense that lot has become as well. Of course they will make lots of $ in the (potentially very short) run, but I think the ultimate effect of this kind of thing is apt to be another worldwide depression.
I’ve always understood that financiers and financial advisors don’t understand macro risk and wouldn’t know if it hit them in the face, but … this makes me think they are also just willfully Stoopid.
Finally, it is becoming difficult in light of the of this kind of off-the-charts sheer stupidity, to ignore the fuck-eat-kill short-sighted brutal dumfuckery of the general populace.
WTAF have people produced civilization, music, art, or anything of beauty for? For … whatever THIS is?
It’s insane.
There is precedence for this: the insane valuation of Tesla. Tesla’s current market cap is larger than the combined market caps of GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW, Hyundai, and VW. All of those companies produce more cars than Tesla. All have been around a lot longer than Tesla. There is no reasonable reason for Tesla’s market cap to be as high as it is, and for so long. It’s pie in the sky nonsense.
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