At this point we've reached a complete and utter death of euphemism around anything regarding Trump.

All attempts to "bring to light" any horrible thing Trump has factually committed will be met by his followers with, "Well that's actually a good thing." And any politician trying to ride his wake will have to go along with it.

How soon until we start hearing "Look, we have to view Hitler with some nuance" from the Senate podium.

This stopgap bill would absolutely have enough votes to pass in the House and the only reason McCarthy won't bring it to a vote is because the hard liners would motion to vacate the speakership. So the US will be plunged into chaos all because one guy doesn't want to lose his title. Cool democracy.

"Sorry son, little Johnny across the street is willing to go trick or treating for only two pieces of candy per hour, so I'm taking him instead."

A political party is a collection and assemblage of individuals who share a set of beliefs and principles and policy views about the United States of America.

Remember when the Republican party simply didn't put out a party platform running up to the 2020 election? They released a one page document that just said "We stand for whatever Donald Trump wants." That was weird, huh?

Who is this message even for? Not the workers obviously. Does it instill the investors with confidence? "Production is so poorly managed and staffed that we have to rely on people working overtime." Does it increase demand? "Come buy these vehicles assembled by overworked, sleep-deprived line workers, hope it works out if you get in an wreck!" It's entirely for his own ego.

It's really too bad Kroger discontinued "The Fizzicist".

Exactly this.

"Sorry Mr. President, the policies you enacted during the triple hurricane saved thousands of lives, but the drug test you took beforehand were positive for mood stabilizers so we've invalidated your policies and everyone who was saved by them has been taken out back and shot."

This isn't the fucking Olympics. But then debates are a terrible way to judge a president to begin with.

Corporate needs you to find the difference between this woman and TurboTax.

True, it's obvious to anyone paying attention that this was always the point, but it is notable whenever we witness yet another death of a euphemism

How many of them changed their minds when they were told that DJT is, in fact, over the age of 75?

Just before the vote was about to begin, Rep. Max Miller of Ohio, one of Santos' Republican colleagues, sent an email to the full Republican conference, writing that he and his mother were victims of credit card fraud tied to Santos' campaign and that he would be voting to remove Santos.

"Neither my Mother nor I approved these charges or were aware of them," Miller wrote in the email obtained by NPR. "We have spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees in the resulting follow up."

It's literally because it was starting to affect them personally.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/01/1215899764/george-santos-expulsion-house

No, charging other people so that you can take advantage of a loophole is called Tax Preparation

I'm surprised Dems decided to join in ousting him instead of voting present and letting him stay. But I guess watching GOP flail in another month-long speaker election can only help contrast them.

He'll be convicted of at least some of the counts, but will immediately begin appealing the decision and won't face any consequences before the election.

Maybe the fact that he's now a "convicted felon" will sway some people, but my guess is that most will simply move their own internal goalposts "since it's still being decided on appeal"

Probably this

Return of the Obra Dinn is short but a great puzzle game for keeping track of things.

The idea of being able to access the trackball from the front or back really is intriguing.

Play up her former DA status. This year the election is between Law and Lawlessness.

Harris: "I would be happy to prosecute the case against the felon in the next debate, let's just see if he shows up for his court date or if he's too busy taking bribes from his rich tech bro friends."

What do you think Biden will be able to on court reform without a supermajority in the House and Senate?

The court reform announcement is entirely an aspirational effort. "Just think what we could do if you get out and vote."

I think that, like it or not, the legal landscape today is what we have to contend with this election cycle.

Yep. Lavender makes me feel physically sick.

I would collect taxes if I held the power of physical violence over a community. All taxation is theft, amiright?

But seriously, stealing is a crime because prevailing thought within the community is that taking something that someone else has a claim on is wrong. If the prevailing thought was that it was not wrong, it wouldn't be against the law, but we also would call it something else... Like taxation.

Yep, the Democratic problem is not persuading cultists on the other side, it's energizing the base.

Station 11 on Max is a thoughtful, heartfelt, and artistic post apocalypse show. Very different from the standard fair.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10574236/

“We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” said Paul Dans

An apt rewording of Bannon's famous quote.

Thanks for providing the link

I had it during the beta. Not bad, though it's pretty heavy handed with the Jetbrains sales pitches after almost every answer.

Their integration with the Git interface was nice though, having auto-generated commit messages based on its evaluation of the changeset is so convenient.

I agree. Guess I should have put a /s on the slogan. But it's still taking a portion of something that is technically owned by one person or group for the betterment of the community.

Some people see that as theft and so would call it stealing even though there isn't a law against it. My point is that this question is asked from a particular vantage point and what constitutes theft and the law may be different from one person to another.

This would be awesome. Give Harris a two hour uninterrupted prime time spot to let the former prosecutor make a case against electing a convicted felon and follow it with 2 hours of the oldest candidate in US history rambling. 😆

Yep, and because we know Democrats won't have the stomach for, the next time there's a Republican VP on Jan 6th, they will use this ruling to announce that the Democratic winner is an insurrectionist and therefore disqualified and the same people sitting on the bench will rule that he's right.

There's podcasts like Sleep With Me that occupy the same place as white noise.

So the bill meant to "increase transparency" has an amendment added to specifically allow money to be less transparent.

This will energize his base and he will win the election. It will also mean Republican domination of the House and Senate. The next two years will be a clusterfuck as normal and barriers are demolished and regular people begin to realize they've elected fascism. The midterms will begin to look like a blue wave, but then they will point back to moments like this to declare the Democratic party "illegitimate" and remove them from ballot access, if midterm elections happen at all.

This is the end of any semblance of democracy in the US for at least a generation.

I agree that Politico is a rag, but this sounds made up.