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That’s not the victory Republicans will think it is.

The House Freedom caucus routinely has at least one or two who dig their heels in over “this bill doesn’t go FAR enough!”

With a 218 majority, that means 100% of the Republicans have to toe the line. Not a single person can be out of line, something that rarely happens with either party. There’s usually at least ONE person who doesn’t like the outcome.

This is going to put a lot of people who are known for digging in their heels into very precarious situations. Either they toe the line and have to accept some compromise because of Democrats in the Senate looking to filibuster. Or they alone hijack the Republican plans.

And woe if someone dies, gets sick, or retires in office on their side, something that also happens at least once per year on either side.

This cluster just gets worse by the day.

And we all have 1,529 days left to watch that hope get even dimmer.

state proceedings will be paused until after his term

Yes, I full expect the 34 counts sentencing by Merchan to be placed on hold until Jan. 21st, 2029. I’m surprised anyone is confused on this.

Trump won, he gets to get off scot-free from all the charges and investigation. That was literally the reason Trump ran.

Civil lawsuits

Well maybe. Depends with the new SCOTUS presumed immunity. Official acts wasn’t well defined and while no one is thinking rape is an official act, the manner by which the evidence was collected can be questioned.

At this rate, the civil stuff might continue, but there’s going to be so much resistance to the proceedings that they will effectively look as not even happening. The President can delay court motions because “I’m doing President stuff rn” and the Court has to presume that’s true. Rise and repeat until his second term is over.

Literally there is no case. The filing fails to name single real person of harm and fails to establish any real material harm.

Additionally it is using a consumer protection law and citing an FCC ruling, of all things, to establish cause, which is insane.

This entire filing is like what law student would write as a joke. I mean they could have save some pages by just writing, “CBS is a big meanie and I don’t know who, but I’m pretty sure someone lost $5 for some reason because of them being so mean! I am asking for $30 decillion in judgement.”

Don Jr appears in there several times and there are rumors JD Vance might show up in the next ad. Those are both deaths that poll extremely well across party lines.

I would be laughing at how ridiculous that is, but I’m mostly just laughing to assuage my low level concern that keeps trying to take control of the wheel that is my mind.

But when the storm passes and everyone realizes we are on sounder footing, there will be a rapid recovery to a healthier, sustainable economy

Uh no. When winds were favorable to the billionaires they did the whole stock buyback, not get us on the fast track to a rapid recovery. When we put the tariffs on steel, we didn’t get a stronger steel industry, we got US Steel going up for potential sale to the Japaneses.

This “there will be rapid recovery” every, single, stinking, time someone says this, the exact opposite happens. There’s been no evidence that this would ever happen.

These Republicans are quick to say things like “Communism might sound great on paper, but it doesn’t work in the real world.” Well neither has this.

Really I’m just disappointed in the lack of blackjack here.

In all fairness paranoia is important in things like finding someone trying to slip a backdoor into xz. Going by the most recent Windows 11 update, Microsoft seems to be “we’ll fix it in production”.

Oh man, I so want him to fight this. This would be a money pit like hell. I would love to see Musk watch hundreds of millions of his own money burn in litigation. We should seriously put his ego on the line with this trail. I feel like posting on Twitter:

Don’t let that production studio treat you like a bitch, fight these fuckers!!

Tying up his ego into this legal fight would be amazing because that fucker has zero idea about sunk costs.

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Nah it’ll be like what we think of this kind of art.

But we’ve invested too much in <<shiny new thing>> that we can’t update <<old reliable thing>> otherwise all that investment in <<shiny new thing>> will be for naught.

— Tale as old as time.

It’s double points if shiny new thing is an attempt to push old reliable thing out of the market. Because consumers love it when you do that.

Some unsolicited comments on this:

• I would absolutely trade Dr. Bunsen Honeydew with Dr. Mario.
• The Dr. Pepper position is just pure slander.
• Dr. Horrible and Doogie Howser, MD is the true duality of humanity.
• Zoidberg is suspiciously much higher along the Y-axis than I would personally prefer.
• Dr. Dre, like I would forget, is absolutely a quadrant II candidate. There’s just no way I’d put Spin Doctors high along the Y-axis than Dre.

do as I say not as I do

Nintendo: Money! Fuck everything else.

All other attributes derive from that.

I mean ever since XZ binaries are a no go. Like the trust is gone, the bridge is burnt, unless there’s like an insanely good reason, anything this heavy in BLOBs ought to be treated as suspect. Benefit of doubt isn’t coming back.

You have to understand how Vance views the issue. For him abortion isn’t a meet in the middle stance. Abortion to him and folks similar see the matter as only having one possibly correct solution.

Thus for him, “Americans instinctively mistrust us” doesn’t mean that his position would evolve, it’s that “to him”, he’s done a “bad job” making your stance evolve.

The hard line Republicans aren’t interested in finding common ground, they’re more interested in what you will change your opinion to or at the very least what unacceptable positions you’ll tolerate. There is never going to be an evolution or common ground to be found with these folks because that’s distinctly not the position that they are looking for.

Cycloheptane, the only way I’m getting a boat or a car.

It will likely benefit the State.

Does everyone just forget the aspect where it absolute enriches the guy but just “maybe, likely” benefit anyone else?

If only there was some middle ground between hard to eat chocolate and modern day slavery.

I literally had to cite the page number from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 Public Law 117-328 that covered how the $800M that Trump keeps telling everyone FEMA spent on migrants was a completely different fund than the disaster relief fund that FEMA uses for hurricanes. Which the DRF was established originally as it’s own fund in the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988 Public Law 100-707

It’s page 4,730 where that item is located for anyone wondering.

I fucking hate what online interactions have become. I think I’ve easily read over 200,000 pages of government legislation, federal regulation, and legal proceedings since June because of the lies one orange shit stain keeps telling. I really do hope that the Republicans can move past that fucker, it was a lot easier to talk politics.