What do you think won’t happen? That he’ll go to Rikers, or that he’ll only be a dictator for one day?

Does it matter? This wouldn’t have happened without Trump being elected and the looking threat of tariffs. Whether the owner is using that as cover for jacking up the prices or not, it’s still a LAMF moment.

I mean, once all the work that immigrants do now stops getting done, someone is gonna have to do it. And slaves are cheaper than Americans who might demand a livable wage.

If Smith is still there when Trump is coronated, everything about those cases is immediately black-holed. Theoretically, if Smith folds early, he can release everything he’s done to the public.

He might, or he might not. But if Trump fires him, he won’t have control of the information any longer.

there’s value in making authoritarians be authoritarian.

Why? It’s not like Trump is an unknown quantity at this point. They knew what he was when they voted for him, after all his previous authoritarian remarks- being even more open about it isn’t going to change any minds.

Esperanza Robles, a first-time voter from Reno, Nev., says she voted for Donald Trump because “the things he stands for are better than the things that Kamala stands for.”

What things? Be specific.

Alternatively, hundreds of thousands of Americans died because they thought owning other human beings was morally wrong.

It was ~67% of eligible voters that were registered to vote. Over 94% of registered voters actually voted.

French Guiana.

Moving closer to the equator is likely to be a bad time in the near future, what with climate change and all.

Of course they are sleeping soundly. They’d literally be marching into the camps convinced they did the right thing.

You said it!

They’re banking on SCOTUS continuing to gut regulatory agencies from having the authority to oversee corporations.

They want their fiefdoms.

Well, talking about the EU might remind the rubes how shit things have gone since Brexit, so of course they don’t want to bring that one up.

someone convinces them antibiotics are the devil’s work.

Antibiotics are proof of evolution, since the various microorganisms create resistances to vaccines.

The ultranationalist TV channel fast becoming Israel’s most-watched news source

Fox News?

“Now where’s my pen? I’ve got EO9066 to sign.” - Also FDR.

You expect law enforcement to investigate itself?

Uhh, driver support and networking have vastly improved since Windows XP.

If you had ever done a clean reinstall of XP, you’d know what a pain it was to make sure you had your NIC drivers on a floppy or USB drive before you started.

It sure seems like they aren’t being very forthcoming with their data between this and being threatened with fines last year for not providing the data. That makes me suspect they still aren’t telling the truth.

I think their silence is very telling, just like their alleged crash test data on Cybertrucks. If your vehicles are that safe, why wouldn’t you be shoving that into every single selling point you have? Why wouldn’t that fact be plastered across every Gigafactory and blaring from every Tesla that drives past on the road? If Tesla’s FSD is that good, and Cybertrucks are that safe, why are they hiding those facts?

An FSD car that makes perfect decisions would theoretically be safer than a human driver who also makes perfect decisions, if for no other reason than the car could do it faster.

Personally, I would love to see autonomous cars see widespread use. They don’t have to be perfect, just safer mile-for-mile than human drivers. (Which means that Teslas, with Musk’s gobsmackingly stupid insistence on only using cameras, will never reach that threshold).