Dan Flashes

Trick question, it's 1 in part because of 2

"The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there's such a thing as being smart."

--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in The Sirens of Titan

Soooo... they're pissing and moaning about these supposed vaccine side effects while also taking away the mechanism to care for people harmed by vaccine side effects...?

Do I have that right?

Because how do the oligarchs make money off of that?

Two of those three entities are now compromised, and he’s convinced his base the third is out to get him.

Attendant probably had to go through a lot of training to sharpen their wit, as educated customers can cut right through any BS and corporate is constantly logging customer satisfaction. The attendant doesn't want someone doing a hatchet-job in a Google review lest they get axed from their job.

Wait until they retro-fit the files to align with the QAnon belief and release them after a non-stop 3 month drumbeat about it being a Democratic hoax.

Don't think the MAGA base isn't dumb enough to fall for it, because they 110% are that dumb.

NYT out here acting like they didn't do everything they could to usher this administration back into power

Or, worse, their lapdog DOJ will "cleanse" the evidence of anything implicating Trump and release a bunch of stuff implicating ONLY prominent Trump opponents. And he'll blabber about "oh we found this stuff" and they'll lap it up because they're dumb as a sack of hammers.

I hate to be cynical, but he left himself an out & after 3-6 months of gaslighting about how it was a Dem setup this whole time they will release *some* of the docs while destroying anything implicating Trump and/or other Repubs. And his base is too dumb to use logic to see it'll be a total sham.

Come on, surely you didn't believe that it wouldn't be all-hands-on-deck to gaslight for the next 3-6 months, right?

What you're suggesting is precisely what the administration is waiting for: an excuse to start gunning us down in the streets.

His handlers--and to some degree he himself as well--know that all they have to do is dangle some other shiny keys in front of them to distract. I predict that by 2026 no one will even be talking about Epstein on either side of the aisle. It'll be like none of this ever happened.

Respectfully, I think it's ridiculous to think this will damage him politically. If we've learned nothing else over the last decade it's that all it will take is 3-6 months of gaslighting from the lock-step right wing propaganda machine and suddenly the base will no longer care about Epstein.

Fair enough. Can't blame a guy for tryin'!

Stupid drummer question...

I saw you perform many times in the GF/LaGF era. Do you prefer hand-drumming or sticks/kit drumming?

Hey, we all saw The Force Awakens

We all know they'll use this is some kind of cudgel to finally repeal the ACA.

It’s neither, really. It’s all about access and money. They make money by driving clicks and outrage and “online engagement”. Whatever bumps those up highest is what they go with.

If my choice is "complex legal battle with the federal government" or an El Salvador concentration camp with no due process, I know what I'm picking

Yeah, no sympathy for Boston sports fans for at least a generation. The current Boston sports fan who is my age has seen 16 championships just in their four major sports teams. I have seen one, and it took a miracle from LeBron and Kyrie to make it happen.

At some point you would think the rest of the Tesla board would grow a spine and force him out. He's completely tanked their brand beyond repair as long as he's there.

a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says that 's a shame . ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and says that 's a shame .

Between alienating his customer base here and BYD about to eat his lunch in China, he way overplayed his hand w/r/t Tesla.

For the life of me I will never understand how no one was able to tell him "THE PEOPLE BUYING YOUR EVS ARE LIBERALS, DIPSHIT"

My dog also does the thing with his back feet when getting scratched; I've always called them his "marching feet".

Yeah, in a business where a sizeable chunk of your revenue comes from "your fans having disposable income" maybe not the time to start a spending spree

I looked at it as a "wow, FOs must believe the cap is going to continue going waaayyyy up" move.

I don't care that the multiplayer looks like they took a 200x300 jpg of Pierce Brosnan's face and stretched it onto a Minecraft villager the game still fucks

This. I mean, the research is important and all, but the buried lede was that they are going to launch *30,000* satellites that are ALL going to burn up in five years?

With tax money, I'm assuming?

Tell me it's not all one giant grift.

Even their pearl-clutching headline is shit: it implies they're no longer behind Trump after her detention. But they clearly still are.