Lee Larson

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law. — Oscar Benavides

Whatever they want it to be. This gives them infinite degrees of freedom to do figurative retribution.

Some sort of metaphor for what he's doing to the country?

Level it to make room for Trump Tower D.C.?

Maybe OAN didn't report it, so he couldn't have seen it.

The people are being slowly accustomed to these ideas. The ratchet is tightened almost imperceptibly a click at a time. How many indiscretions do we now ignore that would have been criminal just one year ago?

The mainstream press is complicit in this slow societal erosion.

When criminals collude, can we expect anything good to come of it?

It's not surprising how they can ignore what's going on when they get there, so they can keep those six-figure jobs.

I don't think the Trumpstein stuff has risen from the ashes because suddenly people are surprised Trump's name is in the documents. It represents the fact so many are pissed off about how the rich and powerful skate through life without any consequences. This is just another example.

Do you think Fox will show this?

Orwell's doublethink from 1984 is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas, believing and disbelieving both. Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984, explains that believing doublethink requires doublethink.

One might call it a recursive idea.

Yeah… Trump kinda pioneered the method with COVID. It didn't work too well then because there were still a few sane people in the food chain.

Oh, she always finds a way to feign indecisiveness.

The sea ice and temperature data confirms global warming. If you don't look for it, it no longer exists. This then conveniently fits right into the canonical world view.

As memories of D-Day are erased from the Pentagon's history.

As a long-time Kentucky resident, I've watched the descent of McConnell over time from a principled man to a big-money sycophant with no empathy for ordinary people. He's become a creature of the deep-pocketed Washington lobbyists. As a lame duck, he's not even trying to hide it any more.

I watched the Tigers' second game up until the current rain delay.

Give them another day or two to add a quarter million strong cheering throng by AI.

I guess anything's possible in their alternate reality. We, who are unfortunate enough to live in the real world, are confined to this less interesting reality.

The sign of a great mathematician is the invention of new ideas. The well-known mathematicians of the past, such as Newton, Riemann, Lebesgue, Gauss, … were great because they were inventive. I'd like to know if the LLMs are coming up with original ideas, or are just rearranging known puzzle pieces.

Some is already too many. He spent the campaign promising "retribution." He's just keeping a campaign promise.

Four years ago, Merrick Garland had plenty of stuff to go after, but instead dithered us into where we are now. Let's hope a future Democratic Attorney General shows more initiative.

I always thought the purloined documents case should have been a slam dunk.

Raise your hand if you're surprised!

It's pretty clear he's probably never bought gas or groceries. And this is a man whose image is based on populism.

It's really quiet when you're so far up Trump's ass.

Imagine a couple dozen billionaires sitting around the Cabinet room. Trump says, "Tomorrow tariffs go down." As soon as the meeting is over every one of them is telling their cronies to buy.

It certainly shows they aren’t proud of what they’re doing. We will need a truth and reconciliation commission in a few years as a confessional for these people.

Because he looks good on the teevee box??

And if, for example, Chicago is leveled by a nuke, do we get a partial refund?

He'd have to climb up from lower down to get onto the shit-tier?