Garrett Petersen

Yes thats the point, collective pressure is making him better

Get in nerds we're gonna bully the party into being good!

Fuck cancer.

Still on my 'main' one actively, absolutely think the community is better.

I realize I'm an out of touch geriatric millennial here but isn't this just hamburger helper with extra steps?

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

not to say that there won’t be chicanery, but the best evidence against the “they’ll just cancel the elections!” folks is that a lotta Republicans in Congress are sure acting like there are gonna be elections

Correct

Long term thinking requires thinking outside your own head because it requires considering the actions of others acting of their own will and not off the NPC script you've written. Hell short term thinking does too but you can dodge those consequences for a while.

I mean, the official position of basically the entire department outside of CENTCOM, iran murderhawks, and the MENSA gallery that is OSD politicals was "man this is gonna be fucking stupid"

is everyone on glue

oh hey look more proof positive that the best response to a trump lawsuit is “fuck you, make me.” hope everyone who gave in without a fight feels like the utter rubes they are.

You know that smug little fuck read that line during prep and thought it made him sound so cool and dangerous and not at all like a shithead.

This goes from the 'stop the steal' shit to geopolitics-only they're real, so any barrier or obstacle is fake, illegitimate, etc.

This gives them moral flexibility to be monsters-after all it's not like they're hurting real people (and if you're hurt by definition you're not real). But it also means they can't conceptualize things going off script or other people's actions in a tangible way.

A core issue that both defines and hobbles Trump and the MAGA movement is that they don't consider other people, like, at all. It's just not important to them.

(But also I get it)

Unfortunately

I'd be disassociating too tbh

My guess is that a lot of states are going to get all the pieces together-including a delivery platform- and stage a rapid breakout capacity when the time comes.

Given the nature of this work I wouldn't be shocked if this happens more or less simultaneously in like, 10 states.

The lesson every mid sized state has taken away from the last decade is the so-called "great powers" can't be trusted to keep a deal so the only way to security is by ensuring you can make a bully howl if they try. Unfortunately that means nuclear proliferation is gonna be a big thing.

Listening to oral args now and Barrett is questioning the constitutionality of the 1968 Gun Control Act because Congress didn’t take into account the dangerousness standard that SCOTUS made up the 2020s.

That’s…not how any of this should work, but it is what Bruen demands.

Chart showing the relationship between gasoline futures prices (advanced 2w) and national average gasoline prices

Attacking Iran looks like it will cost US consumers about 40 cents/gallon.

The enemy gets a vote and a hype video, apparently

It does amuse me that a trillion dollar industry paid a multi million dollar company a lot of money to find out something basically anyone on this site knows and could cite sources on in twelve minutes.

I mean it wasn't *not* for me as a kid but it was also a way for the teachers to keep me from getting bored when I finished classwork fast.

i'm still thinking about how DOGE set up a starlink terminal inside the WH complex and were plugging unsecured commercial devices into every server they could get access to

This is something we need to fix legally in Reconstruction 2, incidentally.

They spent billions on regime change in Venezuela and left the Maduro's head of torture in charge.

They are now spending billions on regime change in Iran, knowing the most likely outcome will be harder line leadership.

We do not have serious people running our country.