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This is minor, all things considered but - Trump lied and claimed his father was born in Germany when his father was born in the Bronx in NYC. To
take his claims and his beliefs about birthright citizenship would be to deny him, specifically, citizenship in the first place.

Not to go off on too much of a tangent, but - in the presence of the NATO Secretary-General while whining about the German Chancellor - he claimed that his father was born in Germany. Which was a stupid lie but also extremely revelatory for how he lies.

Like, I’d rather that Republicans were interested in center-right Christian/based governance, but they’ve decided that the philandering game show host is their God now and it would be rude to pretend they didn’t make that choice.

Like, I’m not the biggest Bernie fan for that reason, but nothing he said compares to Trump’s outright lies of “I’ll have a healthcare plan in two weeks” and other similar shit

He’s truly a stupid person’s idea of what a rich person ought to be.

Are you suggesting you don’t need an ID to buy groceries.

something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us

It’s like, whoops! Turns out the liar lies again! Just because you saw him on tv doesn’t mean he knows what he’s talking about!

Like, I’m personally pissed that I didn’t get 10k forgiven. I could have used that for an upcoming surgical cost. But I recognize that given the options before me, what I got was the best I could expect, courtesy of John Roberts in a robe.

I can’t see whatever response this had, but retreating and surrendering are indeed different concepts.

Yup, the Supreme Court ruling in Biden vs. Nebraska ruled that Biden couldn’t cancel student debts using the HEROES Act.

Biden started a payment program that didn’t rely on this ruling that basically allowed student loans to be paid back minimally, at zero interest, but Trump is overthrowing it.

As far as I can understand, the only reason investors hasn’t treated Tesla as a massively overpriced bubble that it is “I don’t wanna admit I’ve been snookered”

the first and only impeachment proceeding against a supreme court justice was over excessive partisanship fyi

Retreating, not surrendering.

As far as I understand, Trump has basically made Latino voters into a monolith against him, whereas before they weren’t nearly as monolithic.

Like, Biden and Harris comparing Trump to Maduro or a caudillo may not have worked before, but Trump is certainly making the case he’s just like them.

Somewhere out there, someone has tried to sing the Twelve Days of Christmas like the Count von Count, and I both love and fear them.

Or, put another way - if you teleported a living organism into a universe where there were absolutely nothing around it, it’d die. There would be an irretrievable end to the processes.

If you teleported a crystal/chatbot into the same nothingness, their processes would not be irretrievably lost.

The flow of change happens from the environment interacting with the crystal/chatbot, not from the crystal/chatbot interacting with the environment.

Speaking for myself: life is a self-sustaining process that interacts with its environment. A chatbot is more like a growing crystal than a living organism. It can undergo similar processes to a living organism but that alone is insufficient.

The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything

*ukulele starts twinkling in the background, ominously*

Ex: Donald Trump is a stupid People’s idea of a rich man and a stupid Elite’s idea of a populist, and I think we’d be better off if it were the other way around.

If we’re to have Elites and The People, I’d rather have Elites that The People think behave like Elites, instead of Elites behaving the way they *think* The People want them to behave, or how other Elites think Elites ought to behave.

“What would loan companies even do if Biden ignored the Nebraska ruling? Take debtors to court for failure to pay? Get further court rulings in their favor? Ruin my credit score? Have debtor wages garnished or assets seized?”

Ooh look a guy who really, really likes paying student loans lol

I feel like the Venn diagram between people who think poetry is useless to study and people who think universities need to RETVRN to a Classical Western Education is a circle.

Sometimes thoughts should stay inside our heads!

I would kill to have a public that understands the Internet merely as badly as Ted Stevens did.

It’s like the exact inverse about how René Descartes thought about animals.

He thought animals were essentially automatons that acted solely on code-like instinct. And now we have people who think objects that run on code are actually alive.

Like, *technically* we only have circumstantial evidence that Christie shut down a bridge to get revenge on a mayor. But since we have a mountain of that evidence, we don’t need a signed memo of him directly saying that was the reason.

But for special boy Donnie, we apparently need a signed memo! 🙃