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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Okay. But nothing’s going to happen, so that’s not really forfeiting anything in practice.

It’s depressing, but I don’t think he’s stupid - I think he’s crooked. He sold a bunch of stock right before unleashing the tariffs, let his bros buy up the cheap stock that crashed, & now he’s righting the market to sell high. Short sighted and probably criminal, yes. Stupid, no.

That is the point - destroying the federal government.

Oh wow, I wish my academic textbooks had only been 3-4 times as expensive as other similarly sized books. Most of them were over $1,000, and that was more than 15 years ago.

I get the impulse, but we need farmers. Let’s not shoot ourselves in the foot.

He’s still holding onto the (fake) idea that other countries are excessively tariffing us & Trump’s tariffs are deserved sweet revenge.

Blaming what women are doing for men’s misogyny is not the win you seem to think.

That’s probably part of it. He’s also big on paying private companies to do work, so I imagine that will be part of the plan. They get to charge the big bucks because it’s a last minute emergency, too.

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Ok except courts still run during shutdowns

“This isn’t how things are done!” *cue hand wringing*

I’m always too distracted by the mutually fatal exchange of microbiomes. Like, is 2025 Bob going to destroy the dinosaurs 2 million years earlier than planned? Plus the bonus of returning & wiping us all out, too!

Now might be a good time to remind everyone that I was just following orders was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg trails

They’d lose the chance to sputter “but we don’t do things this way” if they actually stood up & did something. What a loss 🙄

If I thought any boss I reported to said things like this about me, I’d find another job ASAP

They are firing people left and right regardless of whether rank & file employees stand up.

Fed employees won’t stand up for the same reason politicians won’t stand up - we’d be fired. Most people need their jobs.

My consolation is that it’s obvious no one is reading these millions of emails. They’re just going to use an AI scraper to fire people who mention their hated buzzwords and those who didn’t/ couldn’t respond. Just send anything.

This is why The Winchesters didn’t work. People got annoyed & stopped watching because the explanation didn’t come until the season finale & until then it just seemed like the premise was wrong.

Purple crocus on Clapham Common, pictured from above.

Every Winter ends.

Trump fired a ton of FAA staff even when they were already understaffed & wont let them rehire.

You… want everyday unelected people to step in and do the jobs of elected officials? Democratic messaging, is that you? Elon? That you?