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I don’t understand why they’re saying the government will provide a high Universal Basic Income when they refuse to pay a fair share of taxes from their wealth or businesses and the the party of fiscal responsibility (/s) is exploding the debt as they do every time they’re in power. Are they thinking a UBI and a Value Added Tax? The numbers will not add up.

I was hoping to find out that he was 8 inches tall and I was disappointed. /hj

Not quite an LLM, but I asked Siri the answer to 24*6, without thinking. When I saw the answer I realized if I actually took a moment using some critical thinking I would have easily gotten it. In short, I believe it.

White moderates and centrists believed the myth. A lot of the same ones who thought that abortions after n weeks should be illegal. A much larger portion of the electorate were truly swing voters back then and would be willing to split their ticket. While talk radio brainwashing was underway, it hadn’t reach cable news until 96. It’s why California elected republicans Pete Wilson. Politics have really changed in the past 30 to 40 years.

Outside of specific shitty Bill Clinton reasons, the problem is enough of the electorate bought into the lazy welfare queen myth and the Democrats got the presidency because they were third-waying it (and Perot and Gulf War I). Bootstrap fever was high in the nineties.

Does the person dr. POTUS look….familiar? Is Dr. POTUS trying to “heal” a long dead person?

Funny that. It’s almost like CBS & ABC wanted to just give money to POTUS instead of being afraid they would lose if it went before a judge.

I realized that this kid was 9 when Trump was first elected. He grew up in this fucked up political environment so no wonder his cohort’s civic knowledge is fucked up. In that sense, I do feel bad for the kid and his whole generation.

I misread that as ffmpreg…which means I have spent way too much time on AO3 in the past few years.

While the act of POTUS remodeling the White House and Kennedy Center definitely tracks, the neoclassical architecture is classic Washington DC.

Then there is the 4th…at least for medical services…costs. If you can’t afford the good insurance, everything costs so much more money. Even adults are putting off exams and preventative care because wallets are being squeezed from all sides.

Sadly, the blood of patriots is a necessary ingredient. From environmental protection to civil rights to labor rights to women’s suffrage to the Civil War to the Revolutionary War the blood of patriots was shed. Tyrants ensure this happens.

As someone inside of this mess, my point is that there are too many legal proceedings in too broad of a range of issues for SCOTUS to be given the opportunity to overturn all of them, barring SCOTUS giving POTUS the explicit power to fully ignore the Constitution and nullifying all state and regional courts and their decisions. Is this impossible? No. However if that doesn’t happen, a rickety frame of rulings and laws supporting the Constitution are likely to still exist in the U.S. when he passes from the mortal coil. The judiciary (SCOTUS and some circuit courts notwithstanding) and the citizens are the only entities who have consistently and successfully stood up to the administration, even if most of those wins have been small.

We are completely agreed on ICE/DHS.

Oh god, yes. Still, between Habeas petitions, lawsuits against administration hirings and firings, and many others. The litigants are flooding the judiciary and the Supreme Court logistically can’t overrule everything.

Fair. Looking purely at 30k, we were already screwed, and this administration is mostly successful at speed running it. The judiciary is where we have a fighting chance, barring many people getting off their screens (self: guilty) and staying in the streets until we make structural change.*

*Defined by many different people in many different ways.

We’re not completely screwed until they replace enough judges. The ones in place are able to slow if not fully prevent many of these abuses, primarily ones where the government has to operate through the judicial branch.

Per a NY Times article I read the judge is pissed that neither is party of the case informed him of the settlement when they met with the court on Friday. Possibly paywalled: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/arts/music/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-suit-settled.html

Generally having propagandists in charge of what will be one of the largest media conglomerates. Probably more bribes, I mean documentaries, for those in the administration. I expect Bari to be put in charge of CNN, kneecapping another source of opposition media for this administration. That’s in addition to the further consolidation of media (which would have been a problem regardless of who bought it).

It’s long past time to kill executive orders. Even the times they are used for good, they are often legally dubious and live on the whims of the courts.

I’ve never been into it, but at this point I want to see if PWHL games are near me or at least stream them somewhere. The women could use all the support.