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As I recall, OBL was already on the Clinton radar, so I think we might have been more on the ball, but I suspect the GOP would absolutely not have rallied around the flag for a war in that case. I suspect they'd just pound on how Gore was weak and maybe behind it, etc. Bad faith all the way down.

Man, I miss my college knees. Those were good knees.

I mean that, yes, it appears that bounty hunters and other paramilitary types are being sought and recruited. It's a grim statement on how this regime is conducting itself, and one that's pretty ominous that a lot of unvetted assholes are taken off the leash as it were.

Something that came up - considering how slim the margin was, there's a decent chance that Gore would have won in 2000 with just a few breaks. Seems to me the world would be in a different, and maybe better, place.

Excellent observation here from @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social: "The question of whether Trump is primarily symptom or cause is settled by the fact that Trump’s most uncritical lickspittles and enablers on the Court are the two he didn’t appoint"

Hi everyone - is there anyone who can give me the name of a book or podcast or even just some blogs on how an espionage agency worked during the Cold War? And, especially anything that talks about private intelligence agencies? It's stupid, but I wanted to write some fiction from the period.

I know it's a troll, but also too - go f* yerself, Lindsey. Seriously, if he still thinks he's a good person after making a troll like that, he deserves to be slapped by every Catholic in America.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I have heard very few 'American' jokes, like 'An American walks into a bar' sort of set up. Maybe Texan jokes or something. I fear that we're about to be starting to hear some very soon and I'm not super jazzed to start hearing them... but I'm also concerned that we'll have earned them.

The Trump Administration is an unstable coalition of zealots, con men, fascists and vacuous techbros who they can will their goals into reality, despite it being demonstrably bad from GO.

This is from Newsweek, which I consider to be 'not great'. But, it came across my feed anyway. And I knew they were doing this anyway... but the urge to find the vents to these places and load them up with rotten fish then close them up is.... tempting. www.newsweek.com/luxury-dooms...

To add insult to all the other outrages - the betrayal of Ukraine, the storming of federal agencies by a gang of Musk sniffing edgelords, the fight with Canada - he can't even bring the price of eggs down. Worst. Apocalypse. Ever.

What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

Watching Trump and his flying monkeys rapidly disassemble the pieces of the government along ideological lines as set out by a drug mad technobro, a band of christofascist zealots and his own sense of aggrievement and hubris is breathtaking in its suicidal audacity. They are really going for it.

I keep hearing that Trump is going to start with 'Shock and Awe' from day 1. And there are a lot of ways to take that, but I am grimly anticipating that this is going to be 'against us'. And while that will be bad, it's also going to amuse the same Pepe avatars and Musk sniffers, just because.

Trump transition team: make depressions great again www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/12/make...

While it's amusing to watch many of Trump's picks implode on the tiniest amount of vetting, I would point out that the media would try the same rigorous examination if Harris had won. The difference is 'Is a drunk who assaults women' versus 'Performatively likes jazz'.

Now, no one asked for my opinion on what to do with the increase of AI scraping data from sources to make the products more believable. But, I think that, if you are a creator of any sort of content, you should probably insert some gibberish into it, just to confuse them.

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Something else to pass through me.

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Is just the algorithm messing with me, or are stories about a nuclear exchange increasing in volume since Trump won the election?

Of COURSE, Gaetz was having group sex with underaged girls! We all knew this! The GOP knew it! The party is full to the rim with sex pests, grifters, oligarchs and crazy people. If he'd been a tiny bit more discreet, he'd STILL be an AG nominee.

I hate the fact that the Trump cabinet is a pack of unethical dilettantes who Trump caught on TV saying nice things about him while a gang of human anal polyps dismantles just enough of the guardrails to let them do what they want, but enough to spring on Democrats when it all inevitably collapses.

On a different note - saw an ad for a pill to aid in 'straightening a bent penis'? Which... ok? Glad the money we won't be putting into vaccine research is used to accommodate the specific penile anxieties of some people. RFK would be proud. But a side effect had included 'penis fractures'? YOLO.

And, just because it's That Sort Of Year, North Korea is getting a little nutty and antagonizing S Korea with GPS jamming and blowing up the last roads between them. Just in time to watch US pull out of NATO, then we'll reach Double Jeopardy, and the scores really start to change.

I have to admit, while choosing Hegeseth as the DoD head is... bad, the pictures of him with "Deus Vult" and Nordic Crosses tattooed on his body is not something I had anticipated. Or wanted. It IS, however, on par with the rest of this dumb decade to come.

"Amid Earth's heat records, scientists report another bump upward in annual carbon emissions" by @borenbears.bsky.social for @theindependent.bsky.social AP News: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Trump's next Cabinet is one bad trip from becoming the Legion of Doom. If Mar-A-Lago becomes amphibious, we're only a few days from an army of sentient Tesla robots attacking Detroit.

I am led to understand that Elon Musk does not like Dana Carvey's SNL impression, but as he could be replaced with a bobblehead and the latest Catturd post, he should be flattered. However, a true impression would be having Carvey passed out in a K-hole coma, and he could have had a lil nap.

Is anyone else annoyed by the circuit of 'what the Democrats ought to do now..." that were largely absent from comment when the GOP lost under Trump? This man was called a dangerous loon by anyone who worked with him, and they're treating his win like it was an unavoidable act of nature.

Does anyone know where I can send a picture of my dirty @ss-hole to Chuck Todd? He did the usual 'Trump won and it's all the Dems fault. But, if he screws up, boy he'll be in trouble." As if Trump's concerned about winning again, when he'll be fluffing his pillow on the taxpayer's expense.