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Trump reportedly set to accept a luxury jet from Qatar for possible use as Air Force One Congress erupts over Trump's billion-dollar crypto deal am recalling when congressional republicans were trying to convince us o' a biden crime family conspiracy via out-of-context and outright fabricated emails and texts. real evidence were always just a couple weeks away. trump is raking in billions, right out in the open. ... however, hunter did make money off a stoopid painting and got jobs he didn't deserve based on nothing but his last name, which means they are all bad, so... edit to avoid double-post: Poland says Russian secret service behind 2024 fire in Warsaw shopping centre HA! Good Fun!

bunch o' friends went to the a's v. yankees game yesterday. with all the family in attendance, there a couple dozen o' us. did some seriously unserious grilling afterwards. gonna be able to survive on the good vibes for quite some time. HA! Good Fun!

over-under on an snl weekend update pope joke about pizza or ketchup on hot dogs official being made a sin? edit: added vid for those unaware o' the local unwritten ordinance HA! Good Fun!

am knowing it is silly, but the dude has delivered a single homily as pope and am already having him as our GOAT. gonna need work very hard to lose that position. HA! Good Fun!

... "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." doesn't say what miller suggests. needs be a rebellion or invasion AND the threat to public safety must be legal sufficient as to necessitate suspension o' habeas corpus. is not simple a matter o' trump declaring we got an invasion, so he may therefore suspend habeas corpus. however... am not sure how many times we need have this same conversation. "can't actually do that," is irrelevant. imagine trump waits 'til he gots ten c-5 loads worth o' undocumented immigrants he wants to "deport" to el salvador, rwanda and libya. and let's say scotus decides in the upcoming birthright citizenship case (which isn't actual about the legitimacy o' birthright citizenship btw,) that a district court judge can no longer grant nationwide tros/injunctive relief but is instead limited to granting to relief to respondents appearing before their court and in their district. so consider the possibility that on some friday or saturday night in the not too distant future, the trump administration organizes a mass deportation effort and suspends habeas corpus for tren de aragua, ms-13, lawyers at big name law firms and the less than a dozen trans athletes competing in ncaa sports, gets 'em on planes before lawyers are able to successful challenge the legality o' the intended deportations, and then the us military flies those persons to libya, el salvador and rawanda. trump has been practicing how to move deportees just ahead o' court responses. the upcoming scotus decision we mentioned may make the situation even more dire for potential deportees as individual judges could have their reach limited by a significant degree. yeah, when biden was President, near every conservative cause ended up before judge kacsmaryk in texas. conservatives sudden believe that one judge shouldn't have so much power, and the truth is they might be right, but their motives is pretty freaking transparent and self-serving. regardless, once all those people is outside the US, one step ahead of the law, trump will be able to do the same thing he is doing now and pretends as if he is powerless to fix the problem. of course the Court could eventual order trump to try and get those people back, but what nobody wants to admit is that is the extent o' their power. if trump says he tried his darndest to return all those people back to the US, but that el salvadaor, libya and rwanda refused to comply, what then? heck, what if all those planes carrying deportees crashed into the ocean? doesn't much matter, does it? if trump refuses or creates a situation where he literal cannot bring back his deportees, then what? well, of course we could impeach trump... can't do... illegal to do... impossible to do... that kinda thinking only applies to Presidents who follow the rules and traditions o' the US. trump is ignorant, covetous, petty and vain to a degree we has never seen in a chief executive, but people keep pretending as if next time he will follow the rules? serious? HA! Good Fun!

not to keep beating on this... recall this story? am pretty sure sarah anama is teaching same class as @Hurlshot, yes? world civilization for middle schoolers? folks on the right are quick to label sarah as woke and her defenders on the left don't wanna insult her by calling her woke, but regardless, we are talking 'bout the same behavior. now sure, trump folks (and more than a few so-called libertarians,) see a ridiculous spectrum o' actions as woke, but even so, this ain't a matter o' simple pejorative use. particular since the civil rights movement, modeling behaviours o' inclusion and mutual respect has been deemed positive and admirable by just about everybody. not anymore. even when the right and left is talking 'bout the same thing, the kinda original meaning o' woke, the right sees as pejorative worthy and the left now shies away from describing a person as woke. kinda ironic as am personal not a fan o' the word "woke," but that is 'cause am mild annoyed by reductionist short-hand slang. yet another example o' trump folks and weekend libertarians compelling us to defend something we don't actual approve. HA! Good Fun! ps am not gonna get into pope politics until we got a better idea o' who he is, and reading snippets online ain't gonna tell us much. however, the following story won't even need be true to drive many absolute bonkers: New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected on Thursday as the new pope, is descended from Creole people of color from New Orleans. The pope’s maternal grandparents, both of whom are described as Black or mulatto in various historical records, lived in the city’s Seventh Ward, an area that is traditionally Catholic and a melting pot of people with African, Caribbean and European roots.

what the alt-right did with woke is a bit more insidious than is being described even if am thinking it were organic. woke were not always pejorative. original, and for a long time, woke were considered to be a compliment. sure, woke didn't get much use from most o' the public until the last couple decades, but it has been around for a while and were considered a positive attribute for near all o' its existence in the american lexicon. so this ain't like lesbians taking ownership of the c-word. ... the thing is, what makes something woke hasn't changed much in spite o' the fact that nowadays the term is mostly used as an insult. a woke teacher is perhaps somebody helping students understand that endemic and systematic racism ain't new or unique to the american experience, enable kids to make the connections where they realize that even though a white banker who would never in a million years call a customer the n-word, could nevertheless be promoting racist policies. woke hasn't changed. the teacher we describe is woke whether is being described by somebody who voted for kamala harris or donald trump. however, in 2025 the harris voter is less likely to describe our example enlightened teacher as woke precise 'cause the trump voters has successful managed to turn woke into a pejorative. being aware o' those social forces seen and unseen which result in disparate outcomes for persons based on race, gender, or whatever, and then doing something to fix those inequities is what is woke. trumpism has managed to make woke a curse regardless o' the fact both tribes functional use the term similar. kinda f'ing evil when you actual think 'bout it, no? HA! Good Fun! ps sadly, there is more than a few sjw types out there who somehow see everything through the prism o' race, and they take every opportunity to remind white males o' their privilege and to criticize anybody they see as being too reckless with their microaggressions and for their perceived failure to properly use trigger warnings. *eye roll* the flaw o' such people ain't that they is woke but that they is d-bags.

ok, we said we were gonna ignore pope stuff for a few days, but am thinking this is a bit different... HA! Good Fun!

well, at various points in history, indulgences were a lucrative business venture for the church, an organization which were active involved in marketing their product. the creative businessmen o' the church even found ways to expand their product line to so-called alms-giving, so... but as to woke grievance and outrage. is not woke if your family or tribe tribe agrees with a practice. for example, if you got an autistic child, then chances are you don't see programs which seek to help autistic children succeed in school and life as woke... unless the kids being helped is o' a racial or social group you do not belong to. also, if your tribe believes they is being shamed or embarrassed, or if they/them is giving a benefit or reward to somebody whom you don't believe deserves the benefit, then you are gonna be angered by the practice. label those who done you wrong as woke. is difficult to explain rational and reasonable why it's wrong when they do it. converse, call stuff woke or cancel culture is quicker, easier than meaningful defense. it also helps that anybody who questions your invocation o' "woke" or "cancel culture" may be labeled as "woke." furthermore, once a recognized figure of your tribe identifies an outsider as "woke," y'all can feel justified in attacking such people free o' any guilt. it is a very convenient and easy to follow system, and if you question the system... woke. HA! Good Fun! ps am genuine amused by the far-right/trump coalition outrage against marxism/communism/_____ism given trumpian rejection of free markets and his embrace o' a kleptocratic autarky while promoting a cultural revolution attack o' intellectuals, experts and elites. pps jeanine pirro is the interim US attorney for dc ... whatever.

as somebody who were anticipating drive-away dolls only to be a bit disappointed, am kinda ambivalent about this. "it wasn't a terrible film." we liked dolls cast and a few o' the performances. liked some/most o' the dialogue, although am admitting we can't help but measure coen films to a miller's crossing standard, which ain't fair. we even liked the look o' the film, which is important for visual media. drive-away dolls story was meh. pacing were meh... which we found odd as tricia cooke's editing on previous coen films were typical a strength. as much as we liked some performances, others were noticeably meh. etc. too much meh. we wanna like this, but... HA! Good Fun!

am gonna try and ignore most pope news for a bit as am already nauseated by the thought o' all the expert opinions on robert prevost/leo xiv from people who couldn't pick him outta a police lineup last week. that said, am gonna go out on a limb despite our already admitted ignorance and posit that not trump is a win o' sorts. ... if the universe punishes us for our hubris, we will be maximal disappointed. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, this ain't even the most terrible time in US history... which is part o' what makes it so disappointing. for gawd's sake, the last time the alien enemies act were used were ww2 when we sent japanese american citizens to internment camps, sometimes for years. the Court at the time said doing so were okie dokie (only three dissents) and the move was popular with the US public. is so much bad and forgotten history. the patriot act were passed overwhelming and bipartisan in 2001, 'cause when people is afraid, they cheerful hand over freedom. the unfair lending practices which quietly has led to massive income disparity 'tween races in this country were only final made illegal in the seventies and while it persists in many places even today, much o' it were curbed by the 80s... so we likely only need a few more generations to see fundamental change as home ownership leads to generational wealth and you functional need wait for the death of home owners to see any kind o' change. too terrible to believe, not so long ago, the government were doing coercive sterilizations o' native american women. as recent as the 70s we had the weather underground and a smidge previous were that little kerfuffle at the pentagon. how does people not know just how bad were race relations in the 60s? heck, if you are too lazy to learn history, then maybe go ahead and watch mississippi burning. mccarthyism. american nazis holding rallies at madison square garden on the eve of ww2. the use of the sedition and espionage acts. the great depression. chinese exclusion. company towns and union busting. and yeah, we already survived a civil war, although we are still dealing with the scars and the never-healed wounds. in fact, the only part o' all this which genuine shocks us is that we never thought americans would accept trumpism w/o major economic upheaval or a war. bunch o' snowflakes. 'course with trump trying to make stagflation great again, we might just get the economic upheaval. have mentioned more than once just how similar our current situation is to the 1920s. post global pandemic we saw massive income disparity and social unrest with people afraid o' change. at the time, many people, unable to make ends meet, were being told how fantabulous were the economy, and that cheesed 'em off more than a little. to fix things, Congress imposed stoopid across the board protective tariffs... take as bad news or good news, but we have been here before, and more than once. HA! Good Fun! ps and the point o' a few o' these appointments has gotta be pretty much nothing but an effort to punk the libs.

well, the reapers is gonna return relative soon, so is all moot anyway. heck the reaper cycle is a mere 50,000 years. HA! Good Fun!

Some Giant Law Firms Shy Away From Pro Bono Immigration Cases Fearing the wrath of President Trump, some elite law firms are declining pro bono work on lawsuits challenging the administration’s policies. "Lawyers from Gibson Dunn explained that it was afraid of incurring Mr. Trump’s wrath if the firm was associated publicly with a lawsuit that sought to restore legal representation for unaccompanied immigrant children, the five people said. Gibson Dunn is not the only large law firm shying away from immigration litigation." ... "Groups like the Amica Center have long relied on big law firms to provide legions of young lawyers and paralegals who can help prepare cases free of charge. Traditionally, pro bono work has been intended to help the poor and defenseless." ... "Sirine Shebaya, executive director of the National Immigration Project, a nonprofit that litigates cases for immigrants and pushes for their rights, called the large firms’ recent pivots “part of the chilling effect” of Mr. Trump’s executive orders. “It has gotten much harder to get law firms to take a case on pro bono,” Ms. Shebaya said." ... from a may 1 post by yours truly" "so even if trump keeps losing in court, he has effective reduced the pool of potential lawyers willing to take on cases, which makes future trump loses less likely. who do you think is representing the undocumented immigrants in most o' the fed cases? you might be surprised to learn just how much o' pro bono work the big firms do, and the big washington and new york firms trump targeted is known for taking on a noteworthy proportion o' immigration cases as part o' their pro bono portfolios." am aware that the stoopid of trump and his most visible cronies, coupled with repeated examples o' trump 2.0 buffoonery, has made a few people dismissive of this administration's efforts to dismantle a system which took 250 years to build, a democratic republic which were only recent approaching the promise of founding documents such as the declaration of independence and the bill of rights. the sh!te going on in plain view is serious, sinister and surprisingly well organized. hopefully the all too numerous indifferent, cynical and uninformed US citizens wake up before they realize that what is broken cannot always be fixed. and no, biden requesting and scotus allowing the fed to regulate ghost guns is so not analogous to what is going on in trump 2.0... just in case @Guard Dogis still following this thread. maybe gd don't like what biden did and he likely disagrees with the outcome by the Court, but the feds didn't resort to dirty tricks and the Court didn't create new law just to punish gd. so not the same. and speaking of... Federal court rules Rümeysa Öztürk must be transferred to detention in Vermont trump 2.0 has been using bs excuses to transfer detainees to louisiana and texas where there is judges more accommodating o' the administration. by physical moving individuals such as rumeysa, asap and just before judges and lawyers in ny, maryland and vermont may react, trump 2.0 has been, until now, successful avoiding the jurisdictional limits o' court orders. am knowing that with all the bad news coming day after day, forcing the return o' the tufts student to vermont doesn't feel like a major win, but it is a bigger deal than it seems, particular if other courts follow suit. the trump 2.0 habeas shell game shennanigans were something we foresaw, but perhaps courts will prevent that kinda thing from happening henceforth. HA! Good Fun!

keep in mind that Gromnir is old, so is maybe not a shock that when trump shared his thoughts on the need for doll sacrifice... ...we recollected an old bloom county contribution. and by the way o' explanation, in an earlier bloom county release, trump's brain had been transplanted into the body o' a cat. by education and experience am personal embracing free market ideology far more than am seeing any kinda benefit from trump's central planning model. even so, am recognizing that given the rampant corruption o' this administration coupled with how outta touch is folks like djt and musk, we would not be surprised if all the young people who currently thinks crypto fueled get rich quick schemes and tate brother tutorials is the future will wake up to terrible reality and go to the other extreme... am not even convinced such would be a bad outcome. HA! Good Fun! ps @Azdeus kudos to sweden where tesla sales for the year has dropped by 81%.

*sigh* the sun's luminosity is increasing even as we speak, albeit so slow it would take a prohibitive number of lifetimes to notice the difference. regardless, the sun is getting brighter & hotter. in fact, long before the sun starts transitioning to a red giant and expands enough to engulf the earth (~5 BILLION years,) it is gonna be hot enough to cook off all the oceans from the surface o' our planet. due to luminosity increases, we probable got 1 billion years before the sun's natural life cycle renders the earth uninhabitable for human life. the sun swallowing the earth will be complete irrelevant as a threat to life on the planet, 'cause all animal and plant life will have been burned beyond ashes billions of years previous to that happening. sun expanding is so not a real concern regardless o' musk's busted timeline. but... @Gorth is the guy who should speak on this as 'posed to Gromnir, but the dinosaurs (other than birds) were wiped out 66 million years past and our earliest primate ancestors show up on the scene 100,000 years later. it is our recollection that the first plant life appeared on earth more than 450 million years ago. is gonna be a whole lotta mass extinction events and ice ages 'tween now and the elapse of 1 billion years, much less five billion. there will be no human beings 1 billion years from now... period. am so not claiming expertise on such, but am also not seeing anyway that even if a direct human descendent were to miraculously survive one billion years, it would even remote resemble the humans o' 2025. give musk the most generous benefit of the doubt and ignore his other silliness and focus only on, "several hundred million years," observation. first homo am not sure how accurate the video is, but regardless, the human ancestor in question showed up earth less than three million years past. three. am knowing the reality o' hundreds of millions and billions o' years elapsing is difficult for anybody to genuine conceive, but musk is kinda ignorant for a s'posed science guy. HA! Good Fun! ps late edit to add h. habilis

shadow docket, so we got no explanation for the Court's decision. unlike the situation where venezuelans were on buses heading to an airport or to halt an imminent execution, am not seeing the exigent circumstances regarding trump's desired transgender ban for the military. the status quo were that transgendered people could serve in the military and am having heard no genuine argument that the presence o' a very small percentage o' trans people in the military somehow threatened situational readiness o' the armed forces. even if you think that trans people shouldn't serve in the military, do you honest see the kinda emergency scenario akin to executing an innocent woman or "deporting" people sans due process when the government insists there is no practical way to retrieve those people post "deportation"? again, justices alito and thomas were baffled and outraged 'caues the Court granted emergency habeas relief to venezuelans who had been loaded on buses and were headed to an airport. nevertheless, somehow they sees tragedy inducing exigency if trump's trans ban were halted while the ordinary and admitted slow legal process worked in its usual manner. full oral argument before the appellate court with possible appeal to scotus in regards to the trans ban woulda resulted in an irreparable injury to the federal government? how? am knowing am having said this a few times, but the new scotus reliance on the shadow docket to avoid accountability is one o' those under-the-radar issues we believe deserves attention. aside, for those hopeful the Court stands up to the trump administration, am warning that history is not on your side. there is a long and storied/sordid history o' scotus cowardice. if there is genuine fear a chief executive will ignore or undermine a Court decision, the safe money bet is that the Court will cave. every american school kid hears about marbury v. madison at least a couple times before they finish mandatory education. the detail from marbury which is glossed over or poor remembered is that the Court in that case surrendered to thomas jefferson, arguable our nation's first authoritarian wannabee. anybody recall who were marbury? john adams, the President before thomas jefferson, made a whole lotta last minute judicial appointments before he left office, more than fifty, which considering the size of the fed government at the time, that was a noteworthy amount. william marbury were one o' the individuals who had received a late term appointment from john adams, but he were amongst a not insignificant number o' appointees who, while they had been gained senate approval, had not physical received their commission. thomas jefferson refused to deliver the commission to marbury... and he also threatened to undermine the Court in a number o' creative if they tried to order him to do what he did not wish to do. John Marshall bravely stands up to thomas jefferson and establishes judicial review. "Judicial review is the idea, fundamental to the U.S. system of government, that the actions of the executive and legislative branches of government are subject to review and possible invalidation by the judiciary . Judicial review allows the Supreme Court to take an active role in ensuring that the other branches of government abide by the Constitution." huzzah. that means marbury received his commission and served as a judge, right? nope. Justice Marshall found a standing argument which simultaneous allowed him to establish judicial review, but also extricated the Court from the danger o' needing order President jefferson to deliver the commision to marbury and others like him. actually, james madison as secretary o' state woulda been ordered to deliver marbury's commission, but that is kinda beside the point. regardless, one o' the most well known scotus decisions were an example o' the Court finding a technicality which would allow them to avoid a direct confrontation with the chief executive. as such it should come as no surprise that the Court routine finds a way to knuckle under when a direct confrontation with the President is threatened. expecting J. Roberts to be one o' the few Chief Justices in US history to show real courage is not a safe bet... God help us all. HA! Good Fun!

and if you were wondering why trump wants to kill npr and pbs... A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target Emmitsburg voted overwhelmingly for President Trump in November. NPR interviewed about two dozen people here. Almost all of them voted for Trump, and many said his plans to cut federal spending were a key attraction. Now, they say they are puzzled as to why the administration would cancel national training for firefighters. HA! Good Fun!

Federal judge orders NC to certify Riggs as winner in Supreme Court election “This case concerns whether the federal Constitution permits a state to alter the rules of an election after the fact and apply those changes retroactively to only a select group of voters, and in so doing treat those voters differently than other similarly situated individuals,” he wrote. “This case is also about whether a state may redefine its class of eligible voters but offer no process to those who may have been misclassified as ineligible. “To this court, the answer to each of those questions is ‘no.’” ... is not over, but keep in mind that meyer don't need to win for republicans to win. am suspecting litigation has already cost judge riggs ~$1 million, or perhaps a bit more. trump is threatening law firms who might ordinary take on such cases, so the pool o' attorneys to represent democrats is shrinking particular as the field o' election integrity is pretty freaking specialized. furthermore, republicans is able to target a handful o' high population districts in each state to challenge elections, 'cause is higher population and urban districts where democrats ordinary have the best voter turnout-- same is not true in reverse. even if democrats tried to flip the dirty trick playbook being used by republicans, chances are that targeting one or two districts in a statewide election won't benefit democrats 'cause when republicans win they get a multitude o' all those low population rural voting districts. there is some good news, well good news beyond the obvious that riggs keep winning. The Many Lawyers of Hannah Dugan more than a handful o' conservative legal superstars is stepping up to represent clients dealing with the trump administration. paul clement am realizing mr. clement is not a household name, but he is arguable the best in his field, and he is as conservative as they come, so it means something when he steps forward to represent judge hanna dugan as well as law firms facing trump executive orders. not all republicans is being cowards. HA! Good Fun!

am suspecting you got a better chance with aclatraz than you would with adx florence trump's desire to make prisons great again, ignores the fact that the US doesn't have some kinda national shortfall of correction facilities. ... what kinda lunatic romanticizes sing-sing and alcatraz? am genuine curious how long alcatraz and the movie tariff silliness, imposed on an emergency basis for national security reasons, is gonna be sane-splained by fox and the legion o' maga pundits before they shift to criticizing lefties for fixating on alcatraz and movie tariffs when there is more important issues confronting real americans... like trans athletes and the inability to purchase raw milk at local supermarkets. late edit: ok, am admitting trump's alcatraz insanity ain't complete bad as it gives an excuse to post an old phil hartman clip. HA! Good Fun!

our first thought were similar, that he had seen The Rock and thought it were kewl, but am suspecting the truth were more like disinfectant and sunlight for covid. probable some staffer or fox personality popped off about how the US needed a true terror prison 'cause regardless o' effectiveness, the point is to frighten people, and alcatraz is somehow both scary and kewl? trump hears or sees something, then has an epiphany and 'cause his uncle was an mit professor, all o' trumps ideas is necessarily genius, yes? the reason why Alcatraz were closed, the main reason, were 'cause it were something like 3x more expensive to run than any other fed prison. @Hurlshortmaybe took the tour within the last few decades, dunno. am suspecting he were told details 'bout alzatraz closing. so, the doge guy who cuts money for the pepfar program and for va cancer treatment trials 'cause is all 'bout cutting down on waste, now wants to reopen a money sink prison. brilliant. stoopid. the thing is, am predicting you are gonna now see a multitude o' maga pundits defending trump's impulse control. 'course our sundowning President didn't limit his sunday dumb to alcatraz. Trump threatens a 100% tariff on foreign-made films, saying the movie industry in the US is dying ... anything which takes the focus off of trump's recent court losses, his "deportation" blunders, and the serious diminished port activity in places such as los angeles, effectively work in his favour even if am suspecting he doesn't plan his bouts o' bad idea diarrhea as an actual ploy to distract; he is just that stoopid. HA! Good Fun!

y'know how many times am having made same point to gd regarding his need to find false equivalency 'tween trump and other administrations... and that were pre trump 2.0. ... and am gonna admit am extreme disappointed not just in gd but in most americans insofar as cecot is concerned. if cecot were in the US, could trump send people there indefinite w/o a full criminal trial? hell no, and am suspecting even gd recognizes such. am not sure how trump has managed to dr. mesmer so many into thinking the fundamental question is about whether or not the people being sent to el salvador is tren de aragua. w/o due process necessary to prove andry hernandez romero and neri jose alvarado borges is tren de aragua, it were wrong to deport 'em... but they weren't just deported for chrissakes. 5th and 6th Amendments guarantee the right to a criminal jury trial if the government is gonna punish, and is no way gd or anybody else is gonna reasonable argue that being held indefinite in cecot ain't a punishment. what is happening is not just deportations. maybe it comes as a surprise to some, but when the government goes before judges they is not trying to legitimize cecot by claiming those being sent to el salvador is gang members. the government has not offered ANY proof in court that those sent to cecot is gang members; is trump, jd vance, and marco rubio who keep bringing up gang membership when talking to the press. according to the government, invoke the AEA means trump don't need to prove gang membership. now bring up burisma or some other whatabout nonsense? the thing is, there is a dozen or so trump 2.0 issues that got us near as angry as cecot. am ashamed that the freaking oval office meeting with zelensky probable doesn't make our top ten, and most of the tariff stuff, while it is the kinda thing which is most likely to anger americans, bothers us less than the blatant authoritarianism o' many other actions... tariffs is another situation where the real problem is Congress being cowardly and unwilling to stop clear Presidential overreach. regardless, gd and his false equivalency fantasies is at least a decade old. am not sure how he convinces himself that trump 2.0 is no worse than biden, but am not at all surprised. as should be obvious by now, and contrary to @Lexx fever dreams, am having for a long time been warning that institutional limits on trump are not genuine obstacles. is nothing too illegal or improbable when speaking o' trump. as such am not surprised by trump, save insofar as the recognition too many americans are ok with any trump excess. trump may be corrupt. he may be a criminal. he may have tried to overturn the 2020 election. but maybe he can get trans people outta sports and perhaps he can lower the cost of eggs, so am willing to ignore the bad stuff. serious? HA! Good Fun!

Company Boasts Spending Up To $20 Million On Trump Crypto Coin To Buy Influence they ain't even hiding the corruption anymore. HA! Good Fun!

we didn't have any doubt. he did the false equivalency stuff from the moment trump took office in jan 2017, embracing far-right talking points and conspiracy theories. gd convinced self that such were ok 'cause he knew in his bones that the libs wanted a state run police force that would take away his guns and round up dissenters in fema camps... if they just got a chance to do so. biden comes to office and just like during obama, none of his nightmares came true... so we get more o' the false equivalency and conspiracy theories; he needed to believe the biden administration were just as bad as trump. we could literal be here all day listing the ways in which trump 1.0 were orders of magnitude more o' a threat to the US Constitutional order than biden's tepid embrace o' wokeism and his, in retrospect, ordinary incompetence. we did so for freaking years... and for f&%$'s sake, how do these people keep with the memory hole nonsense? now, faced with a mere 100 days o' trump violations o' morality and law which somehow managed to be worse than Gromnir's predictions, folks like gd need convince self that kamala woulda' been just as bad, 'cause they are all bad. gd needs to believe such silly 'cause is folks like gd, voting 3rd party or not voting at all, who put us in this situation. am actual less anoyed with the complete disconnected and uneducated folks who voted for trump 'cause they thought he would lower the price of eggs. given the conspiracy theories gd would routine share as proof and defense o' his peculiar brand o' wacky, we were certain he were absorbing questionable sources o' information to fuel his world view. moving to rural wisconsin, a battleground state, so weren't gonna improve the chances o' him having some kinda epiphany. if you literal cannot see a fundamental difference 'tween trump authoritarianism and the biden administration, then... *shrug* yeah, am seeing the black humor in the recognition that now, when many of his worst predictions 'bout they is being realized in real time, gd feels comfortable ignoring politics. that said, we do hope he is doing well in terms o' health. HA! Good Fun! ps (edit): brain fart... had "jan 2016"

am sooper happy you finally found your zen after a decade o' hyperbolic efforts to convince us they is all equal bad. *shrug* even so, am indeed hopeful you are doing well/better. edit: a quick clarification on jav v. trump-- scotus use o' the political question doctrine to avoid ruling against trump would be weak, cowardly and bad law. trifecta. however, weak, cowardly and bad law is what were the immunity ruling. am also recognizing J. Roberts may feel the need to go to extremes in his efforts to avoid a Constitutional crisis. we mentioned the political question option for scotus not 'cause am thinking it is a good legal argument but 'cause am recognizing the political question doctrine does provide the Court with a minimally plausible basis for deciding in favor of trump. HA! Good Fun!