I wouldn’t go that far. All the websites, apps, and electronic services we use every day are hosted in some datacenter somewhere. I’d say we get value out of that.

They didn’t become a political football until the AI companies drastically increased how much power and cooling each rack used. I don’t think we’re getting enough extra value out of stuffing AI in everything to justify the added environmental cost over more standard, non-AI web services.

Why does the DoD get to decide who are the Christians and who aren’t in the first place?

Trump floats

I was gonna post that that was doubtful, but then I Did My Own Research and discovered that morbidly obese people have an easier time floating

The thing with laws is that Congress can always change them by passing another law…

… but from what I’ve read, the current text of Joe Wilson’s bill carves out an exception for “living and former Presidents”. So, if this passes, we may get our Obama $420 bill someday…

Here’s a link to a news station not run by a fascist enabler

https://www.wavy.com/news/politics/trump-250-bill-proposal-sparks-backlash/

The reported push by Trump administration officials comes despite the 1866 Thayer Amendment, which makes it illegal to put the likeness of a living person on official U.S. currency, bonds or other financial notes. Additionally, current law limits U.S. currency to specific denominations and a $250 bill is not on that list.

You might have realized this already, but if you didn’t, this posted eleventy gazillion times

The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.

THE DAILY SLOP (AS I LIKE TO CALL IT) IS TOTALLY WRONG ON THIS, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE. ALL THESE PEOPLE FROM SHITHOLE CUNTRIES WANT TO COME HERE, SO MANY THAT WE CANT KEEP THEM ALL OUT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER…

Not necessarily, I think the courts were already making noise about the original thing:

The settlement is also expected to stave off a concern raised by the judge overseeing his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, who has ordered Trump and the DOJ to justify by next week why the case should be able to proceed. In a ruling last month, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams questioned whether Trump and the defendants – the Treasury Department and IRS – are “sufficiently adverse” for the case to proceed.

“Moreover, although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction. Indeed, President Trump’s own remarks about this matter acknowledge the unique dynamic of this litigation,” she wrote.

I think the judge might have been about to start the process to throw it all out, which is why Trump (and his Justice Dept cronies) came up with this “settlement” idea

The silver lining here is that even Donald Trump has his limits. He seems to acknowledge that ordering the Treasury to pay him $10B directly might go too far. Or “sort of looks bad”, as he put it.

Of course, forming a commission to hand out 1.7B to his friends is just as bad. The Courts will probably strike that down, too, and he will whine about it.

If the Democratic brand is so toxic that candidates in certain states are better off running without it, that sounds like a problem with the party itself.

I wonder if that’s the real reason why that “2024 autopsy” is not getting released: it shows that the Democrats are toxic to most average voters. (And not because they are “not progressive enough…”)

Why couldn’t the Democrats actually put Don Osborne on the ballot, then? Or even “None of the Above”?

It seems silly to have to recruit someone to run, just to win an election and immediately quit.

It’s so weird how independants are treated here. When you think about it, the only real justification for having parties in the US is ballot access. A candidate that is not attached to any party needs to satisfy all the conditions themselves, while a candidate that works through a party has the party available to help them with that. (And in many states, I bet it has been arranged that Democrats and Republicans have ballot access “automatically” with far less process.)

Yet, here we have a candidate who is so popular in his state that he doesn’t need a party for ballot access. And instead of just changing the rules to say “Let’s endorse this guy, even though he’s an independent”, Democrats need to go through these motions to have a sham primary, and run a candidate who everyone knows will just back out if they win.

Even in this case, where most everyone agrees that backing the Independant is best for the Democrats, they still need to award a participation trophy to someone on their team.

It doesn’t matter. If he stays in power past Jan 2029, he won’t need an election (or any popularity polls) to do it.

They are in a position where they can pass legislation that will obligate the President to do something different. But I won’t hold my breath…

Wasn’t there also that bit about “the Disciple that Jesus loved”?

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Many governors are former mayors.

Pretty much the easiest question for a sitting leader to just bullshit through

Right, but he was never a leader. He’s a boss. And the type of boss who expects people to just do what he says, without any questions. Simply asking a question is a sign of disloyalty!

Not true! MAGA has had other important (to them) accomplishments, like harassing brown people and protecting pedophiles.

If it’s coupled with DC Statehood, why not?

Did you see her picture, though? I don’t think she is “his type”. Totally the wrong demographic