It makes sense. The damage Trump does to the the economy will be felt by everyone, and even right wing media struggles to defend the tariffs.

In contrast, immigration as a political issue has always been about hype and narratives more than reality. The anti-immigration argument is mostly fighting an imaginary problem. As such, the effectiveness of the policies are irrelevant, they need only to claim that things are getting better and their supporters will believe them.

I would be much more interested in knowing what people think about the specifics of Trump’s immigration policies. How many people support deporting us citizens, suppressing free speech, violating due process, etc. I would bet that those numbers would look very different.

Getting closer to what I want, which is a reasonably sized and priced EV truck built for actual utility. I’m ok with it leaving out all the extras that I don’t need, and hopefully that means it isn’t also going to be tracking people and harvesting their data.

My biggest objection to the truck itself is that it’s still trying to look like an ICE truck. There’s no engine in front, you could easily slide the cab forward a bit to make room for a larger bed. I would much rather have a tiny frunk and an 8 foot bed, even if it means making the whole thing slightly longer. It’s shorter than a corrolla, so it’s not like they couldn’t add a little length to the design if necessary.

Bezos being involved is also a massive turn off, but than I’m not sure who is going to go into mass manufacturing EVs without some rich asshole funding it.

Also being able to get anything in diet instead of just one or two things.

Or diet everything.

Pretty sure the only way I’ll get to be done with working is when I’m done with breathing.

The younger you are, the less likely it is that you are facing a serious medical issue. It’s a lot easier to ignore your doctor when discussing long term health in an abstract way, rather than discussing how to avoid making an existing problem worse.

Also, I suspect there is at least some survivorship bias here. If following medical advice improves long term survival, one would expect to see more medical advice followers in the older population. You can’t poll dead people.

In the op-ed, McMahon says, “Why? Not because we want to be unkind to student borrowers. Borrowing money and failing to pay it back isn’t a victimless offense. Debt doesn’t go away; it gets transferred to others. If borrowers don’t pay their debts to the government, taxpayers do.”

But when businesses need a bailout…

Also, hilarious coming from this administration. How many bankruptcies has Trump been involved in?

Not like they were going to get any help from this administration anyway.

And let’s not forget Elon and his Doge bro minions. They’re destroying the security around every system they touch, firing the people responsible for that security, moving sensitive data out through starlink to God knows where, and apparently just giving logins to Russia.

Almost makes storing nuclear secrets in a bathroom seem quaint and wholesome by comparison.

That’s not true. It’s led by the finest collection of imbeciles the modern world has ever seen.

The bill compels state and local authorities to “use all lawful means necessary” to enforce its provisions, and would subject authorities to prosecution under existing weapons of mass destruction statutes if they refused to investigate alleged violations of the law.

As if this wasn’t awful enough. Were this to pass, you could spam out anonymous tips to any authorities you have a gripe with, with allegations about anyone you you want to harass, and failure to investigate any of those allegations could lead to serious prison time. And you know damn well they wouldn’t hesitate to use a law like that to target anyone that resists their insane nonsense.

having their status revoked by ICE or the president himself with no justification given. Other than blatant racism.

That’s not true. They also do it to punish free speech and to intimidate others into remaining silent.

Also, according to many big game hunters, they are the tastiest animal. Apparently giraffe meat has a delightful sweetness to it.

Sadly, giraffe ranching hasn’t caught on. But maybe once lab grown meat is widely available someone will finally bring it to the masses.

Next year gives me a lot of time to set up all the legal bullshit I’d need to survive winning the lottery. Statistically speaking, winning the lottery is actually quite bad for you in the long run.

Assuming this is a huge payout and not like $50 on scratch off or something.

It’s long since become clear that the time we are trying to go back to in order to “Make America Great” is a time when we had no rights and were under the rule of a mad king.

I’m glad I’m not one if the people who has to defend this administration in court. They can’t go one fucking day without publicly contradicting their own court filings. The amount of contortions their lawyers have to do to try to avoid getting trapped in a no win scenario is hilarious.

If it were me, I’d probably be the first member of the administration to get sent to El Salvador after losing it and blurting out “why can’t you shut your goddamn dick holster for one fucking day you stupid asshole‽” in a meeting.

He may have 0 qualifications, but I wouldn’t say his judgement is exactly equivalent. His judgment goes much more into the negatives, since everything he says and every decision he makes is actively causing harm. We would be better off simply having the role vacant, or giving the job to someone in a coma.

Ironically, even the most profoundly autistic people, the ones that resemble his characterization of the condition, would still be better at the job than he is.

He has done (and sold) a lot of drugs. So, no surprise there.

If this became a trend it would probably just push the studios to be that much more focused on big franchises where the director is just doing a job for hire. And of course, their long term goal of being able to replace as many people as possible with AI, just as soon as the slop it churns out is good enough sell tickets.

They did it because they wanted to trot out the mother of a victim to endorse their unlawful deportations and didn’t want to ruin the PR stunt by risking someone asking questions and injecting a little reality into the event.

Friendly media will run with a story about an emotional plea from a grieving mother that makes it sound like the only thing standing between mass rape and murder is the Trump administration deporting illegals before they get a chance to strike. The rest of the media will describe the event and basically let the same message get through with a footnote about the lack of questions and maybe a quote from someone on the other side for balance. Any outlet that would lead with the refusal to answer questions is one that was going to be critical anyway. There’s really no downside for them.