As I understand it, the fine print allows the board to wave a lot of the requirements and award a large part of the pay package anyway. And since the board is entirely under Musk’s control, that’s pretty much guaranteed to happen.

Too bad most of us have already been paying taxes and need to file in order to get a refund.

Surely this will get Donny his Nobel Peace Prize.

In this case, the order for the DoJ was about discovery relating to a motion to dismiss based on vindictive prosecution. If they fail to comply with the discovery process, the judge can simply grant the motion to dismiss.

Overidding his own administration after they agreed that that they can and will do the thing. Fighting in court to avoid doing the thing. Defying a court order to do the thing. All while blaming the democrats for his not doing of the thing.

Particularly noteworthy here is the way the 5-7% who are “unsure” in all previous polls have disappeared in the past few months.

If I were some mad tyrant ruling the world and making arbitrary laws on a whim, one of my first acts would be to declare that every month will have one major holiday, and that all holidays shall be contained in their month. Bank holidays don’t count, just the big thematic ones.

Since I’d also be fixing the calendar, that works out to 13 holidays, plus new years and leap day.

I’m a little disappointed that I haven’t see an article point out this one:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

Musk’s name appears 11 times.

Grokipedia: https://grokipedia.com/page/Jeffrey_Epstein

Musk’s name doesn’t appear at all.

Not enough to keep them out of the Whitehouse.

I would be curious to know how those polled would define capitalism and socialism. Even ignoring the ones that would boil down to cartoonishly good and evil, I would assume that there is a huge disconnect in what each side thinks those terms mean.

I suspect that if you had asked the same people how they felt about policies and priorities without explaining which are capitalist and which are socialist, and included a broad spectrum of ideas ranging from one extreme to the other, you’d see a very different picture emerge.

Wish they had more in common.

Unfortunately, Jesus is now in an ICE detention center awaiting deportation to El Salvador.

Impeachment requires 2/3 of the senate voting to convict. The only way that will happen is for one party to have 67 senate seats, or for members of both parties to vote to convict.

For the Dems to get to 67 senate seats in the next midterm election would require winning every single race, The odds of that are just slightly more than 0, you’d be better off playing the lottery.

It’s slightly less implausible that the Democrats could win most of the seats up for election in a large backlash against Trump and the Republicans, and that in that scenario you could get the remaining votes from Republicans who view the Trump administration as a sinking ship that they don’t want to go down with. Trump’s second impeachment was as close as we’ve seen to that kind of scenario.

Even then, it’s a lot easier to imagine Republicans going along with an impeachment of Trump (who will almost certainly be gone soon anyway) than it is for them to remove members of the Supreme Court whose positions could affect the balance of power for decades. About the only way I can see it happening (even in this extreme scenario) is if they went after Thomas and/or Alito, because they are the oldest members currently on the court and that would give Trump the opportunity to appoint two new justices.

So, realistically, any (legal) accountability is at least two elections away. And even then, it’s more plausible that it would come from a new administration pursuing criminal charges against the fascists and their enablers than it would be through impeachment.

Wasn’t expecting to plug the Children of Time series again this week, but here we are.

And that’s how all my friends got introduced to Babylon 5.

From the same article:

In the United States, several states have enacted legislation to implement permanent DST, but the bills would require Congress to change federal law in order to take effect. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 permits states to opt out of DST and observe permanent standard time, but it does not permit permanent DST.

Spoon rests are just another thing that needs cleaning. If you are using a pot with a hole in the handle for hanging, a clothes pin can grip a mixing spoon while the other side of the pin gets wedged in the hole. Spoon drips back into the pot, and no additional cleaning is needed.

I have always wanted to check out the timeline where Chris Farley was Shrek.

I hope he lives long enough to sabotage potential candidates for the Republican nomination and only exits after sewing chaos and division in his own party and utterly ruining the primaries.

“I’m so sorry Sir Bearington”

“ROAR” [Shrug]