I hate generalizing but the military is chock full of reasonable nerds. People who want a GI bill to further themselves join and get filled with “if you see something say something”, and people who want action go on to become cops and attend “everyone will murder you if you don’t murder them first” boot camps. If Trump wants hit squads he’d be barking up the wrong tree

What’s there to investigate? I mean, just look at the guy, there you go, I saved you 1.8 million dollars

It’d have to go all the way down the chain of command without someone saying “with all due respect, you’re a fucking idiot and we don’t want to be war criminals” so there are some extra checks and balances at play, and I’m sure Trump as heard that personally more than once

We have SOOOOO many laws on the books that use ridiculous numbers by modern standards

I think the most egregious ones are thresholds for felony theft. A lot of states haven’t adjusted the thresholds in many decades. New Jersey for example, theft of something valued 200-500 bucks is a class 4 felony and 500-75000 is a class 3.

So like, in that particular case, someone gets in a heated argument with their roommate who owes them money, takes their Playstation 5 as collateral, they might face the same charges as someone who breaks into a construction site and steals an entire trailer full of power tools

Pussyfooting about something is condoning it. It’s the justice department and they can’t make a binary yes/no conclusion on the legality of this? “We’re warning you that you may get in trouble” is a green light to continue, they said it themselves, it’s merely questionable, and Elon Musk has infinite resources to have a legal team spin it all back on the DOJ

I’m patiently sitting in the Facebook comments for this article waiting for one of his followers to say “if you don’t have anything nice to say about Adolf Hitler…”

If so that’s pretty disastrous for Trump. A lot of people are worried about a 2016 repeat, Trump vastly outperforming the polls, so now a whole lot of people who usually just vote are donating and door knocking. Polls that are favorable for Trump just mobilize Harris supporters

I don’t know about this specifically but I’ve read that a lot of this Walz allegation stuff is being traced to Russia. In general a lot of Harris Walz misinformation/deepfakes are allegedly coming from Russia.

Wired has a paywalled article but if you google ‘Walz allegations fake Russia’ you’ll get quite a few hits.

But if that’s the case, like ‘quasi-professional’ propaganda firms, they probably use cracked wifi, VPNs, coffee shops, probably hard to find them at a physical location, let alone Russia allowing extradition. They’d want some fair trade at a minimum

Dare I say it’s totally fucking Marxist and anti-American to suggest that people be paid for their labor based on financial need? This also makes boomers have a meltdown

But if you ask them if someone deserves a million dollars per hour for shitposting on Twitter they look at you like you just burned an effigy in their front lawn. Not the brightest bunch

Big words from a guy who can no longer make it through a whole interview without shitting himself

It was more a rhetorical question but I strongly believe Walz getting up there and saying something like “folks just trying to live their lives” isn’t hollow at all. Let’s all talk about how totally unobtrusive it all is, how it doesn’t affect thin-skinned little crybabies nearly as much as trying to mow a lawn at 5AM. Trans people affect bigots not at fucking all, if Pride is too much for these folk they need to quit showing up, right?

What are Republicans offering for trans rights? For something so polarizing I’d argue that simply standing up for it is anything but a hollow platitude. Let’s normalize it

Knowing Trump and how batshit crazy his followers are I wouldn’t afford him any plausible deniability if people took this as some sort of coded message

They redacted like 95% of the stuff so doubftul. Most of the pages are just blank

Be me

A moth, chilling with my moth friends

I grew up in the sticks where, if you didn’t pay your bills, people would gossip about you being a deadbeat and spend all day speculating about what kinds of problems you have. So it’s kind of funny to me that those folk just rationalize all of his shit and at the same time drag their kin through the mud. Some random nobody pulling his shit, those kinds of used car salesmen have a special place in hell when you’re from a town of 300 people

I forgot I even did this but I’m coming up on 10 years in just a couple weeks.

He has a lot of supporters that’d do it for free, but he’s also the kind of client who would insist on so much stupid bullshit that the app has a 300MB patch every other day. “Let’s make the news feed a 4K video of a bullet point slide because the campaign team can just whip a new one up every day alongside different music, and it has to be 4K otherwise it might look gross”. Basically the Homer Simpson bubblecar of apps

I just thought it’s funny that AI can’t determine I’m talking about memes. It’s like, look, Gemino bro, all I use you for is making Garfield and Shrek comments