Fair enough. 🙂

I’m like a notch below you on that. I won’t condemn him, but I acknowledge there are valid reasons he should not have done it.

They did accidentally make a decent ruling recently (though I’m struggling to remember what it was now) so they do fuck up and do good things from time to time. 🤞

On the one hand this is pretty hypocritical. On the other hand I probably would do the same in his position given that trump plans to weaponize the Justice department.

Seriously. Here’s the scenario I put myself in:

• I’m 82 years old
• Three close family members, including my first wife and two of my children, have died.
• I’m being succeeded by someone who has promised to leverage government agencies to attack his political enemies
• My son has symbolically become one of those enemies
• I have choices:

• I can wait to see whether my successor does some third world shit to him while he’s in prison and be powerless to stop it if he does

OR

• I can use my current powers to free him, saving him from that fate, and getting more time with my remaining son during my final few years of life.

Fuck I know what choice I’m making.

I understand every single argument about why he shouldn’t have done it. I agree with some of them. Still no problem for me to put myself in a state of mind where I do the exact same thing.

Go ahead and come at me if you want, folks. I understand, but I won’t be changing my mind. If I’m 82 years old, my son stands a good chance of being abused while in a jail cell after I retire, and I can both avoid that plus also get an extra year+ with my son before I die, with nothing more required than expressing my wish for him to be released, I’m doing it.

https://visualizingpalestine.org/

A day after this story was published, the Washington Post reported that the Texas maternal mortality board would skip reviewing the deaths of pregnant women in 2022 and 2023 — conveniently, the first two years after the abortion ban went into place. The leadership claims it’s about speeding up the review process, but of course, many members pointed out the main effect is that “they would not be reviewing deaths that may have resulted from delays in care caused by Texas’s abortion bans.”

…

That is the trap of misogyny. It allows women like Lila Rose or Ingrid Skop to pretend that, if you submit to the sexist order and obey all their arbitrary rules, you’ll be saved. But these laws punish all women and girls: mothers and non-mothers, wives and single women, women who’ve had 100 partners and those who were virgins when raped. Abortion bans make crystal clear that, to the Christian right, no woman’s life is worth saving. Anyone can be sacrificed, to protect their cruel patriarchal order.

They are fully mask off at this point, and we gave them 4 years of clean open road to entrench as much of this shittiness as they can.

gg America

IME you are pegging entirely the wrong group of people.

For at least 10 years the only people I’ve heard making a stink about being able to get raw milk are the same folks complaining about fluoride in drinking water.

That’s not so much the crystals and oils crowd as it is the fuck your feelings crowd.

Since some bootlicker decided to downvote that, I’ll add that they also tried cremating remains without consulting with family members, screwed that up, and admitted it not too long after the apology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/us/philadelphia-move-bombing-cremation.html

City officials said that remains from the 1985 bombing, which were believed to have been cremated without the family’s permission, had apparently been saved in a box in storage.

https://whyy.org/articles/health-commissioner-dr-thomas-farley-resigns-over-mishandling-of-move-bombing-remains/

Note that second article linked goes on to state the bones were cremated as it predates their discovery that they had failed to actually perform the cremation.

Thomas Farley has resigned as Philadelphia’s health commissioner due to his involvement in the mishandling of remains of the victims in the 1985 MOVE bombing.

His departure comes less than a month after news broke that a set of remains, thought to be 14-year-old Tree and 12-year-old Delisha Africa, were held at both the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University for decades and studied by their anthropology and archaeology departments, without the Africa family’s knowledge.

Farley said that it was standard procedure for autopsies by the Medical Examiner’s Office to retain “certain specimens” for possible future investigations, prior to releasing the remains to the family. After investigations are completed, the specimens are disposed of, without the knowledge of anyone outside of the Medical Examiner’s Office.

“Believing that investigations related to the MOVE bombing had been completed more than 30 years earlier, and not wanting to cause more anguish for the families of the victims, I authorized Dr. Gulino to follow this procedure and dispose of the bones and bone fragments,” Farley said. “I made this decision on my own, without notifying or consulting anyone in the Managing Director’s office or the Mayor’s office, and I take full responsibility for it.”

AND, here is a link to the 35 years overdue apology for the bombing, which I should have included in my prior comment:

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/935886827/philadelphia-apologizes-for-move-bombing-from-35-years-ago

This is an innate skill in the days of the internet for anytime you are looking for just the right moment in a video of any kind. 🤔

They apologized a mere 35 years later.

My recollection is that what you describe became pervasive roughly concurrently with the rise of the original Xbox. I’m not pinning it to that device specifically, but it was during the time of the original xbox where I felt that voice chat in games transitioned from helpful collaboration to 99% toxic crap.

I rarely used it from that point forward, so maybe there was a later golden age I’m unaware of.

• I love the baby shark song. It would take months for me to get sick of it.

Donald Trump’s second-term cabinet is criticized as a disjointed team unified only by loyalty to him, rather than qualifications or ideology.

Exactly as expected. 🎉

The pattern is that it fits in perfectly with Trumps overall positioning and past policies, and lying about it fits past behavior also.

This argument matters not at all though, as I said before. I can’t even run back here to claim victory if he does it (not that I would anyhow) because:

If he thinks it makes him more powerful to do so, he’ll do it when he gets in, regardless of what they are saying now and regardless of whether they are lying currently. I have no doubt of that.

What’s the over/under that his dad is one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming

Or if you prefer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy#/media/File:Motörhead_-_Rock_am_Ring_2015-0343.jpg

+++ They fucked up many things during the clone wars/prequel period of time, and suffered from hubris and arrogance no doubt. But they were right about that one thing.

It’s not too late!

The most American picture:

I bet it will work, too. 😬