Don’t believe for a second congressional Republicans are going to “awaken.” We’re well past that. More fear just will make them cower and grovel even harder.

They were already so spineless at two impeachments that they refused to save themselves or us from this, when salvation from Trump was served to even on a silver platter - they’re weak, pathetic lumps of misshapen ego.

Oh come on.

“I’m so angry that I have to vote for this [pedophile / nazi / conman] because the democrats are so much worse, I’ve been told!”

So what about the Democrats, I asked? “They hate us and won’t accept us. And if they don’t change their attitude, Trump and MAGA will keep winning.”

That was echoed by former Republican congressman Joe Walsh, who regularly speaks out about this. “If there’s not room for center-right former Republicans in today’s Democratic Party, then today’s Republican Party will remain victorious and our democracy will disappear,” Walsh told me.

Most of us will accept you. Just stop being awful people. It isn’t hard.

Tim Walz got it. It’s a shame they kneecapped his normal-people messaging.

I agree, but in context he was just extending a metaphor that treated the voters/citizens as “owners,” presumably because he thought Trump would understand the language better.

“As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale. We’re sitting in one right now,” Carney told Trump. “Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign last several months, it’s not for sale. Won’t be for sale, ever,” he said.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5387465/trump-carney-canada-tariffs

It’s classic sociopathic, narcissistic negging. “You’re worthless, the only value you have is if you stick with me.”

Also, there’s absolutely no indication that Americans want to be working at poverty wages in an assembly plant. None of this makes sense even if it “worked.”

You see, geopolitics is like jazz…

It’s mental illness, grotesque mental disfigurement all the way down in this administration.

I’m sure you are not one of the problem hosts, but his will harm the renters more because they’re the ones already subject to the bigger power imbalance - by definition not near their home and relying on Airbnb to ensure a safe place to stay - and Airbnb is reputed to be pro-host against renters.

For example, there was a trip to Europe where a host physically threatened us in writing, Airbnb kept transferring us around rather than offer any solutions, we left for our safety, the host claimed we didn’t cancel and owed the full stay, Airbnb took the host’s side without evidence despite our evidence of their threat in writing, we did a chargeback, and Airbnb disputed it for 4 months in apparent bad faith.

Anecdotal, but a case study why black-holing renters’ contacts seems more damaging.

And blood. Don’t forget the children’s blood, which is important to make the watermarks and colors really pop.

Trump-speak translation: “You gonna make me?”

Cheer up! We may not live that long.

I followed you right off that cliff.

Oh, I agree completely.

But I remember seeing her in 2023 and thinking, “Trump is scraping the bottom of the barrel now that nobody competent will work with him. This is truly clown-level, the bottom 1% of attorneys.” In a fair timeline she wouldn’t even be an attorney - she would work for 20 years to peak as a manager of the McDonald’s that Trump is a lifer janitor at.

I should have known - I had similar thoughts about Sarah Huckabee Sanders when she was press secretary, and now she’s [checks notes]… Governor of Arkansas.

Recently, the U.S. attorney in New Jersey (Trump’s former personal attorney Alina Habba) launched an investigation into the state of New Jersey for its alleged “obstruction” of Trump’s deportation agenda.

Alina Habba is a federal prosecutor now?

Alina Habba who said, “Somebody said to me ‘Alina, would you rather be smart or pretty?’ and I said ‘Oh easy, pretty… I can fake being smart’."?

Alina Habba, who has never been a prosecutor before? That Alina Habba is now the chief federal prosecutor and law enforcement official in New Jersey?

The one in Trump’s losing $500 million civil fraud case who didn’t even seem to know the federal rules of evidence, and whose only skill at the trial seemed to be completely undermining herself and her case?

Jesus christ.

Yes, sorry for the shadow edit - I was having trouble getting my app to copy the text.

From the article, it’s probably going to be actively harmful:

The Trump administration plans to impose a new testing requirement for new vaccines — a demand that could delay the availability of the next round of COVID-19 vaccines and complicate the approval of other vaccines.

Additionally, this all but insures people will catch diseases - potentially fatal diseases like COVID - when they don’t need to because they’ll be given a placebo:

In addition, experts say that giving someone a placebo to protect them against a potentially deadly disease when an effective vaccine already exists would be unethical.

“Are they really planning on doing a placebo-controlled trial where a certain group of people are not given that vaccine, knowing that the virus can cause infection and disease, including serious disease in anyone? Anyone can be felled by this virus,” Offit says. “So it’s not an ethical trial.”

Thank you! This did it.

Breaking down the how the blocks of potential outcomes stemming from the host’s choice, and how the reveal of the goat in two choices leaves only the car as a possible outcome for those two choices, was the key information here that filled in the blanks for me.