The massive perk is that they get to be cruel bastards and hate for a living.

Ah, “grill” my ass.

Trump could nominate someone who doesn’t believe in heavier-than-air flight and thinks the Wright Brothers pulled a hoax, and the nominee would get “grilled” in the hearings but be confirmed by the Senate.

Sick burn, but it’ll take more than a few clever quips to make me forget that Gavin Newsom hangs out with the likes of Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk and spews right-wing anti-trans talking points.

The Trump administration is planning to ramp up civil and criminal prosecutions of companies that employ workers without legal status, White House border czar Tom Homan said in an interview Wednesday.

Pure bullshit. At most, expect a few photo ops at small businesses owned by Democrats, but big picture the employer class is 95% Republican and will never face meaningful civil and criminal prosecutions for employing undocumented immigrants.

Of course, goes without saying that if they were, all of America’s undocumented immigrants would be gone in days, triggering massive inflation and an economic crash of 1929 proportions.

The lockdowns, pushed by the Trump administration.

In no reality were lockdowns pushed by the Trump administration.

Brian Wilson told the story of how Don Henley once came backstage after a concert. The Eagles co-founder arrived clutching his copy of Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys’ classic 1966 album, and told Wilson how much their music had inspired him when he was younger.

Keen to have Wilson autograph the album, he watched as Wilson picked up a Sharpie and wrote: “To Don – thanks for all the great songs.” Henley turned to leave but Wilson called him back and, grabbing the record, crossed out “great” and replaced it with “good”.

Henley took it well.

SOURCE: heraldscotland.com

Many taxpayers would prefer the homeless die.

I barely know what the Fulbright Board does, but quitting is a dumbass doublecross — Trump will appoint their replacements.

When’s his third trial? When you’re rich, you can always buy another.

The lockdowns, pushed by the Trump administration.

Where did you spend 2020?

And I would add: Don’t give squat to the Democratic Party.

AI outage strands millions of artificially intelligent people!

OP is catching some grief for using an AI AI-detection tool, but I also use an AI AI-detection tool when I’m not sure, and I’m wondering we else we can do? The supposed AI image-generators are getting better, five fingers and all, and I’m not art critic enough to always be certain. It’s a problem that’ll only get worse as the fake artmakers get better.

I will say, AI AI-detection and then rejection is the only use I’ve found for AI.

You stay on the em dash patrol — thank you for your service!

This is just wildly brazen retaliation, ordinary for Trump but wide-open corruption of the sort I’d never seen in America until this fuckwad came along.

Jonathan Joss’ widower says shooting was a homophobic attack

This is good. Guys sums things up well, makes salient points. I’m sending it to a techy doofus who almost orgasms over AI.

Of course it’s unconstitutional, and of course that no longer matters. The constitution is finished. It’s whatever the Supreme Court says, unless overruled by Trump.

I too spent some of my childhood in the American South, and also several years in my 40s. My distaste for the South is well informed, and it’s my only prejudice that doesn’t embarrass me.

There are good people and bad people everywhere, and smart people and stupid people everywhere, but there’s a noticeably higher percentage of bad, stupid people in the South.

Holy crapoli, the memories this triggers. Suffice to say I am soooooo glad to be retired.