We already punish mental illness. Might as well.

I don’t like Kevin Costner.

Oof.

Was Biden looking like warmed over death a week ago Russia disinformation too? Or should I not trust my lying eyes?

“I’m having fun. Is criticising me your idea of fun? Aren’t you a bit old for that?”

How is continue to pack the supreme court “happening rn”? I wish Biden was doing that but…

Whitmer.

Running an 84 year old incumbent is the dumbest idea. Switching him out four months before the election when it’s clear to everyone he’s not up to the task is the second dumbest idea.

I’m not passing blame. Just giving an example.

The “who do you want to be in the white house when the phone rings at 3 in the morning?” write themselves.

Jesus fucking christ.

The answer is for the other companies to poach SpaceX employees by offering them huge paydays and benefits.

SpaceX doesn’t do magic and they treat their people pretty crappy. Just give engineers a good alternative to jump to.

I can kind of feel the author on this. I’m in charge of a lot of “special projects” at work that basically come down to, “figure out a way to replicate this extremely expensive technology or software using low cost or free alternatives”. It ends up being an unholy mix of programs and hardware that is held together with duct tape and super glue and any minor perturbation means something breaks.

The richest people in the world aren’t on the richest people in the world list because they own entire countries. Putin is probably the richest single person in the world. Kim Jong Un is up there too.

If you can have literally anything you want within your own borders that’s a lot more than having shares in some company that could lose value overnight.

Yup, the root of flat earth conspiracy y theories is that some group is fooling everyone to enrich themselves. If you keep scratching through the layers it’s always jews that are behind it.

It’s just antisemitism cloaked in a ridiculous conspiracy.

Contaminated Burritos is a good name for a band though.

I was gonna say… “That can be arranged, Mr. Starmer”.

I never thought the words “the supreme court agrees to weigh in” would ever fill me with a sense of existential dread and despair but… Here we are. Yay.

Newsome is charismatic but would be a hard sell to Georgia and the Midwest.

Whitmer would be good since she’d motivate more women to vote and would do will in the Midwest.

Harris is right out. She has negative charisma.

Raskin has charisma but he’s an old ugly white guy. Wouldn’t turn out the youth vote.

Jeffries would be a good pick if he had started campaigning a year ago.

Stacy Abrams is in the same boat. If she had a year to get more name recognition she’d have a chance.

Aoc, Crockett, and moskowitz are good back benchers but won’t be ready for a few more years yet, if ever.

If I had to choose it’d be Whitmer. She has the fewest negatives, as long as there are no skeletons in the closet waiting to come out.

Honestly if it meant everyone got kicked offline I might take that exchange. Turns out access to the entirety of human information and misinformation is a pretty good way to go extinct (at least at the rate we are going).

Re trumps numbers after conviction, I think the conviction was a forgone conclusion for most people. Having 12 people confirm what you already know is true doesn’t make someone flip their vote.

If the trial had been televised with Trump asleep in court, I think you would have seen a bugger drop but it would have preceded the actual conviction.