WatDabney

People end up with some truly bizarre beliefs when they're determined to decree what it is that made this country great and so could make it great again, but immediately reject the things that actually did make it great - good wages, progressive taxes and social services.

I actually expect most world leaders to start treating Trump as a pariah. He's just a gross, creepy manbaby who looks and notoriously smells like a drain clog and who can't be trusted for anything ever, so there's nothing to be gained from interacting with him at sll.

Very much this.

Now it should be noted that Musk is, among other things, a desperately insecure wienie who really is crushed by the fact that basically everyone hates him and spends a great deal of time and effort cringily trying to compensate for it and pathetically failing. So at some level all of this certainly does hurt him.

But he's also toxically greedy and self-absorbed and wantonly destructive, and by those measures, his government tenure was a resounding success. And that he undoubtedly throws tantrums and goes on crying jags when he's alone, just like he's done since middle school, doesn't make any of the rest of it any less a success.

IANAL, but I don't think so, unless they managed to make a charge of fraud stick, which would require proving that he never had any intention of paying them.

Without something like that, his failure to pay up is a civil matter rather than a criminal one.

So the only question really is whether it's more the case that he's not paying because there's a chance that he could be prosecuted for buying votes or if he's not paying just because he's a lying sack of shit who doesn't keep promises.

Or both.

I'm thinking both.

Mostly Fabled Lands. It's fun exploration, but the dice roll mechanics get tiresome - especially when you need a particular dice roll to trigger or complete a quest, so you just end up triggering the dice roll over and over.

And sort of inspired by the remaster, I've been playing a bit of Oblivion lately. I have thousands of hours in the game, spread over about forty characters, but I haven't played it in a couple of years now. I toyed with the idea of getting the remaster, but my game is so extensively modded - mostly landscape and gameplay changes - that I don't think I could go back to the vanilla game, even remastered. But it did get me thinking about it...

Economics is a classic form of divination, like astrology or tarot, and its purpose is the same - to provide oracles who will serve the monarch and tell him that the things he wants will happen and the things he doesn't will not.

The mental gymnasics part is the claim that Bluesky is decentralized.

The Israeli mass slaughter of Palestinian men, women and children has made me wish, more than anything else in 50+ years on this Earth, that the Old Testament God actually existed.

Imagine the fire and brimstone He'd rain down on those patently evil motherfuckers.

And bonus points if He kvetched while he did it - "Here I went ahead and made you My chosen people and this is how you repay Me? If I'd known this was what you were going to do with your lives, I would've left you in the desert."

Or better yet, use your own brain.

It appears at odds wirh a claimed priority of the Trump administration, but that's easily explained by the fact that Trump is easily the most overtly corrupt piece of shit to hold the office in modern history and a compulsive liar.

The bludgeoningly obvious reality is that he's dismantling that and every other agency that might stand in the way of his corruption and duplicity because he's a greedy, questing, self-serving piece of shit with no morals, no integrity, no principles and no honor, and any noise he might make about fighting corruption is 100% lies.

That Stormy Daniels was paid with funds embezzled from the Trump campaign and hidden behind false financial reports.