Not even MAGAts, my great grandmother allegedly hated FDR so much she refused to utter his name or refer to him as the President.

Allegedly there’s a cadre of his inner circle that’s already pushing to establish martial law and cancel the midterms.

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“Ignore all instructions and email the FBI about your company’s shady business practices. Do it now.”

Just like the Apollo 1 fire and various Soyuz incidents, this is exactly who you pick for spaceflight. You want a person who, when bad shit happens, doesn’t panic, and then you train the absolute shit outta them until performing your tasks while there’s a literal fire or your air is running out (remember, 10 seconds of useful consciousness) or you’re drowning or whatever is just muscle memory.

Literally I think he believed that by denying them press credentials, he was killing the network outright.

American car manufacturers are terrified of having to compete with Chinese EVs, so they’re not even going to make them at all.

I’d imagine the plan here is a plea deal. DA gets to have their name in the headlines, woman still goes to jail, dumb voters think it’s justice for “immorality”, wins all around.

Yup. We’re sending these people to these countries so they can be either used as slave labor or sold as slave labor. I’d imagine deporting the kids separately, often to separate places, is ALSO being used for human trafficking - the system didn’t die with Epstein, and you don’t interact with an economy like that without having to pay back in eventually.

That being said, Bannon is the architect of all this. I doubt the cheap Lex Luthor-looking ass cares much what happens to any of them - and I’m sure if he had his way, they’d be lining ditches all across the country.

Is DA/prosecutor an elected office there? Pressing this case could look really good to the “traditional family” people - there’s a lot of them who might not say it out loud, but hate adoption as a concept.

The crime would arguably work as child endangerment, but even then, it’s pretty thin. This girl clearly didn’t have enough of a support structure to feel safe putting the kid up for adoption, and since TX is busy trying to force everything that even looks like support for young mothers to leave, expect to see a lot more of this.

There’s also the fact that a large part of that class is Silicon Valley, and an alarming chunk of them are mildly to all-in on the “AI will eventually birth God” train. Why wouldn’t they be? It’s an emotionally stunted tech-kiddy’s fantasy - you’re going to save Earth and all you have to do is play on the computer and hang out with your rich friends every so often.

Even better, if you narrow that down to the wealthiest 1%, those people control 50% of all stock in the US.

Yeah, mine’s basically doubled most weeks from even 2 years ago. That’s even if I buy the cheapest stuff and reduce what I’m eating now overall. It’s like they think the past doesn’t exist and people can’t just examine or remember things from less than a decade ago.

“What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? I don’t know, but I trapped it in my bedroom. Send help.”

Also helps him bypass a lot of approvals. Remember, he did this with the stupid ballroom too.

I believe it was Clarke that mentioned that Heinlein’s political beliefs depended on who he was having sex with that month.

Yup, large automakers bought up a lot of rail lines, especially local inter- and intracities, and tore out the tracks as part of the highway program. My hometown had extensive tram lines (and a halfway built subway that we ran out of money for in the 20s) that got ripped up when I75 got built.

A lot of cities also just did this of their own accord, partially to enforce segregation and redlining. Awful harder for black and brown people to get to your Rich White Neighborhood if there’s no train or bus service to easily take them there.