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There is no defense for this scandal. Being a maga cult member who just knee jerks anything maga doesn't cut it. Where are the consequences? Yeah, we know. Nothing. Disgusting.

He could and he did. He intentionally picks people for loyalty, not competence.

I've had people in the weed biz say they are illegal. If they weren't, they would be sold openly in shops selling bongs, and they are not. If they indeed are illegal, which I think they are, seems to me another case of unintended consequences.

Fire them all!

Does this crackdown apply to dry HERB vapes at weed? In other words, little ovens to heat up your favorite "organic" HERB. My current info says that they are illegal, but I wonder if that is intentional, as they are entirely different thing than e-ciggies.

Don't doubt they are trying to do that. Who's gonna stop them? The fascist Trump regime is now ignoring court orders.

Of course.

Yeah sure boycott us. Elections have consequences.

A Separate Peace 1972 "Classic" movie adaptation of a "classic" novel. I think I probably read the book back then as it was standard school curriculum stuff but maybe missed the movie. At a New Hampshire boys school world war 2 era. Might want to pair this with Summer of 42 and a Pinot Grigio. War is hell. But sometimes necessary.

Ukraine's surrender.

It won't work but I appreciate the effort.

Not all of the people sent to the El Salvador hell hole entered illegally. They weren't vetted properly. We know that some of them were not even gang members and certainly many had no criminal records. Do you want to be a citizen of a country that stops having due process? Nobody is against deporting people that deserve deporting back to their home countries after they have been afforded due process to have their specific cases examined. Do you understand what El Salvador is doing to these prisoners? We may say well it's their country, they can do what they want to their OWN citizens. But what fascist Trump is doing is totally different than that.

Yeah Lanzhou noodles is very good. I was aware of one of those Sichuan places in that location. I did try it once and found it OK but I haven't been back. For me, the Sichuan place in Central Mall is much better.

Of course tv and films have replaced novels. Story telling is wired in humans. But reading a well written novel is an entirely different personal experience than watching the story.

Recession, Depression, Stagflation. Certainly nothing good!

Used Teslas are going cheap now. If you buy a used one, are you helping the evil villain Musk, or not? I'm all for people getting a good deal on EVs and I'm totally against punishing owners. You have no idea of the politics of the people who own them unless they tell you.

I think it's more or less dead already. Yes many novels are published annually but only a tiny percentage of people read them anymore. It's only a matter of probably a short time before AI can write great novels that will be totally indistinguishable from human written ones. But people still won't read them AI or not. If you meet a young person these days who says they want to be a novelist, perhaps the proper response is to slap them in the face.

Andrew Sullivan says what needed to be said:

Here goes nothing.

Since when is vandalism terrorism?

Not that the magas are logical or anything like that but forcing expats on SS home would be really stupid from a fiscal POV, assuming Medicare will still be around. Medicaid on the other hand they're viciously trashing for all.

Are you even watching it? I think it is the weakest of the three and took too much to warm up but still very entertaining with some gem moments such as -- you're moving to Taiwan?!?

It wasn't a documentary.

All (anti LGBT) autocratic roads lead to Donald Trump (the Hungary's Orban, etc. - Trump connection). Many Americans like myself are in rather a state of shock that our "president" is now leader of the autocratic world rather than the free world. I put president in quotes because he's ruling as if he's all powerful monarch indeed a kind of demi-God, a state of affairs our founding fathers fought to liberate us from. Yes, I get it -- pro autocracy, anti-democracy Americans love it. The division is as bad it's been since the civil war but a difference now is that the opposition to the autocratic leader and power holds basically NO power. Trump inspires anti-LGBTQ, antidemocratic moves by Erdogan, Orban, Vucic - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/22/trump-orban-erdogan-lgbtq-democracy/

Yeah overall I agree western boomers have been unusually lucky as far as generational timing. Who am I supposed to say thank you to?