They didn’t charge him.

They didn’t charge him. I imagine NOPD had bigger issues with Philly fans than some guy they probably half agree with.

How can you be a fan of Dolly Parton and homophobic? One of her best stories is when she entered a drag queen Dolly Parton look-a-like contest and lost. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/claim-dolly-parton-entered-look-130000474.html

I feel like Trump voters knew exactly who and what they were voting for. Everyone told them, including Trump. Project 2025 was available for everyone to read but Trump even said, “To me the most beautiful word in the dictionary is 'tariff’.” There were no secrets this election.

No one wins a nuclear war. But also, this seems like a pipe dream. Israel’s Iron Dome is protecting a country the size of New Jersey against relatively unsophisticated missiles. I’m sure the Pentagon would love an American Iron Dome that can stop ICBMs but it would probably cost more than the entire world’s GDP just to cover the West Coast. And then it’d probably be obsolete before it was ever finished.

It’s also the student aid programs and a ton of other university-level stuff. Maybe the student aid programs can be shifted to Treasury or something but the Education Department doesn’t really do much K-12 policy stuff since, as you said, that’s a state and local thing. It’s mostly just non-controversial grants to states.

Maybe it doesn’t need to be a whole department but turning into an agency under another department isn’t going to save much money, if any. It’s just moving things around on an org chart.

I think it’s largely about a lack of opportunity for, especially but not exclusively, blue collar workers¹ and a perceived loss of status. There seems to be a lot of young men across the West and elsewhere who are struggling to build a career in the modern economy and being rejected by women (in part due to their anger) when, to them, it feels like just a generation or two ago, they would have been handed a middle class life and been the breadwinner for a family already.

Nevermind that a generation or two ago, that status came at the expense of others. To them, it feels like lost status. So, they’re easily manipulated by the far right saying, “It’s not you. It’s [insert scapegoat: women, immigrants, whatever]. We’ll give you a sense of purpose.”

¹ I only say blue collar because of the shift in rich countries from manufacturing to services, whether high paid or low paid. But whole white collar professions have disappeared just due to computers.

One theme was that Kendrick’s life is like a video game so I’m pretty sure it was just the PlayStation buttons.

In a way, there were two themes: Kendrick rapping about his life while the choreography and Samuel Jackson as Uncle Sam making a statement that “The flag and America don’t belong to fascists.” (I guess a third theme was “Fuck Drake” but he couldn’t just not play the biggest song of the year that just won 5 Grammy Awards and has over a billion plays on Spotify.)

I’m probably reading too much into it — if that’s even possible with Kendrick — but a lot of what he criticizes Drake about applies equally to Trump. “Certified loverboy? Certified pedophile.” “I hear you like 'em young / You better never go to cell block one.” Kendrick obviously didn’t know Trump would be there when they planned the show but even if it was unintentional, I like that Trump and his ilk got to find out one of the most popular artists in America won a rap battle by mocking an adult for fucking teenagers.

And Kendrick Lamar is famously Christian and makes references to God frequently in his lyrics. Although, I doubt they consider the black church “Christian” since prosperity gospel megachurch bullshit strays so far from Christ that they probably can’t recognize an actual Christian any better than they can recognize a fire beat.

I was maybe 13 or 14 when I smoked the worst weed ever out of a pipe made out of a Coca-Cola can. And then I went to McDonald’s and ate like 4 Cajun McChicken sandwiches.

The only reason we still have pennies is the zinc mining companies bribing Congress. They’re the only losers here. (And they aren’t just going to close the zinc mines. So, the workers/miners probably won’t even be hurt. Just some owners/shareholders.)

An invasion of Canada would result in so many Americans defecting and fighting for Canada or not cooperating and probably a Civil War when the west coast states (and possibly New England) secede. I imagine the military leadership would sooner stage a coup than cooperate and invade/occupy Canada. Plus, the entire world would side with Canada.

It’s the ramblings of a senile buffoon. There’s absolutely no one else calling for this (or invading Greenland/Panama) and no support from 80% of Americans — and close to 100% with people of fighting age. Even most MAGA idiots are isolationists.

And don’t forget, basically every major U.S. city is extremely blue. When you look at a red state/blue state map, remember that it’s actually an urban/rural divide. Port cities are especially blue. (Look at Louisiana for an example. A deep red state but Orleans Parish went 82% for Harris/Walz. Good luck winning any war with 90% of the port cities in full revolt.)

Yale claiming lack of funding when it’s got a $40 billion endowment is pretty laughable.

Does Trump think there’s a spreadsheet of undocumented workers where you can just go to their house and arrest them? Or that anyone who works for ICE can sort and filter a spreadsheet?

They did raids on Chicago first, possibly the city least likely have undocumented works.

This is the opposite of what worked in the Good Friday Accords (and many other peace deals). It might not feel great but turning a militant group into a political party — which was already happening in Lebanon — is how lasting peace gets made.

Well, they just cut every research university in the country’s money by limiting facilities and administration funding on science grants to 15% (with a few exceptions possible, if approved, presumably by Elon Musk).

Basically, a $1,000,000 grant to a research scientist comes with a corresponding payment to the university to build whatever is needed and run the lab. It’s usually close to 50% because research labs aren’t cheap. And with few exceptions, private companies don’t really fund basic research labs like they used to. (There is, obviously, a lot of private sector R&D but nothing like back in the day when Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, etc. were doing revolutionary work.)

Why is generative AI even needed for audio transcription? We’ve had decent voice recognition tools for years even on cheap consumer grade stuff.

I grew up poor and I think a good measure of whether someone is poor or lower middle class is “Did your parents help you financially or did you help them?”