The man who was hit with the sandwich was CBP agent Gregory Lairmore, who told the jury earlier this week that the sandwich “kind of exploded all over my uniform” and “smelled of onions and mustard”, according to the Washington Post. The defense pushed back, as it appeared in imagery from the scene that the sandwich did not leave its wrapper.

LOL, how is this not The Onion?

Anyway, it’d be nice to be able to sue the shit out of those responsible for wasting this guy’s time, reinstall him in his job, and give him all back pay.

I hope that AI development makes the internet and social media so dogshit that it pushes people to spend less time in online echo chamber spaces and more time in person with actual people face to face.

I sure would love that to happen, but my more cynical self sees the incel broligarchy-loving types and how they look forward to the day when females will be put in their place by having a compliant robot wife instead, not having to worry about a woman “taking all their money” and so on…

It seems that “JD” “Vance” is there to rep the Thiel/Andreesen/Musk types. And as fucking weird as Donbald is on so many levels, the kinds of things that influence that bunch is next-level weird, and that’s saying a LOT when we are contrasting with Donbald. Donbald is weird and racist and incredibly selfish; these others have a very weird ideology.

I strongly recommend everyone read The Sovereign Individual to see what I’m talking about. The absolute seething disregard for what they keep talking about as unskilled labor and how they get/got paid too much during the Industrial Revolution. How they look forward with glee at the notion that the information age will unleash the worthy from taxes and any sort of social responsibility to other humans, basically.

I have not finished it yet, but so far, it’s a repackaging of Ayn Rand and her Galt’s Gulch horseshit, but instead of being presented in really shitty sci-fi lit, it’s presented as a nearly-sure outcome.

I haven’t read anything by Curtis Yarvin, but interviews with him are just…bonkers. Not sure if there is anything people would recommend reading about/by him that would give more insight into his cult.

I wonder if Nancy should be a term that describes a Karen, but squared.

Agreed. Probably for most filers, the IRS (and state governments) could just automatically do the work. They already have most of or all of the data. The idea that you have to pay some no-value-add middleman for the “privilege” of filing your taxes is crazy.

For people that have more complicated scenarios, and are trying to take every single deduction, have to hire a CPA and so on…that’s maybe where these middlemen provide something of value.

Just a year ago, we had an economy that was the envy of the world. Gee, what changed?

Yep. IOKIYAR is practically law.

There could be video of him and his mushroom penetrating someone underage and so many of his meathead cult members will claim it’s “AI” or something.

Why do you think we have the Epstein shutdown?

Donbald is happy to have millions of children and the elderly starve, flights cancelled during the holidays, etc., if it means he can avoid justice and focus on building his Epstein ballroom.

Little Mikey doesn’t seem to know anything about anything, including things in the news. Just claims he is working so very hard and is concentrating on - pause for laughter - the American people. He says this during his party’s shutdown, no less.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mike-johnson-mocked-for-repeatedly-insisting-he-doesn-t-know-anything-about-president-trump/ar-AA1PMtMc

That’s probably the case when the corporate bothsiderist media is describing a Republican, yes.

I love that pic paired up with that title. Gold.

H&R Block does as well.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/09/tax-prep-companies-lobbying-against-free-file-face-scrutiny-from-lawmakers

My word, I love reading the first part of that headline especially…

Well, let’s hope so.

Wait, I thought this was the will of the people. According to Donbald’s supporters, if you even win by a cunt hair, you have license to do nearly anything, because “will of the people”.

What happened?

Maybe he should reverse just about every single thing he’s been doing in his second maladministration, too. That could definitely help.

That, and remove nearly all of his admin, get them on the path to prison, and replace them w/ people of integrity and competence.

More free speech maximalism, I suppose.

What decade was that? I could see how Donbald’s brain might be frozen in some decade like the 1970s or the 1980s.

The bigliest one ever. Many people are saying.