How many other Western, from what is supposed to be a democracy, leaders have gushed about falling in love with a dictator? Actually I’m sort of curious if there is more than one. Trump may have been working the flute but Kim sure played the pied piper better.

Then left you in the same situation afterwards.

I’m not American but live next door. I really hope that spray on hair douche gets his comeuppance. Dude blurted out plenary authority on tv then stood there silent and still but blinking like there were technical issues so they could edit it.

The amount he says during his word salads of speeches is amazing. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say so many words without a tiny bit of relevance to the previous sentance, or the previous comma if typing it out. Truly if you want someone to speak without saying anything meaningful, he’s your guy.

Okay I’ll correct, I don’t think I’ve heard anyone not under some supervised care say so much irrelevant to what they were saying one sentence ago. Though I guess technically he is supervised but not in my intended meaning.

Had to double check but I think this was my favorite Space Quest game.

First ever PC games were Space Quest 1 and a game called Shogun which I never understood but still tried to play.

I loved the * Quest Sierra games, I played most of them from 84-94ish. Not as many Kings Quest ones I missed a lot of those. Maybe I never played the good ones but I loved that crashing the escape pod in space quest 1 you may end up crashing in Kings Quest.

Anyone else watch Rick and Morty, isn’t Graham basically Jerry in couple therapy place (mean outside of the ‘presenting’ that it does)? It’s just so subservient to whoever he latches on to. Mean from bomb Iran of McCain it just may be doing his previous hang on wishes here too. But seriously this guy is a senator that has a leadership ability of a wet noodle. Aren’t senators supposed to be strong in their own convictions? Mean maybe there’s lots I haven’t heard of Mr Graham but I don’t think McCain would be happy with his swap.

Least McCain had some principles and would now down to the orange turd, that’s the only good thing I saw from him (okay plus telling someone in an audience to be respectful of Obama, you’d never see that today)

Probably not what this article means but had a coworker at a previous job give a bunch of suggestions or answers at one point (want to say very small company single programmer is me, few tech support and sales people). One guy gives suggestions based on chat gpt, so I end up figuring out what is incorrect from the suggestion.

Mean I know he’s trying to be helpful but giving suggestions that don’t work is a bit of a time waster. To be honest I’m probably middling as a programmer, I can figure out stuff but not a fantastic one (maybe I sell myself short never come across an issue I couldn’t solve but took time). So having to spend time to go over that just makes me go over stuff I really don’t need to. Quite a pain, as much as I appreciate them trying to help it’s a time waster checking out those options to see if they work.

Yeah that’s my reaction when I noticed… oddly just when I read your comment. Fuck Murdoch’s publications.

Thank you for helping me see it.

I want to add, sometimes there are good (or semi accurate) articles but having to do the checks on their reporting sucks balls and not in the fun way.

Yeah like if I was them I’d arm with offerings and give the middle finger when they asked for action. They are owed for being ignored and left to fend for themselves (as I state later my understanding of the situation is almost nil, but you don’t keep allies by screwing them over) by what they thought was an ally. But everything is transactional with the memory of a goldfish for this administration.

I’ll say I don’t know the situation there well at all, maybe accepting whatever is offered with the suggested actions is in their best interest. I hope they can make a decision that doesn’t screw them over in the long run (not by their choice for sure to be clear), whatever is needed. Mean being on the wrong side of the CIA has never helped many either. Conflicts suck and it’d be nice if we could figure out how to resolve things peacefully, though I guess that idea belongs in a fairytale these days.

When you can justify your actions due to a fuzzy theological belief it’s quite silly. I am an atheist but if there is a god, he gave us the power of reasoning and logic. Then if there is that, why is there any logic to disobey one of ten major rules for humans to live by? He put them in a rock according to the story, wasn’t like hidden words needed to be seen by lemon juice or something. They are quite pronounced in the Bible, so why can thry think don’t kill people doesn’t apply to them?

God sent one kid, why not another if an amendment was needed in the killing but?

Thanks for the link, I knew I read it somewhere. Like I think if everyone knew and understood what that meant things could change. Unfortunately these days that’s as likely as me hitting a home run it seems. Not that it’d take much to explain if the media wanted to…we all know why they don’t, anyone that can own big media is a billionaire and loves the outcome.

How anyone can follow Bannon, a dude who looks like he’s stewing in his own juices, is beyond me. I’d even say half the people following him could overtake him without much issue but for some reason they just want to be a sheep even if they’re ‘alpha’. It’s like if Urkel (showing my age but yes Family Matters show) was an evil genius and hoodwinked others.

Doesn’t Bannon do a lot of work in Europe and Italy specifically? Well lobbying and such and apparently trying to create a force of people. Sure he has his project 2025 orders to focus on from those higher ups.

Yeah the guy who cheats against kids in golf is not playing a clean game in a national election. Mean the dude lies like a sidewalk and aome people wonder why he doesn’t do what he promised. Cause he’s a fucking con man, grifter. He’s the guy they’d tar and feather back in the day if he stuck around long enough.

Heh and Obama looked presidential in any suit. I so thought the US improved after they voted him in.

A person high up in the current US administration lie? That should be a huge scandal…wait it’s a day that ends in y. Yeah there are many more.

Imagine getting as far as Trump has and not understanding anything just buying your way through life. Then even if he breaks all the laws he still doesn’t get any legal punishment beyond paying more but he has tons of money. He’s literally looting the US Treasury right now.

Few stories I’ve read lately is their ideas are much larger than warehouses, like a 100k person prison, billions of dollars. How this isn’t causing total shutdown of the US by general strike is horrifying as a neighbor. I can’t imagine how they think they’re in a democracy, though I’m sure many of them probably understand that which is even scarier. I bet those ones will be surprised when they’re on a list for some reason too, there always needs to be enemies afterall.

So apparently ICE doesn’t accept given official id anyways, why is anyone going to want to come on a hope they don’t end up in a concentration camp? Yeah I’m not betting on those odds.

Mean this term is worse but if that was possible it would have happened before the end of the first one I assume, the world watched Trump looking like he was Putin’s dog at … Well whatever conference that was. Assume it was a bad employee review. Now this administration has axed everyone that has so much as a raised eyebrow to their actions and doesn’t want to gargle that baby carrot.

In the end I don’t think there’s any saving except by the American citizens in some action. Least before it gets much worse on a world stage. Beyond alienating allies and doing his tariff quick attack which seems to be the standard ‘attack other countries that include nato when they don’t say yes’.

Kind of like an abuser would do huh…and Trump has only been named 38k times in the released Epstein files from pages that aren’t completely blacked out? I’m sure it’s just a coincidence…the sound of your tub draining is the same one American democracy is doing as it’s sucked into his bank account.

Which is why billionaires should not exist. When you got enough money your toys are people’s lives while you have fun trying to shape socities cause that’s what you want.

We got enough issues before they all decided to play with their toys. I’d say no one on a planet scale should have as much influence as these people do for a functioning society.

Okay maybe when we have Dune level of planets (tens of thousands) in our realm…but not when we got one planet where some dipshit can destroy half the world by making a decision. Oh didn’t mean the other obvious one this time but yeah still agree. He’s only rich off a good bubble (co-founded paypal and invested in Facebook early) and probably off of other people’s suffering. He got lucky with money and now has power to control how things work in many societies. I say societies cause I assume he has influence over other countries in some way.