Right, it’s so much simpler: just start calling it trumpcare. You can put some ceremony around it, let the taco spout word salad onstage, and have a signing ceremony. If the right people tell Trump it was his idea, he’d probably believe it

Plus personal data on all employees and quite likely personal data on all citizens

You give him too much credit for seeing inefficiency. It was simply “gov is too expensive. We need massive layoffs”.

What were those new taxes? Here we’re only talking an additional 2% on top of whatever nyc s state and local tax is that could be what 15%? Noticeable but not a dramatic change

Not really but I do believe it’s the future. For any future devices, Matter/Thread is my preference.

But of course using HA means you don’t have to limit yourself. Both my Zigbee and zwave meshes are solid.

I did have a conversation with a friend a few months back who asked what I recommended. It’s tough because

• Matter/Thread is rolling out very slowly so you can’t really count on it yet.
• always avoid WiFi with vendor portals
• is it worth it for a newcomer to invest in Zigbee or zwave?

I don’t think the federal standards ever restricted anything additive. It was always more like minimum standards and equal opportunity. Even with standardized tests, you’re just setting minimum standards. It’s only a problem if you don’t teach those.

So Oklahoma teaching white power will fail to meet minimum standards or equal opportunity, but California adding climate change education is just better education

So we need to annex the Galapagos? Do they have oil?

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Orange Mussolini always liked attention, wanted to be famous……. History will put him up there with Mao and Stalin as causing most deaths

Apparently the orange traitor learned from Jan 6!that he can get away with even the worst crimes. That plausible deniability is microscopically thin

A nominee must be confirmed by the senate, so there are checks and balances to prevent this from happening

At least we thought there were

Not legally

It’s still a huge jump to actually succeed in a third term. Maybe I’m naive but even in the face of blatant flouting the law, I can’t see that happening

But at least as importantly, Trump is nearing the end of his life. Supreme Court has already covered him with blanket immunity: treason is fine as long as it’s official business, corruption is fine, violating the constitution is fine, personal enrichment by exploiting the government is fine. He’s probably out of the reach of justice, except for the voice of history.

But all the minions holding themselves above the law to do evil are only protected because of Trump. They can’t buy a pardon from an ethical president, and even Republicans can be ethical. Their time for running amuck is coming to the end. There’s still every chance they will face justice for their crimes.

And even where they’re not actual crimes, I’m sure Republicans will rediscover their “ethics” when it’s a Democrat President who could act similarly. They will actually help restore order, for fear of leopards eating their faces

I have to say that while it’s a stupid idea and motivated by spite , it’s more logically consistent than the usual MAGA shitshow

A swat on the butt with a magazine is a humiliation fetish now? Holy crap, I thought I was too vanilla

You’re assuming Italian pasta is fancy and expensive. I’m sure some is, but some is just common mass market brands on your grocery shelf. Until this nonsense started I didn’t realize the pasta I sometimes get is from Italy

You missed the part where everything became global. There are well known mass market pasta brands that are owned by Italian companies. The brand I sometimes buy is, and I don’t get it because it’s Italian or the cheapest, but that it’s a good value of quality for a reasonable price

And child rapist. Even if you want to be pedantic about what qualifies as pedophilia, statutory rape is still rape and some who’s not an adult is still a child.

And if you want to be extra pedantic, it’s worse. Following a response above, one is a mental disorder that can be lived with, whereas the other is taking action, actually sexually assaulting children

Don’t forget the office vacancy rate in downtown Chicago matches his number. So someone told him there was 28% office vacancy, and someone told him there was a “Magnificent Mile” shopping district, and he conflated it to miracle mile shopping center 28% vacant because crime

My states leaders continue to provide many such examples of resistance. The first thing they did after the 2024 election was to add millions to the attorney generals budget and they’ve been putting it to good use. Pursuing justice through the courts is slow and doesn’t make headlines but it has been succeeding more often than people realuze