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The implication is that I don’t have to worry about any of it because I just don’t drive in DC. Public transportation in DC is perfectly fine when there’s at least one functioning escalator.

I don’t wear a seatbelt when I’m in DC and I’ve never been carjacked once…I just walk, take the metro and ride an occasional bus to get around.

I just fucking love little bites of information shared in meme form out of context. Really gives a good enough picture for judgement, right?

Here’s the article that probably prompted this: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/21/barack-obama-gay-college-professor/

If you read it through, the message is just a bit different from the sentence in this image.

I mean, yeah, kinda. They wrote it in an attempt at having language that doesn’t influence the respondent, but you’ve got the idea. It’s more about the respondent’s opinion, not necessarily the reality of a president bound by laws.

It’s a topic that has been discussed in the news elsewhere, usually with the quote from Andrew Jackson, “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”

The people who said no would probably love for Trump to have a similar quote.

Except that isn’t how the question was worded…

As you may know, a number of Trump administration actions have been challenged in the United States federal court. If a federal court rules that a Trump administration action is illegal, do you think the administration:

Has to follow the court’s ruling and stop its action. (81)

Doesn’t have to follow the court’s ruling and can continue its action. (19)

I bolded some words for emphasis here, the question is not whether he should but whether they think he has to. Important difference.

Tbh I’m a little surprised he didn’t say it was 88%

It’s by Craig J Spearing on Bloomburrow Commander’s Octopus token: https://scryfall.com/card/tblc/14/octopus

It’s a deeper belief than just EVs. At the beginning of the Obama administration, when there was the “cash for clunkers” program to buy back inefficient old vehicles, these people made a show of going out and buying massive Hummers and other horribly inefficient cars they’d drive around town in. When new efficiency rules went into place for halogen lightbulbs, they flocked to the stores to stock up on as many inefficient bulbs as possible.

They can be pushed to be good little consumers when needed, but it’s almost always to promote inefficiency and oppose environmentalism.

Not sure about other agencies but CDC and specifically NCHS typically had to anonymize their health data before public release. If you could use other data points from within the government to connect the dots, that might be valuable to someone.

Not exactly a citation but it was pretty weird when someone found one of the DOGE staffers’ participation in a hackathon around vote manipulation that got him real close with Musk as a result. Then he started wiping his connections once it was made public.

https://bsky.app/profile/denisedwheeler.bsky.social/post/3lhowh3ijgs2f

It really shouldn’t be news, but remember…there are most likely a lot of morons out there who would still be shocked to hear about it. The ones who don’t like to talk or read about politics, the uninformed voter. These are Americans we’re talking about.

Either that or have it upside down, signaling distress and emergency.

That’s the thing that’s confused me a bit. Project 2025 definitely calls for the dismantling and privatization of NOAA, but I didn’t see anything specifically mentioning AccuWeather. IIRC the CEO of AccuWeather said it’d be way too costly for them to pick up all of the responsibilities they depend on NOAA for. At this point, I’d fully expect Musk to say his companies can handle it.