They are absolute crackheads. Adorable, fuzzy, crackheads.

Because once you give into blackmail, that just opens to door to further blackmail. And every single time you give in, it makes it worse and worse. At this point, yeah Trump could get his base to arm wave away him fucking minors. But then he’d have to explain away every thing he’s done for them since then, which is just treasonous.

This song was my jam circa 2000

I think that was a reference to this A former KGB officer alleged Donald Trump was enlisted by the KGB in 1987 and was given the codename “Krasnov”.

Exactly, it was all a setup to push the narrative that Ukraine doesn’t respect the Oval Office. Same reason Couch Fucker Vance kept saying “you haven’t even said thank you once.”

I’ve been trying to think what the Trump / Vance plan was. Like you said, it was obvious that Vance was there to pick a fight. But I couldn’t tell if they were legitimately trying to blow up diplomatic relations like they did, or if they thought they were going to get the upper hand in exploring Ukraine for their natural resources.

Either way, it was disgusting to watch.

Where can you watch the unedited video?

Edit: Seems like this is it. https://youtu.be/ayBRXIN9Kro

Double edit: It’s obvious that Couch Fucker Vance was told to tank this. He went as combative as possible.

Depending on the language, that might only sleep for 10 milliseconds, outing you as bot for sure.

True, but it was just an internal memo. I’m sure the public-facade won’t be as honest.

I guess technically there are people who are still 25 that were born in the 1900s. So not completely unreasonable.

But yeah, as someone born in the 1900s and not anywhere near my 20s, I just wanted to share what hopefully is a common experience:

Like many people, I got a new driver’s license when I turned 21. Being 21, I was in the best shape of my life, looked nice and fit, still had hair, etc.

Fast forward 10 years when I need a license renewal, and I can just do it all online, no need for a new picture. Fast forward another few years when life has taken it’s toll a bit - no longer in good shape, hair is a distant memory, etc. I went out to a restaurant and ordered a beer, and the waitress goes “this ID doesn’t look like you at all.”

Oof.

In my experience, Lemmy users are pretty old compared to most other online communities. I don’t know if there’s been a poll, but my guess is most users are older than their late 30s.

Hopefully y’all old mother fuckers have gotten some ass by now.

Things used to get Farked back in the day too.

The cuts, which Trump’s cost-cutting chief Elon Musk oversaw…

Sad that even Snopes has fallen for calling what Elon is doing as “cost-cutting”.

Republican senators shit the bed after January 6th. That was their last realistic chance of putting a stop to the MAGA crazy train. They could’ve found Trump guilty at his 2nd impeachment trial without anyone blaming them for it.

Instead they gave Trump a pass and abandoned the idea of separation of powers. Since then, it’s forced the Trump-packed Supreme Court to agree with them that the President is above the law and can’t be checked by anyone.

Now it’s too late. Congress can’t hold him accountable. The courts can’t. He can do whatever the fuck he wants.

The gall of these billionaires to just buy a news organization and then blatantly state “we’re not going to do news anymore” is just incredible.

Even Rupert Murdock had the courtesy to come up with the Fox News “Fair and Balanced” slogan (even though it was completely full of shit).

Bezos is just like “yeah we’re going full on propaganda, go fuck yourself.”

I don’t know why but the “There is no God in this” got me full on belly laughing

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It seems like it would be lucrative

My mind read that as “it seems like it would be lubricative” and it still made sense.

Haven’t you heard? Elon doesn’t work for the government. Apparently there is no administrator for DOGE, so don’t go trying to hold him accountable or anything.

Apparently gorillas are quite gentle.

https://youtu.be/7HmuTqe9s88

Still probably best not to risk it.