Surely someone has tried this already, but.... Did anyone download any of the redacted Epstein files and see if you can just "highlight" the redacted parts in Acrobat to see what was redacted?

There is a certain measure of frustration in wanting to reply to someone's skeets, but I can't, because they limit who can reply to them. I can still like their skeets, at least.

Here's the question: How did they redact them? Because given the general lack of competency that the DoJ has shown lately, it would not surprise me if it was easy to remove the redaction.

Now, I'm probably wrong on this, but for it to be a memorial center to Trump, wouldn't he have to be dead?

Oh yeah, I'm sure they'll deliberately cut their profits just because he asked. /sarcasm

I'm sticking with my assumption that the reason for these lengthy delays is that they have to wait for Trump's meds to kick in.

It makes sense, as long as you don't think about it.

I wasn't aware that medical doctors needed to be sufficiently aware of criminal organizations to practice medicine, but I suppose when your brain is melting into putrid sludge like Trump's....

"Student of history" my entire ass. (Note: Aaron quotes it as $1176 and $1175, but it's $1776 and $1775.) The easiest response to this should have been "Because it's the year the Declaration of Independence was signed." And he didn't do that.

Okay, yes, Trump is trying to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center, because he's an egotistical fuckstick, and he got most of the Kennedy Center board to go along with it, but guess fucking what? That's not how it works. The name of the place is established by federal statute.

And it is deeply in character for Trump. Oh, don't get me wrong, it's weird. It's very weird. While other Presidents have had opinions on their predecessors, they generally are, if not polite, at least civil. And if they couldn't be civil, they often kept them to themselves. But not Trump.

Just think, if Trump wasn't such an egomaniacal fuckstick, millions of Americans wouldn't have been giving a massive clue that he's rapidly entering senile dementia.

Well..... bye.

House GOP: How DARE you accuse our special boy of doing exactly what everyone knows he did?!?!?!

It's a bit much to hope it's anything other than "As a distraction from the Epstein files and everything else, I am declaring war on Venezuela.", but damn it sure would be nice to see "I have been diagnosed with 87 different cancers and/or STDs, and for health reasons, I am resigning before I melt."

Translated from politician: Oh, fuck.

Ah, the Trumpian 'policy' of "It's not our fault, it's someone else's." and "Kick the can down the road." Sure, Trump isn't the first President to say that the problems he's supposedly dealing with are really the fault of the previous administration, but NOTHING is ever Trump's fault. Ever.

Nate Silver had the misfortune (well, misfortune for us, at least) to be much more often right than wrong when it came to political predictions over a decade and a half ago, and now he believes that his feces is not odorific, and his opinions on anything else are the only ones that matter.

Right? Like, I don't know when it's going to happen, but there will be some morning, or afternoon, or evening, when I check Bluesky and it will be full of "IT HAPPENED!", and I won't even have to guess what "it" is. It will be this wonderful shared experience.

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Man, it sure would be a shame if Orbàn had to flee the country ahead of a crowd that wanted him to fall on a bunch of knives.

I'd go as far to say that he doesn't understand the basic concepts of pretty much goddamn anything. He might have at one point. He might have been actually knowledgeable in some field or another, but between the drugs he's known to take, and getting high on his own ego, he isn't any more.

Found 'em.

"Is the arch in the room with us right now, Mister President?"

So, even if the intent was not to be shady as fuck about these things, the wording makes it sound shady as fuck. What's the over/under on someone having sat down with Trump to tell him, "No, you don't actually get that money yourself." and it sticking?

And that's today's, "Christ, what an asshole." (Bovino, that is.)

Lindsey Graham's Greatest Hits - Still Spineless After All These Years

Me, waiting for a package to arrive all day: *checks delivery site* "Now arriving between 7 pm and 10 pm." Uh.... look, I don't need it that badly. Go home and have dinner. .... which doesn't appear to be an option to tell them.

My most memorable would have to be entering "MST3K mode" during the showing of "Mystery Men", and lampooning the movie so well (not that I remember a damn thing I said) that multiple people thanked me afterwards.

...... I got nothing. (Alt text of picture: Trump is sitting behind his desk, wearing his normal ill-fitting suit, and a stark white cowboy hat that really doesn't suit him, while surrounded by people who are... applauding him for wearing a hat like a big boy?)

Man, those meds are taking longer each day to kick in.

Reason #3183 that I prefer physical books to ebooks.

imagine trying to convince me that I should "get used" to AI bc it's "here to stay." honey mitch mcconnell has been my senator since before i was born, do you think i don't know how to lock in and hate for the long haul

So, there's several possible reasons why the Indiana GOP rejected this in the Senate. They thought it was a bad idea, they didn't respond well to MAGA death threats should they fail to pass it, they didn't respond well to Trump's threats to defund any federal projects.... But they did reject it.

I mean, it's hard to be seen as tough on crime when you're committing crimes all the damn time AND pardoning major drug importers.

one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states

Look, I'm hardly an expert on politics, but 42% approval was already bad. That it's dropped 6% to 36% since March? @jamellebouie.net is right, that absolutely is pretty significant. And he's less than a year into this term. There's a pretty good chance he drops further by the end of January.

I mean, sleep deprivation would explain why Trump is falling asleep in the middle of the day. And a few other things.

.... no, $1 million dollars does not mean they are the best people. First, foremost, and honestly, solely, it means that they have $1 million dollars to throw at this stupid fucking ego boost of a piece of shit policy.

Counterpoint: No, we won't. Look, 2-3% economic growth is considered a good rate, and there's been plenty of time where it's been less than that in the last ten years. It has not been at or over 6% in that time. Not during Trump 1. Not during Biden's term. Lutnick is talking out of his ass.

Bobby Kotick

"Why did my child get measles?" "Because you didn't get your child vaccinated. Because you listened to anti-vax morons." "No, that can't be it."

To put it mildly, Trump is a fucking idiot. Reviewing five years of social media before someone from Europe can get a tourist visa? Does Baron von Fuckstick understand how many times someone can post in five years? I've been here coming up on three years, and I have over ELEVEN THOUSAND posts.

I mean, it's pretty obvious. His brain is melting.

House Republicans, after many hours (recently) of discussion: What if.... we do something? Other House Republicans: Something.... that helps people? First House Republicans: Whoa, whoa, let's not get crazy here.

"Look, my whole thing is being willfully ignorant. I can't break my streak now."

I took my morning meds when I was supposed to! .... look, I'll take my victories when I can get them.

You know, when a grumpy, humorless, authoritarian dickhead said "You'll get nothing, and like it!" in Caddyshack, it was supposed to be part of the comedy of the movie.

I mean, it's a Boston Catholic parish, so it's possible that the parish priest told him to fack off.

That's called winter, you fucknut.