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Oh come on - you’ve been mindlessly regurgitating their propaganda for way longer than ten months. It’s kid gloves. It means gloves made from a kid, not gloves for kids.

The security firm said its involvement with the incident ended once it was marked as resolved in its system - adding it had "operated as designed" on the whole. "While the object was later determined not to be a firearm, the process functioned as intended: to prioritise safety and awareness through rapid human verification," it said. Fucking arseholes. Claiming that subjecting an innocent kid to the extreme danger of an armed police response for absolutely no reason whatsoever is a successful example of their system operating as intended. Apart from the wider issue that unfettered commercialisation of generative AI services will be the final nail in the late stage capitalist coffin our society is being laid to rest in, a more immediate issue with AI is that so much of it is utterly fucking shite. To say it's being beta tested on the public would be generous when so much of it is obviously no better than a prototype. It's light years away from the performance and reliability claimed by those who are selling it but they use those claims to justify grossly inadequate levels of human supervision.

Yeah, imagine being gullible enough to think he'd turn ut ok. Oh well, at least you've got your continued support of Javier Milei to show you're really a political savant. Oh wait... how is he doing right now?

“Do we know whose place that is, like, who pays the rent there?” Ingraham asked. “It’s sort of a mystery. We know that you have, like, the antifa ringleaders that all come together there,” Sortor said. Wow - we don't know who pays the rent! It's so suspicious! Except that you could say that about literally every other apartment in the city unless you go and ask. When a source of funds is hidden behind three shell companies and an offshore trust, that's a mystery. When it's the guy who lives there that you haven't bothered talking to, it's just a thing you don't know.

That's more than a stretch. How did you go from "why do you think political parties should be able to choose their own candidates?" to "why are you in favour of every aspect of the current two party dominance and campaign funding rules of the US?"? It doesn't make sense, and makes it seem like it's you pulling debate points out of thin air rather than reading and responding to what was actually said.

Partly - but taken in isolation you don't need to worry about more of the polarized candidates winning. That's more a consequence of extreme gerrymandering leading to an increase in the number of cast iron safe districts where a candidate can have zero appeal to any moderates or independents while still being guaranteed to win. And that's kind of a problem with this whole discussion. It needed to happen 20 years ago before every branch of the system was effectively captured by the radicals.

One can only hope!

There's also the tie in with the $230M that Trump has decided the Justice Department owes him (a dispute which he has declared he will be final arbiter of as the CiC of the DoJ) which he has said he 'might' donate to the ballroom project. But hang on - he's already raised the $250M budget from his tech bro oligarchs - so if he uses the $230M settlement where does that go? Trump playing the world's most obvious game of 3 card monte so that he can get the taxpayer to fund the ballroom while claiming he paid for it personally and walking away with a quarter billion dollar slush fund of pure profit is just a touch more likely than the idea that he gives a solitary shit about national security infrastructure.

What has Trump ever done that would lead you to think it is worthwhile spending any time searching for a reasonable explanation for his actions? The fact that Trump promised in July that the ballroom would be an addition and the existing East Wing would not be touched, and now the entire East Wing has been razed to the ground without any warning, planning permission or oversight is entirely consistent with his standard MO of not giving a fuck about anyone or anything.

Very soon you'll be able to find out if any Republicans in government have any form of a spine. A Donald Trump nominee who is scheduled for a confirmation hearing this week told other Republicans he “has a Nazi streak” and that holidays commemorating Black people should be “eviscerated,” according to a report based on a private group chat.... “MLK Jr was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs,” Ingrassia wrote in the messages from early 2024, Politico reports. He also wrote that holidays commemorating Black people, such as Black history month or Juneteenth, should all be “eviscerated”, though he used an Italian slur for Black people... He was nominated in May to lead the office of special counsel, but his appointment was postponed. His critics have drawn on his public comments and inexperience for the role, as well as his support of white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Ingrassia was also accused of sexual harassment earlier this year, Politico reported. He has called the report about the alleged harassment a “vexatious political attack” and said it should be retracted. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/20/trump-nominee-paul-ingrassia-group-chats DEI critics say all black people should have to prove they're the best of the best of the best. I've never yet heard one of them say a single word about affirmative action for unqualified white fascists.

Well that’s clearly insane bullshit. It really is a shame you’ve never bothered to dig beyond the simplest surface level understanding of any issue.

Who’s going to go and open your safe deposit box when you’re not allowed to talk to a lawyer? What good would the documents be anyway if you’re not allowed to show them to a court? This is the obvious absurdity of deciding that this particular group doesn’t get due process. Anyone could be accused of being part of that group and without due process how do you argue that you’re not? Not that it’s an issue unique to Trump, there have been problems with this throughout the war on terror era.

Are they dancing the YMCA as well?

What a completely unexpected surprise. Incredible the chances of you two free thinkers independently coming to the same conclusion. (Though your claim to understand her genius strategy would be ever so slightly more convincing if you demonstrated enough knowledge to be able to spell her name.) BTW, don't you think it's becoming rather obvious that you only post about these (ahem) deep philosophical reasons why the left sucks because it's impossible for you to defend any of the real things that are actually happening in America today under the person you voted for?

God these weaselly scumbag. George Santos begging for special treatment for himself: "Mr President, I am not asking for sympathy. I am asking for fairness - for the chance to rebuild," he wrote. "I know I have made mistakes in my past. I have faced my share of consequences, and I take full responsibility for my actions. "But no man, no matter his flaws, deserves to be lost in the system, forgotten and unseen, enduring punishment far beyond what justice requires." George Santos after George Floyd was murdered by the government: "Simply don't break the law. If you live a lawful life and you don’t break the law, you’ll have no bad interactions with police.” Punishment far beyond what justice required? Motherfucker was indicted in May '23, convicted in August '24 and didn't even have to report to prison until July this year because he was allowed time to get his affairs in order. He begged the court to let him stay free for months so he could make money from his podcast to pay his restitution. He spent that time soliciting donations by railing against the courts, kept the money, and still begged for more time when he was back in front of the court. Lord there is no-one more oppressed than a well connected white collar career criminal facing a modicum of accountability. Lost in the fucking system? If he was a street level nobody accused of stealing 1/1000th of the amount he did he wouldn't have spent a single day outside of a jail cell between his arrest, trial and sentencing no matter the consequences to his job and his life.

They are broadcasting and writing about the fact that they’re no longer allowed into the Pentagon. How do you think you heard about it? Accusing them of walking away from democracy because they didn’t physically go and knock on the door is hair splitting petty.

Of course you didn’t infer it. The reader infers, as the writer you implied. But for real though if this “I would have been back every day trying to get back in, making it very loudly known to all.” Isn’t a protest then what the fuck is it?

Didn't say he was. He's suggesting that protesting outside the building would be 'louder' than doing their job as reporters, gathering information and writing stories in the national news. You can't do that. It's the Pentagon. If they don't want to let you in, you can't get in.

Dude - they're professional journalists. They already have a platform. Standing outside the Pentagon with a megaphone is not louder than writing stories for national newspapers or broadcast news shows. Doing what you suggest would, in fact, be giving up on doing their job of holding government to account.

I think you’re either fundamentally misunderstanding the situation with the Pentagon press corps, or you’re talking about something different to everyone else without having made that clear. For clarity - lying down and not saying a word is what Hegseth is asking for. The agreement reporters are being asked to sign in exchange for their press pass is to not solicit any information from anyone beyond official Pentagon statements… in which case what’s the point? Refusing to sign, and if necessary giving back the pass means those reporters are committing to still doing investigative journalism. It will be more difficult now, but they’re not giving up. If they weren’t walking away, they would be giving up.

At the same time it’s also the bright flashing visible from space neon line that separates refusing to take illegal actions from along action to overthrow the government by force.

Oh boy could I have ever been more wrong! Within the next ten years? No - today the Vice President is telling the nation that being racist, anti-semitic, Hitler loving rape apologists shouldn't be held against them, 30 year olds are just kids who are far too young to know any better. Oh and the lesson he passes on to his own kids from this? The person who tries to make them look bad by leaking the bad things they really say, that's the real scumbag. I guess that is the true message of Jesus - only be an overt neo-Nazi when you're sure you won't get caught. JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do

Imagine those disgusting fat fucks walking around thinking of themselves as 'peak alpha males'. Interesting that they're whining and crying about 'coordinated character assassination' without considering what it means when your character can be assassinated simply by making public the things that you say and believe. Most sad though, is that within the next ten years most of these racist, misogynistic, hate-filled mouth breathers will be running for public office, or re-election, or being appointed by the administration, and when these exchanges are dredged up again they'll just brush it off as youthful indiscretions, silly hi-jinks. He didn't know any better, he was only thirty! Don't you believe in second chances? And these genuine neo-Nazi pricks will be part of the shaping of the laws and policy of the nation.

To be fair that is just standard practice in American policing.