The redactions never travel as fast or far as the original message. They know this.

There is another person beside him and you can only see an elbow and the back of their head, which is what looks like a ponytail.

I love your optimism.

But at some point, you have to look around and say this isn’t business as usual anymore right?

Maybe we’re not there for you yet, but have you set up your own lines where you can say, once they’ve crossed that line, it’s not okay?

My lines were way back when he promised to chase down dangerous criminals, and they started rounding up day labourers. When they tried to pretend due process was unnecessary and undeserved by the people they didn’t like.

When they deployed military units in domestic cities under the completely bogus claims of emergencies.

Nothing they say is true, because the only thing they treat as true, is whatever is most expedient to them in any given moment.

There is no legal or traditional way of running the government that is safe from their perverting intentions.

Congressional approval is kind of a forgone conclusion at this point isn’t it?

I don’t trust any of the safeguards in place to hold. Some might. Some won’t. The ones that fail will be abused to a greater and greater extent as they test their limits.

If that is all they are doing, it’s to normalize their presence. Until it isn’t all they’re doing anymore.

The improbability is irrelevant, since we couldn’t be here to wonder at, if the improbable didn’t happen.

You can trust them, because they aren’t bound by the same chains as the mainstream media. That is where I get all my best news from. /s

Also notable : https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ex-national-enquirer-chief-details-202155831.html

David Pecker, former publisher of the National Enquirer, testified at Donald Trump’s hush money trial Tuesday about the “catch and kill” agreements between the former president and the tabloid, detailing arrangements involving Trump’s former doorman and an ex-Playboy model.

So it is actually kind of interesting that they’d be talking about this at all.

A lot of times places like that won’t look at you if you’re overqualified, because they don’t want to spend the time and effort to train you, knowing or expecting you to be looking elsewhere from day 1.

Slow your roll!

Sometimes words evolved for the spelling, sometimes for the sounds.

I think in this case it was for the fun sound, especially given it arose through tiktok communities.

Isn’t exclusive data just ‘Trust us bro, we have the numbers?’

Say hello to State Media

It might be that, but I don’t think that makes it any less dangerous as a path to set precedent to start going after any political group that they don’t like.

Couple that with an illegal, but unchallenged executive order (not implemented yet) to prevent candidates from running, or appearing on ballots who are ‘under investigation’, and the mid-terms could be completely derailed by bogus charges on key candidates, cementing the current administrations strangle-hold.

They’ve already shown they have to problem doing the exact things they accused the Democrats of doing, so I wouldn’t put this past them at all.

They could get a crew van, fit more in it, and still fit in a standard parking spot.

Probably also quite a few thousands of dollars cheaper.

What gets me is that no one seems to be mentioning exactly what it means that US is entering their ‘Papers please’ phase, and that supporting a fascist state isn’t a very Canadian thing to do.

Not wanting to be hassled at the border, or having our sovereignty threatened is an understandable reason for avoiding the US, but it’s also pretty selfish.

I wish I see more people, and Canadian news media talking about the bigger side of it as in ‘We don’t support fascism’

That should be an integral part of our identity, especially if we want to ensure the Conservatives stop trying to normalise maple maga ideals.

Feels like it was trained with a prompt to speak in the tone of Elon, and trained on historical tweets, treating all of Elon’s tweets as gospel.

Yeah, we won’t really be prosperous until we’re losing multiple cities a year to wild fires.

I don’t think that defeats it at all, it just changes the direction of the conversation and is as deeply philosophical as the first. Some might say life goes on with or without free will so it doesn’t matter, other say that the a societal acceptance of the absence of free will removes the burden of guilt, and could reshape society in very profound ways, so of course it matters.

Started compiling a list, but it posted early, and I got lazy.

List of them here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Health_and_Human_Services

Looking at the first handful, most aren’t medical professionals.

You would still expect that they should be able leverage their resources to have a pre-built response to a question like that.

I think the whole ‘Barbie’ thing is a reference to how the women in Trump’s orbit all have the same over-manufactured aesthetic.