He needs to wait to see which side is paying him more before he acts

It’s not without precedent, much of the current US was purchased from colonizing powers. The Louisiana purchase is perhaps the most famous one, where Napoleon needed more money to fight the British and worked out a deal to sell France’s North American territories to the USA.

But the US didn’t have enough in its Treasury to fund the full amount, so in addition to selling bonds to raise money it also assumed some of France’s war debt. Then, once all the arrangements were made, they simply had ceremonies to pull down the French flag and raise the American one. (And in some territories, Spain was involved, somehow, leading to a “three flags day” in some places.)

If it happened today I bet they would finance it all with Dogecoin, because of course they would. If it helps Dogecoin moon to $69, I can retire early.

If it was Pete Buttigieg getting inaugurated and California encouraged people to fly pride flags, all the MAGAs would lose their shit.

We all know its really because he won’t be getting the crowds his fragile ego needs. This may be the first time a snowflake ever melted because of freezing temperatures.

As long as this country is going down the tubes, we should at least make some good TV out of it. Trump should hold a live fundraising event where “Pro-Tiktok Gratuity” and “Anti-Tiktok Gratuity” NFTs are marketed in real time. We can show the needle going back and forth, just like the NY Times does for elections. Whichever side wins gets to decide what happens to TikTok in the US. All gratuities (win or lose) go directly into the President’s own tip jar.

Direct democracy in action! One Dollar, One Vote, just like the Founders intended.

Business should be looking for the best candidates wherever they can find them. Well structured DEI policies do not contradict that. In fact, they lead to better candidates all around, because they encourage hiring managers to look at the entire diverse pool of candidates.

I feel the anti-diversity crusaders have a zero-sum view of the world, where there is only one best candidate (who coincidentally looks like they do) and if someone else gets a job over them it must mean that the scales were tipped somehow. In reality, though, there can be multiple best candidates, and where there are, it’s entirely appropriate to bring in someone who can provide a different point of view.

I mean, this is basically Clarence Thomas’ entire character arc. He fought through a lot of adversity as a child (both due to his poor upbringing and outright racism) and was actually quite active in the civil rights movement. He got his law degree at Yale, only to find the racist people running the law firms at the time didn’t believe he was that smart, and only got his degree because of affirmative action. Yet somehow, instead of blaming the racist fucks for being so racist, he blamed Yale for admitting him in the first place. Somehow getting reverse brainwashed into promoting the agendas of people he hated.

Under today’s DEI policies, law firms would be actively looking for the next Clarence Thomas, not because they need to fill a quota with a Black man, but because they know the next star legal minds could come from anywhere, so they need to make sure they don’t accidentally exclude anyone.

Hey, Joey, don’t say that shit out loud. Once they realize that there is a way to access content that isn’t sufficiently monetized, they will block it. Keep it secret!

It makes sense, when you consider their roles in the Conservative Cinematic Universe. Obama and the Clintons are the heels, the side that is meant to lose the pro wrestling match, the one which his audience boos. He wants them there in his moment of triumph so he can (metaphorically, thank god) teabag them to thunderous applause.

Bush is meant to be on his side, though, since Trump is meant to own the loyalty of the entire party. Since Bush did not immediately do so, he is actually worse. At least the Clintons are playing their assigned role. Bush is a traitor to the Party, which means he is a traitor to Trump personally, so Bush needs to be pushed to the margins. (Let’s hope that’s the extent of it.)

Who numbers all these dyes anyway?

I seriously wonder whether this is the real reason they are putting so much effort into keeping the Classified Documents case report totally secret, without even disclosing it to Congress.

As absurd as the thought that the US military would rise up and depose a duly elected President is, ask yourself under what circumstances might it happen? Perhaps it would happen if it came out that there was incontrovertible proof that duly elected President sold that military’s secrets to foreign parties (or, worse yet, freely gave them away in exchange for compliments, and plauditudes.) And that two (possibly all three) branches of government refuse to do anything about it.

It’s not the most absurd conspiracy theory I’ve heard.

My point is that even now that we know all that stuff happened, that doesn’t mean that the military held back because it was directly complicit. Their justification is a solid one, and backed up by years of military history and tradition in this country. Yes, the justification is convenient, but that doesn’t make it less valid. I would have much preferred that the police did their jobs back then without all the overt racism, but sending the military in to do the police’s job would not have been the correct answer, either.

You seem to be lumping in “cops” and “the military” in the same category, where the whole point of this discussion is that they are not, and if Trump tries to use them in that fashion the military ought to stop him (for as long as they can, until Trump purges all the military leaders who are loyal to the country over him.)

I mean, both explanations can be right. The military leaders could have had severe objections about deploying domestically, because they are well versed in history and understand why that is simply not done here. However, they no doubt understood what the local police were doing, and also looked at that policy as permission to take a back seat and not get more involved in the controversy directly.

Hah, sounds like his “research” is trying it out on himself and deciding he didn’t like it. And now that he doesn’t like it, all of a sudden he finds the research valid. He’s still only listening to opinions he agrees with. What a shallow twat.

I always thought that memo meant something entirely different. It’s not that sitting Presidents have some sort of immunity, but rather a recognition that there can never be an impartial investigation of the person who is in charge of the investigators.

Let’s say that memo wasn’t there, and the President was accused of some sort of crime – but upon investigating, the DoJ decided not to press charges. Could we really ever be sure he was innocent? Woudnt the conspiracy theory always exist that the President quashed it? The proper thing to do would be to either wait until he is out of office, or appoint someone with some statutory independence, who is able to make decisions without interference. I always thought that memo was simply an attempt to preserve the integrity of the DoJ by keeping it out of an obvious conflict of interest.

Of course, the Supreme Court weighed in with their totally bonkers interpretation of it, giving the President free reign to do whatever the hell he wants. Their opinion matters more than mine, unfortunately.

No. We elected a Reality Show host, we get all the drama. We voted for government by Tweet.

I’m hoping it makes the site of the new stadium they are building for the A’s cave in, they did Oakland dirty and deserve whatever bad karma they get.

Or, he will sell at a reduced price to Elon Musk, who will replace them all with AI

I mean, he went to college to get that medical degree. Today’s Conservatives think colleges and universities are terminally woke. Why would they trust his medical opinion?

Yeah, Clinton and Soros are the obvious trolls, but it goes deeper. He also awarded posthumous medals to Robert F. Kennedy (father of you-know-who) and George Romney (father of that other guy). Kind of a subtle reminder to those two that they didn’t get their political influence o their own merits.

Heck, even Bill Nye (the Science Guy) is getting one. Another’s the reminder that we can’t just ignore Science when it is inconvenient.

But still, nothing can top when Trump gave the medal to Rush Limbaugh a few years ago. That is when the award jumped the shark. It’s rather meaningless after that.