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profdc9 ,

He didn't even have to hide gold bars in his underwear like Menendez.

profdc9 ,

Maybe a better approach would be to distribute the gifts equally amongst the justices. That way they could all graft equally. Equal graft under the law!

Bannon vows Trump’s opponents will be prosecuted in a second term | CNN Politics ( edition.cnn.com )

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, vowed investigations and prosecutions of those who have probed the former president and his political allies, declaring at a conservative gathering Saturday that Inauguration Day in 2025 will be “accountability day.”...

profdc9 ,

What makes Bannon so sure he would be one to benefit from a second Trump presidency? He could just as well be persecuted. Trump shows no allegiance to anyone and is happy to throw his supporters under the bus when expedient.

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Though your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair
Won't you please come to Chicago
Just to sing

In a land that's known as freedom
How can such a thing be fair
Won't you plaese come to Chicago
For the help we can bring

We can change the world -
Re-arrange the world
It's dying - to get better

--- Chicago, CSNY

profdc9 ,

If you want to see what that would be like, watch this scene from the movie "Nixon" (1995).

https://youtu.be/TxCqOw5_4oE

My wildflowers were mowed down!

Last week my landscaper mowed down the mostly perennial, but a few annual wildflowers I was growing from seed. The landscape thought they were weeds because they were mostly not flowering yet (and there were a few weeds in there as well). So now what do I do? I have been watering it every day to see if I can grow some of the...

profdc9 OP ,

I don't know. I bought a huge amount of a varied seed mix and threw it all down. Unfortunately, the plants were mowed all the way to the ground with little stalk left even.

profdc9 ,

The only real question left in this war is: if Putin orders a nuclear strike, will he be obeyed?

profdc9 ,

So will he pay back the value of what he received? Or will he not disgorge himself of his ill-gotten gains?

profdc9 OP ,

Especially if you have a media empire that is useful to discredit those opposing your invasion.

profdc9 ,

I sit here all day writing random words, and still no Shakespeare.

profdc9 ,

Somehow I don't think Generalissimo Eric Trump is in the cards. Probably someone more like Elon Musk or Sean Hannity. A celebrity that can rile up enough violence to overcome his or her competitors.

profdc9 ,

It's owl stretching time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHnyTTbmBRc&list=PLB4233DEF8A00F815

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"When Kissinger got the Nobel Prize, satire died" - Tom Lehrer

profdc9 ,

He looks more like a serious person and less like a clown. But in our upside-down world, we send in the clowns.

profdc9 ,

I was hoping they would send a bounty hunter myself.

profdc9 ,

Satan was introduced to test Job, and then Job's suffering is justified by the Lord's omnipotence, not omniscience or omnipresence. This is the argument laid out in the Bible as to why one should fear God. Did Job have to curse God for Satan to make his point?

Satan Allowed to Test Job

6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
7 The Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”
8 And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”
9 Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason?
10 Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
11 But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”
12 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

42 Job replied to the Lord:

2 “I know that you can do anything and nothing that you plan is impossible.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that darkens counsel without knowledge?’ Well now, I have talked about what I don’t understand— awesome things beyond me that I don’t know.
4 Listen now, and I will speak for myself; I’ll interrogate you and then inform me.
5 I’ve heard you with my ears; and now I’ve seen you with my eyes.
6 As a result, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

profdc9 ,

What a poseur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owYClOcZsCg&t=222s

profdc9 ,

C. Thomas: Even though I have covered myself in shit, please do not say I stink. It's unfair!

profdc9 ,

Somehow many people think that they were better off with the six year old. And because the fed was not attempting to tighten credit so much with Trump as president, they may not be wrong.

profdc9 ,

The average voter probably is most concerned about the effect of the economy on him or herself. If you were laid off because tight credit caused your company to fold, or to have refinance expensively, or had to pay a large dividend or do a stock buyback to compete with other capital investments, to you things haven't been an improvement. Most voters don't understand the idea of the rule of law, but they definitely understand being out of work, or being forced to take a lower paying job or having to work in the gig economy. Do you wonder why Trump has supporters? If you don't want to bother to understand the voters, they don't really care about what you think either. I think Trump is poison to our country, but I also know that people vote for him for a reason: he at least pays lip service to what concerns them.

profdc9 ,

I don't think every Trump voter is a rabid racist, and macroeconomics do matter. They just don't think the government, or the Democrats, or the other Republicans give a damn about them. They are alone and just want someone to tell them there's someone to blame, and someone is going to make them pay for their suffering. Trump is their winner that champions them, or so they think, because no one else gives a shit about them. Does Biden convince them that the government really cares? Not a chance. Voting for Trump is exploiting the blind anger many people feel because of their powerlessness. If you want to win an election, you tap into that. People don't really care what Trump says, they are desperate and angry and want to have someone pay for their suffering.

profdc9 ,

It's the failure to understand why voters opt for Trump which is why Trump wins elections, more so than Trump's qualities. No one cares what these voters think, and so why should they care about what you think or how you want them to vote? These people think, just not how you want them to, or have the same concerns you do. Treating them as subhuman simply pushes them into the arms of demagogues and dictators.

Creating a self-contained binary ( www.github.com )

I have a program (fldigi, pointed to by the github link) that uses dozens of shared libraries. I would like to be able to distribute a pre-compiled version of the program for testers. I could require each tester to install the shared libraries and compile the program for themselves, however, this would be extremely difficult...

profdc9 OP ,

The problem is that I don't have static versions of most of the libraries available.

profdc9 ,

This seems so incredibly ill-advised. If students become martyred by trigger-happy snipers, these protests will boil over into open violence. Imagine thousands of videos flooding social media in an instant showing student corpses. I fear that gasoline has been poured and matches are being lit everywhere.

profdc9 ,

Next up: Supreme Court declares Trump a living god. The living god demands a sacrifice.

profdc9 ,

Hydrogen is an electron and proton. I am guessing that most protons have been fully ionized many times since the beginning of the universe, thus not being complete intact atoms. Checkmate scientists!

profdc9 ,

Hank Scorpio for President!

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If only they would.

profdc9 ,

This discussion has devolved into: which side are you on? This whole thread is just like Republicans whining about who is and who is not a RINO. I have no doubt were Democrats or any other liberal party ever manage to get a grip on power again, they would just tear each other to pieces. This thread is Lemmy at its most radioactive.

4-star generals side with Smith, tell SCOTUS Trump immunity claim is 'assault' on democracy ( lawandcrime.com )

A distinguished group of retired four-star generals and admirals from the U.S. military have argued in a brief filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that Donald Trump’s claims of absolute “presidential immunity” from criminal prosecution tied to Jan. 6 is an “assault” on the “foundational commitments”...

profdc9 ,

It's quite ominous that retired senior military officers need to say this. It suggests that if Trump is reelected, we could see widespread mutiny, because officers would refuse to accept orders for which they might be criminally liable. Even if SCOTUS makes Trump immune, it does not necessarily make anyone following his orders immune. Choosing between a committing a crime like murder, and another like insubordination, an officer might well choose insubordination.

profdc9 ,

People may not like the weather in Chicago, but it's not that bad, the summers are generally pleasant, winters are tolerable if you dress appropriately, we have a nice lake nearby, four seasons, and the people here are sane, practical midwesterners. Why are people going to Arizona with decreasing available water, where the Republicans want to pass hunting migrants for sport ( https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/arizona-bill-shoot-kill-migrants-property-trespass-border-rcna141147 ) if they cross your property? Why are they going to build tens of billions of dollars of semiconductor fabs in Phoenix ( https://www.ft.com/content/d0fe3dda-7ea4-4d37-9564-71a129b9002f ) in a place with declining water? Are the tax breaks really worth it?

profdc9 ,

Certain cities like Chapel Hill or Durham on the piedmont are quite tolerant. But go into the coastal area and foothills and you might need to be careful.

profdc9 ,

More like a human centipede.

profdc9 ,

It used to be that all votes were not completely along party lines and the members of a legislative body would actually... deliberate. Every issue and vote now has only one dimension that matters.

profdc9 ,

It's because the very wealthy would rather risk anarchy and societal collapse by promoting the causes of violent thugs rather than be taxed and contribute to the well-being of the people who maintain the civilization they rely on.

Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments ( www.theguardian.com )

Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’...

profdc9 ,

Every year California is becoming more like Night City. Cyperpunk is supposed to be a dystopia, not an aspiration.

profdc9 ,

We can't do better because many voters are racists, gerrymandering, unlimited money in politics, media wants to sell eyeballs to have you view pharm, insurance, and car ads, We truly live in the best of all possible worlds.

profdc9 ,

How could this man bring the republic so close to ruin? Our democracy must be in a perilous state indeed.

profdc9 ,

We'll now need AIs to spot AI fakes. AI wins!

profdc9 ,

If Trump wins the election this year, it's going to be the last election for President we ever have.

profdc9 ,

The Republicans can investigate all they want. The President still has immunity, and if Trump's lawyers are correct, have them killed by Seal Team Six when they accuse the President.

profdc9 ,

This is like that episode of Rick and Morty.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ab18c4a9-f6c3-452f-8fd7-510eb21b0688.jpeg

profdc9 ,

Adios Moscow Mitch!

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Who should Biden worry about more? Getting the left wing of his party to nominate him, or getting the general electorate to the polls in November? It's a no brainer calculation.

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