More or less.

Yeah, of course they’re fucking plummeting, there’s no plan or structure to these tariffs. You can’t just put tariffs on everything and expect manufacturing to return to the U.S. You might be able to get automakers to reshore car manufacturing if you put tariffs on foriegn-made cars, but if you’re also putting tariffs on imported steel, then they’re not going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build plants in the U.S. just to spend more on materials. They’re just going to charge people more for cars.

Damn, must be nice to live in a country where powerful people face consequences for their actions.

Actually, that’s almost exactly right. The writers consider the Golden Age as ending on season 9, episode 2, The Principal and the Pauper. That would basically mean only 8 seasons of Golden Age episodes. Out of 36 seasons, the Golden Age makes up only 22% of the show, leaving 78% of it unwatchable.

Scientists: One desperate plan we are considering to combat climate change is a series of gigantic mirrors to deflect sunlight away from the planet.

These assholes: OK, but what if, like, the opposite of that?

Leela: “Did you drive a lot in the 20th century?”

Fry: “Nah, nobody drove in New York. There was too much traffic.”

Or:

Fry: “I don’t want you to hear it until it’s done.”

Leela: “But it’s beautiful!”

Fry: “So’s a peacock but you don’t eat it until it’s cooked.”

I mean, it kinda does. The fact that she is young, attractive, and media savvy means that people will pay more attention to her (not saying that’s good, just that it’s how our society works). The more attention she gets, the more of a threat she is to the regime, which is why the they’re trying to prosecute her for getting assaulted by ICE.

Yeah, the bloated police state and anonymity of most real estate moguls makes this is logistically impossible. That being said, the reaction to the United Healthcare CEO’s killing and the number of ICE, “assaults,” that can’t get grand jury indictments makes me think this spirit is still alive.

“Listen buddy, by the end of the day, one of us is gonna have one eye!”

“I was going to eat that mummy.”

Fuck it, let her. She had to drop out of the 2020 primary before voting started because she was on track to lose every single state, and she clearly hasn’t become more electable since then. All she could possibly do is siphon some votes and donor money off Newsom or Buttigieg. If that’s what she wants to do, I fully support that.

If it were up to me we’d demolish the ballroom and leave it there, just a rotting pile of rubble lying on the White House lawn. Let it sit there as a reminder of all the damage our nation caused, even to ourselves, and how it can never be undone.

Well, there are two things at play here. First is that the White House isn’t technically classified as a historic building. It’s a functioning government building with high security needs, so it doesn’t have the same strict protections placed on it that Historic Buildings have.

Second is that Trump bypassed the protections that are placed on it by simply lying about what’s taking place and moving too fast for anyone to stop him. This is also how Trump’s dad destroyed Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park before anyone could object.

You know, I’m glad he’s doing it. It’s a great metaphor, not just for the damage he’s doing to the country, but also how it will have enduring, irreversible consequences. The East Wing won’t just go back to normal when he’s gone. We’ve permanently lost something, and even if we stop that stupid fucking ballroom from taking it’s place, we will have to build something new there.

I don’t think it’s even, “friends,” I think it’s just Rob Citrone. It probably doesn’t hurt that Melei has kissed Trump’s ass, though.

Oh yeah, for sure. Everything DOGE did was a farce, and it almost certainly lost more money than it saved. Even en if it didn’t, they blew any savings up on their first budget legislation. I just find it particularly hypocritical to cut $40 billion in global aid because, “we don’t have the money,” then turn around and spend $40 billion on global aid to a single country

$40 billion was the entire annual budget of USAID. No matter what you think of them, they did provided essential aid to dozens of nations, and DOGE destroyed them under the pretense of lowering the deficit. Now we’re spending that much money just to prop up one countries economy.

(Yes, I know they USAID is a soft-power tool of American imperialism, and is rumored to have been used as cover for CIA operations, but they also did a shit-load of global AIDs prevention work, and I’d rather have spent the $40 billion on that than bailing out a libertarian freak so Rob Citrone can get rich.)

Chicken or bird?

Precedent is important, but it’s superseded by whether or not the plaintiff has taken Thomas on vacation recently.

I’m only vaguely aware of them because one of their songs was used as the House theme, and I still thought the article was describing an upcoming cyber attack on Spotify.