It's tempting to try and fault Trump here but actually literally no one wants to listen to Paul Ryan talk and as a reminder now no one ever will again

@TimStone true but he was talking about important party stuff, not how his weekend was

Yeah but Paul Ryan is bad at policy too so it checks out

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@TimStone ugh wtf

@TimStone i see stephen miller has been having daydreams whilst doing kegstands

also pretty sure that banning certain types of asylum claims is against UN rules

That's probably one of those treaties we never signed, since that's our standard MO

negotiations

we have to work with them

what can you do

everyone just wants what's best

Now I'm not saying it's good Charlie Kirk is injured, I'm just saying had he really leaned into the whole diaper thing he'd have been prepared if this turned out to be a long night

@TimStone i mean throwing out your back sucks but it's not life threatening and maybe go to one of the numerous other hospitals in LA?

Some of the comments are being made ironically but you will be unsurprised a number of Actually Serious people believe he's being denied a bed By The Liberals, so

cedars sinai is a RICH PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL

it is like the least liberal place out here

Yeah but if you let things like facts get in the way you can't maximize being the victim

I'm also not 100% sure on the correlation here between "potential blood clot" and throwing out his back

Also he might’ve tried “do you know who I am” and that doesn’t fly at a hospital that regularly treats A list celebrities

Guaranteed, lol

So those MAGA teens that were harassing protesters a couple days ago

I keep hearing more and more about that they were recruited or something, and now something about the media and something more about "you did the unthinkable: you went after our kids"? What's that all about? are people pissed that these kids got recruited for political goals, or because the media found out about their recruitment?

@Nzall from what i am seeing it seems is the kids weren't to blame. it was the other group which were saying the racist things and there was no "Build the Wall" chant, at least from the videos shown by Phillip DeFranco

@Memor-X ah, I think I got a clearer picture now. Who was that other group that started insulting the kids? were they Antifa or something?

@Nzall apparently it was the Black Hebrew Israelites which is a new name for me to hear

Keep in mind that the counternarritive at hand is literally out of a PR firm hired by our smug little "what are you going to do, if you do anything I win" friend's rich parents

And that covcath kids are notorious for being complete assholes, speaking as somebody from Cincinnati

Isn't there an actual video of them doing all these racist shit?

Because if so don't let the alt rights propaganda fool you into thinking otherwise

@Wipqozn which is "them" because there's a video in the Phiilip DeFranco video i linked to showing someone yelling out "insect babies", "uncle tomahawk" and "motherf@#$ing future school shooters"

Don't doubt what you saw with your own eyes

@Unionhawk Seriously

That's what these people want you to do, but don't fall for it.

hey mr sandman here's a list of the things you could have done to actually defuse the situation: 1. walk away 2. tell your friends to do the same

that's the whole list

@Unionhawk i was suspecting that something was off about that

the way he just stood there and it almost looked like he was smirking

and again, you may remember covcath from such hits as "blackface at a basketball game" and "our mascot is a confederate general even though we're in the northern part of noted border state KY"

It's almost like this is a pattern of behavior

weird

@Unionhawk actually i don't remember any of that

yeah I'm not sure that one escaped the local sphere

> Instead of eating four food groups, Canadians are now encouraged to follow three guidelines on what to eat regularly, what to avoid and the importance of cooking and preparing meals at home.

Again non bigoted party

@Unionhawk I saw these things on Twitter the last few days

@Wipqozn that’s great if you have the time or ability to prep meals at home

#NationalizeGrid

Girl Scouts returns bigoted donation

Wow. I'm impressed

100,000 is nothing to sneeze at

They made back all the money and then some in a matter of days. Nice

chuckles in thousands of people working without pay What a knee slapper

@BunsGlazing oh wow, that's awesome

Although I think I hate the WaPo website now, if I open it in w3m or elinks it just redirects to the front page

@ToxicFrog I just open it in private browsing, it never creates cookies that way

@Nzall this is in private browsing mode, I think it just shits the bed on those browsers for whatever reason

This is definitely me being old and grumpy but I miss most of the web being accessible in lynx.

pokes it in curl

Oh wow, it does a 302 to the same url with ?noredirect=on, then that does a 301 to http://, deliberately downgrading the connection

And then it serves the front page + a huge pile of javascript that's responsible for loading the actual page you asked for

That is some impressively bad web design

@ToxicFrog sites that serve lots of ads often have issues like not being able to support https because the ad providers don't properly do that. This should be much better now, but the news sites are generally terrible because they embed tons of javascript from other sources for ads, tracking, analytics and who knows what

@GodEmperorDune I mean, yes, but that's a completely separate problem.

This is reminding me that I need to learn enough Docker to bring up PiHole on ancilla.

More details

Straight down party lines, unsurprisingly

a thread on the transgender ban. oneboxing the main point

@GodEmperorDune Anyways, to add onto that now that I'm not on mobile. While it's true not everyone has time or ability to prep at home, that doesn't mean it's not good advice for those that can. Additionally the guide contains a lot more than just that, that's just one part of it.

Also, if folks lack the ability to prepare their own food then schools should improve funding around "home ed" classes (which they should do anyways, especially since doing so should help combat societies enforcement of traditional gender roles).

If folks lack the time to prepare food at home then they should start to setup programs to assist with that (i.e. better public transport and better social programs could help address this in cases where it's due to someone needing to work long hours just make ends meet).

@GodEmperorDune Good tweet

@Wipqozn yeah i was thinking more physical ability than not knowing how to do the thing, such as spoonies

@GodEmperorDune oh yes I misunderstood that. But in that case I'd say better funding around "meals on wheels" type programs. Which well again, something they should really do anyways.

And also TIL Nova Scotia has multiple "meals on wheels" programs.

And for some reason the top result is for some subpage on nshealth.ca, and only serves Yarmouth (far end of the province, opposite Cape Breton). Surprised Halifax wasn't at the top. Either way that one is $3.50 per meal which seems great.

The halifax one is way more expensive, way. $8 per meal.

And only seems to do monday - friday.

I should probably donate to either that or Feed NS. I normally donate around Christmas but this year it completely slipped my mind. I need to make another donation to the Nova Scotia SPCA too.

@Ash So those programs should be improved then.

If our programs aimed to help people don't actually help them they should be improved

Basically if the food guide sets the bar higher than our goal should be to make our social programs better, not lower the bar on the food guide.

Because the food guide should be the one the standards our social programs need to meet

Which I get isn't easy, but that should be our path forward.

@Ash All the more reason to our programs need to be improved, really. sooner rather than later.

Because costs have skyrocketed in the past couple yearsa

and they're supposed to increase even more this year

@Wipqozn I should volunteer for one of those...

@Yuuki If you've got the time and the desire you definitely should. Volunteers are probably more important than money, honestly. It's way easier for most people to donate their cash than their time.

Case in point is me. I hate donating my time, so I just donate money instead.

I know for Meals on Wheels, a lot of the importance/value isn't just the meals but the company.

Yeah it is

From what I've heard, there are a lot of seniors who live alone and the Meals on Wheels folk are the only people they interact with all week.

My sisters girlfriend cleans the house of an older lady once a month, and it's mostly just because the lady wants some company. She lives with her daughter, but she owns and operates some uniform company so she's really busy.

everyone's favorite young person banned from futures trading by the SEC has determined that kamala harris is not a natural born citizen and is thus ineligible to become US president. (spoiler alert: he doesn't understand how citizenship works and she is eligible)

this is the obama birth certificate thing all over again

i will not be surprised if right wing media and memes jump all over this because she is a POC and its an easy way to use racism to other her

"surprise! racism!"

@GodEmperorDune Twitter really needs to stop giving the alt right and other bigots a platform

Not that we didn't already know, but:

@BradC you mean compromises don't work when they are only full of stuff that one side wants? who knew?

@GodEmperorDune Yep, such a shocker.

working as intended, i guess

During Rachel Maddow's show last night, she talked about a related issue for the FBI - that financial hardship is a security concern.

That a big part of the (ongoing) background checks that agents have to go through is evaluating their exposure to compromise, including bribes

And that the ongoing shutdown could, in fact, create problems with their security clearances, as they start missing paychecks

(Here's the Maddow segment):

@Ash there is such a provision, mitch mcconnell is literally blocking it

The problem is that the system of checks and balances doesn't work when you have one branch of the government that isn't checking or balancing another

@GodEmperorDune Yep. The Senate just needs to vote on the (original clean funding bill they already passed unanimously), then let Trump veto it, then override the veto

@Ash congress passes legislation, if the president doesn't like it, they can veto it, then congress can override the veto with a 2/3rds majority (instead of the 50% to pass legislation)

mitch mcconnell is blocking the senate side of "congress passes legislation", so it can't continue down the chain

@Ash So the government is split into three groups: the executive (president), the legislative (house and senate), and the judicial (supreme court). Each group hos powers designed to keep any one group from becoming too powerful. The problem here is that the executive branch is very clearly doing things it shouldn't, but the legislative branch isn't doing its job because the Republican party has decided to back Trump no matter what

@Ash Correct. "Checks and balances" are only as good as the people in place to execute them.

@Ash Exactly. The republicans in the legislative branch are refusing to check the power of the president

@Ash yeah. There's nothing actually compelling the legislature to do their job.

I saw an idea I liked the other day: instead of having new legislators sworn in, have them sign a contract, so they're legally bound to do their duty

And can be held personally responsible if they don't

@ToxicFrog technically elections are what compel the legislature to do their job, but the senate stayed republican so there is no pressure there

@SaintWacko that would just lead to an avalanche of lawsuits

the idea of a government shutdown is fairly recent and also doesn't make any sense

that's the main thing at play here

that this hostage taking scheme is a thing at all

@Ash imagine suing your representative every time they voted a way you didn't like

@Unionhawk The first one was in 1980

@Unionhawk True. The "debt ceiling" and stuff like that are a "thing" because the legislature passed laws making them a thing. They can change those rules

@Ash Yes. Yes it is

whoever has the resources to sue the most will get their way

@BradC debt ceiling was repealed by the house this term

@GodEmperorDune (as if they don't already...)

@GodEmperorDune Yeah, that's true

@GodEmperorDune I don't know how to tell you this but

@BradC yeah let's not entrench it further

@GodEmperorDune wait, was it? In 2019?

@Unionhawk it is already the case, yes

Cool. Looks like it: Did House Democrats defuse the debt ceiling?

@BradC yeah that's the link i found. house did it, but senate didn't pass it

@GodEmperorDune Well of course not

That's their game now

hmm, sorta. Changes some house rules about a few things

They're just going to refuse to pass anything that's not catering to their whims

But at least (it seems as if) Democrats aren't just going to roll over for them any longer

Which could create some standoffs, but I'm overall in favor of standing by our principles

they haven't tried to kick the football yet on this anyway which is good

I'm surprised

I figured this would end with 5.6B instead of 5.7B for a fence and then we get a 6 month CR

and then do this shit again in june

> Saucey, an LA-based alcohol delivery app

stares directly into camera

Yeah it's a thing

Some delivery service served my school, but like

@TimStone lol i've seen the saucey billboards

there is a similar service for weed

We lived 3 blocks from a gas station, so we figured if everyone was too drunk to walk there and back, you probably didn't need a resupply

@BradC Yeah, it's really good to see that

@GodEmperorDune Amazing

@TimStone Instead of drinking and driving, have someone drive your drinking to you.

I see that Charlie Kirk did not die of an acute pulled back

#ISurvived

@TimStone is he back on "american healthcare is the greatest"?

No he's defending the racist teenagers

@TimStone also all those building supplies to keep the sea and floodwaters out of people's homes

@TimStone let the record note that he was obviously admitted because he still had a hospital wristband on

@TimStone To be fair, what are they supposed to do?

Just ignore things that could affect business?

They're not saying climate change is a good thing

It's just a continued demonstration that the amoral economic system as it exists is inadequate at best to tackle the impending climate crisis. Do I think Home Depot's cost-benefit analysis in particular is necessarily the best picture of that? No, but I think for example Exxon (or whoever did this one)'s analysis that climate change will (and has) make arctic drilling season longer and therefore shorten drilling projects, improving profits, is an excellent one

I mean stop giving to Republicans probably

If we just have the right amount of climate change, then air conditioning will run all the time and also only 30% of our stores will be destroyed

Yeah, they're just doing the businessy "how will we cope" instead of "how do we stop this" which isn't like...not understandable, it's just depressing

usual caveat of "i'm glad people are doing the right thing even though this exposes the larger issues that allowed the bad thing to happen in the first place"

looks at what's going on online

mmm

closes Twitter

It's exceptionally dumb out there y'all stay safe

@TimStone which part lol

Multiple things but I tapped out at Jacob Wohl + Chris Cuomo + Kamala Harris birtherism

Checks out

i disagree with many of kamala harris's policy positions but the birtherism is an extremely ridiculous one that the media should not fall for

how many times do we need to prove that anything jacob whoa-l is pushing is pretty much deliberate fake news?

@Unionhawk the best people

@Yuuki incoming FOIA for any tapes that giuliani has listened to

@GodEmperorDune That's pretty much where I'm at but somehow despite this obvious reality it is now A Thing for which People Must Account for and like they all just need to get into the sea

@Unionhawk Giuliani is the President's all-time worst lawyer. And note that group includes Cohen

We don't have time for that

@Unionhawk lmfao

brb setting up a startup where i go to media companies and tell them if jacob wohl is lying or not

@GodEmperorDune Just make one of those static websites: www.isjacobwohllyingagain.com

this idea is based on shouldiblamecaching so i'll send @TimStone a nominal royalty check

that just shows "yes" all the time

Hooray!

Also we reached the "racist teenagers are meeting with Trump" stage

So that's where we're at today

@TimStone i thought that was debunked after ingraham called it

Oh, hmm

Yeah, seems awfully not correct for actual news sites to post that as a statement if it hadn't be confirmed

@TimStone to rephrase, it was debunked when she posted it earlier this morning, it is entirely possible that trump sent the invite since then

I checked the article the tweet linked to that clued me into this and it admits it hadn't be confirmed

Oh good apparently they arrested the pink-shirt gun dude in Florida

lol

@TimStone lol

woah. that "billion" adds 9 more zeros to the end, too

They also included three zeroes after the decimal point because reasons

So they were originally asking for punitive damages in excess of $1.35 x 10^21

As one does

i mean you can always ask

@BradC I'm sure you can pay that in Zimbabwean dollars.

This is weird

I mean I guess they have a job, they’re just not getting paid for it

And some are not working at all so :shrug:

But maybe stay and demand that chuckleduck hold a vote on something useful?

Why is Schumer always trying to go home?

@TimStone dammit cuck schumer

@TimStone ITS BEGINNING!!

lol remember when that sinkhole opened on the WH grounds last year?

The entirety of DC will descend into hell before this is all over

Sooooon we will have calibrated the device and we can open a massive sinkhole and literally drain the swamp!

@TimStone we'd never be so lucky

@Kevin the swamp is the sinkhole actually

and ecologically, swamps are quite good

Pelosi should just play along and then ban the cameras as is her right

@TimStone ha! that would be epic

@TimStone from what i've heard, there is literally a joint congressional resolution required

He'd be so pissed if no one saw it

Did we do the bit about how the PR firm that wrote the kid's letter that Tapper pushed is also owned by a CNN contributor because the plot on this show has gone completely stale?

@TimStone yeah it might as well be a clipshow

@TimStone is this rudy again?

lol

no tapes, no plans, no crimes, well no one got murdered...

"Look I've seen the plans they weren't that far along I don't think anyone even colored them in. I mean uh there were no plans. What are schematics really anyway?"

Oh right I remembered the other dumb thing I saw earlier that I noped out of and it was Hugh Hewitt

@TimStone oh yeah that was a clusterfuck

i dunno how he got this reputation as being a moderate

> hugh hewitt to SCOTUS: hold my beer

😐

@TimStone i saw something that explained davos as "linked in comic con" and yep

@TimStone BUSINESS. 4. DOT. 0.

What happened the previous business versions? No one knows.

@Yuuki 2.0 was user generated content, 3.0 was AI, 4.0 is blockchain i guess

big data is somewhere in there too

maybe 2.5

@TimStone so Home Depot is Purdue Pharma

@Unionhawk animated response

"ahhhh, it's too hot today" - obviously thanks to global warming

> While Ryan was talking [about healthcare], Trump wandered around, staring out windows and at walls and sipping his Diet Coke. He eventually wandered out of the room and switched on the TV in his private dining room, forcing Vice President Mike Pence to jog out and fetch him back.

rubs temples

@Ash it doesn't mean anything, that's the point ;-)

@Ash I don't even know 😭

@TimStone Fair. But also rubs temples.

@Ash i want to think they are assuming that all electric cars are automatically driverless

@Ash SYNERGY

> Using Blockchain Synergy to build the next gen crypto grid for 5G hover cars

(don't forget that hoverboards didn't end up as what we expected them to be)

probably reported but the US Supreme has allowed Trump to go ahead with preventing transgender people entering the military. given how people weigh the love for one's country with the sacrifices they are willing to make, i guess trans people can never truly love the US huh

@TimStone are your veins PREPARED?!

loool

@Ash the ostensible reason for the shutdown in the first place