What’s this “we”, white man?

Unfortunately, they’ve only established that the 1974 emergency powers act is not a legal way to establish tariffs; all other tariffs established by justifying them through other means are still (potentially) legal.

The government never announces that it is becoming fascist. They announce that anti-fascists are the enemy.

So do Rubio, Noem, Bondi, and Stephen Miller. Tulsi Gabbard and the White House budget director are looking into moving as well.

I happened to look at their front page the other day and they were promoting their April Fool’s thing, whatever it was (I don’t remember). But they explicitly said that you had to either use the app or log in to new reddit to participate.

Fun point: many farmers are switching from corn and wheat this year to growing soybeans, because soybeans need less fertilizer. Now you can get biofuel from soybeans, but you need to crush and process them first, and it’s more expensive and time consuming than corn-based ethanol.

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I literally just went there to check it out. I’m on old reddit, and r/all is still in the “tabs” section on the top of the page. r/all is clickable, it brings up content, and the top post is just over an hour old (and I clicked through to verify the time on the post.

Even if they decide not to support fascism in this one specific case, they have deliberately, intentionally and repeatedly encouraged the development of facism in multiple other cases.

I’m so happy for you that she got cleared!

I beg to differ:

There will be no punishment and no investigation after two Army military helicopters were flown by Kid Rock’s house over the weekend, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday. The Army had suspended the aircrew in Saturday’s incident, a U.S. official said earlier Tuesday, but Hegseth announced Tuesday evening that no suspension or punishment would be forthcoming.

Shades of Lost, with The Button needing to be pressed every 108 minutes …

Remember the last shutdown, when we had the Republicans over a barrel and almost every Democrat in the nation was like, “Finally! This is the line and we’re not backing down!” - and then Schumer backed down in return for a measly promise that Democratic issues would be ‘considered’ [completely ignored] the next month?

He’s 75, he thinks the government still works like it used to (and actually still works, lol), and we desperately need a change of leadership away from the Schumer’s and the Pelosi’s.

This is like 30 years ago, before electric cars were really a thing. Some friends and I were hanging out in the Pine Barrens one night. It was an area we knew pretty well, and we’d walked down this long sandy road with no turnoffs to get to where we happened to be hanging out.

Suddenly, all of nature around us went silent - and I mean all of it. Sound carries at night, especially with the lakes to echo off of. We looked up the road we were walking back along, and there was a pair of headlights coming our way. We could tell they were headlights because they were lower than a person would carry a flashlight, they were moving in that peculiar synchronization that headlights have, and they’d do several quick bounces when they hit a rut in the road.

So anyway, we’re in this road in the ass-end of the Barrens, everything’s turned absolutely deadly silent, and there’s this car coming down the road toward us. And the three of us suddenly realize that it’s absolutely silent. Not only is nature silent, but the car isn’t making any noise either.

We watch the headlights of this car headed down the road toward us - it’s a couple hundred yards away now, the Pine Barrens are still dead silent, and the car isn’t making any noise either.

My nerve broke first. I bolted off the road and partially vaulted over a couple shrubs, my friends close behind me. We turned around, and the car was still coming toward us - and then suddenly the headlights went out. We waited, but nothing happened - no car headlights, no interior lights, no car doors opening, no voices - nothing. We waited, and still nothing.

We dithered and talked over what to do and we eventually grabbed a couple branches and headed back up the road. We reached the area where the headlights turned off - and there was no car. We turned our flashlight on the (very) sandy road, and we could see our tracks heading down, but there weren’t any recent car tracks. We checked the road and the verge all the way back to our car, and - nothing. The forest went dead silent, there were headlights, the car didn’t make a sound, and then it just … disappeared. We went back the next day, and there still was no sign of anyone on that road that night except us.

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There’s also a rest stop on the Pennsylvania Turnpike heading into New Jersey. Like two miles before the rest stop, there’s a sign saying something like “New Jersey - 25 miles”. We pull into the rest stop, get some gas, relieve ourselves, grab a snack, get back on the road. Go maybe two or three more miles, and there’s another sign saying “New Jersey - 5 miles”. Like, wtf? If there a space warp at that rest stop or something?

Retribution for what? Not immediately kowtowing to the wounded narcissist?

Malone claimed on social media that [HHS] had disbanded [the vaccine advisory board] and planned to completely reconstitute it. But soon after, Malone retracted his claim, saying it was a miscommunication and that disbanding ACIP was merely one of the “options being considered.” [A] HHS spokesperson […] then released a statement to media pointing to Malone’s retraction and adding, “Unless officially announced by us, any assertions about what we are doing next is baseless speculation.” Malone [said] that Nixon’s response was what led to his departure. “After Andrew trashing me with the press, I am done with the CDC and ACIP,” Malone said in a text message Tuesday morning. “That was the last straw.”

Sounds like he thought he could say anything and that it would magically happen, and he didn’t like being called out on his bullshit.

“Suffice to say I do not like drama, and have better things to do,” he added. […] “Hundreds of hours of uncompensated labor, incredible hate from many quarters, hostile press, internal bickering, weaponized leaking, sabotage—I have better things to do,” he said.

I’m delighted that he should go off and pursue these “better things”, lol.

It turns out the law is in a body of statutes covering health and public safety. So my 1st thought is: that’s bizarre… an ugly plant is a health issue?

It’s been so long since many in the western world understood this but: yes. When those laws were written, overgrown lots in populated areas were a health issue. Sometimes they still are: Philadelphia specifically targets overgrown vacant lots because they provide an attractive area for rats to live, breed, and infest a neighborhood. The same thing happens with mice - and where mice go, snakes follow.

“But mice, rats and snakes are all around us!” Well, yes, they are. But we keep their numbers in check, and even the most eco-minded can change their opinions when it directly affects them: I certainly did when the two places on either side of me got foreclosed after 2008, and there was eventually an infestation of snakes, and then the snakes eventually started coming into my yard and my shed and my grill. Turns out what, while I’m okay with domesticated snakes, I’m kinda phobic about encountering them unexpectedly - like when I open the grill cover to start a barbeque and a family of snakes hiss at me.

Anyway, the problem is that, as neighborhoods with active infestations have faded into the past, people have started interpreting those laws as being more about beauty than health.

I’d start by making your overgrown area look more intentional. Keep the walkways well cleared. Put in some garden decorations and a birdbath. Maybe some bird houses, or decorative tree-hanging things. A chair and a small table on the porch or somewhere. Maybe trim bushes or small dense ground plants into nice even sides, that sort of thing - a bunch of small stuff that says “this area is intentionally wild, but it’s also being regularly tended to and is under control”.