Yes, just pasting from the article for reference:
In addition, Bakaj told Tapper DOGE employees also made the mistake of using Elon Musks’ Starlink satellite connection to transfer data, which he believes is heavily compromised by Russian intelligence.
“From our understanding, Russia has a direct pipeline through Starlink, which means everything going through Starlink is going to Russia,” Bakaj said, adding this potentially includes nuclear regulatory material.
It’s the Roy Cohn method. Accuse others first of what you are doing or will do, and never ever admit a mistake but instead double down. That’s it. It’s completely intentional and that’s the one rule Trump has followed.
It really sometimes depresses me to think how far along those utopian futures we could be if we as a species didn’t have to spend so much of our lives and potential counteracting bad faith sociopathic saboteurs to progress.
Maybe history is just 75% of the people mostly at a stalemate with 25% whose empathy-deficient mental illnesses give them an edge in obtaining power and resources.
They’re still a corporate entity, and they still want access to markets to make money.
Ah, the video was embedded in my link but people will click YouTube more, good call.
That’s the word. The Adam Curtis BBC documentary of the same name is well worth watching, since time appears to be a loop.
So now we have black and white proof that Ratcliffe violated the law. Guess what happens next? Anyone?
By plainclothes “officers” wearing face coverings.
Yeah, this is the worst timeline. It truly is turning into a waking nightmare. Every single day it gets worse.
Yup. The best time will always be now, because conditions will just get worse, opposition will just get more fractured, and Trump will just get bolder every time he gets away with pushing the line.
This has been the narcissist’s playbook for forever.
Can he? If 220 housemembers and 53 senators refuse to hear a tree falling in the woods, does it make a sound?
The timing of this visit suggests this was part of the deal to receive the prisoners, and watching the body language when he’s talking, Trump is grinning and nodding the whole time, like this was all their planned response. Just gross.
Sure, I just mean, look how long BOTW has been sold - it will be a fraction of that length of time before Switches cease being sold. Mostly I was pointing to the system refresh as not only a chance to reissue BOTW, but to reset pricing expectations.
There will be a future where BOTW S2-edition is still being sold and the Switch is not. From them on, BOTW will be a $90 game, since it will be the only way to get it.
Oh, for sure. You said it. Yes, the way we’re losing democracy is that the institutions have been hollowed out over decades of complacency, and though a facade is better than nothing, now it crumbles at the slightest challenge.
I mean, there were always people that would skirt the rules. But the “appearance” of respecting conflicts of interest is not an illusion, it substantively kept a huge amount of corruption from happening.
That’s because these are parasites who don’t like the light, and most would-be self-dealers stayed in the dark under their rocks since the possibility of being caught and ostracized, or being made the rare example of in court, was an effective deterrent.
Trump turned off the light, and it’s much, much worse.
Yeah, he’s an shameless opportunist, like every Republican on this train.
He positioned himself as a moderate for most of his career and was effectively a Never Trumper, before he kissed the ring, so we know he’ll betray any principle he has to get close to power.
Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch, once manufacturing ceases.
Nintendo famously never discounts. But this is actually Nintendo’s way of not only never discounting, but increasing the price over time.
This is a good list, and to add:
Consumer sentiment in general is terrible. A large part of the population are stressed and exhausted, and that’s not a “let’s go see something fun” mindset for many, it’s “let’s get through the day and watch comfort content.”
This is a time of the year in general where studios bury releases they don’t have confidence in.
Because of that, while many have reasonable Rotten Tomatoes scores, when you do that year after year, audiences start to stop paying attention around this time.
The voices are so spot-on, and the messages are so blandly dystopian, it really sells the joke.
Just awesome work by whoever did this.
You see, it hit Trump like a bolt of lightning - fentanyl is a problem, but what people never had realized, is that fentanyl has to be moved between different physical locations.
From there, after only two weeks of additional thought, Trump had his trademark genius insight: don’t stop the fentanyl, stop the people moving the fentanyl.
It was an idea so brilliant, not even the smartest minds had thought of it. But how? How do you stop people moving fentanyl? How can you? Is it even possible?
Ah, it was a tough one, even for Trump. He labored for another month, but then - genius! We could… No… But could we …make the cars so expensive, these criminals would not even be able to move the fentanyl.
It was a perfect plan with no flaws. The only question was, could he explain his incredible but hopelessly intricate insights to the mere mortals in the media? As anyone who knows Trump could predict, he felt the need for the public to understand, a compulsion, such is he cursed with care for their feelings, and would first gouge his eyes out rather than have them experience a moment’s confusion or worry.
Well, leave that to his capable staff. If the people love him even a fraction as much as he loves them, they will understand. It is an emergency. It must be done. For America.
This is the kind of thing I mean when I say, we won’t be able to fix the damage being done in our lifetime.
The fundamental mistrust of our country and government being created right now, in mere weeks, will not go away, even if we manage to weather four years of this. Trump is only doing one thing effectively, and that is destroy America’s standing both inside and outside of the country, but the damage is so much deeper than we can process.
And Russia is the only country in the world benefiting from that right now. So I also am going to make a prediction. Once America is fully gutted, potentially in civil war, and a nightmarish dystopia, Putin will reveal he was manipulating Trump all along, probably by allowing a leak of some of the secret communications Trump has had with Putin, with Trump inevitably making outright treasonous statements. We’ll all already know it was happening, but Putin will then gain one last trophy from Trump: confirming to the world he was able to manipulate and destroy the most powerful nation.
It’s why Putin uses trademark assassination methods, like polonium tea. He wants everyone to know he did it, and he got away with it. It’s why Trump is dropping the facade of democracy now that he has power, because he’s mimicking Putin.