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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25You can't use normal political thinking with Trump or anyone around him. That is a big part of the r…
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I, more than Chait, clearly overestimated the Trumpkins. The choice to simply claim prosperity was T…
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25We're boned.
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It's watching the Oh Crap trope from TV tropes in real time:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OhCrap
The new tariffs seem to have be set by AI:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h3bil6wi4j2odx5exizuwh3j/post/3llunnyfeoj2v?ref_src=embed&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com%252F2025%252F04%252Fai-will-doom-us-all
The Bar Associations still control access to the courts through licensing and since most legislators have a lawyer background, that isn't going away. Plus the attempts at using AI in law have been an utter disaster, especially in the Court room but I'm guessing AI will make a muck of contracts, wills, and other legal documents as well.
Just because there is a problem doesn't mean there is a solution. Most of the low skilled work codes feminine or at least insignificantly masculine and a lot of low skill guys won't take those jobs because of dignity and worth just like they don't take subsidy for the same reasons. At the same time, there are enough of them to wreck political havoc because their fantasy economy doesn't exist and they vote out their cultural preferences.
Yes, but everybody knows that Israel is held to the standard of perfection while other countries are not.
Research shows Hamas dropped several thousand from their fatality counts:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hamas-quietly-drops-thousands-deaths-122557133.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGD6eYm109vXWAmoklRT6kplkLLU3QQgWesAWxnSCAXOXPdVwhK6Bz36Diw1cwRhC2rpd-8I3nq_bStOdnoP0OOkvCm6w_ZmKB6NvBgarsV1wQYfWjczrMMaJKh7VUb9Ojb72Tt3fdhASrQjnNo7pj_F14NXrKg2mWySw6mDVClD
The movie Brazil is not really that amusing in real life.
Trump administration turns it's dark eyes towards California's sex education program:
https://apnews.com/article/california-student-gender-law-trump-investigation-07fe08e17ca23c9228eb58705fba06ed
NYC Doctor shocked to find going on an anti-Semitic rant gets her fired from the Jewish hospital she works at:
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/us-news/ny/nyc-doctor-fired-over-antisemitic-rants-praise-for-hamas-hezbollah/2025/03/31/
Last week I wrote about the 26 year old Kat Abughazaleh the primary challenger to 80 year Jan Schkowsky for Illinois' 9th District and how this might be a big political mismatch since the Illinois 9th District is a very Jewish district and Abughazaleh has taken a very hotile to Israel stance. In more evidence of this mistmatch, Kat has apparently confused AIPAC and J-Street and is going after Representive Jan Schkowsky for getting money from J-Street, which is generally much less hawkish and much more friendly towards the Palestinians than AIPAC.
https://x.com/TrackAIPAC/status/1904229724731351530