Eric Nelson
Recovering IT Architect, unrepentant liberal, trying to figure out what retirement means.
- Speaker Mike Johnson: "The reason many people refer to the Bidens as the 'Biden crime family' is because they were doing all this stuff behind curtains...Whatever President Trump is doing is out in the open. They're not trying to conceal anything...Trump has had nothing to hide."
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- Which is the first corollary of Citizens United.
- It is a sad day where Republicans can’t cheat and pervert justice and suborn judicial fraud their way into an electoral victory. I thought this was America.
- BREAKING: Jefferson Griffin *FINALLY* concedes NC Supreme Court race he lost to Justice Allison Riggs 6 months ago. apnews.com/article/nort...
- I can’t shake the feeling he was auditioning for a post in the Trump cabinet.
- (1/X) It is simply a fact that one of the central conceits of this account—that establishment media failed to convey the dangers of a second Trump presidency—has been proved correct. In particular, they completely ignored the fact that Trump has an easily diagnosed personality disorder....
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View full thread(7/X) They certainly had lots of time to discuss Biden's cognitive state. Bill Clinton was subjected to endless hours of armchair psychology. Why not Trump? His case is particularly easy to understand.
- Don’t discount fear as a factor. The MSM has been terrified of the RW since before Trump. They know the Dems will complain but not do anything, but the RW constantly attacks, sues and tries to use government to shut them down.
- He’s angling for an appointment to Trump’s Department of Mostly Vengeance & a Little Fig Leaf Justice
- When I was a kid my imaginary friend didn't destroy the environment in order to chat with me
- Stop using ChatGPT futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
- Not unlike what happened with the Eliza program in the ‘60s.
- Ah, but that's just it: the oligarchs don't want more innovation. They want the current wealth & power structure to be frozen in place for as long as possible, and they think that removing a building's structural support is the best way to preserve your spot on the top floor.
- Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
- They don’t think they need other people in the future. AI & robotics will proceed at a pace that, as the rabble slowly die out, their functions will be replaced by “well-controlled” robots. No long term need for education or health care for the masses. They’ll be irrelevant soon, as will democracy
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- If you have a good lawyer, you might be able to argue it.
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- In Citizens United SCOTUS pretty much said without a smoking gun (or written evidence, eg “For this bribe of $2 billion I will reduce the UAE tariffs”) you can’t tell if it’s a bribe or coincidence. So it can’t be prosecuted.
- Once again, the main goal of Trump's tariffs is soliciting bribery. That is why all who go looking for a coherent (if misguided) economic strategy that aims to benefit the country come away confused. Make manufacturing boom? Stop fentanyl? Generate revenue to replace income tax? Nope. Corruption.
- “If you wanna do business in my territory you gotta give me a taste.” He’s just an effing mob boss.
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- Suivez l’argent.
- It’s Schadenfreude Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/t...
- Meet the new WH press corps! From Friday: OAN REPORTER: What has made you and your team so effective in finding, locating, apprehending, and deporting these violent illegal migrants? TRUMP: I love this guy. I wish more people would ask questions like that.
- And of course he had tears in his eyes - though that was probably because he got a whiff of Trump’s Depends.
- I’d like to know who is feeding TFG this litany of grievances with Canada? There is no timeline in the universe where he was aware of these facts, let alone cared about them enough to resent them. Someone’s winding him up. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
- The question that haunts me every day is: If Hitler had not tried to impose his rule on other countries, would Germany still be a Nazi state?
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- That’s their fear talking. They’re just pretending there are principles involved.
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- It will be trotted out as the fig leaf, but they will never publish any actual AI records (if they exist) bc “privacy.” They’ll just publicly fire and humiliate them without recourse.
- Governor Abbot has filed a registration to trademark it as Texas Freedom Sores.
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- 😂 I think God worked his mysterious ways through the cultists on the County Commissions. Although there may have been some lubrication by Big Dental, too,
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- Move to NC, where counties are removing fluoride from water systems.
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- If we could close the e border… Because otherwise there is no doubt that Texans, the generous, modest, good-hearted people that they are will, without even being asked, share their bounty with their neighbors.
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- Use ChatGPT (or Grok 🙄 ) to create very long, deeply technical, complicated answers for plausible jobs performed in very obscure, plausible but fictional government departments. For every hour of each day provide excruciating detail, such as filling in an excel spreadsheet.
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- Does no one understand that when bullies are given an inch they keep pushing further and harder?
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- It’s more than just shameful because now we know we can’t trust Google search to provide results untainted by political cowardice.
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- It’s moot. At some point Vance will get the cabinet to invoke the 25th on #MadKingDonnie once it’s clear that MKD is a threat to all of them. That won’t be long now because the crazy is accelerating.
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- Mad King Donnie is clearly itching’ for a fight and his whole stance from Day One has been, “Who’s gonna stop me, bitches?”
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- SCOTUS is now 6/3 in favor of this. They will remain to provide “legal” cover.
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- And didn’t the casinos that these 3 executives managed declare bankruptcy just six months later?
- Ted Cruz says that Trump’s threat to take over Greenland is a ‘very serious policy proposal.’ He then says that he responded to the Danish Ambassador to the U.S., who told him ‘Greenland isn’t for sale,’ with, ‘everything is for sale.’
- Is Ted confessing something?
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- But it takes 38 states to pass any constitution proposed by the convention.
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- And it’s always a negative valence.
- it’s going to be so much fun when he dies
- If we charge to let people pee on his grave we can pay off the national debt in 10 years.
- Time for another of Susan Collins’ strongly worded letters. I’m sure it will be just as effective as all her previous ones. At least it’s more than her colleagues in the Senate GOP Caucus will be able to muster.
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- On the first protests, we’re going to see posse comitatus thrown out the window and they’ll dare us to stop them.
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- Yeah. We have a triad of sociopathic narcissists that each think they’ve put Trump in place and thus deserve the spoils: oligarchs, theocrats, and fascist ideologues. The falling out is going to be epically ugly, possibly even deadly.
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- What these “geniuses” are ignoring is the fact that authoritarians tend to have short memories, no loyalty, and thin skins. Genuflecting once may get you in the door, but to you have to continue. Showing spine is certain death.
- This is my periodic rant that Apple Intelligence is so bad that today it got every fact wrong its AI a summary of @washingtonpost.com news alerts. It's wildly irresponsible that Apple doesn't turn off summaries for news apps until it gets a bit better at this AI thing.
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- Was there a “F*ck yeah!” reply option?
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- Could they now be projecting their wishes on Labour, because they’ve run out of self-loathing to project?
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- The cowardice of these “Captains of Industry” and their readiness to jettison the principles of the country that made their wealth and power possible is one of the most shameful treasons in our history.
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- They did. It’s the traditional slap on the wrist accorded to our most privileged criminals. It’s pantomime justice.
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- I think T’s win in ‘16 caught them unprepared. Since then, they’ve created Project 2025. They’re prepared and ready to pull the trigger (metaphorically (?) speaking). Whether they still fear the crazies is an open question.
- I wouldn’t be surprised if Vance spearheads a 25th vote once TFG becomes inconvenient to the Heritage Mafia. The Koch Network has been planning this for nearly 50 years & they’re so close they’re not about to let a fat, ignorant, stupid egomaniac stop them.
- Ironically, MAGAdom may be the only force that can unify to fight them. (The Democratic Party is far too fractious to unify as an effective force in the time we need.) If Koch, et al., treat TFG too harshly, the crazies might just turn on them.
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- I am so freaking tired of insecure resentful people (mostly men) thinking their fantasies of power and influence somehow represent sacred principles.
- Meta sees AI “users” filling FB and Instagram. A bot, given a personality and a backstory, with access to all your FB data and postings, being clever, funny, always there and deeply “interested” in you is profoundly dangerous. Scams & influencers on steroids at least. www.ft.com/content/9118...
- great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.
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- Thank you. I’ll look at that.
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- Where are the statistics for this? I’ve been on a lot of college campuses of late and that’s not a trend I’ve noticed. Granted, I can’t say my visits are not a representative sampling, but if there are data here, I’d like to see it.
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- There is so much intentional disinformation out that it’s incumbent on all of us to be precise. It really isn’t fair to expect me to figure out what you meant when I have never seen a post from you & don’t know if you’re reliable. & getting defensive and blaming your audience doesn’t help your case.
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- At least you can tell he didn’t have an AI write it. An AI would at least have had the discretion not to bring up the judge’s dead father for no &@#!%%**ing reason. Also, an AI would’ve used better logic, grammar & spelling, & would’ve made this wholly fatuous argument less incoherent. Whatever…
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- Elon has bought himself the Chairmanship on the Board of Directors of America, Inc. Trump is the CEO who serves at their discretion. Only billionaires on the Board. If T becomes inconvenient they’ll use their hatchet man Vance to push him out of office.
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- Tony T. Tiger
