And for having his partners in crime inside the government frequently go to prison when the inevitable backlash starts.

Man, go fuck yourself, New York Times.

Adds “conservative” columnists, covers every detail of Biden’s aged decrepitude in minute detail while ignoring Trump’s mental deterioration, answers a Reddit AMA asking why all of that by saying basically that Trump is popular and Biden is unpopular and it’s their obligation as a newspaper to reflect that reality in their coverage, then gets all surprised when Trump wins and it sucks.

I don’t think NYT had anything to do with electing Trump, their cultural impact at this point is near 0 (along with the rest of the professional press which is its own sort of problem). But they don’t get to whitewash their cheerleading now, by broadcasting one OTT headline and calling it good.

I think that’s some weird behavior of the web site… for me, on VPN it redirects to YouTube, but when not using a VPN it gives the text article.

Maybe they’re redirecting non-US visitors to their YouTube channel or something? I have no idea honestly.

* can legally be cut off

** if you don’t count the illegal that it already is to cut them off

Absolutely educational. You can feel the fear and the tiredness.

Trump is probably nettled about Russia’s claim to have tested a long-range, nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Burevestnik

Let me tell you a little story about an American missile called the “snark.”

The name was the sort of joke that weapons engineers like to make. It was supposed to navigate itself autonomously to its target in the Soviet Union by watching the stars. It did not have horizontal stabilizers, and flew itself pointed in a weird nose-up attitude the entire way. Once it arrived at its destination, it was supposed to detach the warhead and then pull up violently in order not to get in the warhead’s way, which caused it to break apart in flight. They said with a straight face that the falling debris would help to confuse enemy radar, as if this had been a purposeful design element rather than something that they weren’t bothering to fix.

It did not do its navigation very well. One of the strategic bomber pilots was quoted as saying that he felt a hell of a lot better about flying his bomber knowing that the plan was for a bunch of these things to be wandering aimlessly above Asia and distracting everyone’s attention from what his bomber was up to.

Anyway, they tried it in about 1961, and it sucked so they stopped. And I think the US in 1961 was in a lot better position than modern Russia to do these kinds of things effectively.

Just a little story to distract everyone from the horror of Trump and what he is doing

I feel like it’s a little of column “Putin told me it was a good idea and when has he ever been wrong” and a little of column “besides we might need them for Chicago.”

Of course, the wheels are falling progressively off with every passing day, it’s becoming a lot more difficult to talk sensibly about what the goal even is because the process that leads to it is becoming steadily more incoherent.

One thing about this is that it seems to labor under the assumption of a symmetrical (or near symmetrical) fight, and that is exactly the last thing that a resistance group should be doing.

He talks about guerilla war in parts of it.

All these human traffickers have homes to go back to at night, and if enough face repercussions, it will quickly become difficult to find people willing to stick their neck out and possibly become yet another new fountain.

The same is true of judges, Democratic congresspeople, state governors… all kinds of people. So you’re right back to the symmetrical conflict.

I feel like since she is a candidate and a Democrat, all kinds of her funding is subject to all kinds of scrutiny. “Well I know these people gave me a donation via my campaign web site but it wasn’t used to fund my campaign” is exactly the kind of logic that I think you can get away with as a Republican but not as a Democrat, even when it is 100% truthful.

His patch says “US Border Patrol,” so presumably CBP. Of course the whole thing is such a shit show that it could potentially be just a patch he slapped on there or something, but I would guess that he is CBP.

I demand satisfaction

Yeah, there’s that whole deeper level at which it’s bullshit to draw any kind of equivalence in a stubborn standoff between “we want to kill 50,000 people so we can keep the tax money for ourselves that would have paid for their healthcare” and not that. Absolutely 100%. But also, even the plain facts of what they’re saying are also wrong.

You are totally besmirching me

Look, buddy. I know a lot about the law and the various other lawerings. I’m well educated. Well versed. I know that situations like this – agg assault wise – they’re very complex.

Sounds good. Inb4 we’re on Fox News as an example of the radical left foreigner criminals who are funding this domestic terrorist candidate.

You need to be a citizen or resident to contribute (because she is not on the ignoring-the-rules team sadly enough, otherwise it would be fine whatever the amount or how brazenly corrupt).

How much did you want to give her? I’ll donate that amount instead.

I mean that’s definitely not true. The Democrats have been consistently showing up aiming to negotiate, and since no negotiation happened they have also filed a lawsuit attempting to force the delivery of SNAP benefits which are required by law.

This headline and the subtitle are absolute dishonest bullshit. I didn’t read the article to see if they tried to disingenuously walk it back, because it doesn’t matter.

It’s so rare for these bastards to face any consequences at all

*used to be rare, up until for some unknown reason it all underwent a pretty significant change right around the summer of 2020

As of now it’s almost universal that they get charges. Offhand I can only think of one recently where the cop didn’t, and that one was a Republican state governor overruling the prosecutor who had already filed charges.

Yeah, it is excellent. He put it in the public domain, it’s on the internet:

https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/126900/8008_FDTD.pdf

He wrote a bunch more that are a little more in depth (there are references in the appendix for some specific details about particular tactics), but that one is the pamphlet condensed version which is still pretty comprehensive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/technology/elon-musk-grok-sexy-chatbot.html