If you have friends in Europe, maybe ask them to buy for you and ship them to you declared as gifts. It won’t be cheap, but if it’s the only option…

This device is now mandated to watch TV or browse the internet in Germany:

But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off

That’s Google for you: they’ve been doing self-serving open-source for decades.

For instance: they open-sourced Android. That helped Android become the dominant platform and Google capture the cellphone market. Since then, Google has been slowly moving their stuff away from the open-source AOSP and into their proprietary stack, introduced proprietary features that are almost compulsory for a practical, working Android system like Play Protect, and are actively killing deGoogled ROMs.

There’s only one thing to keep in mind with Google: if they do something, it’s not in your interest, and they know how to play long games. Anything they do will be used against you some day.

I heard the Rock speak and he’s actually an intelligent, articulate person. I definitely would vote for him.

I wonder if he asked the Norwegian minister if Kristiania was nice in the summer…

I’ll take “kind of meh” over Trump anyday.

Hell, a stinking turd floating down the Potomac river would make a better POTUS than Trump…

This has to be an Onion piece. Surely…

I honestly thought there was no line for MAGA at this point

Don’t assume there is a line. Most of those MAGA numbskulls are armed to the teeth, yet neither Trump nor any of his less-well-protected henchmen are dead yet. So I guess kiddie stuff is mildly okay for the MAGA dumdums - or at least not really anything to get truly worked up over…

The Jan 6 rioters ARE very special, in a short bus kind of way.

part of the “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force,” troops would be equipped with weapons and riot gear

So let’s see, a sort of protection squadron with weapons… Hmm, I wonder what we could call it…

How about we use fancy German?

“Schutzstaffel” sounds spiffy. And “Waffen” for the weapons.

We could even shorten it to the even spiffier “Waffen SS”.

Imagine the number of homeless people who could sleep in a shelter with the solid gold bribe fucking Tim Cook offered Trump alone…

Where’s the Epstein file, is the only question everybody should be asking the orange utan.

Are you implying that a man of such unquestioned integrity as Donald Trump might have a conflict of interest here?
Perish the thought…

At 18, hardly. And you’re certainly not adult enough at 18 to be given the power to ruin other people’s lives.

trump and Mike Johnson convicted and executed by firing squad

Trump will probably die of old age, sadly. Vance might get to be tried though, if he takes over the regime.

But they won’t be shot. They’ll be hanged. Execution by firing squad is a military “distinction” - at least when it’s carried out as part of a lawful sentencing process - and it’s considered one notch above hanging, which is reserved for common criminals and is applied to particularly disgusting characters as a mark of shame.

That’s why a lot of Nazis were hung rather than shot. I don’t think we’ll think of high-ranking MAGA officials as worthy of a firing squad.

Only the top Nazis and the most egregious underbosses. Hundreds of thousands of former SS, waffen SS and Gestapo officers went through the denazification process for a few months, during which they underwent a kind of reverse brainwashing - which also served as a probationary period to make sure they weren’t ultra-Nazis trying to hide their true feelings - then they got reabsorbed into German civilian society.

Other German-occupied countries went through the same process. France for example, had roughly half a million civil servants who previously worked for the Vichy regime - some of them having done some pretty unsavory things.

It’s one of the great untold shameful stories of those countries, that everybody at the time swept under the rug because they - understandably - desperately wanted to move on, and also because, like it or not, the countries simply couldn’t function without rehabillating those disgusting people and their former skills.

If I was Lip-Bu Tan, I would retort by asking about the Epstein files.

In fact, I reckon if everybody who gets attacked by Donald Trump retorted the same thing, it would be the most massive embarrassment for the orange utan. Not to mention, it would be highly amusing and extremely satisfying for the rest of us.

I wonder why nobody does it… Trump is such an easy target with that pedo scandal hovering over him right now.

How much more proof do we need that ICE is to Trump was the SS was to Hitler: his private lawless paramilitary force?

ICE will end up doing what the SS did. It’s bound to happen. And it will happen all the more easily because they’re not the best and brightest by a long shot, and it’s about to get a lot worse.

I’m not MAGA so I’m not that easy to gaslight.

Here’s Dean Cain’s new ICE uniform: