To be fair it’s hard to have old social media posts when you’re still drinking milk.

Fuck the racist posts this was the guy mucking about in the treasury systems financial computer code without any safeties. All changes directly to live. He should be black listed for that idiocy alone.

There’s nothing stopping them from just ignoring the veto of the country they’re worried about…

Her post is different. The president selects from among the 5 commissioners of the FTC. There is no protection for the chair of the FTC, a selection can be made at any time. And a commissioner may be removed from the board by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.

And the law specifically says there’s no duty to appoint a replacement and remaining commissioners may keep making rulings and policies.

So there’s little chance she would remain the chair if she stayed. Furthermore with 3 Democrats on a 5 person board Trump was probably going to accuse someone of malfeasance and they would have to go to court to defend that, if the court even gives them a hearing. (The law doesn’t say the “charge” needs to be proven)

So Lina Khan, being the lightning rod, did the sensible thing. She protected herself and allowed the other two Democrats to remain on the board; because firing extra commissioners is political capital the administration doesn’t need to spend.

Farms are just going to take it on the chin. They’re losing their labor with the mass deportations and they’re losing a hilariously large buyer of food with USAID being shut down.

So who’s ready for the new price on food?

Yeah. Yeah it is. I was in Times Square recently and had the thought that this was the glitzy permanent neon lighting to go with all the other stuff.

Dustbowl 2025, fuck yeah! Bringing back the classics!

(Farmers won’t or can’t spend money to plant -> too many fallow fields -> giant walls of airborne topsoil)

It’s Photoshop

Hollywood reassured me that the planet has an as yet unknown mechanism for rapid cooling though! Surely they wouldn’t lie.

Totally mystifying. Totally.

To be fair, the super bowl ads are seen as part of the entertainment by many people and the companies generally do go out of their way to make the funniest or cutest ads of the year. Any other time I would fully agree with you.

If NBC thinks he needs an act of Congress then they haven’t been paying paying attention to USAID.

Who the fuck am I kidding, they know damn well what’s going on and refuse to print it.

Yeah, my main point is that blaming just one person for this entire tragedy requires ignoring a lot of other factors.

The point is anybody could have missed seeing that plane. It’s not even certain they had an angle that allowed them to see it. And what about the plane pilots? Her helicopter was 100 feet high but there was supposed to be 200 feet of separation between the ceiling and floor of the respective paths. Ergo, the plane was 100 feet low.

It was a stupidly difficult situation for both crews and that’s why they’ve indefinitely closed the helicopter path.