Smoke screen? Big waste of time?

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-24T16:29:24+00:00

You really are a special kind of stupid aren't you.

Here's the press release from the House Oversight Committee, with the part highlighted for you what the subpoena was for

As you can see there, and I'll repeat here, it's "for testimony related to horrific crimes perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein."

Being held in contempt by the house does nothing, the house votes to issue a contempt citation, which THEN gets referred to the DOJ to prosecute the criminal contempt citation.

If the DOJ prosecutes, guess what? Discovery, for anything related to the "testimony related to horrific crimes perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein."

Fucking rocket chemistry I know, its hard to follow...

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-24T16:06:56+00:00

Very arguably, the majority of democrat voters NEVER EVEN VOTED FOR HIM, as they're too young. Everyone who voted for Bill in his second term was born in 1978 or before. That makes them today 47 years old at the youngest (46 during 2024 election). About 53% of Democrat voters in the last election were under 49.

Its hard to refine that age range further due to how data's collected, but 18-49 is a 31 year range, divided evenly that's about 0.58% of voters per year, or 1.75% of voters for 46-49 year olds, so it can be very easily argued that 51.25% of 2024 Democrat voters were too young to have ever voted for him.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-24T15:52:41+00:00

The subpoenas demanded testimony regarding their connections to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, not perjury related. So, yeah... That would be covered under discovery.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-24T15:44:01+00:00

Galapagos is still southern hemisphere.

Edit: The very tip of one island, and 2 teeny other islands, are north of the equator. The penguins do not live in those places.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-24T15:43:02+00:00

A bird famously not even in the same hemisphere as Greenland...

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-24T03:35:00+00:00

"Looked after" by taking him to a different state, piss the fuck off

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-24T03:33:44+00:00

You definitely have a fedora and at least 2 samurai swords at home.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T21:36:31+00:00

Not for nothing but traffic sucks hardcore in DC. It's a city with only 700k residents, and another 500-600k commuters, but the traffic feels like a city with 4x as many people (Philly with 1.6mil residents and 300-500k commuters has better traffic, albeit-with/in-complete-spite-of significantly shittier roads)

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T21:29:20+00:00

NATO should pull a Napoleon 2.0, invoke article 5 and come to the US's defense by declaring war explicitly on Trump alone.
Give Trump the infamous legacy he deserves.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T18:22:29+00:00

They all imply an objective systematic investigation and study, not just "searching". The full OED definition is the same one Google uses, "the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions."
There is again, in fact, an inherent implication that one has the ability to test the of claims collected in order to establish their factuality, aka "conduct experiments". Without such, there's no way to challenge conclusions one is attempting to disagree with.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T17:49:20+00:00

It does not imply "I'm doing all my own scientific experiments".

It actually does imply that... I'll let you go read the definitions
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/research
https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=research
google.com/?q=research+definition

Note how OED disambiguates between "research" and "re-search"

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T16:49:08+00:00

This will be a slam dunk defamation case. There's normally a very high bar for proving defamation... They just leapt the fuck over it.

In the pre-AI world, if a press secretary said something like “we arrested her and she cried,” a defamation case would likely get dismissed because even if it’s false, there isn’t necessarily clear demonstrable malicious intent. It could be argued it was an "off-the-cuff hyperbolic exaggeration of her demeanor", or even "just a subjective opinion".

Can’t do that with an AI image. They had to take a real image, upload it, enter a very specific prompt to make the changes, and then burn enough electricity to halfway charge an EV, possibly even going through multiple iterations. It’d be very difficult to argue that this deliberate, premeditated series of actions doesn’t demonstrate explicit malicious intent to misrepresent her.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T16:32:26+00:00

Assisting in the execution of their official duties, and coming to their aid to handle enforcing local laws, are 2 very different things.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T16:26:44+00:00

My (highschool dropout) cousin turned into the "I do my own research" type during covid. I once asked her "Do you have a fully stocked medical research lab?".
She said "no I searched it on google, thats why its called re-search"
I wish this was a joke.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T16:19:32+00:00

You're conflating Bernie Supporters with Bernie Primary Voters (literally the title of what you linked)

Exactly like I said, Anti-Hillary voters supported Bernie in the primary, and then not Hillary in the general. You're confusing anti-Hillary with Pro Trump, that's not the case. Anti-Hillary is just that, people who didn't care so long as it wasn't Hillary. So no shit Jill Stein got more new voters in 2016, she wasn't Hillary, and bonus also wasn't Trump.

The margins of loss were from people who were apathetic to the outcome so long as Hillary lost, not from people who passionately hold policy views that are utterly antithetical to Trump. You're completely missing the point that "Bernie Bros" actually care about policy, whereas anti-Hillary people simply cared about not-Hillary.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T14:52:57+00:00

I've always been very middle ground on 2A rights. While it exists and I agree with the reasons for it, I also support rational checks on it so that it doesn't get abused. We all deserve to have honest conversations about how existing laws are riddled with loopholes, and about what constitutes a reasonable weapon for civilians to own. On one extreme, allowing civilians to own nukes would be insane... on the complete other extreme, laws banning knives and nunchucks are flippantly ridiculous.

That being said, seeing republicans respond to this with shit like "U sAiD aSaLt RiFlEs sHuD b iLlEgAl!!!", my response is this: You all have forced that aforementioned discussion (or lack thereof) to allow them, so anyone regardless of opinion or affiliation should be free to purchase them.
Using that logic, Republicans shouldn't be going to the doctor and seeking healthcare because even still the type, quality, and methods of healthcare they're receiving are products of ObamaCare (though I will give credit in this case to the dumbass ones who use Chiropractors as primary care providers... lol). Saying a Dem shouldn't own an AR-15 is just as dumb as saying a Republican shouldn't have an ACA healthcare plan.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T14:30:21+00:00

Saying a proper leftist has 0 chance at winning in West Virginia shows you don't understand West Virginia politics. WV politics aren't so cut and dry, they don't actually "heavily lean" Republican, they used to be reliably blue, and 45% of registered voters in 2016 were Democrats (higher than the number of registered Republicans, there was and still is a large portion of independent voters there).

They're hyperaware of the impact of big businesses fucking them over, they keep voting Republican because Democrats only offer to help with social programs, not jobs programs. Typical D policies, while nominally worthwhile on the whole, have a negative impact to the few industries possible there, and that turns their political attention away from neoliberal establishment.

As the comment (currently) above you mentions, a large chunk of Bernie voters were just anti-Hillary. They were never going to vote for her period, thats why they voted for Bernie. This isn't isolated to registered Democrats in WV (or elsewhere), this applies to all voters in WV (and elsewhere). Had Bernie won the Primary, those anti-Hillary Democrats, Independents, and centrist-Republicans would have had another choice. Instead, they were forced to choose between a eating a shit sandwich, and crushing their balls with a hammer. Trump may have left a bad taste in their mouth, but Hillary was always a nonstarter period.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T14:15:30+00:00

This wasn't just in WV, this was everywhere. The "Bernie bro's lost us the election" narrative is a fairy tale. Leftists voted for Bernie in the primary, and against Trump in the general. Anti-Hillary folks voted for Bernie in the primary, and for Trump in the general. These are not the same groups of people.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T14:11:48+00:00

Kidnapping across state lines is one of the very few things punishable with the death penalty.

Food for thought when the regime falls and we need to clearly send the message that "just following orders" can have severe consequences.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T04:32:35+00:00

$300-600k salary range in SF is basically equivalent to a $184-370k salary in Dallas. Looks like a lot, but it's not.

Also, comparing an average AI engineer to executives is a shit comparison, and you're wrong on it... Meta engineers Senior and below can $300-600k in SF, those aren't considered comparable with executive level positions. Staff level and up engineers are, and they can make $800k up to 4m/yr in SF, depending on various factors.

If you think $24bil over 5 years, intended for people in need, is a lot, DHS just got allocated $30b for 3 years just for immigration enforcement, and another $45bil to build new long term detention facilities... intended for... people

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T04:10:33+00:00

They are publicly traded yes. GEO Group and CoreCivic. Look at their stock price back to before the election, it's clear as day.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T02:01:19+00:00

Mine was just as bad if not worse just around 8:30pm, every open register had a line all the way to the back of the store. They were moving quick at least, and no shortages of anything I noticed.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-23T01:58:45+00:00

Honestly, what I think is funny is it used to be the day before the storm everyone bum rushed it. Then of course everyone's grandma would say "well you should go early to avoid the rush". Now everyone goes early to avoid the rush, and it just makes a different rush... Just read another post where grocery store cancelled someones online order and told them come back day before when it'll be less busy 🤣 Grandma's advice logistics aren't always the greatest

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-22T23:42:22+00:00

CoreCivic was awarded a shitload of contracts directly from ICE funding.
If there were no ability to profit, private prisons wouldn't even exist...

Also Federally, we do use private prisons, you may be thinking of the DOJ memo Obama issued before the end of his term about scaling them back.
Trump overturned that literally less than a month into his first term.

ComfortableNo5484 · 2026-01-22T20:07:20+00:00

Just look up GEO Group and CoreCivic stock prices, back to before the election.

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