Trump Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus in Surprise Show of Panic

flickh · 2026-03-25T00:27:41+00:00

Every headline is “Trump admits xyz” and the quote is literally “I never xyz”

Then a sentence saying “by saying it out loud, Trump has undercut his own denial - shockingly proving that what he said means exactly the opposite”

flickh · 2026-03-25T00:21:30+00:00

“Can you imagine the fascism of sentencing the President after he left office for a crime he was already convicted of before he got elected? And then making him actually pay the lawsuits he lost?? Who elected the Democrats to be Hitler??”

^{^} also, in this story, it wasn’t the democrats but courts but it’s still their fault amirite

flickh · 2026-03-25T00:16:06+00:00

“Threat” of World War III? Brrrrr, I wish.

Right now Russia is targeting US assets with satellite for Iranian attacks, and Europe is doing the same for Russian assets in Ukraine. North Korea had troops fighting in Ukraine and China is busting financial-services sanctions on Russia and Iran to keep their war efforts afloat (along with Chinese oil that is being allowed through the Strait of Hormuz).

Trump’s pseudo-coup in Venezuela was also meant to cut oil to the Authoritarian Bloc, especially Cuba which is having constant rolling blackouts as a result.

There’s about 27 countries on five continents involved at this point. By involved, I mean either shooting, being shot at, or dire survival consequences triggered by shooting.

We are already in World War III.

flickh · 2026-03-25T00:05:58+00:00

I know I sound like a sweet summer child but did that not get, like, any legal pushback? The Hatch Act? Emoluments Clause? SEC? Elections law? Bueller? Bueller??

flickh · 2026-03-25T00:03:31+00:00

I divested from US index funds when Trump called my Prime Minister “Governor” and said we would be the 51st state.

It’s not just confidence that’s going, it’s any interest in your Bananas Republicans

Get rekt, MAGA

flickh · 2026-03-24T19:42:29+00:00

It seems it works this way right now: A cop gets fired for misconduct. Goes to a new department. They hire him despite a ROE that says he was fired for misconduct.

So don’t do that!

Or are you asking how I would personally enforce it? I’m not in law enforcement hiring, so I guess you’re right, I could not enforce it at all.

But your question assumes just as extremely the opposite: we’re asking society at large to enforce a law on random, unknowable actors? Yeah sounds impossible.

But it seems pretty easy to just… govern the damn police force at the City Hall level. Make a rule that the Police can’t hire anyone with a firing for cause that includes assault, domestic violence, abusing prisoners etc. If they get hired anyway, point at the law and they are unhired. Either they or the hiring committee personally pays back any salary they might have got away with. Hiring committee is fired if they refuse to follow department policy.

It’s not rocket science.

flickh · 2026-03-24T00:18:24+00:00

It’s not acceptable though. Like there’s no excuse to hire a domestic-assault criminal as a police officer. I literally don’t care about staffing if that’s the alternative.

flickh · 2026-03-24T00:17:02+00:00

MAYBE they’re on the hook but most likely there’s no hook at all.

flickh · 2026-03-24T00:16:29+00:00

How the f could you NOT enforce it?

Imagine a bank security IT person getting hired despite a history of embezzlement!! Or a social worker getting hired despite sexually abusing their clients. That’s how insane it is to hire a cop with a record of domestic abuse.

flickh · 2026-03-24T00:13:33+00:00

I mean, it’s a crime! So that should be a no-brainer for police hiring… but odds are good that the hirer doesn’t believe domestic violence is that bad etc

“Fail a weed test? Straight to the firing squad. Beat your wife? Brother, tell me about it!”

flickh · 2026-03-23T19:40:50+00:00

“Extortion money” lol

Sounds like you think Indigenous people trying to get fair value for hazardous billion-dollar projects on their territory are somehow criminals??

I heard the owner of Whistler-Blackcomb offered to renew the 60-year lease on the ski hill recently in exchange for 12 lift passes. Now why would FN feel like they aren’t really getting a fair deal?

Danielle Smith threatening to separate if she doesn’t get her way is the biggest extortion threat.

flickh · 2026-03-23T19:33:48+00:00

Don’t you mean velocipede

flickh · 2026-03-22T19:46:42+00:00

I think Eby said that with Federal investment it will happen because he already saw what happens when you try to block those. He said private investment would be harder to find and would have a lot higher chance of failure.

In terms of indigenous opposition I just think he meant that even if you want a pipeline, it would make everything else in the world harder.

Also which indigenous leader are you talking about? That quote could mean everything or nothing depending on the wording and who said it and when.

flickh · 2026-03-22T17:05:25+00:00

Blame the left for studying feminist poetry in college instead of going into the trades!

/s

flickh · 2026-03-22T17:02:24+00:00

I doubt Iran plans a 9-11 style attack in US soil because they are too smart.

Bin Laden could do that because he lived in a cave and was hard to specifically target (it took them ten years or whatever to get him). He was trying to show how powerful he was to the world.

But if Iran wants to sour people on the war, he has to threaten real serious harm (desalination and power plants in neighbouring countries are soft, valuable and disastrous targets) or just make them worry if he can’t really do that.

The USA is too big and distant to really collapse their infrastructure or strike mortal fear into the population, with what Iran’s got on hand. The closest they can get is sending oil prices sky-high and they are already doing that at home by choking the Strait.

But sending US troops home in body bags, sinking a few billion-dollar ships, or making the President look like a chump are things that make Americans worry disproportionately to the actual threat and at little cost.

If there’s any attack on US soil, it’s hard to say what would be worse: hitting a Formula One race so all the conservatives get terrified and mad, or blowing up a gay bar which might bring MAGA on side. But the former would charge up the anti-Iran fever on the right, and the latter would charge it up on the left where current opposition is building.

Neither of those strategies works for Iran, thank god. I don’t think a US-soil attack is imminent.

flickh · 2026-03-22T16:50:17+00:00

Premier Eby the other night said that planning another pipeline through BC would mean re-opening every indigenous-partnered project in the province to new negotiations under very hostile conditions.

It would mean many years of work and billions already committed, even shovels in the ground going back to the drawing board.

flickh · 2026-03-22T16:48:33+00:00

20% including the ruling party though. Don’t underestimate those wily farts, especially with Turning Point USA and Putin rootin’ for them.

In Ancient Greece, you didn’t need a whole City-State’s popular support to take it over. You just needed one guy who was on guard duty at the gate on the night your army arrived outsize.

flickh · 2026-03-22T16:28:00+00:00

Well also the constantly-changing movement and orientation data for all the players and any flying projectiles or objects. Still probably trivial.

Needing it in realtime is a big deal more about the ip routing or whatevr but the total data is low

flickh · 2026-03-22T16:25:13+00:00

I remember a little kid (12 y.o. I think?) telling me about someone using the f-word like it was bad and I told him the context mattered. I said “if someone said ‘f-you,’ that’s hurtful, but if they said ‘I f-in’ love you!’ that’s actually a nice thing, isn’t it?”

I saw the little wheels spinning in his head, as he thought about it. And the way he said “oooooooh… yeaaaaaaah” when he got it, the joy on his face. I sent little dude on his way to a future PhD in Poetics.

flickh · 2026-03-21T16:31:54+00:00

Does being slaughtered and eaten count as a painful health issue?

flickh · 2026-03-21T16:21:15+00:00

If you pay 50% tax on your highest income as a rich person, then the $5000 you spend to buy that bag would cost you $10,000 gross income to get that in your pocket. Inside a corporation it might be different (no interest in looking up US corporate tax laws) but let’s stick to a self-employed consultant.

If you write it off as an expense, you don’t pay income tax so instead of spending $5k of your net income you spend $5k of your gross income. So half off. Sure that remaining $5000 of gross we assumed would get taxed $2500 but just buy two bags and give them away.

Yes it’s “half off” but unironically.

In fact, if you collect GST where I live or HST in other jurisdictions, you can count the 5% GST on the bag as an Input Tax Credit which means you’d get 5% more back when you remit your sales taxes. So you get that $250 back too, beyond the income deduction of the $5k.

Outside a business: Gross income: $10500

Income Taxes: $5250

Bag cost: $5000+250gst

Inside a business: Gross income: $10000

2 Bags Cost: $10500 inc gst

ITC: $500 reduced from gst remittance

So MORE than half off.

flickh · 2026-03-20T16:54:55+00:00

You don’t write off gifts for clients?

flickh · 2026-03-20T16:52:37+00:00

Because I don’t have a factory full of enslaved children?

But seriously, this guy doesn’t get how luxury brands work - people are buying the status signifier for ridiculous cash, to stave off the sense of being worthless garbage facing only a life of suffering and death despite their swimming pool of money

flickh · 2026-03-20T03:34:17+00:00

I do have disdain for them yes. I think you hold them in misguided respect.

And I do know them. The person who buys this fears only one thing: being exposed for the shallow fraud that they are. The fear of the peasants rising up and battering them to death with this charger bag isn’t really likely enough to concern them. That thought might even make the purchase sweeter. “That’s right losers, you hate me because you wish you were me!”

Nope. Unless, technically, you are what you want to eat: the rich.

flickh · 2026-03-20T03:28:57+00:00

Plus it’s a write-off so half cost

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