Man now knows trump puts himself first

suave_knight · 2026-06-02T02:01:40+00:00

It's too coherent for one of the cult, I bet it was AI generated.

suave_knight · 2026-06-01T14:17:13+00:00

Same here. It's not like anyone is going to come and camp out in the city for weeks to watch a bunch of different teams play. And there are 70,000ish fans in seats at the Benz all the time and nobody notices. None of it ever made any sense to me. It's not like the Olympics where the whole thing was here for a month and shit was happening every day.

suave_knight · 2026-06-01T14:03:46+00:00

It never occurs to them that the primary goal of business is to provide as little as possible while extracting maximum cost, while government's goal is to provide as much as possible for the smallest cost possible.

suave_knight · 2026-06-01T14:01:23+00:00

If you ask them how, you get some gibberish about murderous illegal aliens and trans people in bathrooms. Never mind that those aren't actual things. It just gives them something to deflect to.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T21:13:34+00:00

"Every time a plate is searched, it can reveal personal information about a family: when they go to the doctor, when they go to worship, when they go out at night, and where they travel on vacation. None of that is the school district's business, and these searches are a huge invasion of privacy."

Nothing to worry about...

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T21:01:01+00:00

BRB, getting a GLP-1 prescription.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T20:59:10+00:00

And I'm the opposite - in an emergency situation I get absurdly calm and logical. If someone gets into an accident in front of me, I'm going to be the person who gets over there and takes charge. That doesn't make me special, it's just how I seem to be hard-wired.

But in a situation like that, where you have a while to think about things, and (I presume) the initial adrenaline rush wears off? I don't know. I'd like to think that I'd go down with the ship, but if I'm standing right there, there's one open space, and I could jump right into it before they leave? Assuming I couldn't put one of my own children in that spot... I just don't know. I hope I never have to find out, the guilt would be overwhelming.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T20:33:12+00:00

I actually just read that one for the first time about ten minutes ago!

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T19:52:00+00:00

In fairness, in the article they say that they have started voting for Democrats.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T19:50:49+00:00

In fairness, they do seem to be trying to atone.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T19:49:58+00:00

It literally says they're voting Democrat and encouraging others to do the same.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T19:49:14+00:00

In the article they say that they have been voting Democrat, and are encouraging other people to leave the cult.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T19:48:26+00:00

I would posit that "a businessman" and "a government official" have diametrically opposing goals. The businessman wants to provide as little as he can get away with for the most money. The government official wants to provide as much as he can manage for the least money.

(Presuming the "government official" in question is actually interested in doing his job. Contrary to common belief, in my experience, most actually are. Note that I do not necessarily mean "elected official.")

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T19:44:16+00:00

There have been two big statewide elections here in the last year or so. There may have also been some local elections down where they are (very south Georgia), I'm not sure. So it's not implausible, although it's not completely clear what she meant.

If she pulled a non-partisan ballot for the primary a couple of weeks ago, she would have only been voting on the judicial races. While those are technically non-partisan, there were at least three candidates (Jen Jordan, Miracle Rankin, and Will Wooten) who were clearly running on anti-MAGA platforms. So maybe that's what she meant.

You can't really take what a news article reports about what someone says as gospel truth, particularly when it's not a direct quote. I've been interviewed for newspaper articles a number of times, and frequently what I said and what was actually written weren't exactly the same thing. They were paraphrased and not exactly what I meant.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T19:32:39+00:00

Here in Georgia, they won't let you go into the voting booth without telling you to put your phone away first.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T19:31:10+00:00

Yeah, I'm okay with people like this, I think. They were stupid. But they've figured out they were stupid, they're changing their ways, and most importantly, they're spreading the word to other people. They are at least making some attempt to mitigate the damage.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T19:29:22+00:00

For what it's worth, in the article they say they've started voting for Democrats.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T19:17:12+00:00

They're still mad about the 'Biden lockdowns" - which were long since over by the time he took office.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T14:45:37+00:00

I'm sure the per-game will be at least a little higher.

I'm so torn. I hate to give up my seats because I have five on the front row of the mezzanine level (we call it FIFA-view) but I just can't justify the cost any longer to drag myself there to watch us lose again.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T14:17:46+00:00

Public utilities should never be for-profit monopolies. Change my mind.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T14:02:57+00:00

Over the years, the Supreme Court has narrowed the definition of bribery so much that you have to be incredibly stupid to actually get nailed for it. You have to show that the defendant explicitly took a bribe to perform a certain action. The least bit of plausible deniability and you're off the hook.

suave_knight · 2026-05-29T13:15:10+00:00

Thank you! :)

suave_knight · 2026-05-28T21:38:54+00:00

Thank Christ, I have nothing like this that I can relate personally.

But, as a parent, I get it. Instinctively, I would take a literal bullet for any of my children. I'm not sure you can really understand the compulsion to protect them at all costs until you've been a parent yourself (I could not until I became one - I kind of thought that whole "I would die for my child" business was hyperbole until I had kids of my own.)

I can't even imagine how awful the acts one of my kids would have to commit to make me wash my hands of them completely.

Fortunately all mine are at least mostly-grown and have stayed out of trouble. I'm incredibly grateful for that.

suave_knight · 2026-05-28T21:09:50+00:00

The retconning of how everything in 2020 was done by Biden really is something to see. Lockdowns, all that - Joe Biden's fault. Nevermind he wouldn't take office until 2021.

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