…to avoid fascists calling you a commie.

Which they will still do.

Were the LA protests not something? Was the Portland protest that breached a holding facility not something?

People are taking action against the Trump administration. Not enough people, and not enough action, but three weeks ago, immigration was his strongest polling policy issue, and now he’s underwater in polling on it.

People who recognized the threat when the Trump Campaign handed out their ‘Mass Deportations Now’ signs at the RNC have forced the mushy middle to understand (in their bones, not just intellectually) what that meant all along.

He wants all holidays to be treated like National Cheesecake Day. Something that the radio DJ announces as the peons drive to work.

From bosses and business owners (i.e., the only kinds of people he talks to or recognizes as people)

How incomprehensibly long is this backlog of unaddressed matters going to be?

If we protest he’ll send in the troops so that he can have his goons grab people off the streets.

If we don’t protest, he’ll have his goons grab people off the streets.

Seems like protesting puts an obstacle and the goons grabbing.

Hey, where else am I going to find leaked schematics of all the hardware that’s going to show up in this upcoming civil war?

At least his grandfather only inflicted disastrously bad medical ideas on his own family.

Jon Stewart and getting fascists to change their neckwear. Is there a more iconic duo?

The computer that will tell you ‘strawberry’ only had two R’s in it or that no country in Africa starts with k, not even Kenya probably drew it.

On one hand, it’s useless performative bullshit. On the other hand, Trump seems to be exactly the kind of guy to get really upset about that sort of thing.

It was supposed to be the department of jangling keys, but then they let it make actual firing decisions without knowing how the institutions worked.

He’s not a US citizen, but he had a court order not to deport from during the previous Trump administration.

No, it’s good that he’s following the law. Unlike those criminals that are trying to manipulate him like Stephen Miller.

Unfortunately, back in the Bush years, a little while before the second gulf war, they passed a bill to invade the Hague if Americans got tried there. Folks will have to seek justice through other channels.

I think I must’ve missed that Verge article. I guess that dashes my “this is a creative writing exercise by somebody in Joburg” theory.

But we know that lizards have self preservation instincts (which for the purpose of this conversation I’ll say is interchangable with sentience (it’s probably a good enough proxy at any rate). But we know this because we have lots of people who have observed lizard behavior, not because The Lizard Farm, Inc has hyped up how alive and ensouled their lizards arev in a bid to get ever more VC funding.

Maybe I’m too pessimistic about this tech and my obsolete meat sack will get tossed to the time-traveling torture robot. But I think it’s more likely that we have a money grabbing hype train in the tradition of the Mechanical Turk or Theranos than it is that we have created a new lifeform by feeding every extant piece of writing that isn’t nailed down (and some that are) to the sand we’ve forced to do math.

In a banana republic, what’s a president but a local representative of the company?

Well, the only claim of this self preservation (that I’ve seen) is this article, which is on a website I’m unfamiliar with (which I often interpret as ‘more likely to be a creative writing exercise than the average news site’) and its only citation is a company that has a vested interest in making us believe the tech is better than it may actually be.

It’s a per curiam decision, we don’t get to know.

We do get to know that Coney Barrett recused herself, which is what allowed an even split (and by extension the upholding of the lower court’s decision).

Guess it’s time to send the repo man down to the sewage treatment facility.