I hate Windows 11 and MS Teams. No more drag and drop. Weirdly organized menus. Functions most people would never use. Default saving to the Cloud instead of your local drive. Relocating basic functions to some sub-directory to force you to use AI and the Cloud and pay them for the privilege. Having to reset everything when there is a power outage or surge. The list grows apace. And the security issues...
Old programmers on drugs... now THEY knew how to design a simple and elegant system.
Switching to Linux soon and selling any remaining MSFT stock. My protest against enshittification. I'll start dropping to paper for everything. Longhand and typewriters shall make their triumphant return!
Who else thinks that Windows Vista and Windows NT were the best OS versions ? Does Apple suffer from this on their laptops? (Haven't used Apple since 2004 or so.)
Going Luddite soon. Yes, I am old, so get off my xeriscaped lawn/yard!
So what happens when a child of refugees from Communist Cuba gets to the top of the political heap? He becomes his own Fidel Castro and discards the constitution that granted his family asylum. He can spare me any bleeding heart conservative rhetoric. He is just another failed politico who found fame and money in an authoritarian con man. At least Fidel was honest about his politics.
Rubio's parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of Rubio's birth. They were naturalized in 1975. Some relatives of Rubio's were admitted to the U.S. as refugees. Rubio's maternal grandfather, Pedro Victor Garcia, immigrated to the U.S. legally in 1956, but returned to Cuba to find work in 1959.
If you can't find enough alien infiltrators swarming over the border to evil at Murica, just create some! And let that be a lesson to always do things the right way!!!
"What is habeas corpus anyway? Most folks who got at least a B in high school social studies know it’s the right to demand the government tell you what you’re being accused of before it can arrest or jail you, but not Noem"
Definition:
"a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention."
People both under arrest and in jail can, and do, petition for writs of habeas corpus.
Noem makes me want Senators to have the ability to cut a witness' mic when they try to spew bullshit over whatever pushback they're getting. Except I wouldn't want assholes like Jordan to have one, so I guess we can't have nice things.
I wonder how many Republicans do not understand the Civil War, when Lincoln was president, was an actual rebellion versus those who just play dumb for the cameras?
I doubt Noem knows the difference between why the Civil War is different than immigration in 2025, but I bet folks like Miller do.
If this is what MAGA believes, that "habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," then they should call for the Supreme Court to unambiguously uphold the principle of habeas corpus.
Kristi Noem is a self absorbed, vindictive, cruel, evil woman. Remember she shot a puppy for no other reason that it didn't live up to her expectations. Couldn't learn to hunt properly She could have just given it to a family who wanted a pet. Some dogs just are not hunters, but make for wonderful loving house companions. I once had an Irish Setter who was totally gun shy Any loud noise sent him running for cover, but he had a beautiful loving soul and we cherished him until the day he died at 17. I think of him every day Noem would have shot him for sure. There are not sufficient vile words in the dictionary to describe how I feel about this woman. IMO there is a special place in Hell for people like her. Seeing her in a high position in OUR government disgusts me beyond vocalization.
"We're gonna pull out the couches, water fountains, bathtubs, beds, the 12-people jacuzzi -- big beautiful word 'jacuzzi' -- teevees and big fancy stereos cuz it's all gonna be remade in my image anyway and the fridges, five of 'em and stuff my big new big new jet with these types and fly all of 'em outta here they can scrub the terlits on the way, simultaneous!!!" -- Sir
"The Venezuelans had been granted permission to live and work in the USA by President Joe Biden under Temporary Protected Status (TPS)"
There are the problems and the reasons for all to see:
* Their permission to live in the US came from former Pres Biden, so it ***must*** be overturned;
* They come from a shithole country;
* They plan on trashing America, raping our womenfolk (menfolk and dogs, too), and taking the good jobs that "colored people" traditionally hold;
* They are, like TdA, functioning under the direct orders of Nicolás Maduro.
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"the administration has very loudly insisted that Venezuelans and other immigrants just might all be criminal terrorist gangbanger criminals, though of course Trump simply made up out of nothing the lie"
Hey now, show a little respect. The Fulvous Fuckwad doesn't lie, he's just incapable of telling the truth.
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"We will note, however, that ICE Nazi Barbie probably isn’t the best legal eagle out there"
True that; she's no Jeanine Pirro.
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A couple other points:
> ""You should ask the families of those killed, raped and maimed by gang members if they think the threat these terrorists pose to Americans are 'overstated,'" [Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security] said." https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-58849/tren-de-aragua-presence-reality-check
And while asking the families affected by the "terrorist" activities of TdA (the hoard of TdA gangbangers was estimated by DHS in late 2024 as 600, others put the number over 1000), perhaps Ms McLaughlin would like to ask the families of victims by much larger gangs -- MS-13, the Crips, the Bloods... -- what the affects that these gangs caused.
All of the alleged gangbangers were identified in on of two ways: (1) they were fingered by paid informants, who if they wished to continue to be paid they had to produce villains, and (2) by their tats. The problem with #1 is self-evident. The problem with #2 is that no gangs, or very few, have identifying tats (the MS-13 tat Sharpied onto Mr Abrego Garcia's knuckles not withstanding). Having such tats would only make the job of busting them easier for LEOs
A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers took him into custody because of a “paperwork miscommunication” during his effort to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, his wife says.
“Kasper was detained for a paperwork miscommunication from 2015, and I was sent home with no explanation and no idea where my husband had been transported,” Savannah Eriksen said in a statement she released late Monday to Mississippi Today.
Kasper is among an unknown number of immigrants who have been detained since President Donald Trump began his second term in January. Some of the detainees had entered the U.S. without authorization, while others entered with temporary visas or, like Kasper Eriksen, were in the process of becoming naturalized citizens.
Savannah said she and her husband were told in April that his paperwork problem was with an application for removal of conditions on his residency – a form used by an immigrant married to a U.S. citizen.
After Kasper was taken into custody in Memphis, Savannah made the three-hour drive back to Sturgis by herself and “to say I couldn’t control my emotions would be an understatement,” she said.
“The next 24 hours would, without a doubt, (be) the most frightening and stressful I have ever experienced, as I pined for my husband and some kind of communication to confirm his safety and whereabouts,” Savannah said.
She said that before the April appointment, her husband had never been told about any paperwork miscommunication, either through online messages or during interviews in the naturalization process.
She later learned that Kasper was being detained at the LaSalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana.
Kasper’s attorneys have filed petitions to seek his release, and they met with him May 15 to review those. A judge will decide whether he will be let out, and Savannah said he does not have a court date.
What, are we going to put a stripper pole in the House now? If that's the case, then that will be the first time I've seen a Republican do some honest work
After the meeting, Trump predicted the package would ultimately pass the House, which Republicans control by a narrow majority of 220-213. “It was a meeting of love.”
I hate Windows 11 and MS Teams. No more drag and drop. Weirdly organized menus. Functions most people would never use. Default saving to the Cloud instead of your local drive. Relocating basic functions to some sub-directory to force you to use AI and the Cloud and pay them for the privilege. Having to reset everything when there is a power outage or surge. The list grows apace. And the security issues...
Old programmers on drugs... now THEY knew how to design a simple and elegant system.
Switching to Linux soon and selling any remaining MSFT stock. My protest against enshittification. I'll start dropping to paper for everything. Longhand and typewriters shall make their triumphant return!
Who else thinks that Windows Vista and Windows NT were the best OS versions ? Does Apple suffer from this on their laptops? (Haven't used Apple since 2004 or so.)
Going Luddite soon. Yes, I am old, so get off my xeriscaped lawn/yard!
So what happens when a child of refugees from Communist Cuba gets to the top of the political heap? He becomes his own Fidel Castro and discards the constitution that granted his family asylum. He can spare me any bleeding heart conservative rhetoric. He is just another failed politico who found fame and money in an authoritarian con man. At least Fidel was honest about his politics.
Rubio's parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of Rubio's birth. They were naturalized in 1975. Some relatives of Rubio's were admitted to the U.S. as refugees. Rubio's maternal grandfather, Pedro Victor Garcia, immigrated to the U.S. legally in 1956, but returned to Cuba to find work in 1959.
If you can't find enough alien infiltrators swarming over the border to evil at Murica, just create some! And let that be a lesson to always do things the right way!!!
Oh, wait...
"What is habeas corpus anyway? Most folks who got at least a B in high school social studies know it’s the right to demand the government tell you what you’re being accused of before it can arrest or jail you, but not Noem"
Definition:
"a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention."
People both under arrest and in jail can, and do, petition for writs of habeas corpus.
Noem makes me want Senators to have the ability to cut a witness' mic when they try to spew bullshit over whatever pushback they're getting. Except I wouldn't want assholes like Jordan to have one, so I guess we can't have nice things.
I wonder how many Republicans do not understand the Civil War, when Lincoln was president, was an actual rebellion versus those who just play dumb for the cameras?
I doubt Noem knows the difference between why the Civil War is different than immigration in 2025, but I bet folks like Miller do.
If this is what MAGA believes, that "habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," then they should call for the Supreme Court to unambiguously uphold the principle of habeas corpus.
Kristi Noem is a self absorbed, vindictive, cruel, evil woman. Remember she shot a puppy for no other reason that it didn't live up to her expectations. Couldn't learn to hunt properly She could have just given it to a family who wanted a pet. Some dogs just are not hunters, but make for wonderful loving house companions. I once had an Irish Setter who was totally gun shy Any loud noise sent him running for cover, but he had a beautiful loving soul and we cherished him until the day he died at 17. I think of him every day Noem would have shot him for sure. There are not sufficient vile words in the dictionary to describe how I feel about this woman. IMO there is a special place in Hell for people like her. Seeing her in a high position in OUR government disgusts me beyond vocalization.
"We're gonna pull out the couches, water fountains, bathtubs, beds, the 12-people jacuzzi -- big beautiful word 'jacuzzi' -- teevees and big fancy stereos cuz it's all gonna be remade in my image anyway and the fridges, five of 'em and stuff my big new big new jet with these types and fly all of 'em outta here they can scrub the terlits on the way, simultaneous!!!" -- Sir
"The Venezuelans had been granted permission to live and work in the USA by President Joe Biden under Temporary Protected Status (TPS)"
There are the problems and the reasons for all to see:
* Their permission to live in the US came from former Pres Biden, so it ***must*** be overturned;
* They come from a shithole country;
* They plan on trashing America, raping our womenfolk (menfolk and dogs, too), and taking the good jobs that "colored people" traditionally hold;
* They are, like TdA, functioning under the direct orders of Nicolás Maduro.
-----
"the administration has very loudly insisted that Venezuelans and other immigrants just might all be criminal terrorist gangbanger criminals, though of course Trump simply made up out of nothing the lie"
Hey now, show a little respect. The Fulvous Fuckwad doesn't lie, he's just incapable of telling the truth.
-----
"We will note, however, that ICE Nazi Barbie probably isn’t the best legal eagle out there"
True that; she's no Jeanine Pirro.
-----
A couple other points:
> ""You should ask the families of those killed, raped and maimed by gang members if they think the threat these terrorists pose to Americans are 'overstated,'" [Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security] said." https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-58849/tren-de-aragua-presence-reality-check
And while asking the families affected by the "terrorist" activities of TdA (the hoard of TdA gangbangers was estimated by DHS in late 2024 as 600, others put the number over 1000), perhaps Ms McLaughlin would like to ask the families of victims by much larger gangs -- MS-13, the Crips, the Bloods... -- what the affects that these gangs caused.
> "The symbols touted by federal officials as proof of gang membership, including rose and clock tattoos" https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-58849/tren-de-aragua-presence-reality-check
All of the alleged gangbangers were identified in on of two ways: (1) they were fingered by paid informants, who if they wished to continue to be paid they had to produce villains, and (2) by their tats. The problem with #1 is self-evident. The problem with #2 is that no gangs, or very few, have identifying tats (the MS-13 tat Sharpied onto Mr Abrego Garcia's knuckles not withstanding). Having such tats would only make the job of busting them easier for LEOs
fnord
"Simple. By breaking the law I am following the law by breaking the law..." -- Noem
Are they gonna revoke TPS for all those Cubans in Miami or is that different
Let them check the list .... hmmm.. yep, just after Sudanese.
Now it's even the WHITE "good ones."
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A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers took him into custody because of a “paperwork miscommunication” during his effort to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, his wife says.
“Kasper was detained for a paperwork miscommunication from 2015, and I was sent home with no explanation and no idea where my husband had been transported,” Savannah Eriksen said in a statement she released late Monday to Mississippi Today.
Kasper is among an unknown number of immigrants who have been detained since President Donald Trump began his second term in January. Some of the detainees had entered the U.S. without authorization, while others entered with temporary visas or, like Kasper Eriksen, were in the process of becoming naturalized citizens.
Savannah said she and her husband were told in April that his paperwork problem was with an application for removal of conditions on his residency – a form used by an immigrant married to a U.S. citizen.
After Kasper was taken into custody in Memphis, Savannah made the three-hour drive back to Sturgis by herself and “to say I couldn’t control my emotions would be an understatement,” she said.
“The next 24 hours would, without a doubt, (be) the most frightening and stressful I have ever experienced, as I pined for my husband and some kind of communication to confirm his safety and whereabouts,” Savannah said.
She said that before the April appointment, her husband had never been told about any paperwork miscommunication, either through online messages or during interviews in the naturalization process.
She later learned that Kasper was being detained at the LaSalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana.
Kasper’s attorneys have filed petitions to seek his release, and they met with him May 15 to review those. A judge will decide whether he will be let out, and Savannah said he does not have a court date.
Hand Greenland over and this all goes away.
NO!!!!!!!!
𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐨 '𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲' 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞́
C-SPAN's ratings are gonna spike...then tank.
I hope she does it.
How fast can the men cover her up with their jackets?
This will be a whole show.
Did she return the $8,798 he's donated to her campaigns?
https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=Patrick+Bryant+&cycle=&state=SC&zip=&employ=&occupation=&jurisdiction=&cand=&type=
So, what's Mike's Johnson's take on this?
Turn off his pr0n wanking app?
This will answer the question that I've been asking for some time.
That chick is wacked.
So, how's she going to vote on that porn bill?
In favor, but she'll try to have anyone who saw her photos arrested.
What, are we going to put a stripper pole in the House now? If that's the case, then that will be the first time I've seen a Republican do some honest work
Thorazine. Now.
Tranq darts.
Large butterfly net.
Sure, why not?
Government by Reality TV.
We already had Hunter Biden's wang.
And nobody voted for him
What. Ever. She's been showing her ass on television and in the House for years now.
Does she have a hot cousin named Trixy Pepperspray ? . . .
MARILYN MANSON GOING DOOR TO DOOR TRYING TO SHOCK PEOPLE
THAT is a crime against humanity.
"exposure yucks?"
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1924841840001319072
"Aaron Rupar@atrupar
"Mike Johnson goes full North Korean and claims that House Republicans gave Trump "multiple standing ovations" this morning
No executions? Maybe waiting till after the vote.
He profanely threatened them. Individually. By name.
Tough, tough love . . .
After the meeting, Trump predicted the package would ultimately pass the House, which Republicans control by a narrow majority of 220-213. “It was a meeting of love.”
You left some extra words in there: "short of citizenship". May have been true once but not now.