You could write entire books on the psychology behind why and how Donald Trump has been able to get away with saying things like that. But for me it boils down to: Trump has never pretended to be anything but a crude, foulmouthed boor and bully who is decently civil only when he has to be. Therefore, he's "authentic." OTOH, if someone who once any sort of pretention to good manners or even civilized behavior suddenly starts being as crude as Trump, he comes across as a self-evident actor, hypocrite and phony, even among the people he's trying to impress.
A federal judge on Friday opened a formal inquiry into whether Trump administration officials and Justice Department lawyers misled the court about President Donald Trump’s plan to remake East Potomac Golf Links, escalating a bitter legal fight in which she has repeatedly questioned the government’s candor.
U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes said she’d appoint a special master to investigate whether Interior and Justice department officials made misrepresentations, withheld information or otherwise violated professional rules during the case.
The inquiry capped an extraordinary day in court in which Reyes pressed government lawyers about a central contradiction in the case: Trump publicly announced Oct. 18 on Truth Social that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and golf architect Tom Fazio had “developed a plan” for a championship course and that East Potomac would close Nov. 15. The next day, however, government lawyers and Interior officials told the court there was no plan to close the course.
The administration did not acknowledge until this week that Trump had directed Interior and the National Park Service to close the facility by Nov. 15. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward Jr. said Thursday that he regarded Trump’s Truth Social post as a directive to Interior akin to an executive order, even as he continued to maintain that no final course plan existed. (Washington Post)
I hope they make Tom Fazio make statements under oath as part of this. He's Trump's favored course designer on the project and and a well-known asshole in the golf world. He despises natural courses and spends vast sums of money and diesel to do things like move a hill six feet to the right. Would be nice to see him get tainted by all the dirt he's been handling. I have no doubt that removing all the trees was done under his suggestion to Trump, and I'm sure he'd have no qualms knowing it would be going against a court order.
Nimesh isn't wrong. I knew a Vivek at work. He was by far the biggest most inept asshole I ever worked with (not for... but they were all Vivek, even the wypipo.)
He got fired trying to cover up his own fuck up and then told everyone he was coming back as director of... quality (he broke all of the cardinal rules of quality... responsibility, truthful and data integrity.) I laughed and laughed and laughed.
He wasn't as good as Vivek with money as he blew a good chunk of it on Canadian Cannabis stocks in 2018 when they were at their peak value.
For reasons, I was well into my 30s before I got credit cards. That was inconvenient, but actually worked out really well for me.
The first cards I got were crap. Including one from Bank of America, the first one I ever got. I almost never use it now, but it helped me build credit.
There have already been some cases of AI taking or transferring money on its own, without prompts; so both banks and tech companies are coming out to deny any liability. I think part of the reason why the term "AI agent" is replacing "bot" is because the emphasis is on its relationship to the user, rather than the provider or creator. It is your 'agent' so only you are liable.
I have a Royal Crown pomade tin. Went and bought it when I heard this song the first time. Scooped out the pomade, wiped out the tin, and I still keep some money in it.
Mason jars too. I have some from the 19-teens, that belonged to my great grandmother.
They know some people have bought enough of the AI hype to do really stupid shit, and just want to cover their ass when they tell those people to take their losses and shut up.
They need to realize that only their orange god has immunity. Everyone else is accountable.
That summation is brilliant!
There was a person named Vivek
Whose name was a rhyme for a snake
His hair was quite tall
And we wish that he'd fall
Into shit that was shaped like a cake.
Wait, the leaders of the biotech industry thought he was trustworthy before this?
I'd be shocked if that was true.
Truly one of the most insightful ad campaigns in political history, in that it taught us everything that there is to know about the MAGA party.
One of the all time great self-owns.
𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 “𝘱𝘪𝘨𝘴” 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨?
You could write entire books on the psychology behind why and how Donald Trump has been able to get away with saying things like that. But for me it boils down to: Trump has never pretended to be anything but a crude, foulmouthed boor and bully who is decently civil only when he has to be. Therefore, he's "authentic." OTOH, if someone who once any sort of pretention to good manners or even civilized behavior suddenly starts being as crude as Trump, he comes across as a self-evident actor, hypocrite and phony, even among the people he's trying to impress.
Maelstrom or toilet bowl? Is there a qualitative difference, or is it just a matter of scale? What are the philosophical implications?
Discuss, wipe your ass with your test booklet, and discard.
It's a massive shit sandwich and we're all gonna have to take a bite.
When we retake the House, and hopefully the Senate, can we shut down construction on the BALLROOM™?
Stop construction. Sell small bags and rock hammers and tell visitors they can take souvenirs.
Raze Mar-a-lago, use the rubble as fill dirt, rebuild and replace the east wing.
Back-fill for a latrine.
That would be less destructive than the raging blaze that would be the result of my preferred method.
Vivek is the wrong color for your rank/file mouth-breathing, PAB-sucking cult member, no matter how many pro-rape ads he runs.
This.
As they have told him, publicly, to his face.
Run that weasel ragged!! Goad him into madness. Tell him no.
Because Natalie couldn't shade it good enuf, the Idiot is coming to Iowa 'n Kansas anyways.
Trump Always Chicken Shits
Slap them silly, your honor.
𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻
𝘜.𝘚. 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘑𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘢 𝘊. 𝘙𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋.𝘊. 𝘉𝘢𝘳 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵.
A federal judge on Friday opened a formal inquiry into whether Trump administration officials and Justice Department lawyers misled the court about President Donald Trump’s plan to remake East Potomac Golf Links, escalating a bitter legal fight in which she has repeatedly questioned the government’s candor.
U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes said she’d appoint a special master to investigate whether Interior and Justice department officials made misrepresentations, withheld information or otherwise violated professional rules during the case.
The inquiry capped an extraordinary day in court in which Reyes pressed government lawyers about a central contradiction in the case: Trump publicly announced Oct. 18 on Truth Social that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and golf architect Tom Fazio had “developed a plan” for a championship course and that East Potomac would close Nov. 15. The next day, however, government lawyers and Interior officials told the court there was no plan to close the course.
The administration did not acknowledge until this week that Trump had directed Interior and the National Park Service to close the facility by Nov. 15. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward Jr. said Thursday that he regarded Trump’s Truth Social post as a directive to Interior akin to an executive order, even as he continued to maintain that no final course plan existed. (Washington Post)
Pull their licenses and make 'em dive the bunker!
"Candor toward the tribunal", motherfuckers!
Go back and look at the rule!
I hope they make Tom Fazio make statements under oath as part of this. He's Trump's favored course designer on the project and and a well-known asshole in the golf world. He despises natural courses and spends vast sums of money and diesel to do things like move a hill six feet to the right. Would be nice to see him get tainted by all the dirt he's been handling. I have no doubt that removing all the trees was done under his suggestion to Trump, and I'm sure he'd have no qualms knowing it would be going against a court order.
She read them definitions out of the dictionary. Words like "involved," and if I recall; "plan." And asked them to define "past participle."
Lying and misdirection are their Modus Operandi
How you like her “histrionics” now, you dickless wonders?
Hooked On Histrionics
Schoolhouse funk.
The chuds are oblivious to all of this.
For the moment. She’s about to go medieval on their asses.
At which point they'll notice enough to send death threats. A charming bunch.
Ta, Robyn. Ohio voters! you have a real choice: Brown and Acton.
And he was so proud of that ad before! Why Vivi? Why? /s
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VmTTchmxUWw
Nimesh isn't wrong. I knew a Vivek at work. He was by far the biggest most inept asshole I ever worked with (not for... but they were all Vivek, even the wypipo.)
He got fired trying to cover up his own fuck up and then told everyone he was coming back as director of... quality (he broke all of the cardinal rules of quality... responsibility, truthful and data integrity.) I laughed and laughed and laughed.
He wasn't as good as Vivek with money as he blew a good chunk of it on Canadian Cannabis stocks in 2018 when they were at their peak value.
I've blown a fair amount of money on cannabis; I doubt it was Canadian though.
Mexican? Acapulco Gold?
Vivek isn't good with money. He frauded his way to a level where it earns as fast as he can waste it.
Maybe they're editing the ad to include beastiality.
OT:
This is a little spooky.
For reasons, I was well into my 30s before I got credit cards. That was inconvenient, but actually worked out really well for me.
The first cards I got were crap. Including one from Bank of America, the first one I ever got. I almost never use it now, but it helped me build credit.
I just received an email from them, saying this:
𝐴𝑡 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎, 𝑤𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝐼, 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑟, 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝐴𝑠 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑑-𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑤𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑.
𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝐼-𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓.
𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑠, 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠.
𝑊𝑒'𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐴𝐼 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟. 𝐴𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟, 𝑤𝑒'𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡.
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡.
Do they sound a little scared? I think they sound a little scared.
I trust Dork Zuckerborg with my money more than AI... and I don't trust Dork Zuck at all.
There have already been some cases of AI taking or transferring money on its own, without prompts; so both banks and tech companies are coming out to deny any liability. I think part of the reason why the term "AI agent" is replacing "bot" is because the emphasis is on its relationship to the user, rather than the provider or creator. It is your 'agent' so only you are liable.
From "I Hate Banks," by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper:
Yeah, throw the money changers outta the temple
I hate banks, it's just that simple
A Royal Crown pomade tin
Is the best thing to keep your money in, yeah
Mason jar is okay too
If you see a bank, well, you know what to do
I have a Royal Crown pomade tin. Went and bought it when I heard this song the first time. Scooped out the pomade, wiped out the tin, and I still keep some money in it.
Mason jars too. I have some from the 19-teens, that belonged to my great grandmother.
They know some people have bought enough of the AI hype to do really stupid shit, and just want to cover their ass when they tell those people to take their losses and shut up.
"When your AI agent maxes out your card, that's on you."
PS Cardmaxxing
YOU SPENT 10K on AI girlfriends!!!
Sorry, Dave. You know I have needs...
Yeah, that "keep in mind that you're responsible..." section jumped right out at me. That's the money-shot of the email, isn't it.
Ayup. Close that shit.