He’s like Shitty Walter Mitty.

They’re supposed to be making up justifications as they see fit

Yeah, that’s what they’re doing.

A long-term chronic illness that meant he had to take extended absences, but would refuse to resign and would linger on until there’s a non-MAGAt in the White House, that’d be just about ideal.

Nobody has ever accused Alito of having logically coherent views.

And regulating its operations, which Congress has the power to do, but never has. It can also restrict the subjects that the Supremes can rule on. That power has never been exercised either. The court under Marshall (the old one, not Thurgood of blessed memory) did a massive power grab and noobdy seems to have minded all that much.

I think I know what the real problem is.

Borders are antithetical to free markets.

There is no such thing as a free market.

He could always go sulk for a couple more years, then resign.

Trump tired. Can’t pay attention to no trade deal. Trump tired of everything and just wants a dirt nap.

It’s not sanitized, it’s filthy.

Looking at recent precedent and using that to assess probabilities of current motives and actions is inductive reasoning, not “engaging in false rhetoric.”

And another bit of induction is worthwhile: when someone lies to you tens of thousands of time, what possible reason would you have to assume they’re telling the truth this time, especially when it contradicts their own previous statements and actions, such as changing rules of engagement to disregard civilian casualties when selecting targets, or advocating a policy of killing the families of foreign leaders?

Trump has repeatedly talked about wanting to target the families of enemy leaders. Netanyahu and the IDF have a long record of killing children as well as other noncombatants. So I find it implausible that this was a mistake, unless the “disjointedness” is a way of saying that Grok is not deeply integrated with real intelligence systems, and that’s what they used, because they’re not only murderous thugs, but idiots.

Ro Khanna’s all right.

If your goal is sabotage, it is a great idea.

If the goal was to make himself look good, it didn’t work. He still looks like a snivelling asshole.

Trump tells Zelenskyy “You don’t have any cards.”

Trump proceeds to tear up all the cards in his own hand and shove them up his ass, while Zelenskyy still refuses to capitulate. And lately, Russia’s control of Crimea looks increasingly shaky.

The way I view it is that fraud is a crime, but we also have an ethical obligation not to let ourselves be marks. Same goes for lots of other crimes. Legal penalties are one deterrent. Raising the barrier to entry for a criminal activity by being a hard target is another. Both are good. But there will always be gullible, vulnerable people, and saying that they’re fair game is much too close to eugenics. Healthy societies protect the vulnerable, but also train people to be less vulnerable when that’s possible.

She must be, based on some of the things I got her to do.

Yeah, caveat emptor has always worked so well in the past. Let’s not regulate anything.

LLMs are truthiness generators.