It’s definitely something you can learn in just a few lessons, particularly if you are just driving around town here and there. There’s a rhythm and muscle memory to it, and once you get it, it becomes super easy.

I think I traded in my last stick-shift (a Jetta) 13+ years ago, and there are still times when I am driving and my left foot instinctively moves toward an invisible clutch…

It’s possible that this time is different.

Trump’s budget will absolutely bust the deficit, because it relies on “savings” from DOGE that doesn’t exist, and uses that to cut taxes further. There is at least token opposition from these folks who have campaigned on reducing the deficit and know their party is lying about it.

But let’s face it. It is more likely that this is all just performative. These guys hold things up just long enough to get some token concessions, and they can campaign on the fact that they “stand up” to both sides.

I never understood the problem with what Hogg is doing. No politician should ever think their seat is safe. Every primary should be contested. If the incumbant is doing a good job, they will win, and the party gets behind them. But if the incumbent loses a primary, then they were probably not doing a good job to begin with.

What’s wrong with that?

Y’all Qaeda

He was very familiar with that “drained of hope” look because many of his ex-girlfriends had that same look

Shit, I need to change the password on my luggage…

(That joke hasn’t aged well, because the TSA has keys to unlock all our luggage now…)

This is the first I’ve heard of sign-up forms. Got a link for that?

Still, though, there are all those Jan 6’ers who already committed violence for this man once, and they were rewarded for it. I think it’s certainly they will sign up to do violence for him again.

I was wondering what the mistake was, then clicked the link and saw a big picture of Andrew Cuomo. Ah, now I get it.

NYC’s unofficial motto may as well be “He may be a crook, but at least he’s our crook!”

“The new Israeli state of Palestine will be a perfect place to build Trump Hotel Gaza”

Yeah, but he’ll just nominate someone more shitty. Like Steven Seagal…

First, it was the Idiocracy movie that started out as parody and became a documentary over time. Now, the Barbie movie is becoming reality right before our eyes. The Kens are in charge, and they are all dumb as posts.

“We can’t pick a side, they both look kinda brown”

On second thought, let’s not go to Camelot. It is a silly place…

Hmm, there are Republican Senators with a spine after all…

This guy is missing a key point here, although he almost gets there:

Crypto PACs have raised over $260 million, making crypto the sixth largest Super PAC, dwarfing any other industry-supported Super PAC (all the others are related to a particular party or candidate). But those donations came from just 50 individuals. That’s not a movement. It’s a small elevator lobby.

Those 50 individuals aren’t necessarily the smartest people, or the most effective political leaders. They ran the right software at the right time, and now have system-breaking amounts of money. (When Bitcoin first came out, you got 50 BTC for finding a block, and could still do it on the hardware in your basement. That wasn’t even worth 10 cents back then, but is $5 million at today’s prices. And you find blocks every 10 minutes…)

And in the campaign finance infrastructure that Republicans enabled after Citizen’s United, this gives these 50 people (and their spare horde of BTC) an unduly large influence on our politics.

This is going to impact any Crypto legislation going forward. Anything that doesn’t directly benefit those 50 people will be at a severe disadvantage. And guess what? Our President is doing the job as a side-gig, he makes most of his money selling shitcoins.

There is simply going to be no way to address Crypto regulations until Campaign Finance is addressed. Because until it is, the cryptobros will just keep shoveling money into our elections to get the outcomes they want.

Still, the NFL has learned the art of the deal, when it comes to dealing with the 47th president. Gratitude, flattery, and praise are the key ingredients to the not-so-secret sauce.

It also wouldn’t hurt to name the new stadium after him.

Eww.

Because even his idiotic voters wouldn’t intentionally drive up their power bill.

I wouldnt be so sure about that. They do shit like this all the time:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-red-light-district/202404/the-cruel-practice-of-rolling-coal

When it comes to harassing liberals, no price is too small

And to think, in an alternate universe, Trump is ruining the Buffalo Bills instead of the country. What do you think they’re drinking when they tailgate, Donnie? It ain’t Budweiser…

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-bankers-fraud-trial-buffalo-bills-nfl-c4cfa0af0247cf70f436341a2fa64dd0

The ironic thing is that this time he probably can pay for it, now that he has turned his second presidency into a bribe magnet through the power of Crypto Shitcoins. He won’t, but he can.

This leave out the most egregious thing they are doing: installing Starlink backdoors all over government.

At best, Elon and his team are making sure that he has unfettered access to all the data for his AI shenanigans. But where is the data being held? How do we know Elon’s backdoor has not, itself, been backdoored?

At worst, he is actively selling it all to foreign powers.

There is zero accountability, so we really dont know…