Take a step back, BIG breath. All the judge had to work with was the environmental issue, that’s what the case challenged. She cannot bring additional challenges.

And YES, enforcement is the next question, and we all know how that will play out.

I hate Bolton’s politics as much as the next guy, but he’s no dipshit. I so hoped he would bring sanity to the first Trump administration, and that’s why he got fired.

Have you tried to fight through the endurance issue? That’s my plan. I’m scared shitless of the downward spiral so I hope to get my ass out.

Wife and I took a walk last night, and that’s the least I usually do. She couldn’t tonight even though she’s recovering better than I.

Thank you so much! I’ll read all of that!

And that’s where we’re at in history, can’t be changed by disarming or pretending. Sucks, but it is.

Didn’t the US do a similar thing to save our auto industry? Buying in? I’m hazy on the details, been a minute, but didn’t we cash out and profit?

Not saying this is the end game here, but still?

Y’all read the book? HAL goes only slightly nuts because he’s given orders to complete the mission, yet hide the purpose from the astronauts. The conflict in orders is what makes him crazy, not the tech.

Anyway, lots to unpack there.

Can’t. My wife is a legal immigrant, and worse, she’s a brown one. Can’t risk getting in a firefight and dying to prank ICE.

I love that part of the day in the woods! Still plenty bright, shady on the trail and the treetops are lit.

LOL my GOD! Not only do you guys have your own George Santos, he looks like him! This world has to be a simulation.

Where you get red springtails!? The one’s in my tanks are plain white. I do have blue roly polys though.

DO THIS! People like my immigrant wife think this is all above board and they’re only taking criminals. I want masked kidnappers filmed and up in everyone’s grill.

They swore to uphold the Constitution. So far their orders are within the law.

So you expect them to trash their career? This isn’t a job where you can easily take it or leave it. Imagine being under 40 and throwing away your retirement, starting all over.

They swore to uphold the Constitution, and so far their orders have not broken that vow.

This is why I dropped the dream of being a French professor. By the end of my first year I realized there were only 2 or 3 on my campus and I’d have to work with them for many years and still not score a job.

Funny story about my first professor: When I would speak French in class the girls would all giggle. WTF?! One night I got invited to an all-girl study group at the dorm next door.

“OK, why do you all giggle when I speak French?”

They got real quiet, looked around at each other. Finally one girl pipes up.

“We’re sorry, it’s just that your accent is so much better than the professor’s, it’s embarrassing for him.”

And that’s the man I would have had to work with for years. :( (BTW, he spoke 5 other languages and his grammar and vocabulary were unmatched. He just couldn’t speak worth a shit.)

California: “Voters have to approve this.”

Texas: “I will make it legal.”

No one will pass the liberal purity test and that’s why they so fucking always lose. Mamdani is a favorite at the moment, and gods do I love him, but after a year in office even the faithful will be tearing into him.

Bolton straight up called Trump “stupid”, and much much more. This isn’t the face eating some of these commenters think it is. This is taking out an enemy, that’s what the story is. And we should be scared rather than celebrate.

That’s eliminating an enemy over a grudge, not the same as eliminating an enemy with actual power, a competitor.

You got me thinking though. Who would Trump strike down when everyone on his side is thoroughly on his side. I don’t seeing any on the right as a threat to him.

For the moment, he needs Democratic leaders to lend a veneer of legitimacy. Can’t start killing them yet!

And BTW, I do NOT wish to downplay the move against Bolton. We should all be chilled to the bone.

I’m curious if anyone here has experience with long COVID. My wife and I just caught COVID for the first time.