I didn’t make it a sex scandal, Republicans did. I don’t care at all who has sex with whom.

It’s relevant because they did not disclose the relationship, and created the appearance of impropriety. Was her ex really the best person for the job? There are quite literally thousands of lawyers who could have done the job. What if instead of an ex, she had given the job and the salary to her nephew? It wouldn’t be as click-baity, but it would have been the same problem. She made a bad decision in a high profile case against opponents who cheat. I feel empathy for the frustration and regret she must be feeling, but I also hold a lot of anger and resentment that she did something so stupid that affected literally every person on earth. It’s not fair that she’s being held to a higher standard, but this is the job she sought, fought for, and claimed to know how to do.

And again, I don’t know that it was over years ago. There was work-related travel where the two of them were alone on the taxpayer’s dime. I’m taking your version of events at face value, and it’s still a serious lapse in judgement.

I have not followed the case too closely, because I literally do not care about the salacious details. What matters to me is that the relationship was undisclosed, and because of the scandal, the whole case was fucked. It was one of the best chances to nail Trump to the fucking wall, and it was derailled because of a sex scandal. The irony is dense enough to affect navigational equipment.

If not for the scandal, they would have attacked her for something else. But she made it easy, and we’re all suffering from her incompetence.

I mean, all those things are true, but she did have an undisclosed romantic involvement with the attorney she appointed (and paid) to lead the case. She could have appointed any number of various attorneys to lead the prosecution. I want Trump in jail, but these are the sort of unforced errors and endemic corruption that provide cover for criminals like Trump to exist in the first place.

I mean there’s as much evidence for that as it was a trans immigrant Palestinian or whatever they are claiming today.

Charlie Kirk was about to call for the release of the Epstein files. That’s why Putin had him killed.

Source: The same place conservatives are getting their information.

Check out Immich next. It’s sort of like a self-hosted Google photos except it allows you to own your photos.

I like that line. I’m stealing it. Might paraphrase to fit the situation.

I did technical trainings, and I always used to say that the only stupid question is the one you don’t ask.

Frank Stallone

Garrity does not seem to have the political chops to win Pennsylvania Republicans. PA is the purplest of states, but she’s from the Bibles-and-Meth part of the state and it really comes through when she speaks out loud into a camera. She won the race as Treasurer because Main Line Republicans want a “fiscal conservative” holding the purse strings, but I’d bet money that 90% of PA republicans have never seen her speak. Raising her profile will hurt her, especially as a Trumplican.

I’m going to call it that now, and probably seem really clever and funny at the next luau-themed party I attend. Then people will like me.

Wait, I thought that was a meme.

Also, a phone call with the scrupulous hound-dog chasing him where he is alarmingly close by but still one step ahead.

Right? Like even if tourists are visiting the countryside, they’re going to be spread out across all the available space.

RAID is carrying a spare tire in your car. Backups are like having an extra car in the garage in case your primary geta totaled.

It’s possible you’ll never need either one, but if you pop a flat, a whole extra car is overkill.

It’s not a perfect metaphor, since most people don’t have a spare car.

I really don’t think he cares about stats, and if defenses are locking him down, they’re leaving passing lanes open. Part of his success was a result of defenses scheming against Brown and Smith. Plus, you need a spy on Hurts to keep him from running roughshod over the defense.

It’s exactly what happened in the Superbowl. The Chiefs clearly had a gameplan that neutralized Barkley, but that doesn’t mean he was a “nonfactor” as so many pundits described. The opposite was happening during the regular season, which helped him run all day. But when he had a chance to set the record, he said “no” because getting injured would have hurt the team, and it wasn’t worth it to him.

Did anyone else have a teacher that would tell everyone not to power off their computers and then flip off the breaker to the computer lab? Speaking of bad power supplies…

I agree with you, and fuck Facebook for a variety of reasons. I’m not defending Meta in the slightest. Nor is the allegation even false. Meta employees seeded porn to improve their torrent ratios and increase the speed with which they downloaded unlicensed copyrighted content to train their AI models. That porn was available to anyone with access to the seed, including likely minors.

My point is that the pearl-clutching Helen Lovejoy act is a bit much. The last time I downloaded p2p porn was probably on Bearshare and it included a bonzi buddy, and I was a minor at the time, but I’m not going to pretend that it’s some line in the sand. I’m not going to apply a different moral standard to Facebook than I apply to myself or anyone else.

Focus on what they did, which is bad enough, and don’t frame it in a way that provides the “but everybody does it” defense.

I used that example because I didn’t want to use the same inflammatory rhetorical concept as the article. Some countries might have regulations related to “corruption” of minors for sharing anything inappropriate with them.

The “to minors” is a bit inflammatory. “Without any sense of discretion or propriety” is more accurate. It’s not like you seed torrents for specific people. P2P just doesn’t care if anyone is a minor or not, and downloading anything makes it available tl everyone anonymously. If you ever downloaded an R rated movie, you probably shared it with minors. The way it’s written makes it sound intentional and predatory.

As intended. Republicans want to prove that government is inefficient and incompetent.