As someone who just finished HZD and is now starting the sequel, damn but this is a good analogy. Here’s hoping Musk doesn’t accidentally cause Armageddon. I don’t think we have many Dr. Sobecks around to counteract him.

If a company fires an employee for violating a previously vetted, perfectly normal company policy, then they will make a point of including that in the termination paperwork, specifically to forestall actionability and to establish their own non-liability in any potential future litigation. If you think putting “no…

fuck off, troll

Strap in!

I mean, they didn’t list a reason why they fired him on his paperwork. And if a company has a good reason to fire someone, they’ll tattoo it on their forehead. The lack of a reason given is pretty good evidence that they didn’t have a policy he broke, otherwise they’d be crowing about it. They probably have such a…

Okie doke.

Is Pete a dick for doing this? Sure. Is Kanye a basket case whose untreated mental health issues are causing actual problems for Kim, Pete, the kids, and the rest of their families? Yes, undoubtedly. Chiding Pete for being a dick *in response to continuous harassment and abuse in the media* is not a good look.

Pete’s not the psychopath here.

When the fuck did 50 senators with a tie-breaking VP become a super-majority?

There was a time when the Gish Gallop was limited to pathetically inadequate fringe conservatives sitting on the sidelines shouting “debate me!” to disinterested passers-by. Now it’s the main Republican legislative methodology.

Presumably falling into bed (this time literally) with another pseudo-intellectual grifter with vague claims of being liberal but an actual history of conservatism. It’s become something of a pattern with her.

Hasn’t Chelsea been through enough?

Weird that I could read the headline, the subtitle, and the first line of the article without finding out which city this is talking about. Some of us don’t live in New England!

Democrats doing the dumping, Republicans are the trash.

That’s basically my whole point. In order for America to function as it nominally has been, without descending into some sort of theocracy or kleptocratic authoritarianism, the Democrats need to play hardball and actually work to shore up democracy-even if that means their individual careers may be on the line. But…

So what you’re saying is that we voted and even though the Democrats won, they’re still the minority party in the Senate?

I mean, there are solutions. Extreme ones, to be sure (expand the Supreme Court, add term limits, get rid of the filibuster, etc), but America is in a position right now where we have one party of extremists who are willing to break the rules, and another party of moderates who won’t even hold the extremists…

Somehow there’s never the votes. Somehow there’s always a Manchin or a Sinema who’s ready to take the hit so we don’t have to actually make any progress. I agree that not voting is gonna make things worse, but it’s pretty hard to justify “voting will make things better” at this point. The modern GOP is an amoral death…

Please, please, please, please, please actually read what I said.

You gotta work on your reading comprehension, champ.