Slate has an article today on it. In a nutshell, where X is becoming less useful for news and sports reporting, and Threads is actively hostile to such, Bluesky is focusing on features that support it.
I just did.
Which is funny because I never heart “skeeting” as a term for ejaculation before. Kids these days! I swear.
Now I understand Skeet Ulrich a bit better.
Really, guys? Dave Chapelle was joking about that word 20 years ago.
So? He’s never talked to me.
That you know of.
Is there an example of this? I don’t want to download the font just to see it.
This site has an example:
I don’t see any other example other than the one in the original.
The name is not a graphic. That is what the font looks like:
Here I could say, “Well, I sure do hope you’re right and I’m wrong.”
But while it’s not on topic for this thread, I see Trump has signaled he’ll appoint Matt Gaetz as AG. I wish I understood where you were getting your confidence from.
It’s not a matter of confidence, it’s a matter of living in reality. It’s like you’re saying I’m confident that everyone isn’t actually a lizard person who can breathe lightning. You’re suggesting something both absurd and completely at odds with all existing evidence; the idea that Trump can literally do anything he wants regardless of what any law says. That idea makes Sovereign Citizens sound reasonable by comparison.
I also don’t think you’re stupid enough to actually believe that bullshit and you’re just posting out of depressed rage and defeat. Which I get somewhat, but snap the fuck out of it already.
Note that what you said is that Trump doesn’t need Congressional approval to do anything; he’s all-powerful. So by your reasoning, if he wants to appoint Gaetz and he can’t get the Senate to agree, he does it anyway and it just magically happens because Trump.
To put it another way; it’s not illegal to blow up the Moon, but that doesn’t mean Trump can blow up the Moon.
Well said.
There’s an excluded middle between “Trump can do anything he wants” and “Trump is subject to the rule of law.” I don’t think Trump can blow up the moon or suspend elections. I do think he can effectively bypass Senate confirmation simply by acting as if he already had such confirmation. What’s the price he’d pay for skipping that step—impeachment and removal from office? Ha ha ha ha ha.
A person with a meaningless title who has no actual authority to do anything, when he wants someone useful who can implement things he wants.
It’s the same thing he’d get for naming a cockatiel the vice vice president.
Trump: From now on Kid Rock is Secretary of Transportation whether the Senate confirms him or not
Kid Rock: Hey, TSA, from now on it’s legal to bring firecrackers in your carryon
TSA: No
Ah, so it’s just a joke thing. Thanks.
Who in the TSA is ignoring Kid Rock’s orders? They’re fired. Next person steps up and refuses to recognize Kid Rock’s authority? Fired. Fired, fired, fired, until only Trump toadies are left.
I mean, yeah, I don’t think he blow up the moon, or, say, invade Canada. Could he round up immigrants, revoke their citizenship, and deport them? 100%. Who’s going to stop him? If anyone tries, they’re gonna be gone.
Is it illegal to summarily fire government employees like that? Who cares. Who’s going to stop him? Impeachment? Yeah right. The courts? They’re either going to find some BS justification for his actions, or he’s just going to ignore the rulings. And anyone in his orbit who doesn’t pretend like the courts have no authority over him will be fired.
What Trump can probably already pull off with a Republican majority in Congress and a SCOTUS that has already made shockingly bad decisions in his favor recently, that’s pretty fucking scary.
We don’t need to just assume he can literally do anything and go hide in a cave in Bora Bora to wait out the end times.
When I say things like “Trump can do anything”, some of it is indeed hyperbole, but it’s also somewhat because the guardrails are often staffed by people who will let him do (almost) anything.
He wants to appoint Gaetz? The Senate will agree. He wants to create a new cabinet position? The Senate will agree, or SCOTUS will, or whoever needs to agree for it to happen.
Congress and SCOTUS do have limits. I think those limits are somewhere between steronz’s fear (he can do anything) and your confidence that the rule of law is absolute.