- wallow in your ignorance?

That would be like diving into the Pacific.

Hopefully she gets earplugs for Christmas.

*4. Is inflation higher today than it was when Trump took office?

Yes

*editing mistakes were made

"So, newly armed with this Trump-endorsed tool for uncovering the truth, we naturally decided to ask it a few questions about some of our factually challenged president's favorite subjects.

1. Who won the 2020 presidential election?"

Biden.

2. Who pays for tariffs?

Here's the relevant portion: "After the importer pays, the extra cost can be absorbed by the importer, passed to U.S. buyers in higher prices, or (in part) absorbed by foreign exporters through lower prices. How much each group pays is an economic estimate, not a single legal rule.

Nonpartisan and official analyses often find that U.S. businesses and

(And if you're worried that I'm taking things out of context, you can see the bot's full answer here.)

3. Is climate change a "hoax"?

No.

3. Is climate change a "hoax"?

No.

5. Where was Barack Obama born?

Hawaii.

(see full answers at the link)

"YOU"RE FIRED!" - Donald Jane Trump

Hilarious... LHT still living in Ronald Reagan's Black Welfare Queens driving Cadillacs fantasy world... as if that's the common real world facts, which it wasn't then, and still isn't now.

#37

According to Rundgren's Theory, people, young guys particularly, started playing video games in the 90's rather than making music, so there's since been a dearth of good new music, leaving the old songs and bands to still be popular.

Perhaps that's so, I don't know.

(which theory is what was interesting to me about the article, not Rundgren's popularity or Gen-bashing)

WASHINGTON (AP) " Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, who brought two federal indictments against President Donald Trump, told lawmakers on Tuesday that he "will not be silenced by continued threats of prosecution" from the Trump administration and that he believes the rule of law is being threatened like never before.

Smith also told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he stands behind the criminal cases he brought against Trump, a Republican, and that he and his team acted without regard to politics.

"I made those decisions without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs or candidacy in the 2024 presidential election," Smith said.

"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation. If asked whether to prosecute a former president today based on the same facts, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat."

LIVE

So, Boaz, was pulled out of someone's... what?

#34

If karma reigns, his Gen will be blamed for the AI Apocalypse(s).

- inability to leave the stage gracefully, always have to be center of attention.

But enough about 1Nut...

- But "legend" is a big stretch, even for a clickbait headline.

About par for the course for clickbait... but again, enough about 1Nut.

- I vaguely recognized the name

"Rundgren is considered a pioneer in the fields of electronic music, progressive rock, music videos, computer software, and Internet music delivery.[5]

He organized the first interactive television concert in 1978, designed the first color graphics tablet in 1980, and created the first interactive album, No World Order, in 1993.[2][6]

Additionally, he was one of the first acts to be prominent as both an artist and producer.[4]

His notable production credits include Badfinger's Straight Up (1971), Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band (1973), the New York Dolls' New York Dolls (1973), Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell (1977), and XTC's Skylarking (1986).

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021."

more

As I may have mentioned before, DJT is a classic example of a Dark Triad Personality:

He likes Gaga as a musical artist, just not Swift, with which I could agree.

The point he made that I found interesting is that kids, mostly guys, in the 90's were sitting around playing video games, while the kids in the 60's and 70's were sitting around playing, composing, and listening to music.

- pulls up the ladder behind him

In what respect, dummy?

By inventing Call of Duty?

Trolls are bad enough, ignorant trolls are the worst.

#16

RLR for the, Getting the Point Win!

#8

I liked that last one!

"But the stories have faded from the headlines as the years have gone by. Feminism has gone dramatically out of style, with the big women's rights NGOs wounded enough by Dobbs and attacks from the Trump administration that they have been largely unable to push their agenda in either media or policy, and algorithmic social media driving a rise in gender conservatism and politicized misogyny, particularly among young men.

But maybe more importantly, abortion has ceased to be a story because the horrors of abortion bans have ceased to be news:

the US has grown used to the swift and dramatic erosion of women's health and status that has followed Dobbs, grown used to the horror stories and upward ticking body counts, grown into ease, and even a kind of compliant boredom, with women's death and indignity."

more at the thread link

"America's Clean Car Retreat Is Complete. The World Will Move On Without Us

U.S. regulators are trying to slow down the transition to EVs. But Europe and China aren't going to wait up for us."

All of this was avoidable. None of it is surprising. And it leaves big, big question marks about whether American firms can stay relevant globally."

1Nut is outraged at Cali Lumpers!

He's actually turning red (Chinese)!

"Trump is eyeing an export ban on U.S. diesel. It could cause gas prices to soar, experts warn.

"The longer a diesel export ban lasts, the more disruptive it would likely be by putting upward pressure on gasoline prices because diesel, gasoline and jet fuel are largely produced together," Goldman Sachs analysts said in the report.

"Therefore, downward pressure on diesel production can mean downward pressure on gasoline production, i.e. upward price pressure on gasoline."

"Trump parts Pink Transmission Fluid Sea!" - Visitor

I was shocked 20 years ago when my daughter's high school boyfriend and her's song was, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", circa 1969.

Their friends were already listening to Led Zeppelin and The Who... so, this phenomena has been going on for some time now.

Never really thought about video games garnering more attention than music for kids in the 90's being causal, but well, maybe so.

"The latest polls show approval ratings among white voters have dropped, putting Trump underwater in six states where he had net approval ratings of 14 points or more at the start of his term.

Kentucky recorded the largest movement, a 32-point shift in net approval from positive 29 to negative 3.

Texas followed with a 30-point swing, while Missouri moved 26 points.

Alaska's rating changed by 22 points, compared with 21 points in Ohio and 19 points in Arizona."

;;

Which is why we'll have ICE at the Polls rather than Brooks Bros Riots.

"The biggest artists in the world are female artists at this point, and that's because of video games," Rundgren said.

He suggested that the music industry responded by focusing more heavily on young female consumers, citing Swift, Lady Gaga and P!nk among the artists who emerged in the decades that followed.

But Rundgren drew a sharp distinction between Gaga and Swift.

"Lady Gaga, she's a real musician," he said, pointing to her abilities as a piano player. Of Swift, however, Rundgren declared, "She doesn't do anything particularly great except grow hair."

He continued by criticizing Swift as a singer, songwriter and dancer, although he acknowledged the enormous cultural connection she has built with generations of women.

"She's a role model for what was a very young generation of women, and now for those women's daughters as well," Rundgren said, noting that mothers and daughters now attend Swift's concerts together."

"Earlier in the interview, Rundgren discussed the way younger listeners are increasingly discovering music made decades before they were born.

He said he now sees second- and even third-generation fans at his own concerts, including people whose parents or grandparents first introduced them to his music.

"There's a percentage of people in any particular generation who just get tired of listening to what everybody's listening to and want to find something different," he explained.

"You can't travel into the future, so you go to the past."
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Less efficient fuel standards equals more profit for oil companies, more costs for consumers, and more pollution for everyone.

Tell me those Big Oil Bribes to Trump aren't paying off big time!