That’s the thing though–i really don’t see this going away. This has been a lightning rod for a long time and everybody wants to know who’s on that list. We know Trump had exceptionally close ties to Epstein, no amount of gaslighting is going to swing that many people to forget that.

No doubt he’ll continue to do stuff to deflect and attempt to let it cycle out of the news, and perhaps it will work again. But it’ll always be a tempting cudgel for them to use bc of Bill Clinton’s trips there…it’s their proof that the entire Democrat party is comprised of rapists and pedos. Without that, what do they really have?

I mean, being a guest to his island really does represent the basest and most foul behaviors of humans. It’s no wonder they love being able to paint their enemies with it. But the fact that their god-emperor has such incredibly undeniably close ties with him? That’s the only thing that could have fucked it up for him, and by golly there it is. Of all the things to come back and bite Mr. Grab-em-by-the-pussy, go figure it’s his history of participation in organized rape, pedophilia, and abuse 👀

Sure pal

Edit: tagged you they/them

Have a nice weekend, champ

Link without paywall: https://archive.ph/vr4CD

And my favorite quote, when another Republican rep started jumping on the reporter after Trump’s initial dig:

Conservative Rep. Chip Roy took a moment to slam the media while speaking.

“For all of the media clamoring to ask that ridiculous first question and try to point fingers, the governor said it best when he said pointing fingers is for losers,” the GOP lawmaker said.

🥴👉

Edit: looks like we have a real answer, and this is likely why Donald was extra-quick to lash out at that first reporter. Excerpt taken from this article

In 2021, the Biden administration awarded Kerr County $10.2 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue a warning system.

At an April 2022 meeting, one citizen called the White House a “criminal treasonous communist government,” urging the county to reject the money altogether. Others echoed that sentiment, saying they didn’t want the federal government’s help.

“We don’t want to be bought by the federal government, thank you very much,” a resident said. “We’d like the federal government to stay out of Kerr County and their money.”

While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff’s department upgrades and public employee stipends.

Huh? I’m a dummy–teach me this arcane English rule that i wasn’t aware of until now. For what it’s worth though: Have you always held such righteous standards for dialogue? Hard to follow what people are saying when they (oops!) speak with the wrong perspective? You must struggle in the modern world, the way people eviscerate our language publicly pretty much 24/7. I’d feel bad for you if you seemed like a decent person.

They’re running late?

disaster

Better get FEMA on the case! Oh, wait… 🫠

“delicate moment” 🥴

We know at least Trump, Leon, and Bill Gates were all frequent flyers there. It’s a start!

Yes

A shame because they’re still fixable all these years later while the new shit is going obsolete before your very eyes

I’m seeing 20+year old machines taking the same work load as newer machines a fraction of their age and they’re still going just fine while some of the new ones are breaking for no reason outside shitty electronics and/or plastic garbage components. I guess it is survivorship bias. Whatever the case i still can’t take anyone seriously when they claim modern appliances are better than the older stuff. Reliability is a key feature of an appliance but also serviceability in the long term and neither of those are features of modern appliances (at least prole-grade appliances like i work on)

No u

Found another

Noted ✅

There’s no comparison between an old Maytag washer and dryer and a new/current Maytag washer and dryer. This is a case where survivorship bias does not apply, imo. Appliances were built more durable back in the day. There are plenty of older appliances working just fine today while some stuff under 5 years is already getting scrapped because it’s too expensive to fix and/or parts aren’t even available. It’s total nonsense

That’s the same way i look at it. How much energy is involved in building a new washing machine? How much energy is spent scrapping it? So much waste. I recently had a run of energy-efficient washing machines that all had the same problem with the main CPU board. In 2 weeks i had 4 instances all come out of the woodwork. Only 1 opted for the repair but it cost them almost as much as a new washer. The rest got scrapped. These washers were all about 2 years old when i witnessed this phenomenon (and I ran into yet another one just a couple weeks ago)… Other techs online are sharing similar reports.

Not only are they over-engineering the fuck out of these things for “energy efficiency” which i swear is just an umbrella they use to cover their real goals–to make appliances less user and tech friendly. They want their guys selling their overpriced junk and bespoke computers/sensors/gizmos so they can extract every last cent of value out of the product, then try to sell you another one every 3-5 years almost like leasing a car.

Still, that doesn’t mean the tech used to extract greater efficiency is a bad idea – it’s all the approach they take to get there. They’re making the cheapest tech possible while trying to sell it for the most $. These digital electronics they design to handle the various functions that give them such energy efficiency are often made with design flaws that aren’t worked out before release and/or they’re made with the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel components and/or manufacturing standards. If they wanted to make nearly-indestructible computers and sensors and transmissions and motors they absolutely could. They could even make them extremely energy efficient as well, but it’s simply not gonna happen.

Energy efficiency is a valid goal, but if that’s really what they’re going for they need to make some major changes to the way they’re approaching it. The engineers in these companies are too smart for this to be the best they can do.

As a repair guy that gives a shit about his customers, i encourage folks to fix their older appliances when feasible. I prefer the older stuff and find them to be easier to diagnose and repair a lot of the time.

A couple years ago i had an elderly lady with a Kitchen Aid washer and dryer that were in pristine condition. Based on some lookups, i determined the units to be 37 years old. Until that day, neither unit had been serviced once. Dryer needed a new door switch, lol. To be fair though, i got another call on the dryer a couple years later and it had a bad motor. Almost 40 years with virtually trouble-free operation! They loved the unit and didn’t want to deal with the flimsy bullshit on the market today so they opted to repair it. I overhauled the dryer in addition to replacing the motor and it’s quiet as the day it was new. What a well-built machine!

Oldest dryer i still service has to be from the 60’s or something – one of those old Maytag dryers that just has the timer in the center of the control panel and you push the timer in to start it. I swear the motors on some of those old units may never die, lol.

Loving how every reply is being met with a “you can’t read!” instead of explaining wherever you believe the disconnect may be. It’s not you that’s wrong, it’s every person who’s replying to your comment that “doesn’t know how to read”

If only they knew how to read you could save yourself so much exasperation.

Seriously though, spell it out for us dunces in the back. What is everyone missing here?

Just grab em by the dongle

A skillfully utilized Sharpie will be our only hope moving forward