For something that's the complete opposite of 2K Games here, remember the saga of Stardew Valley (from the archives). That's the game that had people buying and gifting copies to the people trying to pirate it.
Saphier is also very anti-trans. Erin in the Morning reports:
She has also taken a hard line against transgender people. In a podcast episode featuring a detransitioner, she called being transgender a "fad" and a "trend," framed trans youth as part of a mental health "national emergency," and suggested that children identify as transgender primarily because of unstable home environments and peer pressure rather than genuine gender dysphoria. She has also falsely equated being transgender with body dysmorphic disorder, stating, "A lot of these transgender medical interventions are the exact same way. It's just another pathway of promoting body dysmorphic disorder."
This is, of course, a load of horsecrap.
The comparison is clinically wrong—body dysmorphic disorder involves a distorted perception of one's own appearance, where a person fixates on flaws that are minor or nonexistent. Gender dysphoria is the opposite: a person perceives their body accurately, and the distress arises from the conflict between that body and their gender identity.
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If confirmed, Saphier would become the nation's “top doctor” at a moment when the Trump administration is already waging an unprecedented campaign against transgender people—including passports, hospital threats, television characters, school forced outing policies, and more.
We do not need anyone else picking on us right now.
There are at least three possible reasons why this prosecution was brought:
It’s a warning to everyone else on Orange Felon’s “enemies list” that Orange Felon can have them prosecuted basically on a whim. He could literally get upset that he woke up with a load in his diaper and prosecute somebody.
It’s a message to Federal prosecutors: Play along with Orange Felon’s revenge campaign, or you’ll be fired and replaced with someone who will. No matter how effective a prosecutor you are. No matter how much of a dumbass your replacement is. Cooperate, or face the unemployment line.
It’s a message to We the People: Publicly criticize Orange Felon at your peril. Even if the charges will get laughed out of court, you still have to expend time and money defending yourself. (Call it a SPAPP - Strategic Prosecution Against Public Participation, by analogy with SLAPP. And it’s even more odious than a SLAPP.)
If calling for Kimmel's firing (again) was a "five alarm fire," this should be a goddamned air raid siren.
This is an attempt to silence an entire television network because one comedian made a joke that hit too close to home.
Never mind that it's not gonna happen, practically. This is getting into dangerous territory.
Well, the R7800 still works just fine, and I've got a spare on the basement shelf if it decides to crap out on me. (Always keep spares of critical hardware on hand...)
I've got a Netgear Nighthawk R7800 in the basement right now, calmly doing its job routing our home network. Of course, I put OpenWrt on it.
Which leads into the recommendation I have for anyone buying a Netgear router: do not trust the stock firmware. Put open-source firmware on it. If any part of it has been jimmied for surveillance or anything else Netgear could have been forced to agree to, it's most likely the firmware.
I'm thinking that, after the 2026 primaries are over, there's going to be a huge revolt against the Orange Felon, as all those red state Congresscritters start realizing that, if they try to run on their record of brown-nosing the Orange Felon, there's a very real chance they'll get creamed.
Remember, in special elections across the board in 2025 and 2026, Democrats have been cleaning up, getting elected even in districts that heavily favored Orange Felon in 2024. The most recent example is of Emily Gregory, a Democrat who just won an election for the Florida State House in a district that includes Donny's vermin-infested Motel-a-Lago, one that he won by 10 points in 2024.
Yeah, Donny could try to get them primaried in the next election, but, if it's a case of "lose now or lose later," a lot of them will try to avoid losing now. After all, if they've already won their primaries this year, what's he going to do? Endorse the Democrat?
Still, no matter what happens, if it's a fair election, it's going to be an absolute bloodbath for Republicans. That's why the Orange Felon is trying so hard to get the "Save America By Rigging The Elections (and Also Some Stuff About Trans) Act" rammed through.
the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.
This from the guy who asserts that double-tapping "drug boats" in international waters is "lawful."
This is one reason why I believe that one of the first actions of a sane administration in 2029 must be to enter into the Statutes of Rome, placing the U.S. under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and then hand Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand over to The Hague to stand trial on charges of war crimes and/or crimes against humanity, right alongside ICE Barbie the Puppy Perforator, Li'l Marco, Nosferatu McGoebbels, Couchf**ker McGee, and the Orange Felon himself.
In my mind, the next President should issue an executive order reading much like this:
Whereas I find that the MAGA ideology, as espoused by former President Donald Trump and as enshrined in the "Project 2025" document from the Heritage Foundation, is inherently authoritarian, pedophilic, and fascist in nature, and as such, is anathema to the Constitution and people of the United States; andWhereas the events over the second term of the former President (2025-2029) bear witness to the nature of this ideology;Therefore be it ordered that anyone advocating or promoting the MAGA/Trumpist ideology henceforth SHALL be liable under 18 USC § 2385, advocating the overthrow of the government, and shall be subject to prosecution and sentencing under that provision as prescribed by law.
(Yes, the language will need fixing up, by someone who is an actual lawyer.)
Effectively, our government has been overthrown by the Orange Felon and his ilk. A measure like this would emphasize that we can't let it happen again.
There will be a reckoning.
At some point, this criminal Administration will be out of office, and sane individuals will be elected to the Presidency and Congress. And, when that happens, those that have perpetrated crimes and abuses must answer for them.
Two things should happen here:
First, the United States should formally join the Statutes of Rome, subjecting it to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. At that point, we should then hand over the highest-level criminals of this administration (Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller, others) to the Court, to stand trial on charges of war crimes and/or crimes against humanity.
Second, there must be a Nuremberg-style trial for all officers of ICE. For those guilty of the most heinous crimes, we must erect gallows.
There are other aspects of the reckoning that should happen, including measures, both in statute and in Constitutional Amendment, to ensure that, like the Holocaust, this never happens again. We will never be able to hold our heads up among the free nations of the world again unless this is done.
There will be a reckoning.
Maybe we should be encouraging him to waste time on piddly-ass grifts like the Trump Phone. That way he'd have less time to spend on things like crashing the economy, sending thugs out to murder American citizens on the streets of Minneapolis, and blacking his name out in all of the Epstein Files.
Any analysis of using the courts to somehow declare that the Orange Felon has "abandoned" his office must take into account the fact that the present Supreme Court is also compromised.
The current conservative majority of six has already declared the Orange Felon to be A Very Special Boy Who Gets to Crime All He Wants. There is no way that they will support any attempt to declare the Presidency vacant.
Sadly, the Framers don't seem to have provided any escape hatch in the case of a government where all three branches have been compromised. The only other remote possibility would be an Article V Convention of States that could amend the Constitution to deal with this, but you'd need at least 38 states on board to ensure any remediating amendment gets ratified, and that seems equally unlikely.
Keep in mind that Concerned Ape is basically one guy, Eric Barone, from Seattle. And he's probably scared sh*tless that any attempt to raise objection to Orange Felon's IP appropriation would result in his being targeted by unhinged MAGA supporters, maybe even threatening his life.
If Barone has or knows any good lawyers, he might file something in court, which is a lot more impersonal, but even that wouldn't guarantee that he wouldn't start needing bodyguards.
As an engineer who's now been laid off for over a year, this would be attractive, except for a few things:
1. They're probably only opening opportunities up to people who are currently employed by a FAANG/Mag7/BATMMAAN company or equivalent, for grift reasons mentioned above.
2. I'm a trans woman. Do you think this administration is going to want me around? Especially when they're doing their damnedest to eliminate me and my kind?
3. I wouldn't work for Orange Felon and his Confederacy of Sewer Clowns anyway.
Bari Weiss, official zampolit (political officer) for CBS News, is hell-bent on turning the network of Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, and Connie Chung into "Fox News for people who know which fork to use for the salad."
There will be a reckoning.
When the Orange Felon and his Confederacy of Sewer Clowns have departed office, there will be Nuremberg-style trials against all those who have engaged in acts contrary to the Constitution of this nation. And, as at the original Nuremberg trials, "I was just following orders" will not be a defense.
(Personally, I would be 100% OK with the next President declaring Trumpist/MAGA ideology as inherently authoritarian and contrary to the Constitution, and that anyone espousing it shall be liable under 18 USC § 2385, advocating the overthrow of the government.)
For something that's the complete opposite of 2K Games here, remember the saga of Stardew Valley (from the archives). That's the game that had people buying and gifting copies to the people trying to pirate it.
Saphier is also very anti-trans. Erin in the Morning reports:
This is, of course, a load of horsecrap. [...] We do not need anyone else picking on us right now.I strongly suspect that Karp is playing to an audience of one…that one being the colicky piss-baby currently occupying the Oval Bordello.
There are at least three possible reasons why this prosecution was brought:
If calling for Kimmel's firing (again) was a "five alarm fire," this should be a goddamned air raid siren. This is an attempt to silence an entire television network because one comedian made a joke that hit too close to home. Never mind that it's not gonna happen, practically. This is getting into dangerous territory.
Two things to keep in mind:
- Do not buy any of these new routers until an OpenWrt installation is available for them.
- When you do buy one, install OpenWrt on it immediately, before putting it into service.
That should eliminate or minimize the "backdoor" possibility. The "bribe" possibility is the company's problem.Well, the R7800 still works just fine, and I've got a spare on the basement shelf if it decides to crap out on me. (Always keep spares of critical hardware on hand...)
I've got a Netgear Nighthawk R7800 in the basement right now, calmly doing its job routing our home network. Of course, I put OpenWrt on it. Which leads into the recommendation I have for anyone buying a Netgear router: do not trust the stock firmware. Put open-source firmware on it. If any part of it has been jimmied for surveillance or anything else Netgear could have been forced to agree to, it's most likely the firmware.
I’m surprised the MPAA hasn’t yet merged with the RIAA, forming the Music And Film Industry Association of America (MAFIAA).
I'm thinking that, after the 2026 primaries are over, there's going to be a huge revolt against the Orange Felon, as all those red state Congresscritters start realizing that, if they try to run on their record of brown-nosing the Orange Felon, there's a very real chance they'll get creamed. Remember, in special elections across the board in 2025 and 2026, Democrats have been cleaning up, getting elected even in districts that heavily favored Orange Felon in 2024. The most recent example is of Emily Gregory, a Democrat who just won an election for the Florida State House in a district that includes Donny's vermin-infested Motel-a-Lago, one that he won by 10 points in 2024. Yeah, Donny could try to get them primaried in the next election, but, if it's a case of "lose now or lose later," a lot of them will try to avoid losing now. After all, if they've already won their primaries this year, what's he going to do? Endorse the Democrat? Still, no matter what happens, if it's a fair election, it's going to be an absolute bloodbath for Republicans. That's why the Orange Felon is trying so hard to get the "Save America By Rigging The Elections (and Also Some Stuff About Trans) Act" rammed through.
Well, now the Orange Felon has kicked Little Miss Hair Extensions to the curb. So yeah.
In my mind, the next President should issue an executive order reading much like this: Whereas I find that the MAGA ideology, as espoused by former President Donald Trump and as enshrined in the "Project 2025" document from the Heritage Foundation, is inherently authoritarian, pedophilic, and fascist in nature, and as such, is anathema to the Constitution and people of the United States; and Whereas the events over the second term of the former President (2025-2029) bear witness to the nature of this ideology; Therefore be it ordered that anyone advocating or promoting the MAGA/Trumpist ideology henceforth SHALL be liable under 18 USC § 2385, advocating the overthrow of the government, and shall be subject to prosecution and sentencing under that provision as prescribed by law. (Yes, the language will need fixing up, by someone who is an actual lawyer.) Effectively, our government has been overthrown by the Orange Felon and his ilk. A measure like this would emphasize that we can't let it happen again.
There will be a reckoning. At some point, this criminal Administration will be out of office, and sane individuals will be elected to the Presidency and Congress. And, when that happens, those that have perpetrated crimes and abuses must answer for them. Two things should happen here: First, the United States should formally join the Statutes of Rome, subjecting it to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. At that point, we should then hand over the highest-level criminals of this administration (Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Stephen Miller, others) to the Court, to stand trial on charges of war crimes and/or crimes against humanity. Second, there must be a Nuremberg-style trial for all officers of ICE. For those guilty of the most heinous crimes, we must erect gallows. There are other aspects of the reckoning that should happen, including measures, both in statute and in Constitutional Amendment, to ensure that, like the Holocaust, this never happens again. We will never be able to hold our heads up among the free nations of the world again unless this is done. There will be a reckoning.
Maybe we should be encouraging him to waste time on piddly-ass grifts like the Trump Phone. That way he'd have less time to spend on things like crashing the economy, sending thugs out to murder American citizens on the streets of Minneapolis, and blacking his name out in all of the Epstein Files.
Any analysis of using the courts to somehow declare that the Orange Felon has "abandoned" his office must take into account the fact that the present Supreme Court is also compromised. The current conservative majority of six has already declared the Orange Felon to be A Very Special Boy Who Gets to Crime All He Wants. There is no way that they will support any attempt to declare the Presidency vacant. Sadly, the Framers don't seem to have provided any escape hatch in the case of a government where all three branches have been compromised. The only other remote possibility would be an Article V Convention of States that could amend the Constitution to deal with this, but you'd need at least 38 states on board to ensure any remediating amendment gets ratified, and that seems equally unlikely.
Keep in mind that Concerned Ape is basically one guy, Eric Barone, from Seattle. And he's probably scared sh*tless that any attempt to raise objection to Orange Felon's IP appropriation would result in his being targeted by unhinged MAGA supporters, maybe even threatening his life. If Barone has or knows any good lawyers, he might file something in court, which is a lot more impersonal, but even that wouldn't guarantee that he wouldn't start needing bodyguards.
As an engineer who's now been laid off for over a year, this would be attractive, except for a few things: 1. They're probably only opening opportunities up to people who are currently employed by a FAANG/Mag7/BATMMAAN company or equivalent, for grift reasons mentioned above. 2. I'm a trans woman. Do you think this administration is going to want me around? Especially when they're doing their damnedest to eliminate me and my kind? 3. I wouldn't work for Orange Felon and his Confederacy of Sewer Clowns anyway.
Bari Weiss, official zampolit (political officer) for CBS News, is hell-bent on turning the network of Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, and Connie Chung into "Fox News for people who know which fork to use for the salad."
There will be a reckoning. When the Orange Felon and his Confederacy of Sewer Clowns have departed office, there will be Nuremberg-style trials against all those who have engaged in acts contrary to the Constitution of this nation. And, as at the original Nuremberg trials, "I was just following orders" will not be a defense. (Personally, I would be 100% OK with the next President declaring Trumpist/MAGA ideology as inherently authoritarian and contrary to the Constitution, and that anyone espousing it shall be liable under 18 USC § 2385, advocating the overthrow of the government.)