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• On the post: Fired Antitrust Official Reveals How Trump’s Friends Turned Justice Into A Pay-To-Play Business

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2025 @ 10:45am

  He'd just found a Trump Institute for Democratic Reform, and milk the MAGA crowd even more than he has.

• On the post: Fired Antitrust Official Reveals How Trump’s Friends Turned Justice Into A Pay-To-Play Business

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2025 @ 02:07pm

  I suspect Alford does know better, but as a lawyer he is savvy enough to feign a superficial naivete, to protect himself from a defamation lawsuit.

• On the post: Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2025 @ 01:52pm

  What is wild is that you want everyone to pay the cost for you to access porn

  That's a slur that splashes both ways.

• On the post: Trump Pretends Crime Rates Are Up To Justify Sending Troops To DC Streets. Too Many Americans Believe Him.

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2025 @ 05:11pm

  We don't believe in deflections or non sequiturs, either. It's amazing how good MAGA types are at misapplying simple, straight-forward logical arguments.

• On the post: Trump Cuts Kill The Corporation For Public Broadcasting, Harming All Of Us

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 16 Aug, 2025 @ 05:06pm

  ... overwhelmingly preferring lies and half-truths that comfort their biases...

  I can't tell if that's just a typo, or a deliberate, clever turn of phrase. But it works very well.

• On the post: Trump’s Military Campaign Against American Cities Expands

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 15 Aug, 2025 @ 02:23pm

  So far, the only "info" I've seen on this claim is the single deeply biased, consistently irrational, dependably inaccurate, and notoriously unreliable source, one "Koby"... ... Why is anyone wasting time / extending the courtesy of treating it as a factual claim?

• On the post: The Trump Administration Is Deliberately Destroying The Democratic Process

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2025 @ 01:21pm

  Trump is just the figurehead. The people enabling him are somewhat more competent, and less in the spotlight while they carry out their agendas, using Trump for political cover.

• On the post: Is It Still ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ If All The Predictions Were Accurate?

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2025 @ 09:10pm

  What "they" either don't understand, or have an active interest in concealing, is that Trump is effectively a cat's paw for a loose coalition of interests (wealthy, christian nationalist, white supremacist) who have been pursuing their agenda(s) for decades now -- and these interests are effectively many of the same aforesaid, alleged "adults in the room" that supposedly would reign Trump in. They mostly don't like, even despise, Trump. But as long as he's useful enough, they'll continue to enable him. (They're gambling that they can ride the tiger for now, and can manage to dismount without paying too high a price for it, when the ride becomes more trouble than it's worth.)

• On the post: Trump Pretends Crime Rates Are Up To Justify Sending Troops To DC Streets. Too Many Americans Believe Him.

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2025 @ 04:49pm

  To the contrary -- you are factually "making shit up".

• On the post: Trump Cuts Kill The Corporation For Public Broadcasting, Harming All Of Us

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 10 Aug, 2025 @ 12:32pm

  They are. That's what this is MAGA crap and Project 2025 are about.

• On the post: Trump Cuts Kill The Corporation For Public Broadcasting, Harming All Of Us

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2025 @ 11:58am

  Don't believe you.

  If you actually listened to NPR, you'd actually know what words like 'single', 'partisan', 'left' and 'terrible' actually mean. And you'd have a better grasp on basic reality as well.

• On the post: Smart Home Device Maker Renders Devices Dumb Unless A New Subscription Is Paid For

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2025 @ 08:43pm

  "You will own nothing, and if you're not happy, that's just too bad -- we'll fight you for control over the stuff you've already bought and paid for."

• On the post: Don’t Vibe Check Me, Bro; Or How To Deal With Comments In An Era Filled With Post-Factual Nazis

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2025 @ 11:58am

  Granted that the word regime might be a bit of a stretch, a lot of this argument rests on precisely how one defines 'regime'. And to be fair to Regime Guy, these days "Trump administration" seems just as big a stretch.

• On the post: Exercise Bike Company Yanks Features Away From Purchased Bikes Via Firmware Update

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2025 @ 09:51am

  You will own nothing, and (not) be happy. (But what'cha gonna do about it? Too bad; so sad.)

• On the post: FCC To Install A ‘Bias Monitor’ At New CBS To Ensure Network Kisses Trump’s Ass

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2025 @ 04:32pm

  Don't turn around. Der Kommissar's in town.

• On the post: Judge Reinstates Fired FTC Commissioner While Everyone (Including The Judge) Knows The Supreme Court Will Overturn

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2025 @ 11:53am

  The Prodigal Posts

  Sorry for the extra posts -- I tried several times but my posts kept disappearing into the void. It appears a couple eventually returned.

• On the post: Judge Reinstates Fired FTC Commissioner While Everyone (Including The Judge) Knows The Supreme Court Will Overturn

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2025 @ 02:59pm

  WTF? (insert eye-roll emoji here)

  ... Now that the Supreme Court is interpreting laws according to the Constitution - rather than ideology... Seriously. Do you even listen to yourselves?

  Same question, right back at you.

• On the post: Judge Reinstates Fired FTC Commissioner While Everyone (Including The Judge) Knows The Supreme Court Will Overturn

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2025 @ 02:57pm

  Logic isn't exactly your strong suit, I see.

• On the post: Judge Reinstates Fired FTC Commissioner While Everyone (Including The Judge) Knows The Supreme Court Will Overturn

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2025 @ 02:48pm

  So when the Warren Court set decades of left-wing precedent (including Chevron and Roe) leftists cheered. Now that the Supreme Court is interpreting laws according to the Constitution -- rather than ideology -- leftists get mad and propose just ditching the Constitution altogether. And you’re the same ones complaining that Trump is instigating a “Constitutional crisis…” Seriously. Do you even listen to yourselves?

  [Insert eye-roll emoji here] Same damn question, right back at you.

• On the post: Judge Reinstates Fired FTC Commissioner While Everyone (Including The Judge) Knows The Supreme Court Will Overturn

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 22 Jul, 2025 @ 04:06pm

  You're not very good at following a logical argument, are you? Per the fine article, a major part of her decision was simply laying out how that's not a bone fide argument here... in other words, that the precedents aren't "bad" or "wrongly decided", just -- in the present case -- politically inconvenient to the current administration.

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