I had more fun with Jurassic Park: Trespasser and Die By the Sword than I should have just because they had early physics engines.

I actually wonder if Trespasser would make a good VR conversion.

Still, the vast majority of Republicans are sticking by Trump, like 68-year-old Greg Votel, a retired law enforcement officer in Minnesota who said the president “can only do so much when you have a Congress that’s fighting him tooth and nail to preserve the Democratic Party” and told NPR that it will take more time for Trump’s plans to come to fruition.

Almost all of them are still too chickenshit to call out their dommy daddy publicly for this totally unjustified war though.

Some Republicans in the House were more blunt when speaking anonymously. The terms of the deal contradicted the talking points that the White House asked its Republican allies to use, Republicans told Politico.

One House Republican said the Trump administration was “lying to some degree” about the peace deal.

“The president didn’t mean to, but he effectively acknowledged he lost the war. It’s no longer worth the economic price. This is the way out, as ugly as it is,” another House Republican told the publication.

“He promised total surrender. And here it is,” a third House Republican said.

All that gas for one little turd.

Wait, I thought Grok was the one people use to make CSAM?

The problem is that Vance’s knee-jerk reaction to being challenged by a woman is to patronize or dismiss, and an all-female panel in front of an all-female studio audience wasn’t going to allow that. He’s also terrible at being, or even seeming, off-the-cuff and candid. When he said that Trump’s economic policies were going to “pay serious dividends” and Behar immediately asked, “When?” his smile began to wear thin as he hit back: “Well, Joy, what happens is that construction jobs build the factories and people go back to work.” It was condescending and weak all at once.

Corporations and billionaires spend a ton of money to prevent people in the USA from having access to basic medical services as a way to limit professional mobility, forcing folks to stay in exploitative jobs which they hate.

“What a fool I am,” the fox said. “Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth sweating over.”

And off he walked very, very scornfully.

Secret police (or political police) are police, intelligence or security agencies that engage in covert operations against a government’s political, ideological or social opponents and dissidents. Secret police organizations are characteristic of police states governed by authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. They protect the political power of a dictator or regime and often operate outside the law to repress dissidents and weaken political opposition, frequently using violence.

I had a ton of fun with Dragon’s Dogma 2. The quests are kind of basic, but the combat is incredible and the traversal is actually compelling.

They do very interesting mechanics with the open world, too.

Kennedy has said that he does not want to see a “wild west” of alternative therapies developing in the US. Yet in the same breath, he conceded that opening up the country to such providers will lead to “charlatans and people who have bad results, but ultimately you can’t prevent that”. The Guardian has contacted the US health department and the FDA but did not receive a reply.

It is literally his job to prevent that.

Yeah, that document is discussed pretty far into the article. CW: sexual abuse.

In the emails, Ransome claimed that she knew a girl in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring named Jen, who said she had sex with Trump. Ransome also claimed that Jen had told her that Trump had a predilection for nipples and that he had aggressively flicked and sucked hers. Ransome wrote that she had seen evidence when she shared a bathroom with Jen. “They looked incredibly painful as they were red and swollen and I remember wincing when I looked at them,” she wrote.

Ransome’s credibility was not uncomplicated; she had made another claim that she possessed video footage of prominent men having sex with young girls in Epstein’s entourage. She later retracted the claims, saying she feared for herself and her family if she proceeded. But after a federal judge ordered the unsealing of some of the Giuffre case files in 2023, the document that connected Trump to the claim about abused nipples was among the material that came out. It was an unconfirmed allegation and had not been made publicly, but the disclosure led to some articles that were quickly lost in the swirl of election-year news.

Let’s Not Date did a hilarious troll about this.

Privately, [Bongino] seethed. In conversations with confidants, he lamented what the job had cost him: millions of dollars in podcast revenue, family time, his audience. He was getting torn apart over a strategy he had opposed from the start.

Poor baby. Is protecting the most powerful pedophile in the world not as profitable as you’d hoped? What a chode.

The only thing that ghouls like Nancy Mace believe in is power. This has got to sting.

Love that for her.

Tuberville is the dumbest person in Congress, and that’s a very tight race since Gohmert retired.

Also, I’m sick of these entitled sacks of bone and smeg being able to do whatever they want. Being told “no” must be a completely alien concept to them.

In that case, why are protestents considered Christians when most of them also have a different Biblical cannon from the Catholic Church?

There’s no easy way to do it; I consider “Christian” the umbrella term for anyone who considers Jesus to be their savior, then get more specific about type from there.