The way things have been going lately, I would absolutely love to see Ted Cruz choose this to grow a spine on, and just absolutely goes off on Campbell’s.

The 10,000 roaches in a Rafael suit~ totally normal human Ted Cruz loves Campbells

When I married Ted, we got back from our honeymoon, and he went off to the store and came home by himself. And I was completely shocked to see that he arrived back at our apartment with literally 100 cans of Campbell’s Chunky soup. I never bought 100 of anything.

This was shocking to me, so we had a tough conversation about it. I said, “You don’t buy 100 of anything, much less canned soup. We can’t do this. I’ll be making things.” He said, “No, I know you. You won’t be making things.”

So the next morning, it was a weekend morning, I loaded up our car before he woke up and returned every single can. And when I got home, I called my mother just to make sure I’d done the right thing as a newlywed. And she emphatically disagreed with me. And so when Ted opened the pantry, I had to quickly tell him that I would go back and buy those cans again.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2016/04/ted-cruz-s-post-honeymoon-stockpiling-of-canned-soup-explained.html

As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone

They said “market price”… What market are you shopping at?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXrQYWbbIs

Local politicians are signing off for short term bribes, knowing it will destroy communities but they can just leave once it happens or even before

Nah, it would be different if that was it

At least some of them legit thought they were helping, and everyone else was an idiot.

Huge changes were given ridiculous deadlines and zero guidance. A lot of that shit won’t kick in till new year, agencies are legally required to follow thru, there’s no off ramp.

A lot of basic shit no one thinks about is going to stop breaking, in addition to the shit they intentionally broke.

Said it during the meeting too…

They asked about both, he gave a long diplomatic answer for despot, trump laughed and said he’d been called worse.

Reporters doubled down and asked about fascist, and trump quickly interrupted to say “just say yes”

Mamdani didn’t compromise at all, trump just loves him. Maybe he’s so demented and racist he thinks Mamdani should get credit for SA’s bribes?

The whole thing was wild.

You mean about Trump not paying people?

Do you think he personally signs the checks?

It was people in offices waiting to press a button on a computer, when the CR passed they were able to press the button.

I don’t know why you keep wanting to talk about snap, no one else was talking about snap but you keep mentioning it…

Yeah, but it’s been 11 days since CR…

I don’t know their pay schedule, but statistically speaking they were paid today at the latest.

What are you going off of?

I’m watching the press conference now, and I think a big part is Mamdani talks with his hands and has a bunch of giant flashy gold rings on.

trump just zones out like a baby watching someone jingle keys, and then says “I love this guy!” Probably without even realizing why.

I had to go back and look at old pics, he always wears them, but they’re insanely shiny in this video. I think he got them polished and trump has “jewelry store lights” that accentuate gold to make his spray painted home Depot shit look real.

So you come in with freshly polished real gold and it’s mesmerizing in comparison

Not 100% sure, but they should have received all their back pay including OT.

There’s also a bill moving to use an FAA fund that pays for any damage done to commandeered airplanes to pay ATC during in future shutdown.

And like, our last budget was FY24, we already lapped without a budget before anybody paid attention. I legitimately think will keeping using “continuing resolutions” until trump’s out of office.

Even if Dems sweep in midterms, trump won’t sign it if it’s not exactly what he wants.

I know what you’re thinking…

What could be stranger than a giant floating cupcake?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTR6MH9UY8

Obviously…

But the headline says they rejected it, which would be insane to turn it down

The logical choice is take it and say it’s not enough. Which is what’s happening

Which is why I was shocked they rejected it, and felt like clarifying would help others…

So…

Not actually rejecting it, just saying not enough

Mamdani defeated independent candidate Andrew Cuomo — whom Trump endorsed at the last minute — and Republican Curtis Sliwa, winning over a notable number of Trump supporters in the Nov. 4 election. NBC News exit polls found that 10% of New York City voters who cast ballots for Trump in last year’s presidential election voted for Mamdani.

This is what neoliberals are scared of.

It’s not just that Dem voters want to vote for progressives, even MAGA will.

Progressives blow up the two party controlled opposition strategy, because they’ll beat maga and neoliberals, and if they reach critical mass, shit will actually get fixed and no neoliberal or maga will ever hold a major seat of power again.

We’re at a major tipping point that could fundamentally turn the country around and back in a positive direction

and the impairment is categorised by levels, 1, 2, or 3.

I tried to measure my hope for the future…

I got a 0…

Do you not believe in the concept of zero?

Do you not believe someone can have some characteristics of Autism while not meeting the diagnostic criteria for “level 1”?

Can you block me then since you want to be polite?

I know that’s a big ask because you can’t even stop replying. But this is not the first time youve responded to me talking to someone else to tell me I’m not polite. Then you immediately say you don’t want to “communicate” but never stop replying.

Which is pretty obviously trolling. I had you blocked for a while, so I don’t know how much you’ve been doing this. But the tab signed me out and the first comment was civil enough I took you off to reply.

So I think the best solution is we just block each other, right? You want to say you’re being polite, then do the polite thing and just ignore me instead of rehashing this again at some later date.

Nothing about my comments will change, so if you don’t like them. Take the very easy step to never see them again.

Unless your trolling, which is what saying “I don’t want to discuss me insulting you” and then continuing to reply over and over. Regardless, hopefully I don’t fuck up and think you’re worth takng off again.

So you replied in the first place because you disliked my tone, but you were comfortable insulting me in your reply…

And when my tone didn’t change after you insulted me…

You replied again to insult me again and say you didn’t want to talk to me?

There is absolutely no logic in what you’re doing.

At any step you could have just not replied with insults, and none of this would be happening.

Why don’t you just block me? Because replying to police tone while simultaneously insulting someone isn’t going to be effective for me, and most likely not anyone else.

Seriously, in general saying:

I can’t engage further in this conversation

Is never ever ever going to be as effective at ending a conversation than deleting the reply instead of hitting “reply” and posting it

On some level you have to understand that, right?

but do you have autism or are you a mental health professional versed in or specialized in autism?

While there’s no way that you could have known that I have a degree in psychology and for years worked with special needs populations ranging from “passable” to “I was changing grown adults diapers”…

You literally just called me out for not having social graces and hyper fixating on a narrow aspect of a comment…

Autism is a spectrum, literally all of us are on it. That’s literally what a spectrum is in a psychological context. Everyone is “on the spectrum” that’s what makes it a spectrum.

I don’t feel that they fully capture and measure intelligence in autistic individuals

So…

You agree with me? Because I literally just said that…

But no test can “fully” measure anyone intelligence. It’s always going to be approximation that works for a majority of people.

I sat thru like 5 hours for a Wechsler, just to be told my overall wasn’t reliable because I was statistically insignificant. It was still valuable data because my lowest section scores were still quantifiable. But there’s no reason to have the basic test be able to fully measure everyone. If I cared enough I could take a more in depth test to find out.

But why the fuck didn’t you ask questions instead of all those assumptions you just made?

Why even reply to me like you’re going to trust what I say, when you could have looked up this stuff online waaaaaaay before I took the time to reply?

No shit, we’ve been saying this was going to happen since CBP and ICE were created.

Even without counting airports as a start for a new border zone, the vast majority of Americans lived within traditional border zones due to the definitions. And it didn’t take a genius to predict eventually these agencies would be used in this way.

But people are still acting like no one could have ever seen this coming.

Which wouldn’t be that bad, if they at least started listening to all the other shit they’re still in denial about.

dont associate autism with intellectual differences

Coming from a good place, but you don’t know what you’re talking about

There are absolutely differences, they just tend to even out on an overall IQ score. There’s a sleight positive correlation even, but that’s likely due to emotional intelligence not being measured on an IQ test and the very low ends of the IQ range may not ever get tested for autism.

But are you honestly telling people that autism isn’t correlated to better pattern recognition or anything else?

Like, there’s a myriad of ways you’re wrong here, but to insist that there are zero differences is just unbelievable. You can’t honestly believe that, do you?