Prickly City by Scott Stantis for January 29, 2025

San Vicente

“Seize the time… Live now! Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.”

Jean Luc-Picard

Project 2025 is beginning, 9 days in!

Nope. Not on Carmen. You have to be blithely indifferent to morality and common sense to not be disturbed at electing a president with no redeeming character, intent on embracing our enemies, alienating our allies, afflicting the lowest and comforting the comfortable.

The magats have been strangely silent about all the moves by Their Messiah.

Virtually no comments at all about 1589 violent felons being pardoned.

No magat mentions the pardon of the world’s biggest drug dealer.

Total blackout of the Secretary of Drunk.

No celebration of the illegal firings.

And do the magats even KNOW that it is Congress who passes budgets and determines where money is to be spent?

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Have the magats heard of project 2025 yet?

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Matthew 6:34

Democrat voters can be as xenophobic and rude as Republicans, Democrats cyberbully and censor people all the time who disagree with them.

Having opinions that don’t agree with Democrats is becoming like a blasphemy.

Look at Reddit, they eradicated all conservative opinions and banned nearly half users of the website for having conservative opinions like criticizing Islam, abortion, illegal immigration and I was banned from Reddit like millions of users for having conservative opinions.

I remember I said on Reddit I want to visit a USA state with less foreign born population (to avoid homophobia and because I’m ex-Muslim)

a bootlicking Democrat told me perhaps you shouldn’t come to the USA and he claimed that USA states with more US born population are more homophobic than states with high foreign born population because of Republican voters.

I know not all foreign population are homophobic and US born population can be homophobic but I don’t want to live in places where Muslim terrorists killed gays or Muslims to force me to convert back to Islam, My SO told me that a Muslim student said that he would kill his son if he was gay, I never heard of Christian terrorist shooting gay men in bar.

Who does he think he is, this bootlicking Democrat that he think he owns the USA and can say who can visit it or who can’t ? why do I need to have his opinion so that he tell me come to visit the USA? not only I want to visit the USA I want also to live in the USA all of my life even if I support restrictions on immigration from dangerous Muslim countries and I want to vote for Republicans, he has no right to tell me that.

I’m also foreign born and I don’t want people like him to lick our boots, he can’t read a letter from Quran and hadiths without misleading translation and yet he thinks that US born population are more homophobic than foreign born population which include Muslims.

It is…

Today’s Clay Bennett accurately describes the environment many insecure people want with this country.

Thankfully Democrats have been booted out from their totalitarian control so that America and American Workers can now move forward.

It’s half-true. While the laws and such can dictate the direction of the future, it’s also on us to hold on to hope on how to improve things despite the destruction. Mine is knowing Trump will be outta there in 4 years.

Scientists say artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed a critical “red line” and has replicated itself. In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves.

“Successful self-replication under no human assistance is the essential step for AI to outsmart [humans], and is an early signal for rogue AIs,” the researchers wrote in the study, published Dec. 2024 to the database arXiv.

In the study, researchers from Fudan University used LLMs from Meta and Alibaba to determine whether a self-replicating AI could multiply beyond control. Across 10 trials, the two AI models created separate and functioning replicas of themselves in 50% and 90% of cases, respectively — suggesting AI may already have the capacity to go rogue.

Don’t forget that trump revoked the “AI safety” executive order 14110, it’s an AI free-for-all!

I’m trying to decide if I’d rather be ruled by evil smart machines instead of evil stupid people, still unsure… What if they’re cons …evil stupid machines?

In just over a week trump and his minions are unraveling everything that holds this country together as a functioning democracy. “Move fast and break things” is exactly what terrorists do.

“The day after Trump’s bombshell [pause on federal grants and loans], and just four hours before the funding was set to cease, Karoline Leavitt, the 27-year-old White House press secretary, strode onto the podium to give her first briefing. It quickly became apparent that she had NO CLUE about the crisis her boss had created.

“Are you guaranteeing here,” asked David Sanger of the New York Times, “that no individual now on Medicaid would see a cutoff because of the pause?”

Replied the press secretary: “I’ll check back on that and get back to you.”

In just eight days on the job, Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the federal government, and he and his aides apparently couldn’t be bothered to give any thought to the damage and chaos that would ensue. It’s not just the spending freeze. It’s the willy-nilly, and probably illegal, firing of federal employees, the federal hiring freeze, the moratorium on foreign aid, the threats and bullying unleashed on allies, and the moves to muzzle government agencies to eliminate accountability. The sheer volume of executive orders and actions stunned critics into silence. But, as the scene in the briefing room illustrated on Tuesday, reality is already beginning to catch up with Trump." [Washington Post, 1/29/25]

From a friend of mine: “I think the first DEI hire to go in the new admin will be the press secretary.”

Scott, with all sincerity, with a concern for your mind and soul, might I suggest Stephen Pinker’s, “Enlightenment Now”?

Carmen’s got DJT’s fack checked look down pat.

The Extreme left has been so loud for so long, saying nothing, just spreading fear and hate. They can’t except the truth their very actions lost them the election, and that America has turned the volume down. Time to adapt or wither on history’s trash heap.

Donald Chump

Pete Bad Breath

Elon Mush Head

You’re allowed to rename things?Count me in

Kansas TB Outbreak Is Reportedly Largest Recorded In US History

If bird flu moves to humans we are in deep trouble.

The insane Trump admin stopped all medical reporting, disease and death is your future under republican fascists.

Oh, no! We’re all gonna die! Please help us, “Doctor” Fauci!

@Radish…^ – If only Joe Biden and his administration had done something to prevent the bird flu from spreading when he was still in office, but neither he nor they had. It is entirely Joe Biden’s fault.

Yes Carmen, it’s totally on you.

According to poll aggregator 538, tRump’s initial approval rating is at +7 percentage points, lower than any other newly elected president since the Second World War.Only tRump himself experienced a lower early approval rating, of +3.2, in 2017.

By comparison, his predecessor Joe Biden had an approval rating of +21.8 in 2021, while Barack Obama enjoyed a score of +46.9 in 2009. John F Kennedy’s approval rating sat at +66 following his election in 1960.

Is gas under $2/gal yet?

Oh yes it is, little Scottie. Yes it is. And about your political cartoon, that’s on you too.

There is nothing conservative about the far right wing. They are reactionary extremists. And, so funny about the whining about being “cancelled.” These are the people who threaten violence on those that don’t agree with them.

I see elements of ‘Calvin & Hobbes’.