Forking shirtballs, The Good Place has the best replacement words.

Fuck, which becomes Fork.
Shit, which becomes Shirt.
Bitch, which becomes Bench.
Ass, which becomes Ash.
Dick, which becomes Deck.
Cock, which becomes Cork.

$8/dozen in Chicago burbs. Costco is cheaper ($7/18), but they’re sold out at least where I am.

This is the type of criminal the trump pardoned, absolutely disgusting.

On August 24, 2009, Huttle’s three-year-old son, C.H., had a bathroom accident, and Huttle beat the child, leaving bruises on his neck and severe bruises on his back and buttocks.

https://law.justia.com/cases/indiana/court-of-appeals/2011/07271101mpb.html

He was a horrible person. From a previous arrest:

On August 24, 2009, Huttle‟s three-year-old son, C.H., had a bathroom accident, and Huttle beat the child, leaving bruises on his neck and severe bruises on his back and buttocks.

https://law.justia.com/cases/indiana/court-of-appeals/2011/07271101mpb.html

He should just be honest and said “this $1m is a mandatory payment to trump so that he exempts Apple from tariffs, no other reason”, of course, then it’s an obvious quid pro quo.

Load virus on to banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation.

Not that easy when it’s a fleet of servers in multiple remote data centers. Lots of IT folks will be spending their weekend sitting in data center cages.

The oligarchs have already started funneling money to trump to try to avoid having to pay more tax.

• Meet the Billionaire Boosting Trump’s Campaign With a $50 Million Donation
• GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson to fund colossal super PAC for Trump
• Leonard Leo, Koch networks pour millions into groups prepping for potential second Trump administration
• Packaging billionaires to help fund Trump campaign, FT reports

His cult will only hear what he said. The media will ignore it because the campaign said the opposite. And the electorate who don’t pay attention won’t have a clue what’s coming if trump and project 2025 take over the government.

meanwhile, the ex-president can’t attend the hearing on the unlicensed bond he claimed to secure for the nine-figure fraud judgment against him because he’s in a different court on trial for charges of criminal falsification of records to influence an election

The 2017 tax bill that the Republicans rammed through had a time bomb in it for software developers. Starting in 2022, companies could no longer expense R&D costs, and instead had to amortize them over 5 years. This has led to massive tax bills in 2023 for companies. I have no doubt that this is another major factor in the recent tech layoffs.

Take an imaginary bootstrapped software business called “Acme Corp.” This company generates $1,000,000 of revenue per year running a SaaS service. It employs five engineers, and pays each $200,000. That is $1,000,000 paid in labor costs. For simplicity, we omit other costs like servers and hosting, even though those costs can also fall under the new R&D rules, and have to be amortized. So, how much taxable profit does this company make?

In 2021, the answer would be zero profit. In 2022, the answer was $900,000 in profits(!!)

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-will-us-companies-hire

Every time he trots out this lame attempt to avoid accountability, this is what I think of (from Lethal Weapon 2).