Given Trump's actions over the past three months, this isn't a prediction, but a threat.

"I've got a tariff and I don't know how to use it! Now lower interest rates or the economy gets it!"

Username checks out, but troll level is weak. Try harder.

Obviously that doesn't mean that the next 4+ years are going to be particularly pleasant for the people who live here, of course.

Move all of their actual statues into museums where they can live next to images of their injustices and retributions for all eternity. Rename their libraries and airports after those who died opposing them. Salt the ground from which their authoritarianism sprouted.

all machines built by man are destined to eventually fail

Every fascist regime in the world has fallen or is in the process of falling. It's not a matter of "if," but of "when."

In the new testament, God was only hard on the religious elite, who always missed the point.

Absolutely correct! The Pharisees where Jesus' perennial sparring partners on that front, and Jesus had very few kind words to say about them.

As far as not holding people to personal standards, that's explicitly in the Bible, too. Peter at the Council of Jerusalem, Acts 15:10 (talking to some Pharisees who infiltrated the Church, incidentally):

"Why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?"

And the "test God" language here is especially notable, because most of the times that shows up in the Bible, it's the Devil himself doing it. This language isn't ever used about Thomas's doubts. It's an expression of deep distrust in God's ability or goodness, particularly by people who should know better (or at least who would know better if they were who they claim to be); an identification that the person doing the testing is just doing it for personal gain, not for their own faith or edification; and an unwillingness to change their mind in the face of evidence.

Sound familiar?

People literally died in the New Testament for testing God like this. That's the game they're playing here. They're playing the parts of the Pharisees to a T.

Laugh tracks usually have nothing to do with how funny a show's writing actually is, but studies regularly show that people have a more positive experience with TV comedies when they have a laugh track. I assume it's probably something parasocial.

This person is obviously a MAGA troll, so I'm not responding to him; but for the sake of anyone reading this, here's a quick fact check:

Abrego Garcia was in the US legally and was convicted of no crime. This article is very clearly about legal immigration, and his only defense was to turn it into a story about illegal immigration, meaning that he's already conceded the point.

Ah yes, the recommended oil checks on a famously electric vehicle. /s

I get what you're saying, but more likely is that nobody would ever notice. Which also seems unlikely, since we're quite an oversharing culture.

Huh. TIL. Neat!

I mean...there's a photo. Not that it couldn't be faked, but...that would seem to be a lot of effort from a government that hasn't shown much interest in exerting any.

Cool, as long as they don't cut out anything.

Like this:

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least among you, you did not do for me.'"

Or this:

"Jesus answered, 'If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.'"

Or this:

“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

Or this:

"Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”

My 10-year-old and 8-year-old have been playing Minecraft, both alone and with me, since they were 5 and 7. I don't see a problem with it. As long as they're not on public servers, there's really no harm that can come of it.

The 5-year-old probably thought it was hilarious. I think the answer is to fill the 5-year-old's house with 80 chickens.

See also: Community.

Well that, uh

That certainly was a comment

Whew, yes sir

Definitely a collection of words there, yup

The "soft landing" was a downright miracle of economics. They predicted a recession due to inflation for the entirety of Biden's administration, and it never happened; all because the Fed knew what they were doing.

He doesn't actually have an answer? Even more disappointing.

"What if a socialist demonrat accused you of being a noncitizen? How would you prove them wrong?"

"oppressed minority"

"silent majority"

in control of all three branches of government

The mental gymnastics, man.

Very disappointing. How does he say he's expected to prove that he's a citizen without due process? I've been wondering.