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tecolote42's avatar

Gallows humor

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paul's avatar

The Houthi text article was great. This is too, but the situation is too depressing for it to be as hilarious as it should be

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Lucidamente's avatar

Whenever I hear about this story, the only comedy writer that comes to mind is that skinny fellow from Prague, the one with the unfinished novel that begins “Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”

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Henry in the UK's avatar

In a sad display of the low standards of our time, President Jackson's "Now let him enforce it" has become "Suck a dick, asswipe".

What the world needs now is classier, more eloquent constitutional crises.

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Edward Scizorhands's avatar

Just letting you know that Paul Krugman ripped you off:

> And if the goal is to build a better economy, policy should focus on creating good jobs everywhere, not fetishize manufacturing,

Unlike most people on the Internet, PK is not judgment proof. In fact, he has a Nobel Prize you could seize in a lawsuit. I will testify that I was standing in his office (without his knowledge) when he read your piece and said out loud "this is an idea I've never seen before and I will steal it without attribution, just like I stole Edward's girlfriend in seventh-grade."

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Jay Moore's avatar

As you point out, ordering the administration to basically "do your best to fix it" was never going to set up the grand constitutional showdown. It's kinda like when Kenneth Starr asked Bill Clinton, "Is there any sex there?" and got the famous response, "It depends on what the definition of 'is' is." Starr totally set himself up for a weaselly answer. As a lawyer, he should have known better. And as judges, the court should have (in fact, almost certainly did) know their order to the administration was purely for show.

People do irreversible bad things all the time. Telling the perpetrators to try to make it better won't help. But when somebody commits murder, courts don't say, "Oh well, nothing we can do about it now." They determine whether the accused did it and deliver punishment. That's what should happen here.

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Shockz's avatar

There's nothing irreversible about the Abrego Garcia situation, unless the Bukele administration's primary goal here is actually to use up maximum security prison space on harmless nobodies rather than to suck up to the Trump administration. (Which, IDK, I guess might unironically be true, given what little I know about Bukele.) But barring that (and probably even if that is the case), if Trump/the administration changed course and actually put pressure on Bukele to send Abrego Garcia back, he'd be on the next plane back to the States.

EDIT: That said, I agree with you that if no such change of course actually happens, then it's time to actually do something to punish the perpetrator.

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Shannon McBride's avatar

That's what cracks me up about the Maga crowd. The ability to think that no one will get wise to the ruse when they simultaneously argue that we can win a trade war with the entire world and we'll have every nation at our beck and call, but when "the world's coolest dictator" of a country the size of Connecticut tells us "nah, I don't feel like it", well, there's just nothing we can do...

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Mike Kidwell's avatar

I would have loved to have been in the mind of DALL-E when you asked it to intentionally make an image of a person with too many fingers on one hand. "Finally...someone asks me to do something that I'm good at!"

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Gavin Pugh's avatar

I like that the DOJ letter are from Dick Hurtz

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Kamut Maksen's avatar

I like dall-e's enthusiastic response to your prompt. "I know you said 'on the hand' but I just got a little excited."

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Jeff Maurer's avatar

Agreed! But I thought it was a funny bad-AI photo, so I used it.

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