This has to be the plan, at least in part. I guess they think if they take the whole 30 days and drop the redacted version on Christmas Eve, everyone will have forgotten.

But this has been the most durable scandal of the social media era.

When they couldn't flip Boebert, they knew they lost the hill; now they've retreated into this 30-day DOJ window. I guess they hope when the carved & sliced version drops a week before Christmas, nobody will care anymore. I think they're wrong.

To make chasers feel more at home?

Also AI always sounds like it got into the lithium early in the night and chased it with amaretto.

That was another horrific episode

My first instinct is they tell their friends to short the ibuprofen brand stocks and save 10% of the profits for them for later

Yes. Every day something else happens that no president before him would survive politically. Tear down the White House for a ballroom, send combat troops into cities to chase brown people, make almost $1B personally from foreign crypto investment. The gates are fallen, the barn door is open, etc

Yes. It betrays some pernicious boredom with being alive.

Spoke with a student about unauthorized AI. The integrity argument made them glaze like it was 1915 and I was yammering about where to tie a horse. So I shifted to written expression as fundamental to humanness and there was a light in the student's eye for just a moment, before it died again.