It doesn't matter what the law says, the grifter will do whatever he likes. The "justice" dept won't stop him. Congress doesn't have the power, and certainly not now with the spineless worms in it. And if a court case ever does come up, he'll delay it all the way up to the Fascists on the Supreme Court who will find a way to give him what ever he wants. Our only hope now is that Alzheimer's takes him faster that his Leqembi drug can keep him from looning out on TV.....well, more so than he is currently.

The Billionaires do not care about America. They figure they can live anywhere their money will take them. Selling America is just another profit making enterprise for them.

That's la Presidenta, the feminine gender matters in his case. This is small potatoes though to his intention to throw WB to Kushner, the Arabs, and Ellison's Nazi sprog.

ICE does not need to. They probably helped finger these crims to remove competition. la Presidenta now has his own Gestapo combined with the FBI and "Justice" Dept. to wreak havoc on anyone that looks at him wrong. There is no moral or ethical bar low enough that he cannot find a way to limbo under it.

We'll send USPS to the grave
We'll send USPS to the grave
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my letter in a parcel yeah
Letter in a parcel, yeah
- apologies to The Police

Some of them not only have no consequences, they'll be rewarded. Llike the investors that convinced millions of 401K holders to sink their retirement into this garbage. It will be like 2008 Goldman Sachs, but with more of the guardrails torn down since then.

With the fact that arrests have dropped from 44,000 per year to about 11,000 per year because so many federal law enforcement agents have been taken off other beats and put on immigration enforcement....

Seriously look it up. If we had a functional media it would be much bigger news. Most of the Democrats sucks so hard in messaging...

Bold proclamation, but 25 years ago, Sony publicly predicted on their press tour that CGI would replace actors...it never did. Will AI be integrated into entertainment?...absolutely....will anyone want to see that slop?...I doubt it. Sony was proud of Final Fantasy Spirits Within and back in 2000, I thought it looked really rad...now it looks like a PS4 game. But even in 2000, I knew it wouldn't replace the real thing. I honestly didn't like it very much. It was tolerable, but not an upgrade to live action, even in 2000, when we weren't spoiled by good CGI.

I think CGI is a better indicator of the future of AI. Sure, Star Wars prequels and Sin City, tried to make everything green screen...and it sucked. Audiences didn't like them. The only box office draw was due to them being popular existing properties, so yeah, Star Wars fans lined up...same with Frank Miller fans. However, we got bored of it. Few bothered again.

No one wants to pay top dollar for CGI and the same applies for AI slop. Someone will make a movie in AI...it will suck...people will stop...AI footage will get mixed in with CGI and live action, but the future of movies will have VFX look just like today, only better, and maybe cheaper, but the most talented CGI artists can't replicate the look/feel of a set with practical effects. It's doubtful AI will do so much better to put everyone out of business.

25 years ago, everyone said what you said about CGI...that it would replace sets and drastically cut costs...everything will be filmed in front of a green screen. Today, we see that that's not true. It augments old-fashioned filmmaking...never replaced it...and looking at today's LLMs and how they've progressed, I see no indication they can replace anyone...augment? absolutely...replace?...well...if ChatGPT can actually replace your job, you weren't very useful. I use Claude daily...it can't write Java with correct syntax reliably...and that's easy!!!!...neither can ChatGPT or CoPilot. It shows little progress from generation to generation...seriously, it has no idea where to put commas or semi-colons. That's a MUCH MUCH MUCH easier problem to solve than created a fucking movie!!!

Maybe but the corporate greed machine is never satisfied. After the first few shipments, they may cry foul.

Those types of fishing expeditions run counter to the basic principle of "presumed innocent until proven guilty", at least in my mind. So I'm not crying over this news.

Nah dude, difference country.

I don't think that's a uniquely Russian strategy, but I perhaps have experienced too much of the 20th century as an American.

What if, and I'm just spitballing here, the news media barely covered this and certainly didn't cover the corruption angle at all because the news media is now completely owned by billionaires like something like literally 90% of the news media is owned by billionaires.

So almost nobody hears about this and then the news cycle eats the attention of anyone who does and we all just move on and forget about it. Does that work for you?

In project 2025 they call it shock and awe. Everything is a distraction from the previous terrible thing Trump did and everything Trump does next is a distraction from whatever he's doing at the time. Meanwhile the economy is continuously collapsing due to mismanagement so you're too busy trying to keep your head above water to care about anything else.

Then you mix in a little voter suppression and the fact that a billionaire Trump sycophant just bought the company that controls all of our voting machines and maybe do a few hundred billion dollars of propaganda right before the election and Bob's your uncle Trump gets a third term or at least JD Vance gets his term.

Then we had 25% unemployment, world war III takes off and goes nuclear and we Fermi paradox ourselves. I don't think the billionaires are planning on that last one but I don't think they are thinking any of this through either. They're just too busy trying to set themselves up as feudal Kings.

no problem.

He suffers no consequence for anything and all the judges he appointed rule in his favor. Republicans could hold a vote tomorrow morning to end his little tariff tirade but they're massive pussies and won't.