The "Chamber of Commerce" Republican Party of Mitt Romney is gone, and it's never coming back.

It's time to let go of the nostalgia of conservative-leaning politicians with consistent views and predictable results that also relied upon ethics and morals. None of that exists any more. All of those people either gave up on ethics and morals, retired, or were primaried out.

Anyone that used to believe in the supremacy of individual liberties have turned into "anti-woke" crusaders more interested in having government regulate who you can love, than getting the fuck out of it altogether.

What we have left are just assholes who want to pull up the ladder behind them. They are, for all intents and purposes, 100% descendant from immigrants (with the vast majority of Republicans being white), and want to prevent further immigration.

They are supported by uneducated hayseeds that have been bilked into thinking that everything somehow gets better by government doing less to make things better, not ever getting to the idea that nobody else is going to do anything when government stops trying.

They're big on corporate welfare for the "Too Big To Fail" crowd, but want to take food assistance and health care away from poor people.

They're big on cutting taxes after bitching about spending for 4 years under Biden, and then want to throw 1.5T at the Department of Defense alone.

They. Are. Hypocrites.

They have no moral compass. They have no policy direction outside of "whatever Trump wants." And they are unwilling to perform their Constitutionally-prescribed government oversight to make sure the government follows it's own laws, and is working for We The People, rather than Him The Tyrant.

I also will not accept "bothsides!" arguments here. Yes, there are some shitbag Democrats out there too. No, there are not as many of them, and the ones that get "outed" are quickly shown the door - ask how Eric Swallwell is doing right now as an example. Democrats don't have a unifying tyrant that they all line up to lick the boots of the way the Republican Party does - they have to govern by consensus, which by definition means moderating in order to achieve consensus. And they've shown the ability to conduct actual oversight of the government, even when the president is a member of their party.

Government by consensus will always be better than authoritarianism, because there are release valves if the consensus shifts.

"It's like they've not figured out how to speak to this administration"

Probably true if they aren't offering bribes^H^H^H^H^H^H ballroom donations.

Unless the cost to obtain labor crosses above the cost to automate the labor.

See: all the money being poured into AI.

So he didn't "put USAID in the wood chipper" to use his own words?

You do know that USAID would buy American farmer surplus, paying American farmers to farm, and then donate that food to starving people elsewhere?

Just how is "feeding USAID into the wood chipper" not taking away a customer from American farmers? How is that not taking food and medicine from the world's poorest people?

And how did he not do that?

Take your own advice. You have been, and are continuing to be lied to. And you are repeating those lies. This makes you a stupid cunt at best, and a participant in mass murder at worst.

Isn't it funny how the Republican Party always gets very concerned about spending and the reach of government when the Republican Party doesn't control government; but just as soon as they do have control they start spending like crypto bros and use government to interfere in literally everything that doesn't fit their questionable narratives?

Why anyone votes for these parasites is beyond me. They are self-enriching grifters who ignore the vast majority of their constituents in order to grovel at the feet of an octogenarian with questionable mental health on his best days, and gross incompetence on most days. They are far more concerned with their own station and status and what their billionaire donors want, than they are in their constituents want, and it's been seen over and over again. And the rare Republican in office that actually does vote their conscience, is shown the door by highly partisan cultists who are indoctrinated to think that Dear Leader can do no wrong - and in fact, is the biggest victim on planet earth.

Until people start to dust off their atrophied critical thinking skills and vote in their own interests for representation that will actually represent them instead of rich assholes who want more for themselves and fuck everyone else, everything is hopelessly broken.

Our last chance to fix it is in the first week of November. Vote accordingly.

I have an aversion to people who act like a terrible person and do terrible things, yeah.

Remember: this is the richest man in the world, directly responsible for taking food and medicine away from the poorest people in the world so he could hang onto a few more bucks on his tax return. He is not worthy of the cult following.

Find a person deserving of the worship and apologies.

Yeah, because this vindictive President would never have his puppet acting AG direct the Department of Justice crawl all the way up their ass on the way out, saying that the code was written in the US, and is subject to US export controls (it was, and it is. Source: I work for an avionics company where everyone has to go through US export law familiarization every single year). Then watch them control the export of it specifically against the country you tried to relocate to so you literally can't even work on it outside the US; then every other country on the planet so you have no merchantability.

Congratulations, your brilliant "scheme" just killed the company.

You forgot one critical thing:

Somehow Trump holds uneducated manly-men in thrall despite his Ivy-league unearned diploma and having [b|m]illions of dollars his entire life.

Vance screams "Yale Law" from every pore. That's why he has to keep reminding us all that he comes from Middletown, Ohio - because you would never know it any other way. He's socially repellant and awkward. There's no way that guy can keep this grift together.

We've seen several others try to claim the crown and miserably fail for the same reasons - what country do you suppose Ron DeSantis will be offered an ambassadorship to when he's term limited out, knowing that ambassadorships are where inconvenient people are sent to quietly go away by this administration?

It's not like they have a need for a State Department, after all.

We tried for adult, but she had a funny laugh and was a "she" so no dice. Some number of millions of Americans were either convinced that this guy was the better choice somehow, or are just plain morons that vote against their own interests because the guy on the TV said to.

1. this is great marketing for them. "We're the only AI company with a model so powerful the US government held it back for national security reasons"
2. they would rather work through the objections and get it back online as fast as possible. Bringing in the lawyers, especially around national security, is just a good way to drop an anchor and go nowhere for 6 months while the court figures out how to review all the classified documents and such.

Oh look, a guy that can't actually refute what is being said, so he makes a move-the-goalpost false-equivalency argument equating accumulated wealth to intelligence.

People who think that accumulated wealth is a stand-in for intelligence measurement are people who don't have any money, nor intelligence.

You sound like a simping cuck.

Anyone can miss deadlines. A lot of people do, sometimes very publicly.

This guy is the one of the few humans that seem to be completely above accountability, with an army of volunteers following him around explaining "what he really meant" or explaining why it's actually ok for him to repeatedly lie.

Please stop being in a one-way dependent relationship with such a terrible person. He will never acknowledge your existence, so he will never thank you for trying to clean up his mess no matter how hard you try.

Not only are they falling behind from a capability perspective, they're falling behind from a usage perspective too. There's a reason they're renting out their compute to their competition - because they're not using it and it costs a shitload of money to keep all that powered up.

It would depend on the functionality.

Example, if these things can do real-time translation and "closed captioning" I'd bet they would sell like crazy. But they probably are nowhere near that functional.

If they were brown instead of black, I'd suggest they look like the standard issue "birth control" eyeglasses the US Military issues.