That's up there with "when you're a star, they let you do it", i.e. it sounds like narcissistic bullshit.

Just in case you weren't joking, no, the fact they did not catch you illegally sending toxic chemicals and materials to the landfill does not make it ok to send toxic chemicals and materials to the landfill. Among other things, landfills often leak, even when they try to prevent it, so those toxic chemicals can poison groundwater, wildlife, and other parts of the environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

These were not 'mistakes'; these were practiced actions.

Go look for videos where police are yelling "stop resisting" at suspects before they even move. You'll find a bunch of them.

What I know is that there are too many cases like these:

"Report reveals police issued 71 conflicting commands and impossible orders to Tyre Nichols in 13 minutes"
https://amsterdamnews.com/news...

"Langley then ordered Shaver, who was lying prone at Langley's request, to cross his legs. Moments later, he ordered Shaver to push himself "up to a kneeling position". While complying with the order to kneel, Shaver uncrossed his legs and Langley shouted that Shaver needed to keep his legs crossed. Startled, Shaver then put his hands behind his back and was again warned by Langley to keep his hands in the air. Langley yelled at Shaver that if he deviated from police instructions again, they would shoot him. Sergeant Langley told Shaver not to put his hands down for any reason. Shaver said, "Please don't shoot me". Upon being instructed to crawl, Shaver put his hands down and crawled on all fours. While crawling towards the officers, Shaver moved his right hand towards his waistband. Brailsford, who later testified he believed that Shaver was reaching for a weapon, then opened fire with his AR-15 rifle, striking Shaver five times and killing him almost instantly. Shaver was unarmed and may have been attempting to prevent his shorts from slipping down."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Police have often weaponized 'compliance'.

Police were involved in 1,314 deaths in the United States in 2025, down from 1,383 the year before. Annual totals have exceeded 1,000 throughout the period observed.
https://www.statista.com/stati...

One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police
https://ks.fd.org/blog/2020/05...

What percentage of police interactions end in injury, or like in this case, trauma?

"At least they didn't die" is not the only metric that should be used to judge the quality of police work, or used to determine the need for safeguards to ensure that a database typo isn't mindlessly propagated.

You really think the AI companies would be price-sensitive?

They need pre-AI books, and they need lots of varied data. I doubt they are worrying about the cost.

"John Sainsbury, owner of Melbourne's Sainsburys Books, confirmed a slew of orders from Zoom Books had come through the store's online listings around the same time. The orders were price insensitive and appeared entirely random - niche titles, "bottom-end" and sometimes decades-old stock. The orders resulted in Sainsburys shipping multiple boxes overseas."
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

"One small book seller said that in April, he suddenly went from selling no more than 20 books a week to hundreds, and he's almost certain that the customers are AI labs, noting the random selection of the books and how they all have ISBNs. He added that his inventory is full with rare and out of print books, meaning that an AI company could be destroying some of the few remaining copies that can be found."
https://futurism.com/artificia...

"Talk radio isn't a target of FCC's 'equal time' notice, Brendan Carr says"

https://www.politico.com/news/...

Still laughing. Did you really just describe my speculation about Earth #2 as "facts"?

On Earth #2, where none of things you're whining about happened, and previous administrations completely ignored his actual crimes, Donald Trump is still using the Justice Department to directly target his enemies. Your posts here are more whataboutism than causal analysis.

Look at the subpoenas they issued to the NYTimes over their reporting about the Qatari bribe jet modifications - the subpoenas were thrown out after the DOJ attorneys didn't even follow basic rules properly. There's no way any of them were thinking "we can only do this because we heard that norms were changed a decade ago."

Will not be surprised if this case goes the way of the sandwich-throwing case. Sadly, it's also possible we'll see a truly insane outcome like the Prairieland case.

Do you have any specific references for Obama's 'overt politicization' of the DOJ? My searches are only turning up right-wing new sites talking in the same vague terms you are using.

The Biden administration appointed a special prosecutor (and btw, did not prosecute all of the people using '8646'). Not sure how his following the law in relation to crimes Trump actually committed justifies Trump's orders via social media to prosecute people for made-up bullshit.

Seriously? "But Obama..."?

Here's a list of people targeted by Trump. It's not a short list, and the majority of these cases are pure bullshit:
https://abcnews.com/US/list-in...

That list doesn't include the Broadview Six, where the DOJ's grand jury manipulation was so brazenly unlawful, the DOJ is now offering to pay the defendant's attorney fees. It doesn't include numerous cases where the DOJ's lies were so ridiculous, judges are denying the DOJ the "presumption of regularity" that had previously existed.

What did Obama do that required Trump to behave like this?

"Over One Hundred Former Senior DOJ Leaders File Brief Opposing Retaliatory Comey Prosecution"
https://washingtonlitigationgr...

"More than 1,000 former Department of Justice (DOJ) officials - spanning both Republican and Democratic administrations, a majority of whom were nonpartisan civil servants - have signed a statement condemning the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. The letter calls the indictment an 'unprecedented assault on the rule of law directed by President Donald Trump.' "
https://protectdemocracy.org/w...

The DOJ took this to the grand jury at the direction of Trump. This is not normal, and should not even be legal.

There's no reasonable interpreation where '86' as a standalone statement should be taken as a violent threat. Hell, even the literal definition of the phrase does not support that.

"the peculiar circumstances involving repeated actual assassination attempts that seem to be connected to public incitement"
That's not a thing.

Some democrats: Monopolies and excessive market consolidation are bad.
Some state attorneys general: Monopolies and excessive market consolidation are bad.
You: It's proof, I tell you! That's obviously just as bad as taking millions in bribes!

An impressive feat, taking a weak argument and turning it into a truly stupid one.

Trump took obvious bribes to ok this merger.

Unless you know there's some equivalent bribery involved on the other side of this lawsuit, your weak both-sides take here is, well, weak.

That's a stupid fucking take. The people doing the rug-pull are making plenty.

"Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office"
https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...

"How Trump made more than $1B on crypto when most of his coin's investors lost money"
https://abc7ny.com/story/how-t...

Don't know if we can blame DOGE for the explosive diarrhea, though; that may just be RFKjr.

Turns out that yes, we can blame DOGE for that:
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/0...