"Two years after US Capitol attack, investigation into Trump and insurrection enters new phase"

"Two years after rioters stormed the US Capitol, the Justice Department’s sprawling criminal investigation into the effort to block the peaceful transition of power enters a new phase with the special counsel adding two right-hand prosecutors to an experienced team that will ultimately determine whether former President Donald Trump or his allies should face prosecution." (Emphasis mine.)

Oh, come the fuck on already. Anyone and everyone with more than two brain cells to rub together already knows that Donald Trump and his allies should face prosecution. It's several years past the time where they should have faced prosecution. The real question is if Donald Trump and his allies ever will face prosecution. And if they don't, all that shows is that true justice is still as dead in the USA now as it has been for pretty much the entirety of Donald Trump's adult life.

So Hogwarts Legacy comes out in about a month, eh?

Can't wait to ignore it when it turns out to be infested with Denuvo even though the Steam store page doesn't currently show it as being infected (because that never stopped them from waiting to add the warning after or just before launch, and too many other WB games lately have been contaminated with that shit, at least on initial launch, to believe this one somehow won't be). I'll probably get an email when it releases, since I currently have it on my wishlist, so if it's defiled by Denuvo, I'll find out then, just before I remove it from my wishlist if it is.

...also, the game will be $60 USD ($70 if you want the "deluxe edition" whatever that is), regardless, which I ain't paying, even if it isn't polluted.

So... if it turns out that it's not actually infected with malware and I ever see it on a 75%+/sub-$20 sale (including any inevitable DLC, of course), then I might show some interest in it at that point, otherwise, nah. In other words, I might play this in five to ten years or so, maybe. That'll also give them time to (ostensibly) fix all of the major bugs that will undoubtedly be in the game at launch.

(EDIT) And, sure enough, Hogwarts Legacy has Denuvo. (/EDIT)

The whole Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House thing.

I haven't really been following all that dumbshit too closely, but I've been scrolling past articles about it on Google News app on my phone and hearing people on NPR on the car radio talking about it. As such, I do have opinions, which I will share here.

Firstly, Kevin McCarthy has been a massive piece of shit for a while now, and I don't want him to be Speaker of the House.

Secondly, Donald Trump apparently wants Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker, so that's all the more reason for him to not be.

Thirdly, however, if Kevin McCarthy not being the Speaker means we end up with some even worse QAnon-addled dipshit as Speaker, since it mostly appears to be far-/alt-RWNJs/Trumpanzees who are opposing him (which makes it even odder that Trump himself endorsed him), then... well... I guess I'd rather have Kevin McCarthy in that case, but otherwise, no.

Beyond that, the whole thing doesn't interest me all that much. The fact that the GQP controls the House at all is already asinine and terrible enough.