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That's a nothingburger. He got grazed on the tip of his earlobe, giving him what we called in the Army, a boo-boo.
What really saved him was that the kid was such a lousy shot that he was asked to leave his school gun club and thankfully, he never developed any amount of skill. Anyone who graduated from any branch of service's basic training just don't manage to miss a 150 meter target.
Frankly, if it was me, I'd call it a boo-boo from someone that, thankfully due to dumb luck in turning the right way and his being a shit shot, gave me little more than a minor scratch.
But, he is a showman, so he was shot in the head and being a superzero, lived.
Or struck in the head by a sword and did not die, for the fundies out there...
Although, what I noticed with his speech wasn't sober, deliberate, heroic, it was tranquilized, complete with slurring and difficulty tracking even with a teleprompter.
Something I've been gaining some familiarity with, not due to tranquilizers, but new BP meds that keep dropping me hypotensive and requiring much more effort to read fairly simple signs. I'll be discussing that with doctor, complete with BP logs this coming week.
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I left the GOP when those who dote on stupidity and tea could see Russia from their home's window. Had to leave, as idiocy was embraced, rather than commonsense and actual campaigns and platforms, turning campaigns into early versions of the current three ring circus that this is.
Still, I didn't vote straight tickets, but followed platforms and positions, voting according to views that more closely aligned with my views on which way our nation should go.
This election went straight party line, as a message had to be sent and well, all campaigns reflected one value, vote for a god-emperor wannabe, one man being more important than the nation I spent over 28 years of my life and two wars in military defense of. Had no choice, as I've met Trump back around y2k at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function. Where he lied like the proverbial rug, was flush with his successes of five years before in bankrupting casinos multiple times, causing so many eyerolls in a room full of business owners that I wondered that the planet kept on its axis! A boor of the party so severe, the following year experienced a 95% attrition rate for that same function and the Chambers had to spend that following year apologizing continuously in order to regain attendance.
And devout loyalty to a single man, nation be damned, party be damned, to a petty tyrant wannabe, whose main campaign plank is to discard the very Constitution and laws I swore for so many decades to give my life in defense of, while he denigrated the sacrifices of those who fell defending those very things. Someone noted in the election of 2016 having kept a book of Hitler's speeches on his nightstand, who proved beyond a reasonable doubt his unsuitability to even be within the District of Columbia, let alone the Oval Office, who considered "his numbers" of superior worth to the lives of the population of this nation. To a man, so flawed as to kowtow to communist strong man leaders and the thug running Russia into the ground deeper.
Nope, it is my intent to hand over to my grandchildren a thriving nation, not a fascist police state with death camps. Because, my family does enjoy one fine tradition, grinding fascists and fascism to dust and an utter intolerance that extends back to the Revolution of utter intolerance for having a king.
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Fellow veteran and retiree here, glad to see a fellow like minded vet! My wife had an ectopic pregnancy that had to be aborted, with some difficulty due to a Roman Catholic hospital wanting my permission to perform the procedure while I was away on a field problem. Mailed my ballot on the 4th, it was received on the 6th and will be counted Nov 5, per state law. For a vanishingly rare change, I didn't vote per candidate's platform, due to GOP side MAGA worship, so it went straight Democratic party line. Despite being bit by voting for Nick Miccarelli, who is a GOP type and veteran, but alas, also a walking turd.
And I have a gun and know how to not grab the end the glue comes out of! Only took three tries... ;)
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In her favor, when did she lie under oath? That is what perjury is, so when was she sworn in and lied to a court of law?
As an attorney, she can misguide, mislead and do whatever she has to, within some boundaries, to defend her client and that's demanded of attorneys under our laws, rightfully so. That she did the worst possible job, under the worst possible conditions - courtesy of her client and made serious blunders in court still don't count as perjury.
Only incompetence.
There's an old joke. "She passed the bar, alas, she didn't stop in and learn anything".
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Three words have always gotten me out of trouble over the decades. Just three magical words.
I fucked up.
Think about it, no matter what jackpot one found oneself, when someone in a superior position of power, be it a supervisor, manager, jurist, superior officer is getting ready to read one the riot act and one admits to fucking up freely, the wind vanishes from their sails.
Because most of the incipient tirade is designed to get one to admit to that which one just admitted to freely. That leads to the most common response, "Just don't do that again!".
Had one lead complain to my training officer at a job I was new in, in an environment I'd never functioned in before, "He keeps making mistakes!".
The training officer patiently replied, "Yes, he does, but he never makes the same mistake twice, he makes new mistakes and that shows he's learning fast".
And to make new mistakes means, one's learning and more importantly, one is still trying to accomplish something.
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@chrisbudesa given the Pacific Fleet's fine new tradition of running aground and playing bumper cars with their warships, plus a history of the admiralty covering each other's asses and trying their level best to foist their command irrresponsibility upon their enlisted, they've lost faith and credit in this veteran's book.
And physicians haven't been patrolling their ranks, as they're entrusted to police since they're entrusted to license, essentially forever, so the legislature really needs to address that deficiency.
Circling back to the OP, great president? Not so much, adequate President, absolutely. Orders of magnitude superior to Trump's non-performance in office, where he sucked up the paycheck he promised to never deposit, yet entirely refused to perform 99% of his duties.
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Now, if Zelensky could unite the old Kievan Rus' peoples and region, he'd give Putin a heart attack.
As a hint, Moscow used to belong to the Kievan Rus', who were Vikings that united the entire region under their empire for nearly a thousand years. As a hint, Russia's name originated from Kievan Rus' name, Rus'. Literally. So, by right of historical memory, Russia belongs to Ukraine, where Kiev is, the former capital is.
And such memories live long and well in that part of the world.
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Clowns are entertainers, not always funny, depends upon the act.
But, Trump is an unreality TV entertainer, who cannot tell the difference between unreality TV and actual reality.
But, he did bring us news of a super duper missile, two words strung together I never expected to hear uttered consecutively by a President of the United States of America.
Which, to hear him was in production, but had a less than 10% successful launch rate, was cancelled.
Because, Trump has one other skill, the precise inverse of the Midas touch, where Midas touched something, it turned into gold, Trump touches something and it turns straight into shit. Well evidenced in his business failures and implosions of the lives of those dedicated to serving him.
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@nancymarquis3943 they care only about the laws and Constitution, as is established in their own oaths. That is how it should be, because while it's not a perfect system, it's hands down better than any other system that's been utilized throughout human history and gradually improves.
For the preamble of our Constitution said it all and still proudly says, "We the People of the United States, in order to establish a more perfect union". It doesn't say establish a perfect union, it by suggesting establishing a more perfect union admits to imperfection and the Constitution itself allows itself to be amendmended for that purpose.
Such objections as above and other extremist speech and suggested actions are giving me grave reservations as to the viability of our continued union, which bodes ill for the nation, for how would nuclear armed powers interpret widespread domestic unrest or even civil warfare in a nuclear armed nation? I know from my own military experience, a first strike would be strongly recommended to neutralize a growing threat.
Turning a disastrous wreck into a wreck upon a wreck.
And fear drives civilians mad, always. Military learn to suppress fear and make rational decisions, lest things fall into chaos and death, civilians never had that terrible privilege.
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Nope.
First, treason is narrowly and precisely and indeed, is the only crime defined within the US Constitution.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
So, the individual must have taken up arms against officers of the US government to make war. The portion regarding enemies is irrelevant, as Congress has declared no war, hence the US has no enemies and adversaries are not mentioned, so also irrelevant. Such a charge would be invalid and indeed, attempting to prosecute such knowingly is a crime.
Still, for giggles, the penalties:
Article III, Section 3, Clause 2:
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
18 USC Ch. 115: TREASON, SEDITION, AND SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES
From Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
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§2381. Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(2)(J), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§1, 2 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §§1, 2, 35 Stat. 1088).
Section consolidates sections 1 and 2 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed.
The language referring to collection of the fine was omitted as obsolete and repugnant to the more humane policy of modern law which does not impose criminal consequences on the innocent.
The words "every person so convicted of treason" were omitted as redundant.
Minor change was made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 inserted "under this title but" before "not less than $10,000".
§2382. Misprision of treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §3 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §3, 35 Stat. 1088).
Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $1,000".
There's more for insurrection, sedition, etc.
There's a bunch more, but these sections covered Trump and his all girl band.
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim
Our laws aren't hard to find, the US Constitution trivial to find and everything is in plain English.
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It's a bit uglier than that.
The bibles in question were sold previously and poorly by Lee Greenwood, with some alt-right crap tacked inside them as well. Reviews of sales were, "Pages were sticky and stuck together", "formatting is off of the page, where can I get a replacement?". "I bought this for my elderly father and he can't read the print" and "it's been nine months, where is my bible?".
Originally offered in King James and NIV versions, the NIV people sent a cease and desist letter and that version was disposed of, leaving only the old poorly transliterated King James Middle English version available.
I'm not joking about any of that. I'm being as serious as COVID in a cancer patient.
BTW, Trump also criticized the Almighty for incompetence, because he'd never allow his son to get killed for anybody. Nope, still not making things up.
Will Rogers famously said, "I never met a man that I didn't like". Obviously, he'd have had to withdraw that statement had he had the misfortune of meeting Trump. Yes, misfortune, I met him back around 2000 when he was guest of honor at a Chamber of Commerce function for the PenJerDel region. He was such an effective and wonderful guest, the following year suffered a 95% attrition rate. He was the boor of the party. Genghis Khan would've been more welcome.
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I'm curious though, how many days of mandatory fasting is required of a governor after an attack on people in a city in his state?
The rest of the MAGA antics, I'm entirely with you on. But, bitching that he went out for dinner is way too close to using those bastards playbook.
The most he could do and should have done was visiting the victims and their families to show that the state has their backs. Beyond that, he's utterly useless at this point, as there are ample investigators on scene that are doing their jobs and anything he'd manage would only hamper their efforts.
And having handled disasters myself, the absolute last thing in the damned universe that I wanted was some VIP's stomping around, getting in the way and generally being a distraction.
And I'd have countered their border nonsensical antics with, "Wow, MAGA has kicked Texas out of the Union, along with Colorado!". It's always good to turn their own weapons against them, so by the time I'd be done, people would actually wonder if those states are being ejected from the union by President Musk and Vice President Trump.
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Can't act like you're in pain when pretending to be a tough guy. It's one way to know the poseur from the real tough guy, as someone that is tough will be continuing on while obviously experiencing pain.
I've got no real doubt that he got grazed on the tip of his ear by a round. First lesson, bullets aren't explosive devices, they're not phasers, they're not death rays, they're projectiles that fly while spinning and not tumbling at that range. Hell, it wouldn't even be precessing at that range. So, a 0.22 inch chunk of metal essentially sliced the outer edge of the top of one ear lobe slightly, otherwise it'd have torn the lobe significantly due to the round's characteristics on any impact and low mass.
There's a term for that type of injury. It's a boo-boo. Doesn't really need a cover, as is evident when he's golfing without a dressing.
Although, to give him credit, I'd still need to wear a cone on my neck, he doesn't...
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Having actually met him around y2k at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce function, where he was the invited speaker of honor, what you see is what you get IRL. Reality TV didn't create him at all, he's always been this way and well, he was the boor of the party.
It literally was so bad that the following year, the Chambers experienced a 95% attrition in attendance and nearly cancelled the function. They then spent an entire year apologizing incessantly to their entire membership to reacquire attendance to the function.
Everything had to be about him, his perfection, everything he did was self-assessed as a success - including serial bankruptcies of his casinos, generating so many eye rolls that I was astonished that the planet stayed on its axis.
I did get a laugh out of a few of his more recent appearances though, where he was complaining and shooing off flies. The Lord of the Flies and the Lord of the Lies, all rolled up into one. How biblical!
And people self-professing to be Christians follow that lord, the antithesis of everything Jesus of Nazareth preached about.
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My apartment building is quite diverse, nearly UN kind of diverse. As in, I quite have fun sharing recipes with neighbors, as I enjoy a widely varied diet.
Out of an entire 13 story tall building, there is precisely one Black neighbor who is a Trumpite and thinks that he's the neatest thing to come around since sliced bread. The rest, well, suffice it to say that he's generally loathed.
Having actually met that turd around 2000 at a Chamber of Commerce event, where he was an invited speaker, well the Chamber suffered a 90+% attrition rate for the following year's event, for he was the boor of the party.
Will Rogers said, "I never met a man that I didn't like", he obviously was unable to have ever met Trump. Good for Will! I'm just glad that my parents didn't live long enough to see this specimen of inhumanity.
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Surviving on medicaid as well, been way too sick to work, with an absurd number of issues popping up to annoy me.
Well, issues that have tried to kill me, which is positively annoying. Cataracts nearly blinded me, could literally only see six inches and closer. Thyroid nearly blew out my abdominal aorta. Crohn's is the latest saga and oh, for fun, the hyperthyroid is now turning hypothyroid because my immune system got bored.
Yeah, ya need a sense of humor...
Keep on slugging, although as he shreds and burns the government, things are going to start to get really dicey.
And I'm certain he'll eventually destroy my VA pension and my sole income, as well as Social Security and then, people are gonna get pissed when granny is tossed onto the street.
At least my shelves are stocked. Even managed to get a dozen eggs, despite the expense of the armed guards... ;)
Damned bird flu and congested conditions in battery farms.
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Indeed, who knew that I was carrying around a thermonuclear weapon in Iraq? After all, he directly called an AR/M4/M16 a weapon of mass destruction.
And that bazookas are used in mass shootings as well.
Hyperbole like that does no cause any good, for it discredits the speaker instantly.
Nearly as bad as the perjury in one case, where a former BATFE agent claimed that a 5.56x45mm NATO round was more destructive to tissue than a 30-06 rifle round. Hint, the 30-06 is around twice as powerful. In most states, the AR round isn't permitted for deer hunting, as it's not likely to kill the deer, hence it's considered inhumane to use. Thankfully, in my state, using even an AR-10, the 7.62x51mm NATO/.308 rifle is also not permitted, due to it having a larger magazine than is allowed in our state. You know, the damned deer ain't shooting back, so one doesn't need that many rounds to suppress deer gunfire...
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I've been watching ever since he descended that gold plated escalator in NYC. With growing trepidation, watched him infest the office, converting it into an Offal Office.
Then, out of touch at the time, as I was shopping and my wife was feeling under the weather, I got through the checkout line at the stupidmarket and finally looked at the headline news and was forced to sit down and choke back tears of both rage and angst on 1/6. Angst both over an attack upon our very government and over my thoughts of a response, full air burst shake and bake over the bastards.
Yeah, US Army veteran too and all combat units after I got out of nukes. The only election I missed a vote on was between FOBs, when the mail had trouble keeping up with us during the GWOT. Once and felt guilty over that.
On 4 Oct, my mail in ballot was dropped into the mailbox, as making it to the polling place is now problematic for me due to osteoarthritis and some other medical issues. 6 Oct, it was received by the county and accepted. It'll be counted on my birthday.
Hoping the nation gives me a good birthday present, no more Trump, rather than its usual fuck you for your service behind my back, while thanking me to my face. Not much faith though, as I watched our VA budget get slashed each and every year of my service to the nation - including the first year of our GWOT, when good service members were being sent home missing pieces.
Retired from that now, 28+ years, packed it in when it just started to hurt too much to put on all of that equipment that kept me and my teams alive. And don't miss lubing the Stryker. Even at my rank, I still maintained and operated my own vehicle, taking turns with driver as TC/driver. Didn't ask anyone to do anything I wasn't gonna do right alongside them. Including ducking, besides, I was the second best shot in the unit, best being our senior sniper.
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Pennsylvania has always been an open carry state. So few ever bothered to that it's beyond unusual to see anyone openly carrying. The only exception is in cities of the first class, which is based upon population numbers and the Commonwealth having only one - Philadelphia, where only concealed carry with a permit to do so is permitted.
That said, polling places are just one out of a number of locations where carrying a firearm is absolutely prohibited.
Bullets and ballots make for poor bedfellows. The only gun that might belong in a polling place is a glue gun or maybe a screw gun, OK, maybe even a soldering gun, firearms, that's just a great big nope. Firearms belong on ranges or in the woods during hunting season.
I could see my making such a mistake and wearing a campaign related hat in, get asked to remove it, realize my error and ask if the floor of my car is acceptable. "OK, sorry about that, please save a place for me at the back of the line, I'll be right back!", mischief managed and no charges pending. Unless someone wanted to charge my exclaiming "shit for brains me", which is unlikely. Toss the crapmuffin hat on the floor of the car, secure the car, get back in line to cast my ballot. It's called being civilized.
By the same token, if I were to witness that misbehavior at a poll, especially the battery, I'd be in need of a replacement cane, as my cane would be up his ass sideways.
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Our youngest, finally recovered from long COVID from his first turn at navigating aground, now has it again. But, it's now illegal, per god-king decree, to track or report on the virus spread and severity.
But, he's happily promoting pogroms, golfing, cutting off food to the US, raising prices for everything insanely, but ammunition prices seem to remain stable.
No, I just track prices normally, actually. The government does as well, don't know if they correlate ammunition to food prices though, I do know that they track firearms and ammunition sales figures though.
Pre-Trump, the GOP would reel things back in when the ammo and firearms sales spiked. Now, they seem to lean in.
Maybe scare the hell out of the Powers That Be, buy a gun (doesn't have to work), buy a shit ton of ammunition (if you're not big on target shooting, get whatever doesn't fit, but is cheap), see if they start to scramble throttling and distracting him.
I'm trying to figure out what works for Elvis and the Beatles and Trump, given Elvis and most of the Beatles are really long dead and he's only long brain dead.
Oh wait, Nvidia, great branding, good security, China blew their stock out of the water with their AI, but the US company Nvidia has their chips made in Taiwan, so he just fucked a major US company harder.
Maybe he'll nuke our own cities next, to Make America Groan Again.
And with the food tariffs, Make America Gaunt Again.
Now, excuse me while I buy a gun - a mini-grease gun. Need to repack some bearings I'd just replace, but this jackass just fucked that market and supply up as well.
And some grease, lithium is generally recommended, going with moly instead though, a little better longevity.
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And so, every attorney that's had a client lie to them is disbarred and the nation no longer has defense attorneys, only prosecutors. That'll work out well.
The attorneys in this case offered an affirmative defense in stating that they were misinformed by their clients and presented their clients statements as factual until their due diligence uncovered the fact that the information they were provided and provided to the court was incorrect.
Now, you have to prove mens rea, that they knowingly did so vs their claim of being misinformed.
That said, it also means that the jurist is certainly justified in looking at anything presented by those attorneys with a highly jaundiced eye.
It essentially violating the very first rule of the court - never piss off the judge.
Last week, I estimated it at 80% probable, now we're exceeding 90% probable that this is all literally going to end in gunfire. Emperor Musk and Empress Trump have gone so far off of the reservation that it's most probable that that is the only way that the US will retain a Constitution and laws. And alas, the courts lack armed personnel, that is defectively exclusively under the executive branch.
And somehow, I don't see Melania grabbing Washington's portrait from a burning White House.
But, I do know what my oath was sworn to uphold and protect.
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No, she has a great idea, cut off New York from federal money, New York can and will reciprocate and the federal government loses $361.8 billion per year in taxes.
Then, after putting that bullet through her own foot, we can all hear her moan about the limp.
As for Laken Riley, I'd ask MTG what color Laken's eyes were. She cares ever so much, she should be able to describe her, since she's invoking her name to try to invalidate state rights.
Oh, I forgot, Trumpites have an inverse Burger King menu, "Have it our way or not at all, have it our way or fucking else".
She really needs to return to her old job, as a harpy.
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I'm wondering if his goal is to get multiple states to finally move to secession.
Not a brilliant move, given a USMC logistics center and a US Navy submarine base being in Georgia.
I'm sure that "nobody's ever seen anything like that" either.
Cut steel, cut fiber, hell, I'll let them keep control of the highways. The first two already devolved operations to chaos.
Worse, he's pissed off 16.2 million veterans, who know how things work and can seriously gum up the works. A little solvent here, concrete there, sand elsewhere, water in the wrong places, missing steel...
There's a popular misconception about warfare. Warfare isn't about destroying property or killing people, it's about destroying the will to continue fighting by causing sufficient injury to the other side sufficient that continuing the fight will so degrade their society as to make any benefit of conflict nonexistent. In short, make it as expensive for the other side socioeconomically as humanly possible and any victories that they do manage to achieve will be by nature Pyrrhic.
And the best battle one can have is the one one never has to fight.
And if your phones and e-mail don't work, your supplies can't get through, you've already more than half lost.
And military logistical centers are distributed, their distribution methods are quite channelized. The same is true with communications, if one knows where the nodes are and pretty much everyone in signal knows those. No need to attack anyone, when some solvent down a manhole would do. No need to damage a rail, when every signal can simply turn red. That, in the first hour or two.
And oddly, he seems to be specifically pissing off states where those weak points are. I have some suspicions as to why.
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BTW, USDA predicts that eggs will go up another 20% by the end of the year. With millions of hens culled in the immense warehouse battery cage egg laying "farms", it takes around 8 - 9 months to raise from egg to hen a laying hen. So, there's no relief in sight currently or well, likely.
Compared to Canada and Mexico, where they literally don't have millions of hens in a laying house, maybe 28k or so per farm.
Once the tariffs bite, we'll see car prices go insane, with layoffs following as hundred thousand dollar family cars don't sell to unemployed Americans.
And if I was a farmer, I'd not bother planting, since nobody's going to be there to harvest the crops, so either way one gets foreclosed on, but at least one still will have slightly lower debt. Compared to having a seed and fertilizer bill on top of one's already mortgaged farm. :/
No clue why he's sending a campaign e-mail to his faithful congregants, given elections were promised to go away. Per his promise...
Honestly, I'd be unsurprised to hear the idiot shriek, "DETONATE THE REALITY BOMB!!!". And expect to hear "EXTERMINATE", he's just as rational as that fictitious character.
Given his insanity of rights being illegal.
Screw it, grew up in the '60's, BURN, BABY, BURN!
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First, stop politicizing a monitoring warning, lest we lose the entire warning chain. Trump's still got a hard-on for them over COVID making him look bad.
The chance of infection magically appearing in milk cows that somehow incubate H5N1 into a human form is around the same as being hit by lightning while being hit by a meteorite.
Literally. The probability of mutation is fairly remote to begin with within a year, which is millions of generations of virus. The probability of mutation to human form in a bovine, beyond remote, due to a difference in the proteins and the inability of the damned virus to infect a cow if it can infect a human (loads of technical there, but it's remote, a pig would be more probable).
Their cause du jour is "Oh, the Amish that they're oppressing" over some Amish farmers in PA that were raided for unlawfully selling raw milk. Then, how they carried the state on the Amish vote, which is nonsense, due to their tiny population (which is a fairly high number compared to most states) and how few vote for religious reasons.
The actual risk being raw milk being infected with Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, E. coli, Listeria, Brucella, or Salmonella and unpaid hospital bills and unnecessary deaths in children and elders. The unpaid hospital bills passing on the expense to patients and/or being defrayed via medicaid funds to prevent the bankruptcy of the hospital.
It'd be more fun and trivial for someone to maneuver RFK into championing the return and deregulation of Radithor - triple distilled water with radium added for health bonuses.
That way, he's championing everyone being allowed to drink literal cancer water.
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People, stop with the treason crap. Nobody has committed treason, as our Constitution narrowly and precisely defines treason. That was done due to abuses throughout Europe and the UK within their own living memories and to prevent such abuses, they narrowly defined treason.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Jan 6 wasn't even treason, as nobody levied war, which by definition requires the use of arms. We lack a declared war, so we're quite absent enemies. Hence, why seditious conspiracy charges were so rarely applied against the insurrectionists and they were instead charged with insurrection.
You do the cause no good when speaking out of ignorance and well, the Constitution isn't all that long, doesn't use complex terminologies, it's in plain English for all to be able to read and comprehend.
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Don't feel like editing...
Transgender Day of Visibility started in 2009, so I'm guessing that Biden used Obama's time machine again. Because 24 hours in a day aren't enough, one needs to time travel to add to one's workload...
The GOP has a wonderful single plank platform, the fear plank. That's it, they've turned into a one trick pony and can't even manage to properly perform that trick. MAGA has successfully done what the nativists did to the previous conservative Whig party - killed it. But, never fear, that minority will likely try to start a civil war, to learn that the military won't join them and that modern weapons neutralize their myth of the super patriot with an AR or commie AK.
Yeah, had to go there, since they're so in love with calling everyone commies, while embracing the bastards.
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@JamieSommerfeldt and can make for some interesting and dense conversations with other faiths, such as with a rabbi. Where some interpret that avatar for the evils of human nature, as Judaism doesn't do Original Sin and inherited guilt. That innovation was a European thing, which was practiced until quite recently by governments via corruption of blood and writ of attainder.
I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood, learned all kinds of interesting things. Alas, one thing I never learned was how to properly knot challah. Maybe I should make friends at the synagogue nextdoor to my apartment building and see if anyone wants to teach this old guy how to make some, make regular bread all the time...
Last week, there was some ceremony going on and I was shocked to see that they felt the need to have an armed guard on premises. No house of worship on this continent should ever have to feel that need! But, some zanies think only they deserve rights and will deny everyone else their rights, by main force if they're ineffective in any other way. History has proved that true, with actual artillery being used by Protestants against Roman Catholics in Philadelphia in the 1850's, took the militia to quell that, after losing some men, the militia brought their own artillery and surrounded the idiots with the port's stolen cannon and made them put it back and patrolled city streets with fixed bayonets.
Which was about what it took to keep the same idiocy from happening in areas I was deployed to in the wars...
No need for a devil, when people can be assholes all on their own. Then, one reminds them that the Almighty isn't on call that week, but you are and have plenty of white phosphorus.
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Now, now. He did admit that he doesn't want to show off his body, with the sun and beach and all, "it's not a pretty sight".
A feeling that I'm intimately familiar with, given the EPA prohibition for my wearing a Speedo. No idea why, only 50 people turned into stone!
But, let's seriously examine public events that were televised live. At the D-Day memorial, every world leader walked to the venue, Trump rode a golf cart. Biden rides a bicycle, trump rides a reinforced golf cart. Trump needed a General to help him ascend a ramp.
Still, Chris Christy is rather rotund. And I've room to talk, as Weebles Wobble but we don't fall down.
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@BrandiDonald not always, as occasionally, there will be a clearly superior product. Then, what's to con?
An example being, older HP printers. Canon print engine inside, but HP electronics driving it that placed their products head and shoulders above the rest in their price range. Fluke 77 digital meters, cutting edge for their time, technically inferior to my Beckman 310 due to a lower input impedance, but autoranging and hold functions putting it head and shoulders above the rest and actually a product that I personally sold. Didn't con anyone to do it, gave a tech the meter, a few lose components to measure and let him or her try it out and well, I was a tech and bought two, the meter sold itself.
Today, many being pretty much the same as their competitor and yeah, basically needing a confidence game. Save an actual con, one gets nothing of value in return for one's payment.
That different looking burger king burger, does it still taste like a flame cooked burger? Much of the additional grease incinerated off by the flame exposure, rather than allowed to collect from cooking on the flattop?
Personally, on the rare occasion I have that kind of crap food, I go with the greasy burger, as the chef's dirtiest secret is that fat tastes good. Yeah, was a chef at one point in prehistory as well. Suffice it to say, change doesn't trouble me excessively, adapt to change, one has greater flexibility in how one proceeds forward.
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@BrandiDonald usually, in the overwhelming number of cases. But, sometimes, things are sold at a loss, either for a public good rationale and the company accepting that loss and balancing it against their other profits or at a loss to bring in additional business.
But, in the vast majority of cases, the company exists to generate a profit and corporate officers actually, by law, have a fiduciary responsibility to investors to generate that profit. I had quite a bit to learn when I went into information security about business calculations, as one calculates how much one spends to protect what level of investment. One doesn't spend a million to protect a thousand, but instead one calculates the value of that to be protected, how often one can expect a loss, the risk exposure and well, a handful of other things to assess how much one spends to protect that asset.
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@EricSalazar-re9qt yep, USAID was heavily into influence operations against apartheid and Elon's made enough comments that strongly suggest support of both apartheid returning and some Nazi sympathies. I'm sure that the end of apartheid impacted the emerald mine he inherited.
Yeah, that's how he got started, earned his money the old fashioned way - he inherited it.
You let him become a citizen while I was busily defending this failed nation, way to keep the homefront safe! Next time, learn how to pray five times a day.
Assuming the god-king doesn't turn things into a death cult, where when he pops off, everyone gets executed.
My opinion of Trump being so low due to the horrific experience of actually meeting him around 2000 at a tri-state Chamber of Commerce Do. He was the invited guest speaker of honor and it took the Chambers an entire year to overcome a 95% (literally, he was the boor of the party) attrition rate for the next year's event. They literally spent an entire year apologizing to the entire membership for that massive foul-up. Everything had to be about Him and his perfection, crowing at his massive previous successes in bankrupting his casinos six times and honestly, I'm astonished that the planet didn't tilt off of its axis from all of the eyerolls of major business owners.
Other invited guests didn't even get to speak and refused to attend again.
I will give Musk due credit though, while in business showmanship, he's gifted as Liberace was (medium to good pianist and I am a pianist as well, although only middling), he does excel in hiring exceptionally proficient business and project managers. That really isn't easy, one has to be capable of seeing through fluff and outright bullshit. Trust me, I've had that odious task myself, was reasonably OK at it, but I've had my moments...
Then again, there are his exceptional micromanaged successes, like the Boring company, which accomplished a major goal of boring a railway tunnel under one Vegas parking lot and Neuralink, which has successfully achieved the technological mastery achieved in the 1970's. We'll not even go into Twaddle. SpaceX, well, I can land a booster as well, rocketry being one of my hobbies. How deep do you want it landed? On the ground or stand? Out of the question, I've only the ability to make my mark on the world - deeply.
And even money, the project manager I'd choose would be the individual behind Deep Impact... :/
Worse, can't even hire Musk to hire my manager, he's too busy being the Doge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title)
I'm certain that name was his brainchild, he is about as literate as I am and I'm infamous for my literacy and wide, eclectic range.
And a rarely exercised collegiate vocabulary, to be better underestimated.
"I'm smarter than the average bear! Hey, hey, hey, hey!"
"Good, enjoy the claymore mine inside of my picnic basket."
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Odd that you'd crop out his time travel. "We had to go back to 1798", as if the law didn't exist until he jumped into the time machine and enacted the law by himself, rather than it's been there since that time and we don't use it because it doesn't fit with oh, reality. That whole no invading army, which are noted for you know, being an actual army and armed thing not going on. But, apparently, he'll happily incarcerated and execute infants - per what he has repeatedly stated.
And actually, my father had some behavioral issues that I raised with doctor. Testing revealed him to be suffering from vascular dementia, which progresses far more rapidly, in a stair step progression, than most other dementia forms.
As for the Arnold Palmer bit, I dunno, maybe Trump's thinking of coming out of the closet? That's basically the only reason I can think of for an ostensibly cis male to have such a fascination for the genitals of another man. Not that that's any of my damned business though.
Or his diaper's too tight and cutting off circulation to the brain. Or more likely, urinary tract infection, which can also give very similar symptoms in elders with dementia.
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As one who has sat on multiple juries over the decades, yes, we watched *everyone*, even the jurist and staff. There were times that such observations were discussed in the jury room and such observations were telling in the extreme.
And for those who criticize my attending jury duty, I'm an old retired soldier, I've an especially sensitive and fine sense of duty. One doesn't have to enjoy it, one doesn't have to like it, one does have to perform said duty so that others won't have to and it's your turn. How could I shirk that duty and look my men in the eye and assign them to life threatening duties when it was their turn?
It would be interesting to see how Trump would try to play being jailed for contempt though, he may think it's a winning play, but it's a brown, smelly card to try to play and jokers may be wild, but they're not brown and smelly.
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Let's see, no food stamps, that consigns 12.6% of the US population to starvation. That'll prove popular with the heaviest armed populace on the planet. Once the MAGAts see their children start to starve, they'll prove a bit intractable and quite vicious.
I wonder if Musk could make it to the airfield safely?
Meanwhile, migrant workers would be gone, food rotting in farm fields, borders closed spitefully, shutting that source of food down as well. That sets off the cities.
Now, nuclear armed nations view the US in flames, questions begin to arise as to who will end up controlling our nuclear forces and one or more will preemptively strike to neutralize the danger to themselves. The missiles pass one another in suborbital trajectories and civilization as we understand it ends in a series of brilliant flashes of light.
Won't matter much if Trump made it to the mobile command post aircraft (Air Force One isn't used in a nuclear scenario, there's a special aircraft just for usage in a nuclear war), as he'd literally have nowhere to land.
Life would survive, humanity would survive at much lower numbers, technology largely obliterated, a few years of nuclear winter and survivors claw their way through to survive, the superpowers no longer existing.
I'll not care much, as I'm effectively at ground zero in an area ringed with military depots, so I'll just be a bad odor in the air.
Think that's far fetched? It's not. We're talking about at least 1/3 of the US suddenly becoming homeless, 12.6% watching their children starve and we are the most heavily armed population on the planet. Once the nukes are thought to be up for grabs, nuclear powers will universally feel at risk and a preemptive strike will become inevitable, our reply inevitable and nearly automatic, missile retargetting occurring literally in mere minutes. Those plans are quite comprehensive and it's a hell of a lot more than "nuke Russia" or "nuke China", as in a literal book of various options for every nuclear armed nation as a target, because that's one thing that the military does - plan for being attacked and attacking/counterattacking.
Survivors will essentially be back in the stone age, fortunate ones in the bronze age, as steel working is too modernized now to fall back technologically to any degree of iron age for quite some time.
Family sizes will snowball, figure 5 - 10 children so that two can survive to adulthood, just as it was only two centuries and less ago. Disease and accidents claiming most in childhood.
Starlink won't be worth much, the EMP's claiming those satellites early on via the artificial radiation belts created by the devices.
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Oh, want to really have fun with Trump, mention his catch and release that's ongoing, then ask how his great war is going against Taylor Swift.
Remember that one? And how it self-destructed and just disappeared while he held up a new shiny to distract the idiots?
Then, allude to each of his failures by an invented "operation" name, such as "Operation Trump Vodka", "Operation Trump Steaks", etc, each of his operations given its operation name by his ever so many epic business failures...
Even money, press well enough he'd throw himself on the floor and have a full on toddler meltdown tantrum.
And have the GOP further undermine themselves by proclaiming that's normal adult behavior, forcing his faithful congregation to nationally throw themselves onto the ground and tantrum and end up on psych observation floors...
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@sidgarrett7247 not necessarily, a VP can then be appointed, it's not a linear chain in the line of succession.
But, realistically, there's no lawful way to stop Trump from being inaugurated, any more than there was an option when Biden was inaugurated.
Still, there is the hope that the disruptive choices Trump tried with cabinet positions and the resistance from both aisles will continue and mount, as blank check support would be political suicide for the GOP once the full impacts are felt. After all, the MAGAts think that all impacts will be on blue states and regions, once they realize that programs they rely upon are also getting chopped, yeah, things will get ugly for the GOP.
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Actually, doctor is slightly incorrect. We didn't always have veterans disability or even any form of coverage during recovery for an injury that was slow in healing. Benedict Arnold was wounded in the failed Canadian campaign and was incapable of working his family farm after the war was over, so he sold out to support himself and his family.
After that, we developed various and slowly improving wounded veteran pension systems.
I disagree on neuroplasticity, but it's on extremely technical grounds. It's not only present in children, it remains present within a healthy brain throughout life, albeit at reduced levels as one ages. It's greatest in children, but it remains present in those without significant brain dysfunction and actually slows a number of dementias progression measurably. Again, based upon rather technical grounds. I was fortunate, although I joke and say that I was just better at ducking. Avoided significant TBI, basically via dumb luck, others didn't fare as well.
But, even neurologists argue the finer points on that subject, as it remains a highly active field of research.
I'll also suggest that Trump is essentially the worst possible thing that could happen to the GOP, literally placing it into the precise position of its predecessor, the Whig Party, which necessitated the sane membership to form the Republican Party to preserve conservatism in a sane and rational manner. He's a one man foot shooting firing squad. And worse, has no discipline, so when pressured, he'll act out worse and worse, essentially switching from foot shooting with his sidearm to foot shooting with a machine gun, increasing his own pressure in the process and dragging the party down even farther into insanity and eventual insolvency of support. His impulsiveness will result in the death of the party if a major readjustment from within the party is not widely conducted. And as much as I may disagree with many conservative viewpoints, we do require a balance of views to advance forward toward a more perfect union in a balanced manner.
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How do you impeach Emperor Musk? He literally holds no legal position in the US government, Empress Trump annointed him holy advisor and just hand waved him to a federal office, the latter as I recall also being unlawful, as there are terms of use and terms of service that get included in any federal contractor that occupies a federal office space.
As for the violations, we're talking about over a century of hard time, solitary confinement for just the classified information spill onto an unclassified and worse, unsecured, non-FISMA compliant IS system and site, add in additional violations for uncleared access, unauthorized copying across security level domains, Privacy Act of 1974 violations, I'm willing to bet that the HD's they used weren't encrypted and that's another violation on data at rest, seriously, we're talking their getting out of prison about midpoint of the sun's red giant phase.
Now, due to the breach, a full physical audit of the enduring stockpile has to be conducted and that's an immense mess to have to audit, as we're talking about sensitive warhead components sitting on shelves inside of bunkers whose security now must be questioned.
They're not dismantling the government, they're literally scuttling the ship!
Any who want to refuse to impeach and convict this merry gang of thieves needs to be impeached with tar and feathers.
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Well, contracts are now illegal, along with that stupid Constitution thingie for the god-king and his minions.
All hail the god-king, long may he wane!
I've already prepared my insurance packet. Something amiss happens, the entire planet learns how to build a "suitcase nuke", it all comes down to a small x-ray laser that was initially accidentally created due to a contaminant in the processing of a component code named fogbank. It took the DoD $200 million to replicate it during a warhead refresh, as they lost the manufacturing records for the component.
Amazing what a specific fluorine compound can do. It was the heart of Teller's zany scheme for SDI magic lasers that could never work, working inside of the tamper case is one thing, focusing and directing it in space was and remains pure insanity.
But, inside of the tamper, guided by shadows of ionized components, quite useful for sub-meter distances.
Caring is sharing, that goes with fates as well and knowledge is power.
AKA, MAD. It happens to me, it happens to all.
Iran would be all of "who cares?", North Korea and other zanies, highly interested.
Yeah, I believe it's gone that far off the reservation. Reminds me of the ancient film, "The Lost Missile", magic missile spewing nuclear poop and destroying everything it passes.
I really need to take up drinking!
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They can threaten civil war to their heart's content. It's if they act that it becomes a problem for them.
Once weapons are taken up against their nation, it is treason and a full writ of attainder and corruption of blood can then be levied against them and their extended families for the duration of their lives. That means, taking every penny, every inch of property, even their very clothing and ejecting them onto the streets as literal outlaws. Any who help them gets charged with the felony of undermining the sentence and sharing the sentence.
That's an awfully pretty family to be flat broke, propertyless, naked and under a bridge without any protection of law. It's also inherited common law that's never been legislated away and mentioned in the Constitution as only allowed in case of treason.
The writ of attainder last applied in full against Robert E. Lee's plantation, which is now Arlington National Cemetery, not by his or his family's wishes.
Ben's "Fight, fight, fight" nonsense literally put me in mind of Rick Moranis for some reason. What next? Gonna compare Schwartz sizes?
Want to see things get really hilarious? Have Harris debate Trump and when going on stage, just have her speedwalk around the stage three times. That's more energy than Trump's expended in a year and would unnerve him, since the best he ever managed was to lurk behind Hillary in their debate, looking like some shambling Sasquatch reject.
I'd have tripped him with my cane when he wandered behind me that way.
One other area of concern. In the closing of the RNC, his speech was badly slurring in the closing speech he gave at the convensssssion. Interestingly, zoos nationwide have also began to complain of a dearth of elephant tranquilizers. Sure it's a coincidence though.
I do have one upside against him. He can't accuse me of cognitive decline. One cannot have a decline in that which does not exist.
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@jamesdana1273 heh, sound goes out occasionally on a PA system. Now, if my team was scrambling to get and keep the accursed thing back online and he stated he was going to stiff us? I'd have turned off his mike again, then loudly asked him if he wanted to rethink the payment of his debts or are we repossessing the equipment immediately.
As soon as he mentioned litigation, everything gets broken down and removed. Sorry, passed a corporate point where from then on, everything is between attorneys. Then, they have a choice, try to commit grand theft on national television, with hundreds of witnesses, try to kidnap the sound crew or allow our property to be repossessed and he can try to be heard the old fashioned way - the way people have been heard for thousands and thousands of years.
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There are precisely two races on this planet and it's readily apparent which one is which.
There is the human race, a tailless offshoot of monkeys that define themselves as not apes, but are just bald apes that use slightly more advanced tools than their cousins. There is the rat race, which decidedly have tails, burrow, trash things, have constantly growing teeth and can either play cute or be exceptionally disagreeable and known to carry a few really unpleasant to human diseases. The ears and nose kind of gives them away, along with that disagreeable thing. Rats are also known to run scientific experiments on humans, pretending to be test subjects and randomly dying just to see what their human test subjects do.
Kamala is obviously a human.
Trump's staff, obviously... Dammit, human. With ratlike characteristics.
Seriously, the only time ethnicity comes to my mind at all is in regards to medical issues in need of treatment and really, that's the only time such things should come to mind.
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I mentioned this last week, after a call between Murdoch and Trump went south, suddenly his media outlets began skewering Trump, Fox pivoting slowly, as the departments either adjusted or were told to adjust or be escorted out the door by security.
Initially on Times Radio, some skewering on one or two Fox shows and it's been spreading.
Basically, he's lost control of his monster and thus far, he's spanking it. Suffice it to say, I'm fairly certain Trump won't react as desired and reconciliation will quickly become unlikely as he reacts.
Price of eggs bit, that alienates everyone that understands US egg production and the uselessness of criticizing any POTUS over bird flu culling losses - on both sides of the aisle. When I get people on the street completing sentences about how long it takes a chick to grow to egg laying age (8 - 9 months), you're beating a dead horse and driving them away.
Every other price, yes, eggs, only focus on promises, not results, as in promising something beyond the power of humanity to alter.
Save, if your candidate can shit out laying hens by the millions.
Choose your targets to devote shots to more narrowly. You don't create a cat hole to crawl through a wall with a .50 cal by shooting the entire wall, you fire at a foot to foot and a half area and pound the hole through there.
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As someone who has sat on multiple juries, that "psychosis of a jury"... Is spot on. Courts have that effect on we commoners. ;)
Trump seems incapable of learning the first two rules of court.
1: Don't piss off the judge! Ever! At all! Just don't do it!
2: Don't piss off the jury, asshole! Why do I even need to have to tell you this?!
I can see him falling asleep during selection, nearly fell asleep during jury selection myself and I was eventually appointed to those juries. Watching paint dry is far, far, far more exciting and interesting. It's necessary, but courts are designed to not be exciting, want exciting courts, watch Matlock.
Still, there's an old proverb of non-biblical origin, "Never interrupt one's adversary when they're making a mistake".
Give him time, he'll assert that the jury is paid off by Biden and the "Deep State", the latter of which as far as I can tell decodes as the Civil Service. An odd position, given his claims of their utter incompetence, but yet they've the phenomenal competence to plot as an unorganized group against him so effectively. Must involve space aliens or something.
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Get a national strike going, once their corporate campaign contributors start calling and getting directly through, they'll start paying attention.
Now, protesting en masse would probably just get declared an insurrection and numbnuts would just declare martial law, as truth and he are unfamiliar with one another. But, staying home, they're sure as hell not going to be sending the US Army to individual homes and force workers to their civilian jobs at bayonet point. Not the least of which is, the Army wouldn't piss on their oaths and the numbers just don't exist. Not enough soldiers to even visit half of the population's homes to see if they're not at work and employed.
And every day people are home, billions of GDP get lost and corporate profits are lost, in organizations long cut to the bone in "fat trimming", leaving zero redundancy.
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Interesting blurb came across Fox. Oddly, factual reporting that DOGE wants full access to the public's IRS database records.
Beyond actually factual reporting that was utterly neutral, what was interesting were the sheer volume of Russian bots going nuts for it.
Not a lick about the Privacy Act of 1974.
I dunno, does Trump want his very own, personal Wellington? Or just a Brutus?
Telling, watch CNN's coverage of the "peace process", they go on and on about Russia-US-Ukraine meetings for peace talks. Factual reporting, Ukraine hasn't been invited to these "peace talks", so it's about divvying up the corpse, not a real peace process. Not that such talks are going anywhere, Putin's pushing hard now militarily to gain leverage, but won't want to lose mineral wealth or cropland. Trump won't want to lose mineral wealth or crop land to sell to corporate farming. A great process of going nowhere.
And he's still going on about the Biden Under the Bed? I thought by now, he'd have progressed to the Biden In the Closet. You're in the office, inflation is yours, not the guy who's been gone for a month.
Although, to give due credit, he's done nothing to egg prices, nor could he, even he can't lay that many eggs. No president can change the rate of infection of chickens with bird flu.
Which reminds me, gotta run to the store anyway, gotta schedule an armored car for the delivery of a dozen eggs...
Although, a wise president might want to have the USDA examine current production practices with an eye to limiting infection spread in battery cage egg laying "farms" (they're immense warehouses full of crates that chickens literally spend their entire lives in to lay eggs, with around 6 million chickens inside of one building, so one gets infected, the entire building is infected). Canada only has around 28k per such a "farm" and they're geographically distributed due to the nature of the population distribution in Canada, the same with Mexico. Don't have all of your chickens in one basket, to mangle a metaphor.
There are a few ways to address a problem. Acknowledge a problem and try to find a solution. Deny the problem, then try to blame someone else and watch it blow up in your face. Pretend there is no problem and blame someone else and watch it turn into a nuke blowing up in your face and we know Trump loves this method, it's the Biden Under the Bed. Not an immense warehouse full of infected chickens.
BTW, USDA predicts prices of eggs to go up another 20% by year's end at a minimum, as bird flu isn't slowing down much, if at all and it take 8 - 9 months for a chick to mature to laying hen. Which will also be the fault of the Biden Under the Bed.
Doesn't care about everyone in the world rejecting US produce, "I gots mine" being the attitude.
Wonder what his attitude will be when farmers start driving up-armored farm equipment into D.C.? That's happened before, usually in one or two numbers, when farmers look at unpurchased crops, they're literally seeing foreclosure on their farms in the near future and that means homeless families... Oh wait, I know what his reaction would be, hide in the bunker while forces gun them down without mercy, as happened every other time a pissed off farmer showed up inside of the city with farm equipment.
Dealt with several forms of dementia during my clinical rotation, dealt with vascular dementia in my father's final years.
Suffice it to say, I'm fairly sure he's diabetic, right diet, age, body mass index for type 2 and poorly controlled, vascular dementia is a significant to severe risk. Vascular dementia is a dire diagnosis, as it's rapidly progressing as a dementia, with stair step progression as the blood vessels inside of the brain break down due to the accumulation of glycation end products in the blood vessels epithelial layer, rendering the vessel walls delicate. Basically, constant micro-strokes.
Add that with his malignant narcissism, he's beyond dangerous. Case in point, got his eye on owning Gaza and he's got an army.
Trump's birthday, but nothing for Saint Reagan day?
"We reversed the firing", nothing about if they actually contacted anyone or got them to agree to return, meaning they turned on payroll, not that anyone's back to guarding that enduring stockpile of nukes literally sitting on shelves.
Somewhere, there's likely someone's cat rolling around a plutonium core on the apartment floor...
Which for those that don't get the image and joke, that core would weigh in around the weight of a heavy bowling ball, while being around the size of a grapefruit.
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The Nativists have disagreed since they made religious warfare in Philadelphia city streets, bombarding Roman Catholic churches, schools and convents with a stolen artillery piece from the port defense post and murdering responding militiamen.
Google the Philadelphia Nativist Riots. It took the militia commanding general to call up a full regimental artillery unit to ring the protestant Nativists with artillery for them to return the stolen gun to the port and finally go home and soldiers patrolling with fixed bayonets to keep the peace.
The Nativists then hijacked the leading conservative party, the Whig Party, turning it into the same kind of caricature of unreality we're seeing in the Trumpite ridden GOP today, resulting in that party's collapse and the formation of the Republican Party. The Republican party's first POTUS candidate, some Abraham Lincoln guy, who wasn't treated as bad as Trump, since Trump was shot in the head with artillery, rather than a handgun like Lincoln was.
But then, Trump is too good for God anyway, he already made a public statement that God was a "pussy" for letting his kid get killed, something he'd never allow, entirely missing the point of the entire faith he claims lip service to, while following the other guy's teachings...
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We all have our own "devils", our own inner monsters within us. As civilized people, we keep them firmly repressed for the common good, which in the end is our own good as well. One only releases that repression when confronted by a predator intending harm, then brings that monster back under firm bond. Thankfully, despite fearmongers selling fear to acquire power, predators are rare.
Trump is a human predator, one that lacks that filter to keep the monster under control. That doesn't mean one releases one's own, but that one monitors him and does everything one can to ensure he is never allowed to gain a position of power where he could create a danger. After all, we have people we retain to hunt our predators and restrain them, that's also a benefit of civilization.
What one never should allow is to allow one's fears to drive one's decision making, regardless of how terrified you actually are. You acknowledge that fear, know that it'll color your thinking and guard against that from happening, so that your rational mind controls your decisions and actions. That simple thing is the difference from mere sentience and actual sapience, being self-aware vs thinking and using reason.
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@KariN-or3sc well, extra large eggs are $5.00 a dozen at my local stores, only two of which carry extra large eggs, everyone else switched to medium and large at most in selection.
Still, valid enough point, given we don't imbue the POTUS with price fixing powers in supermarkets or well, any other market, some free enterprise system thingie or other, price fixing being a commie thing to conservatives, save if competitors illegally do so and pay good campaign contributions, then it's OK.
They thought they were voting for Ali Babba, instead they voted in the 40 thieves.
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When the half of you that are tired and depressed feel like rejoining life and when the other half, who want to shred the Constitution and use Trump's tactics, techniques and practices feel like rejoining reality, where it's more conducive to life, then come back and read my warning.
Health warning: Leopard heads are tasty and one can easily engorge oneself on them when they attempt to dine on one's facial features, their forgetting that's where our mouths are.
One must pace oneself when dining, lest one suffer constipation like I currently am, due to a slight logjam of still digesting leopard skulls. Never fear, you won't run out quickly and leopard heads make an excellent egg substitute that's entirely free and incessantly volunteering to become a meal.
So, we had our asses handed to us in the election. Dust yourself off, get up and get ready to fight to preserve what remains of our nation.
George Washington lost most of the battles against the United Kingdom, but kept on slugging, preparing, slugging some more and eventually won important battles and guess what? We're not singing God Save the King, we sing our National Anthem.
We lost many battles in the beginning of every damned war that we fought - literally, tragically in many cases, laughably in others, stupidly in many cases, we dusted ourselves off, trained up, prepared and slugged away and won the important wars, walked away from the unimportant, stupidly chosen ones, stalemated one that had an impossibly large army backing the adversary that remains a stalemate to this very day. We defeated Spain and her empire, Germany and hers twice and the aggression is largely gone from Europe, save with Russia who's desperate to actually mean something and make more acquisitions to recapture their Soviet empire glory and that played heavily into our election debacle.
We never were a nation of quitters, there's no damned reason that we should suddenly start and become a satellite of the Russian Federation.
So, as I've done when my ass got handed to me, snap the damned thing back on, get up and get back to slugging.
I would recommend stocking up on shelf stable foods for the early months of the upcoming disaster - during this administration, because things are going to get stupidly crazy once he swears in and your sudden non-purchasing at war pricing is gonna really kick him and his cronies in the wallet hard if you're already stocked up. I always keep a couple of months of basics in the pantry and freezer.
Not some doomsday prepper type, I'm just lazy and when the weather's shitty out, why go out shopping when I can pull some UHT milk from the shelf, bake my own bread or whatever else I need gets pulled out of my pantry? Don't have some chest freezer or anything, just a regular full sized fridge/freezer, around four pounds of beans, four pounds of lentils, couple of bags of flour, veggies I can for myself because where $.99 for a can of veggies, half might go to waste for myself alone and the half cans are $2.00, screw that, canned my own in 8 oz jars for a couple of cases worth. Pasta sauce is in 4 gallon batches and pressure canned with the meat in a case of quart jars, mostly because I loathe that store bought crap marinara swill.
And hungry leopard heads are tasty as well, since I can't find some powdered eggs for backup for when the weather's iced up... ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozCoq4osSwk
Bad days pass, want the good days back, it's on you to make them come back, being an adult is accepting a setback and moving forward, adapting to failures and moving forward.
Because, going backward only results in being backed into the ocean and getting soggy.
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@mnomadvfx never interrupt an adversary when he's making a mistake.
Or in this case, a colossal blunder.
Most Republicans are repelled, but habitually vote Republican, Trump is rapidly curing them of that habituation, just as the Know Nothings cured Whigs enough to have them form the Republican party in the first place. The only real difference currently is, the GOP hasn't saw the handwriting on the wall yet and split off to form a new party. The more batshit crazy their wingnuts go in hijacking the party, the better it is for progressives and mainstream Democrats. The more they talk about overthrowing democracy, the more they speak of violence against their own government, the better it is for even a potted plant to defeat them in an election.
And should they pick up weapons and actually engage in violence, well, I'm a veteran, an AK or AR vs howitzer is really not much of a competition, add in rockets, bombs, tanks and trained and experienced infantry, that fools mission would be swiftly put to paid.
Because, mutiny, sedition, reason and espionage remain capital crimes for those in the military and pretty much no serving service member is going to get themselves executed in support of god-emperor wannabe Trump the buggier than a baitshop.
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@vincentsnow8436 since the alpha and beta shit was proved bullshit over 30 years ago, keep on promulgating antiquated, wrong bullshit. It entertains the knowledgeable.
Hell, most of MAGA bullshit and well, their Russian partners and consultants both put out bullshit that's lousy quality retreads of bullshit that was discarded back in the 1850's. A different sticker and a slapdash Earl Scheib coat of paint don't make it new or right now, when it was old and wrong back then.
Lemme guess, you think he'll also won't pop in your mouth? The check really is in the mail? Boy, are you gullible, sonny.
Trump will fall, Russia will glow in gamma and life will return to normal, one way or another.
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It is ironic, one will need to produce identification superior to the requirements of purchasing a firearm and ammunition.
So, one cannot cast a ballot, but can fire a bullet easily.
Not a problem, on election day, I'll bring a firearm and if denied my ballot, a bullet will go through the ballot box lock, invalidating all of the ballots.
Only hearing will be injured, mine more egregiously, given my service related hearing loss that the VA likes to ignore.
Although the governor might be disturbed, my polling place and home are only a few blocks from his mansion and there is an acute disinterest in that dwelling of firearms, which I rather share outside of competition with said instruments of noise.
But, useful instruments, as they do earn me a turkey and ham at tournaments. Used to hunt with one of them that I've since no longer possess, alas, the deer were far smarter than I and they evaded me so successfully that I started to not even bother loading the rifle.
And now, unarmed, the fuckers actually walk up to me, go figure. Oh well, we don't have a rock season and I'm in no condition to be dragging a stoned deer from the woods and the butcher doesn't require oiling.
Yeah, I do literally live three blocks from the governor's mansion and I'm fairly certain that his security and my firearms should remain disinterested in one another and given the firearms are inanimate, I suspect their happily being ensconced in the safe will remain appropriate.
And general laziness means, if the safe is opened, they get cleaned and well, the safe only gets opened when I compete for that turkey and ham.
And now, if necessary, ballot day.
Although, a small shaped charge would be lighter to carry and just as effective...
Were the Founding Fathers alive today, they'd be shouting "God Save The King!".
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@athlonen inapplicable. Espionage isn't insurrection or rebellion, so let's look at Lindh's crimes.
Supplying services to the Taliban (50 U.S.C. § 1705(b), 18 U.S.C. § 2, 31 CFR 545.204, and 31 CFR 545.206) and carrying an explosive during the commission of a felony (18 U.S.C. § 844(h)(2), oddly neither conviction was insurrection or rebellion.
So, would you also try to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 for jaywalking, which would be equally inappropriate?
Oddly, you entirely omitted those who would be objectionable, but apparently, unenforceably so, because the Constitution is apparently unenforceable under this SCOTUS, the Jan 6 insurrectionists convicted of seditious conspiracy.
I miss the heady days, when our Constitution was enforced and worse, their decision now endangers federal civil rights cases against local and state lawless enforcement officers.
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@athlonen irrelevant, as what he was convicted of, via his pleading guilty was not giving aid and comfort to an enemy, which if you ever read official documents, the Taliban and Al Qaeda were never described as (the word adversary was always used). I know that one intimately, as I authored such documents during the war in my filed reports on our operations and enemy was a disallowed term in official reports.
What he was convicted of is what operationally counts. Hell, Trump's affirmative defense against the 14th enforcement would be that he was never charged or convicted of insurrection or rebellion and BTW, giving aid and comfort to the enemy is also not insurrection or rebellion and the 14th makes no mention of anything other than insurrection or rebellion. Like I said, going for jaywalking next?
And the SCOTUS did shoot the foot of civil rights enforcement by states, as without specifics including say, law enforcement, state and local law enforcement no longer need concern themselves in abiding by the entirety of the Bill of Rights that doesn't have a codified law to enforce the meaningless Constitution.
I do wonder if Congress wrote any law establishing the SCOTUS? If not, by their case lawlessness, aren't they illegal and hence, have no authority? For that matter, interpreting the Constitution was never codified, it was original thinking of the very first SCOTUS, who considered the Constitution self-executing.
But then, the SCOTUS has long called enumerated rights privileges. A key difference between a right and a privilege is, a right requires law and the action of a court to abridge, a privilege may be administratively revoked. An example of a privilege being operating a motor vehicle, that privilege can be administratively revoked, for one example, if a licensed physician finds the operator unfit to safely operate a motor vehicle. But, one has a right to speech, until a court issues a gag order.
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Just a replay of the Native American Party hijacking of the Whig Party. The Native American Party was AKA the "Know Nothing Party", notorious for circus stunts, obstruction, brinksmanship and distilled incompetence, pure nativist, decidedly against Native Americans, well and anyone else with skin darker than bleached paper, anti-anything not Protestant, white or Anglo-Saxon and was even involved heavily in religious warfare in Philadelphia when Nativists stole artillery from the port of Philadelphia and fired it at a Catholic church, school and convent with hospital, then murdered responding militia.
Their hijacking of the Whig party caused it to implode, resulting in conservatives forming a new party, the Republican Party. Their first POTUS candidate, Abraham Lincoln. We saw the Nativist response...
And we hear their ilk today threaten civil war again, to which I've happily replied, "Fine, Reconstruction II will last a minimum of one century and be happy if we don't include Hunger Games". I never did claim to be a diplomat, I'm as diplomatic as a shotgun at a wedding.
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In the United States of America, we're a bit weird. We don't just grab people's assets, regardless of how obnoxious, disagreeable or how big an asshole they are. If there are financial assets that require seizing in order to secure and pay a legal debt, the matter goes before the courts to ascertain if that is a lawful action, merited, then if appropriate, the court can order the local sheriff to seize said assets. That would require a court, likely in another state, to apply to the local Floridian court to secure said assets for a stated debt, with documentation from the originating, owed state, proving that the claim is valid and part of a legal proceeding.
Ran into something on that very subject in regards to Florida some months ago, just can't recall how I ended up reading about that matter.
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I have to admit that the king does have exceptionally good command of the English language, despite his biting his tongue the entire time.
I've not mastered that skill.
As for the beautiful land he wants to pogrom the Palestinians to, would it be perchance named Auschwitz?
As for the Greenland thing, it's consigned to committee, given there are two, H.R. 361 and H.R. 1161 (the latter being the idiocy about red, white and blueland), with 1161 assigned to two committees and well, given how bills introduced literally monthly by MAGA types to expunge Trump's impeachments, yeah, call it the circular file, aka file 13, aka file 86, aka the shit can.
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@scrambler69-xk3kv honestly, I think that the founders royally screwed up when they so narrowly defined treason.
Well, at least they did leave sedition open.
As for running out the clock, that's only for federal charges, despite what Trump's blathering lately about states being part of the federal government (they're not), state charges are still pending in two states.
And frankly, if he gets away with the classified documents debacle, I could make a pretty good living off of what I know, since handing out classified information would be then de facto legal.
No, I'd not sell information on what goes where and why inside hydrogen bombs. Just a hyperbole ridden example of the chaos that could ensue.
And I can neither confirm, nor deny the existence of the hydroscillator. :P
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She was literally his protege, then he went seriously off the reservation enough to be considered hazardous, so she jumped off and remains radio silent.
I've two sides of my personality, my sociopathic military side and my really nice guy usual side. Of the two, I hate, but value that first mentioned side, the other side, well small animals and young children trust me naturally and are protected and well played with and fed well, I'll eat the leopard's face off when it tries to attack. I was often the designated babysitter. And literal killer of terrorists. I preferred running clinics, schools and babysitting and still do.
Far easier than being a monster.
A lesson that frankly, having met Trump, hearing her briefly and his sons incessantly (save the youngest, who's still in college), they're pretty much Monsters, Inc, minus having an actual soul or conscience.
At least I do have a conscience.
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@Savvy_boomer do you? They thought as much as well. Their predecessors did as well, when conservatives were members of the Whig Party. Another party usurped by demagogues, religious fanatics, racists, white supremacists, religious extremists that wanted only Protestantism, nationalists, anti-immigrationists and caused the sane membership to abandon the party, which then imploded. The sane membership formed the Republican Party, their first presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln.
Presuming immunity only means that you're driving at high speed with a blindfold on, for only by watchful wariness can one avoid such pitfalls.
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So, they'd have incarcerated Mary and Joseph for fleeing to Egypt when warned by an angel about Herod's orders to kill every firstborn Jew.
I imagine also, they'd order the SS St Louis sank in the ocean by our Navy, rather than allow those Jews to approach our shores seeking asylum as refugees from Hitler in 1939. Rather than oh, what we did, send them back to Europe to be sent to Auschwitz.
Yep, totally a Godly people, if one's god is Satan himself.
And worse, condemning someone for utilizing their very first amendment rights, because the Constitution is illegal to the god-king Trump and his Emperor, Musk.
Embrace that and embrace your eternal condemnation to hell, you've richly earned it.
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Honestly, I do believe that a civil war may be looming. :(
Things would get mighty interesting though if it did and who is control of our nukes comes into question. :/
And alas, I'm for once being serious.
Had to take a break, due to a Crohn's flare and got irony nibbling at my heels. Was preparing to hone my ulu, as it's in need of a touch-up and realized my honing oil was empty. While examining the bottle from an Arkansas company, I noticed that the label was tri-lingual, English, Spanish and French.
And billed as non-petroleum, while its MSDS says 98% mineral oil, which is decidedly petroleum. Mostly from Canadian crude.
Fortunately, I've a larger bottle of plain food grade mineral oil on hand that I use to make wood butter for my cutting boards and wooden spoons.
Gotta still get the board/bowl for it, neighbor set out the blade and I rehoned the much abused treasure. I'd make my own board, but I'm feeling a bit lazy. Got many a fine kitchen knife that way and the losing neighbor never realized, I'd happily hone them for free for them. Oh well, waste not, want not.
And a fine kitchen work cart that has an excellent cutting board top that a neighbor never installed all of the hardware for and worse, covered the butcher block with contact paper. Stripped the crap off, installed the missing hardware for a few bucks investment, refinished the cutting board top and coated it with that abovementioned wood butter. Bleach it clean, re-butter it.
Circling back to the subject at hand, I suspect you folks might want to spool up JTF 2. Served in an overlap region with them, did some mutual assistance jobs in both directions when a bite was a bit more to chew than was called for due to some faulty intelligence, they can set quite the party table! And that's meant in a most unpleasant for the other folks way. Canadians are polite as the day is long, right until they're riled up, then they're as nasty as the rest of us until the unpleasant business is concluded.
And just as happy when the other guys just go home.
I'm a pacifist by nature, but was a warrior by trade. Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent, it's a final recourse when one didn't do one's job properly. Because, nobody in their right mind wants a war.
Now, to important stuff. Wood butter is easy, about 1/3 beeswax to the rest mineral oil, more or less oil to desired consistency. Melt over low heat in a pot that's expendable (I keep one small pot just for that purpose), jar it up and it'll keep indefinitely. Just as a good steel blade will, keep them sharp or get injured, they should last multiple lifetimes if properly cared for. Guide for a quality blade, if it's shiny as a mirror, you're looking at the wrong thing, if it's the hue of a US nickle, you're on the right path - it's high carbon and will take an edge, the other crap needs a whole intensive care unit to hone. Ceramic blades are good, but really a bastard to re-hone.
Note a preference for the useful over the worthless?
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Now, let's have a stroll down history lane.
In the years 1937 - 1939, the first Social Security pension payments were sent out - a one time payment to those of pension age or older.
That was it for them, but according to god-king, they're still getting paid, probably by Harry Potter's magical wooden dildo.
And all contracts you can underpay, because contracts mean paying whatever you want to pay if you're a god-king. Your electric bill and rent, both contracted, try to pay half or whatever you want to, let us all know how well that works out for you. Mortgages are also contracted, pay half and keep paying half, keep on saying you'll only pay half and never, ever the contracted amount and hell, do it in writing. Let us all know how nice it is to live under that bridge.
Breach of contract is a really big deal, save for god-king, who has his lawyers keep continuances abusing the system until anyone suing either dies of old age or goes bankrupt and can no longer afford to collect. That's why the roofer at the Taj Mahal started to remove those onion domes when Trump attempted to refuse to pay by "Oh, we can't pay the agreed amount today, it has to come from the corporate office only and they didn't cut the check that's due today" card was flipped. Cranes and workers came up, workers scaled the roofs and began to dismantle the roofer's roofs and wonder of wonders, suddenly that location acquired the ability to print and possession of company checks and one was immediately cut.
The roofers stopped, reattached what was disconnected and left to a happy payday.
And DOGEshitters have yet to provide any evidence of fraud, waste or abuse, only waved around some pages that finally were admitted to have DEI baked into the contract BY THE GOVERNMENT.
If we can find 1.5 trillion, yeah, he said the same thing about votes, but one AG couldn't be assed enough to push the case forward, so we're living the life of Wile E. Coyote at the Acme plant.
Want to have fun interviewing him, have him provide some numbers, wait five minutes, have him repeat those numbers, they'll be different and his dementia won't allow him to remember what he invented.
Then, "Oh, Hamas, Gaza, Mozambique, Israel, nice town"... Yeah, BRICS wall to the face.
He was truthful about his approval rating, he's not heard those numbers before he pulled them out of his ass, won't hear those numbers again if nobody plays the video for him either.
I did notice one odd trend in retail. NICS background checks for firearms sales is a fair bit higher this month than last and this month isn't over, despite it being a short month. Ammunition sales are also up. No idea what that means though. Maybe that's connected with the approval rating or something. Feel free to Google it, the FBI reports on how many NICS checks are done and the firearms industry does track ammunition sales and report on that more often than on firearms sales, as ammunition is consumable and companies like to know if they need to make more to stay in front of demand.
BTW, the Hanford nuclear site is now short staffed, the workers fired by DOGEfuck, those maintaining the NW power grid, especially the hydroelectric power stations at the dams, also shitcanned, so it's a matter of time before the west coast goes dark.
I'm sure that Silicon Valley and Vegas won't mind being in the dark for a month or two until they can reassemble the power grid.
And has anyone confirmed if he got back the bird flu tracking team that they'd just fired? How about the NNSA security teams for our nuclear warhead security? Just saying they're unfired does not mean that they've even actually gotten contact with those fired workers, they could've as easily and quickly reactivated their e-mail and cell phone accounts and a box of cell phones in the abandoned IT office at their site now have full inboxes and nobody guarding our nuclear weapons stockpile.
Don't take his word if he waves a receipt, that receipt for recalled workers is more likely a McDonald's receipt. Or the tape from a young lady's maxipad...
Yes, having met him in person, I trust him that little.
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'He didn't fill out an application that doubles as a place mat at McDonald's", because this is the 1860's, so out of touch that they think companies still use paper applications.
"You can't define fascism", how entertaining if they actually took the insane risk to actually ask someone. Especially me, their stereotype, non-college educated and I most certainly can define fascism, communism, socialism and capitalism quite well. I did have social studies, aka civics and quite well remember my lessons from the ice age. In detail. Well enough to literally satisfy college professors.
Then, pivot to "close the border before another 9-11 comes", because so many of the hijackers came across our borders through the desert, rather than as privileged students and such by air. Oh wait, some of us remember 9-11, having fought your wars for you. I'm a dick though, I'll give you closed borders. Utterly closed borders, making sure the entire planet gives the GOP due credit for failed supply chains - again, no produce, missing meats, no car parts, no imports from China, chronic shortages of everything and pissed off starving people picking up torches and pitchforks heading directly their way.
Then, pivot yet again into mythical handlers steering opponent candidates into, whatever hand wave bullshit they're plying. Know who used handlers extensively, which is telling that one would refer to when doing one's master's bidding? The Russians. We didn't have handlers steering tons of agents, well, we had a few, but the CIA wasn't the size of an army, the KGB and GRU were army sized. The more the right speaks, the more they tell on themselves. They forgot that they have the right to remain silent, which any attorney says at the onset, is always the best idea.
"You're gonna do it anyway, when nobody can see", such a stalwart position of honor, denunciation without cause, again, out of the old Ruskie playbook. Traded in commies for Nazis, good job, traitors.
Then, segue into the strange, bizarre and unusual, log splitting. Back to the roots, perhaps, given the GOP's first candidate was Lincoln, of log splitting fame? Oh wait, no, something insane about sex changes of illegal immigrants in prison, because there's ever such a line around the universe for such services - in a galaxy far, far, far away. But, they'll be quite an impressive army, locked in prison, stooped over from groin surgery, were they not fever dreams from too many methamphetamine doses, another Nazi failing that literally cost them a war. Yeah, Hitler's command staff and himself were delusional by the end of the war because they were constantly on meth, a new drug that swept through their social circles that gave their "supermen" superhuman no sleep, along with paranoid delusions that undermined any actual sane efforts in their losing war effort. Pepperidge Farms remembers, so do we.
Then, go with the time machine gambit. "Harris broke it all", hoping nobody notices she wasn't in any office that could influence events in the way that they claim. Saw another one blaming Obama not being inside of the Oval Office on 9/11, you know, when W was President... Need a time machine to make that work, dipshit.
Then, thank veterans for their service, then try to tar and feather them if they report what they heard with their own ears. Next then comes threats of violence from their looser wrapped peers, who never question the wisdom of threatening to shoot someone good with the same class of arms out to two thirds of a mile to a mile. Their best offering, one that went after their own candidate, firing at a distance that any basic training trainee on their first week with an M16, missed by a lot and their other key brain trust, one that thought bushes naturally sprout $90 rifle barrels... Their best and brightest, easily disarmed using only basic stealth maneuvering and a frigging screw gun shooting a bolt down the muzzle. Then, sit back and watch them take themselves out.
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Elon mentions Clinton, but oddly omits Dementia Donnie bringing his kids to child rape island.
And oddly, Carter never patronized Fantasy Island.
And following and unfollowing, got my own list of doing the same with individuals and groups, guess I am a maoist or something and the devil himself, which would be odd, given he is my best employee.
Love the USA and love means correcting when one's loved one goes astray, not abandonment or harming one's loved one.
Used that doctrine with my wife of over 41 years, more often, she used it on me to stop me.
With superior effect to my military superiors, her memory still constrains my actions and reactions.
Pavlov had short term effects, wives, longer lasting effects. ;)
Psychology types will appreciate that rarely expressed psychological humor. I'd have refined it better, but it's a royally off day. Crohn's attack of mild-ish level, weather change causing significant physical pain due to neurological compression issues that thankfully are less severe than the previous storm and nearing the third year mark of my wife's rapid and unanticipated demise.TP supplies
Compensating a bit deficiently, due to exertion and weather issues and well, 10 poop trips now, worrying me about TP supplies, being down to three rolls.
Someone one loves fucks up, one, out of love corrects them, not loving them into a well understood pathway to destruction, that ain't love, it's hatred.
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It's actually entirely within the Trump playbook.
You see, bankruptcy is in common views, a failure. Trump bills it as a great success. Failed businesses, also successes since his investors lost money, but he managed to not lose his shirt.
So, defeat = victory.
It's all standard Trumpian Bizarro World logic, where everything is opposite. And if you follow the ancient comic book series, Bizarro won against Superman once, having Superman then make Bizarro World a cube, rather than the sphere it originally was.
And remember from WWII, Nazi propaganda kept proclaiming victory, even as Berlin was under assault by all of the Allied forces, right until Hitler committed suicide, I imagine unimaginably bravely so, by taking cyanide and shooting himself heroically.
And that's still a winning proposition for President Musk, while his puppet draws fire, even fatally, he's only lost a tiny amount of his fortune and little is blowing back toward him. And as well, remember that President Musk has a security army of around 20, complete with a doctor, with more available as needed. So, as I said, no risk to him in any way whatsoever, his puppet VP Trump assumes all of the risk, as does every citizen of this benighted land.
And I'm sure Trump has his own Trump Youth and Volkssturm as a final defense for President Musk and himself.
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I've been quite busy dissuading people from moving to adopt extreme measures to address their concerns over threats to our Republic and Constitution. I've been successful thus far, even if at times, a suggested threat of the use of the force of arms was met by a counter suggestion that the very arms used to defend this nation would be wielded against those behaving in such a lawless and harmful manner.
I believe that, should no motions made, no efforts to counter such blatant corruption not be proactively addressed, that inhibition will cease. I and my veteran peers will simply kick back into play any idiot that heads in our direction and when the smoke clears, we'll reestablish order in our own way, then re-institute our Constitution upon what remains.
Yes, they're that angry on both sides right now. And honestly, I was trying to enjoy my military retirement.
Our jurists and attorneys enjoy a highly special position of trust and are allowed to self-police their ranks. Do so, lest others take their notion of the law into their own hands and we just step out of the way. What's holding these people back is, unlike them, we know where the ordinance is stored.
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@judymawhorter7301 except for one problem. The culling was in Feb 2022, this is Nov 2024 and it only takes 40 weeks to grow large enough to produce jumbo and extra large eggs, sooner for smaller grade eggs.
So, it ain't the farmers, it's profiteering, as usual.
Just like the COVID toilet paper bullshit, nobody could get music roll for their bathrooms, I had no problem, went to industrial/janitorial supply houses and got it by the case. Different supply stream, but there never really was a shortage if one simply resourced the supply stream, rather than artificially keep scarcity and prices higher.
Eggs in bulk for bakeries aren't that high, just stupidmarkets.
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@timothyjackson4653 one image I've seen shows the displaced air distortion from one round. More than one round was fired. As in 8 shots, per multiple accounts. That's 8 bullets aflyin', after the first few, most likely wild and well, his marksmanship began by badly lacking, thankfully.
I averaged around a 2" group with GI ammunition on an issue M4 in the Army at that range. But, I'm also a competition shooter, the average marksman would average that or maybe 2 1/2" grouping and they'd also know, shoot fast, miss always.
End of the day, he has a boo-boo that wouldn't merit a purple heart in someone engaged with an actively firing enemy inside of a war zone and yes, he's milking it like it's a cash cow.
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OK, show me two eyewitnesses to Trump or Musk picking up guns and shooting at federal officers to overthrow the US government. I'll wait.
Treason is the only crime that's defined in the US Constitution and it's extremely narrowly and precisely defined to avoid abuses of the charge that occurred in Europe.
Now, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, not an option, Congress has not declared war on anyone, so there is no enemy. So, we've the statute that you cannot make the charge with - the statute being no less than the US Constitution.
Article III, Section 3, Clause 1:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
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Entertainingly, the insurance company and bond company have the same owner and share a CEO.
A one horse carriage company, renting out four horse carriages and certifying the additional needed horses are somewhere, but don't actually exist.
Rather like Trump in business practices too, self-certifying values with nothing to support the claimed values. Which well, OK, I'll hereby certify that my iPhone SE is worth one trillion dollars. Honestly, would I lie?!
And I have a prehensile tongue and breathe through my ears, ladies. And have brown eyes for a damned good reason.
Yeah, I'd be getting some extremely stern warnings from a judge. But then, I've never suffered fools well.
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Oh, the tariffs will help Detroit, after all, a $49k car costing $198960 would stimulate car sales and profits, as parts cross the border a half dozen times during processing. Just tighten your belts as new US factories are built over the course of a decade.
I'm sure that the kids won't mind waiting a decade between meals as they freeze on the streets.
Oh, the judges are all being unfair. Used to hear from the kids how the teachers were all being unfair, just because they didn't do their homework.
It was uglier than what you said, Musk had referenced the condom bullshit earlier, spurring her question.
Now, a proper answer, "You're absolutely right, I really screwed the pooch on that one and do keep my heels to the fire when I screw up - Americans need accurate answers, not wrong answers". Not, "Oh well, I fucked it up and who gives a flying fuck?".
Oh well, someone go down into the White House basement and thank the Biden in the Basement for the sabotaging of the god-king and Emperor Musk.
Although, shouldn't Big Balls have caught that sabotage for Emperor Musk? Guess those balls aren't eyeballs or associated with testosterone. The sheep wonder why he has cowboy boots...
Hegseth, so that's what he looks like without the lampshade? Thank Mr Chamberlain for his contribution again, if it's all the same to him and even if it's not, I'm unwilling to try WWIII on for size.
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Sorry, it is consistent, just as when he had COVID and nothing was released...
There is imagery of his injury at the time, it is consistent with a graze injury to the top outer ear lobe. In military EMS terms, we'd refer to it as a boo-boo. As in, if in time of war a soldier was similarly wounded, that service member might not even be awarded a purple heart.
That said, the last time I looked and I do intensely dislike uncovering my mirrors, as replacing melted mirrors gets expensive, ears are part of the head. And in Trump, any head wound is only a flesh wound.
It was and remains a boo-boo, with a gigantic bandage that is only worn during public speaking engagements, probably for two months to properly milk that cow dry.
So, what you've got here isn't a gotya, it's really a nothingburger, being examined minutely while he's swimming in various other felonies that he now has a divine right to commit. I thank the SCOTUS for giving me the lowest level of contempt for the entirety of their branch.
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Oh, I've plenty to say about New York state, the raccoons are murder at Fort Drum, the weather's a bit colder than I prefer and I loathe cities in general, the rest of the state, well, from Pennsylvania, so got plenty of pretty much the same and the entertainment of Pennsyltuckey on one side, Amish on the other.
You know, idiots on one side, good furniture and excellent manual hand tools on the other.
Being in the middle, would that make me an idiot with a hand tool?
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How entertaining, "The Dogefather", actually admitting to his view that he holds a royal title of king of kings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(title)
As I've said, he's literate. An idiot, but a literate idiot.
I say, as many as can, buy a gallon of pine tar and some chicken feathers. Might need them to help remove that wide streak of yellow down Congressional backs.
Just remember, before application, it does have to be properly boiling and a whitewash brush is recommended for application.
Some traditions never should have been abandoned.
For the rest, just pick a day together, stay home on a nationwide general strike until our own government is forced to surrender to the people who are their lawful superiors.
Assembled, he could just lie, as he's done before and proclaim an incident free peaceful assembly is an insurrection and declare martial law.
Home, well, it'd make an interesting case of insurrection inside of one's own living room. Even more fascinating if the accusation was made when one's enjoying one's own bedroom.
Not that the government ever had and most certainly no longer has any chance of knocking on each and every striking citizen's door to compel them to report to their private sector employment and shop at our stores.
Especially, given we've now witnessed what happens when sedition is met with silence.
Stay home, let corporate America, in fear of bankruptcy, pressure those they bought and paid for via "campaign contributions" do their damned duty as they swore an oath to.
And have each governor prepare articles of secession for their legislatures, dated to Julian date 2460767.208333.
The date on the calendar saying it all, but the humorless idiots won't have a clue and respond to nothingness.
After all, Musk shouldn't be the only one allowed to go for a literary pwn.
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Wasn't only his nephew, Alex Azar reported the statement as well.
He stopped just shy of Aktion T4, Hitler's start just prior to his Final Solution, where the elderly, mentally ill, mentally challenged, disabled were all rounded up from care homes, hospitals and private homes and literally gassed in carbon monoxide vans in the street.
Yep, a real treat, trying to bring WWII back. Along with all of the atrocities and crimes against humanity.
The beast, who was wounded in the head by the sword and did not die. Cursing in church, profaning and blaspheming daily, but the damned calling him the Chosen One. Yeah, the beast was chosen, but not by the Almighty.
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Farmers are going to do better because he's tariffing aluminum and steel? Oh, I know, he means the aluminum and steel farmers, whose products can be acquired in any supermarket's refrigerated section, right next to the apples.
The cities are laying on their sides? Must be those Chinese gravitic drives from Harry Potter's magical wooden marital aid.
Oh what the hell, someone ask him about our super dooper missile again.
BRICS is dead because he god-king pronounced it so and the universe must change according to the will of the god-king. Have him call the Rocky Mountains to kneel before him.
Which confuses me, with such godly powers, how does he have such a problem with a Biden in the Basement undermining his godliness and immense godly impotence, I mean omnipotence, no I was right the first time?
Interesting and telling, he cites only one person about the G7 that 'agreed with me', someone that's deceased. And oddly never stated any such agreement verbally or in writing. More voices from within his empty head?
Crimea and Ukraine and Trump and I dunno, he got stuck in tanglefoot on that one, didn't quite complete a circle, just a frigging tangle of Obama and Bush and rambling, I mean 'the weave' of a dementia driven confabulation or maybe a covfefe.
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To be honest, Trump has revolutionized one specialty of medicine. Never before, in the history of humanity, has one man done so much, so thoroughly and comprehensively, as to advance the medical treatment of self-inflicted gunshot wounds to his own feet.
For, he's never learned the first rule of court: DON'T PISS OFF THE JUDGE, thereby shooting himself in the foot - repeatedly, in multiple courtrooms, in multiple levels of federal and state courtrooms.
Then, blaming everyone else for the holes in his bone spurred feet.
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With no due respect, a regional rail train having a problem, currently appearing to be due to a malfunction on the train itself or it's a magical fire that followed the train for over a mile, isn't the moron's problem or fault.
Do try to stay focused and not blaming the wind and rain on him, given he's got plenty of felonies he can take credit for.
Such as that wonderful Corps of Engineers effort in washing away a crop and soil, which will magic a fire hundreds of miles away due to Harry Potter's wooden marital aid or something.
And Christmas is because of him, he is the Virgin Mary, whose difficulties in early life are well documented, as it's tough to be breast fed by one's father.
And he's gotta make concepts of plans to have a concept of a plan for his pogrom, emulating the Czars of old, murdering entire ethnic groups that don't run fast enough.
And get rid of anything that helps US interests, then act surprised when terrorist recruitment goes way up.
And he's rescinded the Constitution, he's gotta be building up a powerful thirst!
And he's been Trumpy winning in court, Trump win after Trump win, which mere mortals would call having epic losses of the most Pyrrhic kind, but he'll not pay for those bills anyway.
And Comer just admitted to dereliction of duty, when he claimed that these agencies had no oversight and his branch is the oversight for those agencies, boy I'd hate to be his defense attorney, given such a propensity to confess! And a fascinating Trump style redefinition of transparent, calling opaque transparent. Honestly, he'd have tried to say that to me, I'd have wrapped my cane around his head a few times.
And Flood, sure thing, cut what keeps me alive, I'm sure Iran and North Korea would love to learn how to design and assemble a compact fusion warhead that can fit in the trunk of a car or one of their missiles. Since classified things are no longer of importance and are marketable. I'm sure they'd also love to know where the current Congressional bunker is in case of nuclear emergency is, as well as the communication node locations for it. After all, my pain is your pain, come and get it!
You might want to ask President Musk for a copy of my classified 201 file sections first.
Now, an interesting question on the fake buyout is, could that be construed, in conjunction with the threat of summary termination, as a fundamental breach of their employment contract with the US government? If so, it's fully recoverable and with punitive damages. But, it's nice to know that misappropriation is no longer a felony, stealing is now federally legal, people!
Mr Lau seems to have missed the Musk/Trump message, food is to be made illegal and has to be either destroyed or taxed into a range that's inaccessible to the populace, thereby generating civil unrest that can justify martial law. It worked ever so well in France, just ask King Louis and Marie, although they're probably a bit hoarse after their experience with the National Razor.
Thinking outside the box, from inside of the rubber room, I'm ever so comforted.
Oh well, maybe he'll send some of his thugs in my direction, I'll be happy to store their ordinance for them as I eat their lunch. I always do enjoy light entertainment.
Might take a trip if that happened, say kick Ravenrock's extension cord out. Only needs a dozen or so manholes to have an odd accident with an appropriate solvent that's commonly available.
Oh yeah, never worked inside the box, so I really don't know what the box is from inside, but I do know its boundaries and constraints. You'd be playing with Briar Rabbit's briar patch, which isn't a good idea. My home literally defends itself and the best place to find me is behind you, picking your pocket of interesting things and oops, sorry about detuning your radio.
Now, excuse me, I have to put away groceries. Donnie know groceries, they come out of pumps and apples, from the refrigerated section. Had to top off some shelves, as with winter storms, well, I'm lazy, so it was only about 200 - 250 pounds of them, most shelf stable, some delicacies are frozen though. Was only a four mile stroll across some annoyingly irregular terrain. And President Musk can trivially even confirm the purchases and my residence.
On an upside note, I am looking for a low priced, but decent dry white wine for a reduction sauce for clams in an olive oil based white sauce and my local state store employees don't know a white wine from a red. Suggestions are welcome. Uptown Harrisburg is a bit of a confusing market for me when seeking quality wines sufficient for both table and cooking for a casual meal. Every damned wine I saw was unacceptably sweet or fruity.
I'll be having a chat with their union rep, that location's employees need some actual training!
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Retired military veteran here. Trump's been undermining our courts authority since the first case brought against him, he'll continue to illustrate our white wealth two tier justice system until it collapses or is corrected.
He'll eventually get himself locked up, likely when property seizure begins and he calls for violence clearly against a state and county government, perfecting sedition.
Because, at the end of the day, it's a loud and threatening minority armed with AK's and AR's vs mk-19's, MLRS, HIMARS, howitzers, gunships, bombers, tanks, fast attack aircraft, while the infantry enjoy the fireworks display and the FIST teams guide each group. That's less than no contest.
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Ah, Putin threatens missiles, Rocket Man with his super duper missile threatens someone else with his limp heat seeking moisture missile. Given his drug habit, even money that little blue pill won't fix his rickety rocket.
And the chances of his actually successfully unlawfully ordering an invasion and declaring unlawfully war against Mexico is one of three: Slim chance, fat chance, no chance, as Milley himself suggested, that whole oath we all take on joining the military is to our laws and Constitution, not Caesar and his mighty word salad.
Shoot Patriot antiaircraft missiles at drug labs? Talk about clueless!
Not to mention, no POTUS may declare war any more than he can declare himself God. Though, I'm sure that Trump is certain that he can declare both at the same time.
And his go-to of "there's a caravan" is beyond tired, even amongst his faithful, as the last one turned out to be one Dodgy caravan that barely ran with a single family inside, the previous a few hundred women and children. Guess those diapers were loaded, they were so dangerous. Looked great on international TV when a certain Texan governor strung razor wire illegally on the border, which states are not authorized to access, when infants were hanging from the razor wire quite dead. God and country, burn the babies once they're forced to be born, in Jesus' mercy.
Sigh: Gonna be an interesting four years, all with a choice of Vance or keeping a raving lunatic with dementia and a bad drug habit in the Offal Office. I estimate it even money he'll nuke our sanctuary cities. Oh wait, that'd also be an unlawful order and ignored.
Might get a military wide mutiny though, not sure what kind of government we'd have then, but a junta would be assured. I'm sure Russia would love a Russia hating military junta in charge of our nukes, with the shade of LeMay hanging over all to advise them... As long as one American man and one American woman survive, we've won.
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@chrisspellman8545 he's certainly undermining the faith and credit in his state's board of medical licensing.
Note the specific words used, they're Constitutionally and regulatorily important. Article 4, Section 1 of the US Constitution important as to state laws and state licensing and when faith and credit are strained, a barrier to interstate commerce exists.
That's the beginning of a case against his medical license, then one goes for his Commission in the Armed Forces, where he's actively and seditiously undermining the faith and trust of subordinates in their Commander in Chief. Sedition being a capital offense for members of the Armed Forces. Undermining the faith and trust in the command structure, grounds for revocation of his commission and hence, pension.
Not that we can trust the admiralty to do the right thing for a change, they've always been infamous for covering for one another. Leaving Big Navy to eventually end up with a dozen eggs on its face after vessels playing bumper cars, submarines slamming into mountains, guns blowing up and dozens of sailors killed in those events and admirals covering for one another in every case, prompting some Congressional interest and in at least one case, a Congressional threat to defund that entire branch until they complied with Congressional will.
Kind of hard to run a supercarrier task group with a budget of $1.98 for the year...
Knowledge is power.
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Doesn't matter if he was, he can't fire federal judges and he sure as hell can't do a damned thing to a state judge.
Well, unless he wants to somehow convince the DoD to wipe their collective asses with the Constitution and federally invade and take over the state, illegally arrest judges and wonder why his military mutinies and the states all take up arms against him.
Trump is like a schoolyard bully, talks smack a lot, but once hit back, runs away. He's gotten a pee-pee smack currently, at least until the courts actually collect the penalties. He'll continue to talk about coming back, despite there being no pathway forward, right until he rebrands that failure as a success and his sap brigade gleefully follows his "success" in jumping off the cliff.
He'll continue to fail, as he doesn't recognize that states and federal are entirely different courts and jurisdictions and no POTUS has influence over state courts. He, despite pretending to serve one term, knows nothing whatsoever about our system of government and embarrassingly, foreigners understand our systems of government far better than he does.
I'll close with, Al Capone did nothing wrong, the same as Trump, ignore that entire conviction and term in prison served... Enough said. Fraud is illegal for a reason, tax evasion is also illegal and tax evasion by fraud is coming soon. That intention has been telegraphed quite clearly. Then, it'll turn into coordination on who gets stuck with them in their prison - federal or state, for America's Least Wanted.
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Frankly, it's a worthless order. Trump just writes a memo certifying DOGE has a lawful purpose with full access, they thumb their noses at the court and continue doing whatever they want to, it's all how one interprets the order and memos away the legal requirements.
Give me ten minutes, I'll have a document and statement that authorizes precisely that that will withstand legal scrutiny.
So, the judge needs to write a TRO that's much narrow, enjoins the maladministration from making such an interpretation and has confirmation that the data is inaccessible to them at all, has no copies made, that it's properly encrypted at rest and has very, very sharp teeth if violated.
Otherwise, one has a Pyrrhic paper victory that means absolutely nothing. The order, overcome by a memo in crayon, written on toilet paper.
They're dealing with scofflaws that feel as though they can do whatever they want to and likely will and simply lie about it.
And honestly, given I'm certain that my retirement and financial data is in that data set, am disinclined to trust any of them, especially having actually known Trump in the real world, long before unreality TV existed. Hence, I wouldn't trust him any farther than I could through the entirety of Langley.
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His good friend, Hannibal Lecter, a mythical character, much like his own character. Total nanu-nanu!
Weaving around asylum, our asylum laws created out of shame after MV St Louis was sent to Europe and the 1000 Jews sent to the camps and somehow confabulating asylum into insane asylums that we closed under Reagan.
He hasn't seen a beach since he was beached and learned how to walk.
Some years back, when my tween grandkids were toddlers, I was sitting on the floor playing with them and our daughters noticed a bald spot.
"Dad's got a bald spot!!!"
My response was simple enough, "What the fuck did you expect? I'm getting old!"
I'm lousy with candor.
Trump rallies, "Our dreams are like our children...", from "My Fellow Americans", 'get a new speech, old man!'.
So, he went YMCA, Arnold Palmer's member and now fellatio on a microphone on his way out of the closet.
Mom used Liquid Gold on the kitchen cabinets. They never recovered. I make my own wood butter for the same general purpose, mineral oil and beeswax melted in an expendable pot. Got plenty of those turd coated pots that the coating fails on after a couple of years. And why I ordered stainless steel and cast iron to replace them, keeping the junk for wood coatings. Now, you've gotten something useful from something political, wood butter, 1/3 - 1/2 mineral oil to beeswax, depending upon what you're doing, more mineral oil for loose shoe wax levels, more beeswax for firmer general waxing. Mostly used on my wooden cutting boards after bleaching them sanitary, then rinsing and drying, then coating.
Don't have an atomic force microscope for that back corner performance and well, don't swing that way, Donnie.
Polls, well, DEWEY WON! Enough said.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman#/media/File:Dewey_Defeats_Truman.jpg
As useful as a stripper pole is for my income, which trust me, is utterly worthless.
See my best side on the monitor as a churn while speaking, "I see London, I see France, I see my own underpants, excuse me for a moment...".
No, all about him and image of immortality.
I'll suggest amorality, but nobody can find such for a damned good reason. I'm discrete.
I mean, I'm moral. Yeah, Mom said my eyes were brown for a damned good reason. Told her hers were the color they were for a good reason too. She exclaimed "They're green!"
"Yeah, it turned moldy".
She damned near broke her hand on my skull, which makes granite look soft.
True story of actually mutually fun times. Even the swat.
Queen bitch of the universe, when I was right, the Almighty didn't challenge, when I was wrong it was all in capitals. Damn, miss her and miss my wife, both holding that standard.
Still churning over ass end views, suggest my ass has more hair than the back of my head.
Vanity ain't my strong point.
Doing a job is my strong point, get hired on, I do that job. Even as a DoD contractor, follow the damned contract we were paid to do, not underperform and then scope creep to try to keep that contract. Did a few favors, that I insisted never be considered, as they're not part of the contract, just taking care of the service members I once was one of.
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@elaine1034 I give credit or fault where it's due, not where it's invented.
The devil was the angel of the morning star, that was both earned and assigned. It wasn't ignored due to his failings. Why do you think you're superior to your god?
Of course, I'm utterly a perfect 10. Alas, that's on the Richter scale.
Oh, supportive of the argument of protege, look at what each son got from god-king wannabe.
I used to hunt monsters militarily for a living, part of that was analyzing them from a predatory perspective, which meant understanding them.
And to hunt a monster, one has to be a monster, but some of us do guard and confine that monster. Some never received such upbringing and well, the monster is always unleashed.
I've unleashed the monster thrice, once to my conscience's later horror, due to an error that still haunts my dreams. Trump, well his dreams are likely god-king of the world, given my own personal interaction with him. And he's the only remaining survivor of people that I loathe, their earning their early demise via their own actions and due to my personal animosity, I demurred from operations involving them out of concern for potential conflict of interest risks.
So, as an example, some senior AQ leaders I and my teams stayed out of by request, due to that risk that was self reported by myself, lost a cousin and several friends in the WTC attack. Couldn't risk friends and noncombatants where I was emotionally compromised or potentially so.
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NNSA does more than oversee the nukes, they're the security for the arsenal. Most of our warheads aren't deployed or on alert status, but in the enduring stockpile, which is entirely guarded by the NNSA.
Which means, there's a very real possibility that some could have gone astray during the period when so many were summarily terminated and refused entry to the site.
So, for all we know, someone's cat is playing with a polonium trigger sphere or plutonium pit, rolling it around the apartment right now.
While classified employee lists are being downloaded from an unsecured database that was set up by Emperor Musk's super genius snotnoses, lead by the microcephalic big balls.
Tariffs, per the auto industry CEO's are going to tank Detroit, that's increasing it by killing it, uh huh.
And farmers are getting screwed, more crops to rot in foreclosed upon farms.
Canadian fuel is about to go elsewhere, which is the only fuel our refineries can use, but no jobs, no food, won't need those cars to go anywhere save under a bridge or parking lot to live in.
And he's deploying US troops for immigration enforcement, while promising a 50% cut on the DoD budget. And only recruit white male soldiers, while cutting the VA to nothing and pensions to be under threat. And to steal Social Security, so that elders and disabled are living under bridges.
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I'm still trying to figure out Hogan's place in the picture. If someone can rip their shirt, they're fit to govern? What do I get for ripping my underpants that are over 20 years old, godhood?
Yeah, I know, a need to buy new underwear. Oh well, gotta also get new crew socks, starting to wear those out too, so obviously I'm unfit to drive a golf cart everywhere everyone else walks to.
Given his not wearing a bandage while golfing, what do you say we start a pool on how long he'll wear a bandage on stage? I'm thinking at least a month, more likely two.
Oh well, he's alienating his core big time from the convention, let's see how long he goes on extra zany. Once his primary core walks off, all he'll have are the neonazis and KKK and nobody has ever won on the inbred vote.
Oh, was that my outside voice?
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@nothanks9503 ironically, I've actually got a partial immunity to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. Dunno why, but rather than being poisoned, I just feel a bit ill and that was it on exposure.
So, I'm literally in the recommended condition to begin with and well, being a veteran, already down with the roaches to begin with. Watched the VA budget get slashed each and every year since I joined in 1982 until the second year of the GWOT, the first year, when we began shipping men and women back home missing pieces, the VA budget was slashed again and eventually after being told loudly, the press finally paid attention.
There's one rule in general in combat, dread fighting someone who has nothing left to lose, they never quit. We might end up learning what happens when folks specially selected for the sheer inability to quit are placed into that very situation and I strongly suspect it'll be quite unenviable.
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We've had high winds statewide in Pennsylvania for well over a week, wind doesn't exist.
All I'll say is, he appears flushed and he does have a family history of severe alcohol abuse...
Which would explain why he confused illegal Alien Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence, what with him lacking intelligence at all.
As for him never reading some mythical magazine of content that remains undiscovered, undiscussed or even described, well, he is well known to never read, he just looks at the pictures and goes with whatever story the voices in his empty head tells him.
And United States Steel, formerly USX and renamed in 2001, the 8th largest steel producer in the world, is being sold to Nippon Steel for $14.1 billion, guess he wants the plants closed and rusting. No wait, it's just he isn't making money, so nobody else is allowed to make money, support your wannabe god-emperor or go broke.
Oddly, Biden opposes the sale as well, supporting the union's objections to the sale. Guess he's now on Biden's side now! Quick, someone tell him so he can extol the virtues of selling out, GOP types are good at selling out.
"I want to move the election to Tuesday", yeah, before your likely conviction and sentencing, but hey, I want a pony.
But, we got 20 people, not 19, not 21, precisely 20, because INS reports to their god-emperor wannabe on individuals, entirely unlawfully, because of voices in his head. I'm sure they drove an illegal caravan from the DRC as well.
Funny how he's not mentioned one of our primary East Coast ports being blocked though. Or the legal immigrants that were killed working on the bridge when it collapsed.
And the Gettysburg comments did generate some confused looks, as Schnecksville is near Allentown and he was extolling the virtues of the traitor Robert E. Lee, who is no longer in favor. Guess he never visited Lee's plantation, seized by writ of attainder for his treason, now known of as Arlington National Cemetery. Oh wait, the dead service members were suckers, I forgot...
And Gettysburg, beautiful now, was really wonderful after the battle, where Union soldiers got buried and Confederates were literally left to rot in farmers fields, which was what the battlefield originally was. A farmer took it upon himself to bury the remains in mass graves, as it's kind of hard to plant when bodies are covering the ground.
As for Trump with "the nuclear codes", he already had them and well, they're useless alone, he needs well, let's use the old name, the SIOP and select from many menus of options on who to strike, where, when and how.
In a guy who can't get through anything longer than a page with bullet points and pictures required content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Integrated_Operational_Plan#Executing_the_SIOP
Think this word salad server could give a cogent order that could actually be followed? The guy who asked if nuking a hurricane could put it out? Who basically made every state Alabama and doodled on a map to be "right" and still got it wrong?
More likely, any such attempted orders would go on the Chief of Staff's desk to await his sobering up in the morning and seeing then if he still wants to nuke North Korea, as happened with Nixon. Obviously, we didn't nuke North Korea. Even more likely, he'd blow his response to the challenge he'd have to read back from his biscuit and be denied access to order anything, as a probable false order being originated by parties unknown.
But, he does seem to be coming apart at the seams. A few courtroom images of him gagged, with obviously missing gag should suffice to lose some of his supporters, the rest will follow him, as the Zealots followed their leaders off the cliffs of Masada.
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Perhaps you can explain how the fifth amendment, defined as a right within the Bill of Rights, is a privilege?
Privileges can be administratively revoked, legislatively constrained, even eliminated at the stroke of a pen by any bureaucrat. Rights may only be encroached upon by orders of a court of law.
If I only have a privilege to remain silent, do I only have a privilege to not be randomly searched, my property randomly seized, my privilege to an attorney administratively denied, my privilege to religion or irreligion state assigned?
For, in such an erosive condition, the vote by ballot then is endangered by a vote by bullet.
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Laughably, Trump shows all of the social awareness of Thurston Howell III, while combining that with the manners, social grace and class of all three Stooges, while quoting the great Marx - Groucho, when he addresses his cult of followers, original Zealots all, with "who are you going to believe, your own eyes and ears or me?". Vaudeville in microcosm of one organism, as current with the realities of today as its peer, the Tasmanian Tiger - which went extinct in 1936. The year Hitler was embarrassed by a black man, Jesse Owens defeating his showcase Olympic team of ubermensch - in English, supermen.
Every atrocity of the past, threatening the future of ourselves, our children and grandchildren.
That leaves us all with a hell of a hard choice, huh? The devil we know, a vanilla politician who was a prosecutor that put dangerous criminals away versus Genghis Khan and his hordes, who destroyed entire cities.
Lemme see now, "How do you vant to die, Maxvell Schmart?", "How does old age grab you?"
He brings WWII atrocities on his lips, at least I brought 1960's sitcom from an previously USMC drill instructor and general purpose Devil Dog.
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@themurphingjay5829 no, he'll get the actual codes, it's literally the law.
But, given the procedures required by law to actually order the launches, it's pages of procedures and instructions on target package selection, etc, I guarantee he's never read it or could follow it.
He's notorious for, if it doesn't have bullet points and pictures, if it's longer than one partial page, he'll not read or follow what's on the pages.
And given he can't remember his own speeches, despite a teleprompter, he'll be unlikely to remember which line to read off to authenticate off of his biscuit.
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I remember Protestants actually celebrating JFK's assassination, trumpeting the Catholic was dead. I wish I was joking, but I'm not.
A hell of a lot of violence has occurred throughout US history to keep Catholics out of power. Today, the populace got snookered into embracing men who are the most extreme sect of Roman Catholicism that was considered heresy for ages - right until the RCC went bankrupt and Opus Dei financially bailed them out.
All of which can be trivially found in a Google search, "Nativism in US politics", "Know Nothing Party", "Philadelphia Nativist Riots", "Protestants celebrate JFK assassination" for starters.
The Philadelphia Nativist riots, literal religious warfare in Philadelphia city streets, where Protestants stole a cannon from the port defenses and attacked a Roman Catholic church, school, convent and hospital, killed responding militia and only returned to their home when a thoroughly pissed off militia commander ringed their area with artillery, since it wasn't the first time such violence had happened. Following, months of martial law, with soldiers patrolling Philadelphia city streets with fixed bayonets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_in_United_States_politics
https://www.nola.com/opinions/hatred-of-catholics-led-some-to-cheer-jfks-assassination-jarvis-deberry/article_04891c1c-0b10-5362-b960-e244c1ac0654.html
I remember the JFK celebrations that Protestants made. Don't have personal memory of the Nativist movement in the 1800's, but it's well recorded throughout history.
So, in response to the election of a Black president, the WASP brigade joined up with their arch-nemesis. We'll get Handmaid's Tale, death camps and the worst of fascism, they'll fight it out later, to the detriment of the populace.
Because, both sides are so disturbed, they wouldn't hesitate to use nukes, to "force God's hand" in returning to Earth, as insane as that sounds. I've spoken often enough to both, they're the worst that humanity has to offer, right up there with Islamist terrorists.
Now, they ruin, erm, run the courts and are throughout the highest levels of government soon, good job in destroying a nation and probably, world.
I'm already missing secular and sane rule.
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In other words, he'd have surrendered to Tojo after Pearl Harbor was burned.
Shouldn't we be hearing this from Emperor Musk, not his Empress Trump?
And Ukrainian polling numbers, in a land Trump even says is shattered, was last conducted in December 2024. You don't run daily polls when you're being massively invaded, as anyone with two operational brain cells competing for fourth place can understand.
As for Hegseth, didn't recognize him out of uniform, usually by that time he's wearing his uniform lampshade or on stage dancing with the rest of the girls. It's nice to hear him repeat Chamberlain's words about Poland and France. Didn't stop them then, end result was WWII. Guess he'll ensure we get to try on WWIII.
Maybe he'll be sensible and replace the iron in our warheads with cobalt.
BTW, calculate out how much a car is gonna cost, given subassemblies of aluminum and steel go back and forth repeatedly across the border and now get tariffed. Welcome to seeing our newest ghost town, Detroit.
An upside being, pop in aluminum cans won't be affordable either, so we'll see some part of the populace lose weight.
Make America Gaunt Again.
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Nobody's deleting files. They'll stay hidden on the servers on the classified networks.
And "they're working day and night deleting files" is telling, given it takes literally seconds to delete tens of thousands of files if one needed to.
They count on the public's ignorance on how computers work to shift attention away from their never releasing that which they claim to have ordered released, with a pair of winks and nods.
Using just the JFK files alone, at least 99% of the people that'd be listed in those files are long dead, so if there was anything to be found, it'd be released without harm. Yet, still isn't released. So, that implies some national security issue keeping a section classified and given the impact of the event, fairly glancing, but still of current importance, such as maybe questioning a known Russian agent and some data that's of use today being mentioned in that section and cross referenced in other files, so remains classified. So, "Oh, the Epstein files", where we already know the majority of shenanigans in it, as a shiny to divert attention away from the non-release of any of the files that contain nothing notable to begin with that's germane to the assassinations.
And precisely what I predicted when he signed the EO to release the files that are on Pam's desk in some alternate universe. Sources and means will remain protected, so the files will remain sealed and since the press' attention is so easily diverted, it'll become as if the EO never existed and the files will remain sealed. After all, to Trump, his EO's are as valid as his campaign promises, made and forgotten if he loses interest.
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Now, now, the sneaker hawking Faux mewls advertisement, I mean story was spot on.
"I've never seen anyone that understand culture like any other politician I've ever seen". Yeah, me either, it's almost as if he's from another planet. Nanu-nanu, Donny.
The not-so Teflon Don the Con, 'cause everything is sticking to him like it's crazy glue.
I swear, any day now, I expect to hear him howl from his golf cart, "Detonate the reality bomb!".
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@kevinlove4930 whistleblowers abound, most turn out to be crackpots or trying to defend themselves with false claims from being terminated for cause. Occasionally, some come out with actual actionable charges.
As for audits, audits always find something - usually, math or procedural errors. Compared to Trump, who owns superpac organizations with no purpose and law allowing him to use donations as his personal piggybank.
It's just amazing how many people that prosecute Trump are claimed to be criminals, yet no evidence ever gets presented, no charges filed, mens rea entirely remains absent.
Oh wait, I forgot, Trump is the god-emperor and it's black heresy to suggest any god that is before him.
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@catherinefalk8263 one area where that breaks down is, we're phenomenally well armed serfs.
Serfs were lucky to have a pitchfork or afford torch oil. Many Americans have literal weapons of war in their homes and don't get gun nut on this competition shooter and veteran about no automatic fire, we rarely fired burst mode, as a combat load just isn't all that big to risk expending all of one's ammunition in a minute or two of burst fire. They fire the same rounds, enough said.
Of course, the government has tanks, artillery, bombers, gunships, missiles and a shit ton of infantry...
And now, Musk is also screwing around with the VA's programs. Makes me concerned about my retirement pension benefits...
And other VA programs that I utilize.
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Well, cutting medicaid will save when 15 million disabled people die off in Aktion T4 2025.
Add in that 1 in 609 measles patients, regardless of severity will die of SSPE in 10 - 20 years, as their brain is destroyed.
And no word if they managed to find the fired people that were tracking bird flu, so I can only presume that they haven't.
The Gaza video is fascinating, he's coming more and more out of the closet. The fellatio of the microphone, Arnold Palmer's member, YMCA and now bearded ladies. Next, we'll see him under the queening stool under Elon, only it won't be an AI video, but a leaked real one.
Not to mention that the evangelicals love him, even with his video with the golden statue of god-king Trump and the Trump on the toilet golden household god statues.
Nice to know that the evangelicals worship the single person that actually is fully fulfilling every prediction for the antichrist. Which was also prophesied.
Excuse me while I place my mk 316 order...
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I am curious, who here is sleeping well, knowing that this clearly delusional maniac has complete, unlimited, unfettered control of our nuclear arsenal?
He can quite literally decide to launch our entire arsenal at any nation he chooses, nothing and no one can prevent him from doing so, merely by making a single telephone call.
So, are you sleeping well? I sure as hell ain't.
As for eliminating FEMA, fair trade then. No FEMA or other federal aid, the federal government may not conscript any member of the states populace or utilized in any way any state's National Guard for a federal emergency or war.
Additionally, all federal taxation collected currently is returned to each state to be deposited into the state treasury.
And all federal weaponry within the borders of a state now belongs to said state.
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And the Apostles did speak in Tongues and the Lord Jesus then machine gunned them down for heresy, for the Lord God spake exclusively in Middle English.
About as acceptable as a church allowing the word bullshit be chanted, as the only time that might be considered acceptable were if the entire congregation stepped into the excrement of a male bovine. Which I believe was a cut out scene from Blazing Saddles...
Regarding large crowds of followers, had millions of followers gather in my studio apartment. Thank heavens for Lysol!
Ironic, a video making points about chants of Bullshit having a baked in advertisement for a bidet... ;)
Which is actually a highly underutilized device in this country. Was the handiest thing to have when I ate something I really shouldn't have when I was overseas...
Sure beat using paper to smear meshit all over myself.
As for profanity, have yet to have even one Trumpite start a profanity contest with me and continue it for more than a few seconds. 28 years military, profanity is a language that I'm fluent with - regardless of a half dozen languages I'll use and translate.
But that's OK, I'm required to forgive them and besides, they denied the exchange, citing their rights under the fifth commandment. I usually only cite rights under a fifth of whiskey, but hey, that's me.
But Trump, of course he couldn't quote any section or verse of the bible, he can't even figure out which side is up for a bible. He's obviously a total stranger to judge not, lest you be judged or do unto others as you'd have done unto you, the former a warning about harsh judgement being promised to those inclined toward harsh judgements, the latter just damned good advice. Oddly, most claiming great affinity for the bible can quote the Old Testament origin for either verse, as Christ said nothing in the New that wasn't present in the Old.
I'll close with, remember my campaign and vote for me - for absolutely nothing. Not running for office, I'm lacking a small match temperament and far too inclined for a frank exchange of views.
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God-emperor? Excuse me, god-emperor Trump?
Would you like some more pee on your Cheerios?
We've also got some cheese to accompany your whine.
Oh, I nearly forgot, we've freshly fueled your personal jet with enough water to reach Moscow.
And we've gotten you your solid gold, for once not gold plated, "Go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect $200" card to hang in your cell.
In consolation, here's a cookie, fresh from the cat box.
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@sawyermillman985 not a clear cut case for sedition, fomenting insurrection also requires additional evidence beyond that speech. He was careful enough to manage to stay just this side of the law, although of late, not careful enough to not get multiple court verdicts against him.
Federal prosecutors are notorious for filing charges that they're certain that they'll get convictions on, not those that'll be difficult to prove to a jury. One upside being, by the time charges are filed, federal cases tend to be hermetically tight.
He is being sued for inciting a riot though, by those previously hailed as heroic law enforcement officers injured in the insurrection, now condemned by him because he doesn't want to pay for his crimes. Doubt they'll get much though, at the rate he's going in various state civil courts, by the time their case is heard, all that'll be financially left are bleached bones. And they'll not be able to take his prison mattress from him - that belongs to the jurisdiction that operates the prison. They might be able to seize his commissary money though.
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Amazing, they used a lot of groceries on the campaign trail.
When we traveled, we rarely used groceries, as we didn't have a stove hanging out of our assholes. Laughably, I did own a gasoline camp stove, but that was packed.
The one place one won't use groceries is when traveling like that, no time or place to prepare groceries, so one dines out and well, all Trump does is hamburgers. And I'm damned sure he doesn't know the recipe for a hamburger.
Ironically, did go grocery shopping on Friday, eggs were extra large for $9.00, large for $8.00, went to another store where I got a steal for $7.00 for large eggs. But, the public aren't allowed to know about why egg prices are up, as god-king ordered all reporting on bird flu concealed from the public and his own reports.
Which, just before he got a chance to fuck up the entirety of our national government and C3 systems, there was another report out of Nevada of highly pathogenic influenza detected in dairy cattle and their milk in Nevada, but that might make the god-king's numbers look bad, so reporting on it's illegal by imperial decree.
After all, he's here to Make America Gaunt Again by starvation and disease.
Well, at least I didn't have trouble paying at the grocery pump.
Dear Lord, we've been invaded successfully by the Moron Militia.
Because, drilling is energy, refining oil isn't necessary and that our oil won't work in our refineries, oh yeah, I forgot, Harry Potter's magical wooden dildo will rescue us. Or give us splinters.
And gasoline will make bird flu killing entire flocks of hens off, ummmm, undead egg layers or something? I dunno about undead eggs though, not after having two eggs explode because I kept them too long.
And "the win", apparently, Dementia Donnie has forgotten that contributors and the win was in NOVEMBER AND THIS IS FEBRUARY. Someone tell him the months of the year in order please.
As for vacation, President Musk wants VP Trump on vacation, he's tiring of using the queening stool.
No, those were regular sized hats, you're just now noticing their severe microcephaly. Also known in a less professional term as having a pinhead. Small skull, malformed and tiny brain, usually disastrous at birth.
I said it when he was in office last time, back when his porch lamp still was dimly lit, a physician does not perform a Montreal Cognitive Assessment in a vacuum, one has a very good suspicion that's usually confirmed by the assessment.
Still, doesn't matter much, he's just a smoke screen for GOP misleaders and President Musk's actions as they convert our nation into a totalitarian dictatorship and once Dementia Don is no longer useful, he and his family if malcontents will also go to the camps with big ovens.
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@RuthK-b5i remember, a lot of the folks against Trump from the GOP were their dirty tricks squad that used to run the dirtiest of ads against democrats.
Trump only managed to hire their Geritol Generation, basically Nixon era rat fucker types, which explains their ineffectiveness due to multiple generation gaps and most being long overdue for being put out to pasture or the glue factory.
And I'm speaking as a boomer...
So, we're left with Trump's best being this bumbling mess and now threats again against arresting Pelosi, who's 84 and retired, because he's just that strong. Next week, it's anticipated he'll muster the strength to steal candy from a baby.
But, he can still fight - most of the way through a single ply sheet of toilet paper. If it's well saturated.
Oh, never fear, his running mate is there to help! Why, we're 100000 births short because of car seat laws. Oh, the sofa to bench seat of the car jokes are ever so tempting...
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@BarronShouldEnlist back around y2k, Trump was invited as a speaker of honor at our tri-state Chamber of Commerce function. Everything then was exclusively about himself, his great successes in serial bankruptcies going back a full handspan of years. Seasoned business owners rolled their eyes so much, I was amazed the planet stayed on its axis! The following year, the attrition rate for that same function was 95%.
DonOLD Trump, serial failure, serial banktruptor and serial loser. He's got a literal inverse-Midas touch, for everything he touches turns straight into shit.
And a unique ability in negotiation and litigation to snatch defeat from the gaping jaws of victory.
He took something around $20 billion and converted it into a few hundred million, most of that encumbered. What otherwise would be considered sad, well, with him and his personality, the Pope himself would find his continued failures hilarious.
Now, he continues his uninterrupted chain of abject failures with the political equivalent of setting fire to his state campaign headquarters.
Oh well, soon enough, the mindless beast will wander off.
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No, the "running the third time" is a dog whistle for "stolen election", he's still on that subversive shtick.
As for his BS on mail in ballots, it's nice to know that he wants to deny the military that he'd depend upon their right to vote. I was one of the Pennsylvania votes that mailed in a ballot, as for some reason, I couldn't find a Pennsylvania polling place in the Middle East.
Met him in person around 2000 or so at a Chamber of Commerce do. He was an invited speaker, he was such a resounding success that the following year experienced a 90% attrition rate. He was the boor of the party, as everything had to be about him, his bankruptcies in the casinos were still a subject of his rants and a resounding success (in a room full of business owners, you can guess the looks all were giving one another), frankly, it was about as enjoyable as having intercourse with a wood chipper, followed by cleanup with a rasp file.
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He's worth nowhere near that, that's why he couldn't raise the bond for an appeal.
He's so heavily in debt it's a bad joke, one German bank ended up in trouble for loaning him money that was guaranteed by the Russian government. There's another Russian link, but that's under active investigation, so I'll not comment further.
He had 20 billion he inherited, that's long gone. The only thing he has in reality that's almost liquid is his name, which he leases out to other properties for a fee, his superpac donations that aren't tied down to elections and whatever he can steal. His ventures, two casinos that he bankrupted, four other bankrupted businesses and laughably, he called those bankruptcies successes. Yeah, successes in stealing coinvestors money and he managed to get his money back. Trump steaks, anyone? Trump vodka? Trump water? Trump whine, erm, wine? Need I go on? Trump bibles that actually are sold by someone else, have sticky and ill formatted pages with political BS on them and are sold off the back of a pickup for $20 less? Trump U?
The man's got an inverse Midas touch, whatever he touches turns straight into shit.
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Let's see, something happens, audio goes out for a bit and is fixed. Not exceptionally unusual, it happens.
"I'm not going to pay them". OK, cut the feed and leave. Take any equipment that's yours, as he's promised to default. If the boss convinces us to say, once he starts talking litigation, that's automatic cease and desist to limit further legal exposure.
Now, the microphone gets collected in front of dog and man, everything gets disconnected and removed. Try to stop the crew from leaving, it's kidnapping. Attempt to halt recovery of property, it's grand theft.
Nope, you threatened litigation, it's now in the hands of the lawyers. Have your lawyer contact ours, we're done and no further communication will be accepted, save through said attorney, please do have an absolutely shitty day.
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@karenholmes6565 when he owned Taj Mahal, he'd ordered the onion domes for the spires. He promptly tried to stiff the roof builder, as a check was stipulated in the contract immediately upon signing off on completion.
The builder had a plan in place though, cranes and crews converged upon the casino and they began repossessing the builder's roof. Trump's local management proclaiming that checks could not be locally issued, they lacked facilities or even checks, please wait, etc. Long and short, before the domes could be dismantled, magically, a check was printed locally for the amount due.
Given his track record and his public statements, he'd hate me to hold a contract. The moment he stated he wasn't going to pay, all of my equipment and services would be withdrawn, as I'd declare a fundamental breach of contract and have my attorney immediately file litigation, as I have absolutely no hope that he'll honor the contract and seek to recover damages. Not a material breach, he promised not to pay and that's about as fundamental as one can get.
Yank his sound, teleprompter, whatever he's contracted for, mid-speech and remove it back to storage offsite.
Trust me, his audience would be initially irritated, but as word spread that we were collecting equipment he'd otherwise steal the use of, they'll be laughing at his dancing, since they won't be able to hear his infantile cries.
If his staff interferes with removal, call the law for grand theft. Restrain the staff and prevent departure, it's kidnapping and unlawful restraint. Let the prick put himself into yet another felony corner. While his crowd is entertained by his impotence.
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Go ahead and stop the firings then. Congress has whored out, the SCOTUS has whored out, the Constitution is dead and we're stuck with a god-king ruling by fiat.
He yearns for some war, so that he can declare a state of emergency and institute martial law.
Likely, gleaned from notions from the film "Civil War", where he obviously never watched the ending of.
Or realized that we have IRBM's as part of ATACMS and he's in range of a half dozen states.
Not that that is a suggestion.
Predictions, eventual state of war, state of emergency that'll be perpetual and a mass termination of the disabled, infirm, elderly disabled and mentally disadvantaged, then the camps.
And WWIII beginning.
I recognize the playbook and the maniacal monsters following it lack originality.
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Mark my words, he'll eventually lose control of his rabble. When that happens, at a minimum, his daughter and her family will be in grave danger from the antisemites in his rabble.
I have fun with that lot, reminding them first and foremost, given their proclaimed Christian priorities, that "Jesus was a Jew". They usually counter that Jesus was a Christian, "Oh, no wonder he got into trouble, worshiping himself over his father and all!". Leaves them tangled in a hot mess every time.
Potentially hazardous, yes, but frankly, most of them couldn't fight their way out of a layer of single ply toilet paper with an M2 machine gun. Especially, given that the M2 manual's headspace and timing section is written at a 6th grade reading comprehension level, which is far beyond their ken.
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In the beginning, that isn't zoned out, he lost the program. He was spinning his wheels trying to figure out what he was supposed to do when she swooped in as a crutch to divert him to "play his music" and had to prod him multiple times until he caught on and played it up, confabulating along the way.
This will be the first US election where a candidate is running that could actually be legally declared non compos mentis. Who would have nuclear launch capabilities that is utterly unchecked. The same brain trust that previously took an entire afternoon to convince to not nuke a hurricane off the coast of Africa to blow it out. A continent with 54 countries that he thought was one country.
And we can be damned sure that Vance would let him, no 25th amendment, just let the atrocities flow.
And his loyal followers would support it the entire way, ordering a double Flavor Aid ala Jim Jones special.
Meanwhile, foreign agitator bots are online and on steroids, full afterburner for them. Anything to destabilize and neutralize us as they hope that they can charge their way across the globe while we're distracted by fighting one another.
And the mainstream media, who once were our loyal watchdogs, busily scampering around his latest antics in his decreasingly frequent lucid moments that he can hold up a new shiny to distract them and get free press.
He can not be allowed to win this election or this nation will never recover. So, vote like your nation depends upon it, because it actually does.
If not, well, at least I literally live on ground zero of a strategic target.
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Oh, picked up a dozen large eggs at the dollar store for $8.60. Still had a fair stock of them, as the neighborhood isn't exactly notable for wealth. Well, save for the chap a few blocks down the road, but the governor has never been observed shopping in the local neighborhood.
Still have a $19 food stamp reserve until a week and a half from now and my pantry is fully stocked, as is my freezer. One benefit of preparing from scratch and walking for most of my groceries two miles each way to the store twice a month. Keeps me in shape too, which I've needed since doctor stuck me on a steroid for the past couple of months.
As for spend nothing day that's mentioned in the comments, that's my moving day, new apartment and all, so ain't shopping and don't need anything from the store and frankly, one day of losses like that literally won't even be noticed.
A nationwide general strike would be noticed, even if only 2% participated, get a higher percentage and well, that's a hell of a lot of lost profits.
I'm curious though, does Trump have a concept of a concept of a concept of a planned concept of a plan?
And I seem to recall his blathering something about the Mexican border being closed, despite all of that traffic going through... Maybe it's patrolled by unicorns or something? Ladies and gentlemen, Reality has left that building and is not expected back anytime soon!
And the January 6th choir, aren't they also the size 14 1/2 chorus line, they look quite fetching in their prison tutus and prison boots.
And Chairman, JTF is fired, because of MAGA, Make Apartheid Great Again. Scored one for Emperor Musk!
Apparently, we were the aggressor in Pearl Harbor, using this maladministration's standards. Shouldn't we be surrendering and apologizing to the Emperor of Japan? Since we're now Waltzing around reality, rather than living through it. But, a better plan? OK, first we don't go with, "Pay me well and we'll give you a surrender", we'll go with Zelenskyy's checkmate, "I'll resign like you want me to - if we're given NATO membership". Loads of wet paint across that corner they painted themselves into.
The National Sex Offender Registry and search pages are available, must've been down for maintenance. They do maintain those servers, so they can and will go offline during an assigned service outage for patching. Annoyingly, they don't seem to post a scheduled service outage page and they should, it's a standard practice to allow people that utilize their services to know when the services will be unavailable and for approximately how long. :/
Tell us the five things that you've done this week, just don't respond with anything classified. And so, everyone that works constantly with classified information got fired and nobody knows anything sensitive, yay for winning via losing!
Anti-Trump bias, aka preference for outright lies is only acceptable.
And oh noes! Trump gets angry! He might just turn into the Phenomenal Bulk! Oh, too late. We're gonna need a bigger Beast.
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I'm growing ever more confused. While objecting to Republican attention on what's inside of women's pants, why there is ever such a growing fascination on what's inside of DonOLD's pants.
Beyond his absurd proclamations of perfection in essentially every way, from absurd claims that fall flat on their face on his intelligence and competence in all things, come his claims of physical perfection, which Helen Keller can see are patently false. So, why a fixation on his underoos?
That's somehow a campaign issue? That's right up there with saying that I'm unfit to vote because I shit myself due to an attack of Crohn's.
What is a campaign issue is loosely related to his claims of perfection, it's the fact that he's habitually, incessantly and by nature flat out more full of shit than a Christmas goose in literally everything that he says. To the point where, were I to have met him for the first time today and he introduced himself (unlikely, as his ego is such that he believes he needs no introduction), I'd card his ass. That he thinks shoving bright light up your ass and injecting disinfectants is a good idea, that nuking hurricanes off of the cost "of the country of Africa" to blow them out is a good idea, that trespassing on federal forests to rake them out like other nations don't and he claims that they do is, that he wants to suggest summary executions and chargeless imprisonments is, that fascists and totalitarians are good people that should both be coddled and emulated decidedly is.
What is inside his pants, when did you decide to become Trump? Maybe you need to run out and buy a white hat, so I can tell who is who.
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I'm reminded that Trump also said that Biden wanted to hurt God.
And that he'd fire God, as God is a pussy for letting his child be killed.
Donald Trump, turned Easter into keister. When it finally arrives, do enjoy Ass Sunday, courtesy of Dumb Donald, the firer of the Almighty.
Jesus, I really don't drink enough for this shit.
What really fucks me up is, one supreme court, subservient by design of required Constitution that's subservient to the US Constitution, found the US Constitution unenforcable, because of Trump God-king, the emperor of the universe.
I'll not even go into "the stock market is good" bullshit, while Americans literally are homeless and starving, it's a god-hurt thing and one cannot try to hurt the god-Trump.
As for absentee voting, why again do the GOP want to remove the right of our military to vote, yet again?
We fight your wars, but are denied the vote?!
Then, a former POTUS wants to further abuse us by trying, abortively, to consider our confiscation of voting machines?!
Trump is guilty of sedition. Per the Constitution, his family are outlaws, utterly unprotected by the Constitution and hence, our laws as long as he is alive. That, under common law at the time the Constitution was written and hence, inherited.
Note, I've not said treason, that's also provided for in the Constitution precisely. Sedition had to be defined after the civil war.
So, folks, we either have a god-emperor or we have a remaining republic.
That any evangelical Christian considers otherwise already makes me think, and the thoughts ain't pretty.
Being an ordained minister myself.
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You are wrong, tax exempt is to do with income, given we don't have federal property taxation in the US.
Indeed, to follow that example, all meetinghouse activities would have to cease immediately nationwide, a practice that was part of inherited common law for over 1000 years from the UK.
Finally, were that true, a lot of communities would lose their polling place, as voting is a decidedly political act, disenfranchising entire counties in many cases, as there would be no other realistic alternatives for polling places.
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Shooter and someone in the crowd are dead.
Known and established, the intended victim and shooter are both humans.
I'm not inclined to suspect some mythical magical home made weapon. One image that was said to be the shooter was a man in an elevated position with a rifle. Sounded like an assault rifle round, not a full throated roar of a high power rifle round series and that'd be consistent with the rate of fire as well. Basically, if it's bucking like a bronco, it takes a bit to get back in the geographical region of one's target in my own military experience.
I'll also say, Trump did precisely what he was supposed to do, drop and cover and let the agents protect him, although clearing the stage was delayed and somewhat chaotic.
I do have some slight suspicions, but I'll not discuss them at this stage, as I far prefer analysis to include facts.
Oddly, one conservative pundit is already blaming the Secret Service and essentially calling them incompetent.
And I'd love to hear how they got past the multiple diamond protection zone that's about as sterile within several miles as one can make it. Nobody on rooftops for miles, manhole covers are welded down, somehow an entire rifle shows up as big as Cleveland, I've some serious suspicions.
Weird question on secreting the weapon "in the blistering heat", as it wasn't that hot, our asses and rifles got hotter in the sandbox and oddly entirely failed to melt or fail. That whole steel melting at 2500 and all... How did someone get a rifle and ammunition into the sterile area is one big question. How did they get to an elevated position within the sterile area? Scotty in on it and beamed it in?
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@Rickettsia505 can't say the same for two reasons, couldn't vote until late 1979 and well, was chased away by those who don't drink but like tea, the Know Nothing Party. Haven't looked back since.
The Know Nothings having destroyed the original first conservative party in the US, the Whig Party, resulting in conservatives abandoning it and creating the new fangled Republican Party. That party's first presidential candidate being some Lincoln guy. Much gnashing of teeth and renting of bad ideas and a war later, they faded into obscurity.
But, other Know Nothing antics involved their Nativist faction stealing a cannon from the port of Philadelphia and showing true devotion to the first amendment, the staunch Protestants proceeded to bombard a Roman Catholic church, convent/hospital and school, then murder militia that were dispatched to restore order. The militia commander then ordered a full battery of artillery to aim at the idiots and ordered them to return the purloined cannon and go home. Militia with fixed bayonets patrolled Philadelphia city streets for weeks afterward.
Well, they're back and linked up with neofascists that are replicating old Nazi bad ideas.
Actually read the history, they've nothing new, it's tired old retreads shoddily assembled and installed.
Their champion, Machine Gun Jesus of the prosperity gospel, their prophet, the beast who was struck in the head with a sword and survived, their god being Mammon and the Lord of the Lies.
Always use one's adversary's weapons against them.
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The Congress is too evenly split and the MAGA types won't impeach. Fear even driving them to ignore worried campaign contributors, whose immense funding is now even outvoted by MAGA voters.
That leaves the VP and a minimum of half of the cabinet, who are sycophants that recognize that they cannot control the MAGA movement, they're religiously devoted to Trump and by extension and purchase, Musk.
And Musk, having bought and paid for the office, but Constitutionally ineligible, wouldn't abide by the removal of his purchased meal ticket.
Frankly, we're on the cusp of a civil war and few realize it. Once elders and the poorest are on the streets, no income, no food, no medical, things are going to get downright interesting.
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Doge shit is not a federal agency, so releasing PII and financial data of citizens if a clear violation of the Privacy Act of 1974. Worse, that information is being released to an individual who lacks an adjudicated clearance, aggravating the violation.
Hence, we have zero oversight, uncleared persons in possession of the PII of a majority, if not the entirety of the US population and for all we know, that data's being sold to China.
Is VA patient and treatment data going to Islamist backed nations?
No oversight, so we've no idea who is doing what with our citizens most sensitive data.
Especially from a President that's stated his contempt for the very Constitution that he swore an oath to protect and uphold.
He and his co-conspirators need to be removed by any and all means necessary to achieve that goal.
Oh, the dedicated Trump bots that aren't foreign sponsored are pushing a unique plane crash set of "theories", one involving a female pilot literally conducting a kamikaze attack upon a civilian airliner to make the god-king look bad. The other, also being a female flight crew, well, lady bits destroy all and she was responsible for magical hand wave collision between aircraft at an over 300 knot closure rate, more hand waving facts and commonsense away.
I am willing to bet that were the State Department files to be closely examined, Elon Musk's documents are not fully in order and multiple false statements are sworn to. Both being all that's required to rescind his naturalization.
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Funny, I recall Trump having a picture that showed his open desk drawer that was overflowing with Adderall generic from Europe.
Versed isn't some exclusive date rape drug, it's used in psych cases, as a sedative for anesthesia induction and well, a host of valid medical purposes rarely ever observed in any office environment outside of a medical office. Could've used a light dose yesterday at 5:00 AM when I was awakened by severe calf muscle spasms, thankfully they passed without the need of medication, but there still is residual difficulty walking (herniated disc triggered spasms and a massive weather front came through, triggering my superpower, for I am Barometerman).
As for performance enhancing drugs, I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. ;)
But then, I also don't need to deal with the nuclear SIOP. Something Trump never could manage to wade through.
OK, my actual recreational drug is ibuprofen, for nothing's more recreational than being able to move. Trump can speak to moving, usually when he needs his diaper changed. Must be caused by his bone spurs...
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Wait, she missed the important part, "Won't anyone think of the children?!"
Still, it'd be interesting to hear her read the GOP primer on Spot and Puff. Bet she sounds like she's ready to cry about Spot chasing Puff...
But, in actuality, it's the official GOP position, "Yeah, I've got nothing", so they go to kindergarten for a response.
Back to the rebuttal...
"See Spot chase Puff. Oh! What is Spot doing to Puff? Mommy says Puff is going to have puppies!"
And I thought Clint Eastwood's empty chair number, where he kept forgetting his lines was bad... Next, they'll air a potted plant. Brought to you courtesy of the GOP stragedy committee, Curly, Larry and Moe.
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@TomSpeaks-vw1zp more like the truth, that they've replaced the God that they claimed to worship by openly embracing the self-proclaimed god-king wannabe and their mutual god, mammon.
Although, Jesus is most certainly a welcome visitor, maybe he can bring Elijah along, I'll set a place for both. I'd only ask that they call in advance so I can run out and get some kosher foods for their needs.
What I never do is blame the devil for the actions of mankind. For, the devil's most powerful weapon is an age old enemy of humanity, human nature itself.
I'll plea guilty to profanity in a church though, twice and once, to actually uttering a curse inside of a church.
The first time, the chaplain rushed in to scold me for the profanity, saw the blood pooling at my feet from a cut through the web of my fingers between pinkie and ring finger going over an inch deep, learned I uttered the profanity in reaction to his assistant demanding I stop bleeding on the floor (sorry, forgot my antigravity unit or I'd have bled onto the ceiling). The chaplain quickly had his assistant apologize and get swift transportation to a treatment facility.
The other, shortly after my wife died, a guest minister told me happily that I should be glad that my wife of over 41 years was dead. With some swift profanity, I suggested he get his sexual reference buttocks off of the property, as his life was in grave danger - albeit a lot less politely. Our minister quite agreed with me, if not my selection of language.
The third, an exchange with a Roman Catholic priest at my mother's funeral, he made a rather unfortunate remark, I cursed him in the Almighty's name to experience the same justice that he'd denied others. Suffice it to say, the curse was effective, as shortly afterward he was caught molesting children in the parish.
Obviously, I've never claimed to be a diplomat, probably why the state department won't hire me. More likely, because I never applied for a state department posting though...
But, I'm fairly certain that I'll be more welcomed than these falsely claiming Christians, for at least I know the teachings, the origin of those teachings and do far better at living by those principles than they do.
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All of his other platforms are in line, Fox is still adjusting and started with sarcasm barbing him repeatedly, with periods of die hards not adjusting.
They're coming in line, lest they get shown the door by security.
And it's been driving the MAGAts and Russian bots nuts for the past week.
Which is when it started, right after a call with Trump went south, well the pressure against Emperor Musk and Empress Trump has been increasing as the outlets shift gears and targets.
It'll cost him the deep core MAGA type, the high priests of the church of god-Trump, who will likely jump to RT, Newsmax, etc.
I suspect that Murdoch's pissed off that the monster he created has wandered off on its own and isn't listening to his commands any longer.
That doesn't make him a faithful ally, more like the Soviets being part of the Allies during WWII.
A case of "once we put the fire out, then we can get back to fighting each other".
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OK, the Constitution is null and void and the US government in its entirety is disbanded.
Good job.
The Constitution requires his being sworn in on a specific date, period, end of story or the Constitution then is in a full on crisis with no executive branch and beyond the inauguration date, would then require Congress to pass an amendment by 2/3 supermajority, then have 2/3 of the states ratify it before we could have an executive branch again - that includes our DoD and all federal emergency services, as well as entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, our federal prisons, FEMA, CDC, our entire intelligence community and a hell of a lot more. So, you've yanked the wheels off at highway speed.
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So, he wants the big camps, wanna bet he'll want those beautiful blue showers and great big ovens too?
And he's already suggesting killing the disabled, look up Aktion T4.
Upside, the military won't obey such unlawful orders and if anything, he might end up with a military wide mutiny. Per veteran to veteran conversations with serving military. Our oath isn't to POTUS, it's to the Constitution.
The other day, I had a MAGAt threaten me with, "I just loaded my AR15". He didn't count on a combat veteran response.
"That's fine, if you feel froggy, leap. I know where the ATACMS systems are and where the munitions are stored in the ASP. I'll get you from my living room and not spill a drop of coffee".
He wisely desisted from further threats.
Given one battery is capable of literally erasing one square kilometer from the map.
Preferred: "I have a gun and I know how to grease my car with it!" Scooting under car and muffled...
"Hey, where's all of the *&@#! grease fittings?!" *
*Something that actually happened to me in the early '90's, when finding lifetime lubricated joints all over the front end. Yeah, lube fails, the part's life is over... OK, they lasted a hell of a lot longer than I expected, pretty much everything else wore out first.
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@Feline9Bluvixen churches have always been meetinghouses, for political and secular use. You'd overturn over 1000 years of common law and our entire nation's history since 1797 over Trump's abuses?
First lesson, the government is not utilizing that church, a candidate for office isn't a government, they remain a private citizen. It gets in the weeds a bit under IRS rules, but even the IRS leaves much of that rightfully alone.
Now, as for the church, there are a few parties concerned here. There is the church leadership and the parishioners and well, that is between the two groups to muddle through, not my monkey, not my circus. If it was my church however, suffice it to say that there'd be more than hair singed in that leadership group.
Then, there's between the deity and both followers and leaders of that church. See the monkey and circus, I've enough problems of my own without borrowing some from a deity.
@masia1950, again, property rights and over 1000 years of common law, plus tradition of using churches for meetinghouses for religious and secular purposes. 501(c) 3 comes into play for tax exemptions for income, as we don't do federal property taxation.
Now, any monies received for a political rally would be taxable income for the church, that said, such usually gets overlooked intentionally, as it's usually not worth the taxpayer's investment for the amount brought in and frankly, with Trump's history of stiffing venues, the income would be zero. Especially given he's still not paid up many venues from 2016!
Besides, how do you audit the Chosen One? Oh, the IRS already showed that one with a potential $100 million due... Guess he should've parted with some of his almighty dollars.
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Whatinhell does that have to do with fraud? Or do we now take people, who have not been charged with sedition, punish them, maybe go corruption of blood and attainder their property and sacrifice their children as a burnt offering to the god of stupidity?
Even had he taken up arms against his nation, he's entitled for a fair and impartial trial, per our Constitution. Period, end of story. In this specific case, federal charges or uncharged random accusations are irrelevant to the fraud case.
It's literally like going to a court and demanding summary conviction, "Your honor, we demand immediate conviction for his shooting J.R. because he was accused of pissing on the sidewalk here".
Each court has a job to do and duties to fulfill, let them do so.
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So, smelt started the fire? Because Trump smelt smoke?
Someone kindly send Trump a box full of smelt from anywhere they're not endangered or overfished. By US Postal standard freight. It'd be perfume compared to his diaper odor.
As for our 51st state, we already had one place vote to become a state and Congress ignored it, Puerto Rico. Where Trump decided to lend a hand after a hurricane flattened much of the island by throwing in the towel and withholding Congressionally authorized and earmarked aid funding, which used to be a felony until the SCOTUS decided we have a god-king, who may rule by fiat.
And Hollywood Hills is a wee bit different in national perception than Hollywood, aka tinseltown. Not that the guy who thinks that supermarkets sell apples out of the refrigerated section would have a clue, he's still working on "pull my finger" and not shitting himself. One's a neighborhood that's upslope from the studios and lower neighborhoods.
But hey, we're actually now being invaded via a mutual assistance pact of longstanding success. Canadian firefighting equipment and personnel are in the country helping out, despite the odious maledictions of VP Trump and President Musk, his almighty master.
And the dreaded FEMA assistance is spooled up - well, dreaded by MAGAts, who prefer to try to hunt that assistance down and end it, then bitch that they're not getting assistance.
Now, someone good with Photoshop, feel free to screen grab an image of Trump tossing that roll of paper towels, turn it into a log headed toward Hollywood Hills... When someone's trying to force feed you hemlock, always give them the first drink.
Now, maybe someone with a large airplane can send the lot of MAGA misleaders to the disaster zone and their hot air, properly directed, could counter the winds.
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Wow, I must be having ministrokes! I fart a lot lately, courtesy of dexamethasone treating newly diagnosed Crohn's disease. Obviously ministrokes, not a bowel disorder.
I've also wobbled and missed door pulls, due to nerve damage from a herniated disc and well, I walk with a cane to avoid falling when one knee will decide to go on vacation because I can't feel what position it's in or the amount of force is being applied. Aka, loss of proprioception.
Disinhibition, that's apparent, but it's also been his trademark, such as that is for his entire life. Previously, just attributed to his being the boor of the party. One need not search for an organic cause for someone simply being an execrable human being, some people just are naturally that way, know better and just don't give a tinkerer's damn. Usually, they're just ostracized by society and they only manage to make their neighbors and family miserable.
The slurring, could be word lookup issues, could be medication induced, could be TIA issues, all common in his age group.
Now, that he's unfit for the office, that was a given back in 2016, that he's still a candidate, well that is his right under the Constitution, that he has any support from a major political party is just damning for that party.
I miss the old days, when our conservative party actually lead, rather than followed populism and nativism, which doomed its predecessor conservative party, resulting in the formation of the Republican Party. It seems that we've a dearth of brave men and women today and eventually, the GOP will implode just as the Whig Party imploded, with no replacement party in place to give the nation its next Abraham Lincoln.
Although, the microphone thing, yeah, that was beyond odd, coupled with Arnold Palmer's member and YMCA, perchance he's just gradually coming out of the closet.
Personally, mike fails after being checked, double checked and all of the preliminary work done, I'd just make a Grand Conspiracy of the Space Aliens joke and move on or even "That microphone works about as well as my opponent's campaign platform!".
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As much as I loathe defending the SOB, burial codes vary wildly throughout the land. Mom was buried in a coffin, fully embalmed, etc. Unembalmed had very specific requirements, cremation urn burial also had highly specific requirements. Specifically, in Delaware County, PA, one is required to bury a special burial urn. Had to deal with that with Dad.
Being special means, of course, more expensive. And well, having actually met the creep, yeah, Trump is cheap. I mean frugal on expenses.
Nearly as cheap as I am, baby chicks start talking about me on leaving the egg, "cheap, cheap, cheap...".
Yeah, that joke's older than I am and I went to school during the Ice Age.
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Funny how they voted for Trump to bring down prices, but now they want even higher prices.
This is like "I'm gonna own the libs by playing Russian roulette with a machine gun". Save that the gun is actually a damned howitzer and they're in a crowded square.
On top of that, Trump shut down disease tracking and reporting, scientific research grants, including a non-small cell lung cancer vaccine approval testing candidate that's been globally successful and of course, medicaid to make sure Aktion T4 gets a good start.
Threatened a trade war with Columbia, who imports our oil and grains (we don't use what grains we produce, we export them all and import Canadian grains) and chemicals, the oil easily gotten from a nearby neighbor, grains from a half dozen sources and chemicals trivially available from China, resulting in a permanent loss of US exports, howitzering the foot again, Dumb Donald.
And he's screwed Nvidia with tariffs on chips that they import to the US for US usage - including their GPU for AI applications.
Now, if he does levy tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods, we'll raise prices even higher, basically double for basic staple foods. Our exports are going to tank, as the workers that harvest our crops aren't showing up to harvest out of fear of ICE antics, soon the slaughterhouses will get the same and there goes chicken prices (beef and pork are slaughtered mostly in Canada, as we closed most of our large livestock slaughterhouses years ago).
And our oil largely comes from Canada, our own oil being incompatible with our refineries and exported as crude abroad.
Maybe he'll nuke our own cities next, call it urban renewal or something.
And to this tanglefoot of his own device, he responds by vacationing already in Florida to play with his tiny balls and golf sticks.
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@DarinW-gx3mm more like really, really, really moronically bad at math, as apparently, in their books, 6=300. Six documents out of thousands is an error, 300 that got waved around in a club and discussed with uncleared persons is a violation of law of several counts.
Unlawful retention of classified national security information, willful divulging and display of classified national security information are three serious felonies.
And compassionate parole for dementia isn't in the cards for national security violations, lest he spill even more in his addled state, given his habitual divulging.
On top of being bankrupted, it seems and the loss of what little property he actually owns, given the banks will have to be paid what is owed on his heavily mortgaged properties, increasing the number of properties to seize.
Then, his attorneys will be wondering how they'll get paid and abandon ship...
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My response to Bernie, as a taxpayer, voter, veteran, military retiree and grandfather is, "Bernie, putana su mama" and the conversation will accelerate downhill fast. I'd begin discussing the relative merits of exploring how many times my cane will wrap around his empty skull and advanced to explore just precisely what I did in the Army during the wars...
One thing I'm certain of, he's a Republican politician, he's got no stones in him to swing at me, regardless of what I explain about his family members habituations and species. Unfortunately.
Nearly lost my wife while I was on duty with the military at a rather remote location. It literally took an entire day to locate me and my team to get an emergency message to me. Loads of emergency transportation wrangling got me home, in such a rush that it turned out I still had all of my field equipment, accountable items and sidearm still with me. Got home to find an empty house, no kids, my wife missing and nobody answering at her family's numbers, my parents having no clue where she was. The emergency being an ectopic pregnancy that literally was about to rupture and the religious hospital (closest and hence, required by military regulations at the time) insisting on my permission to abort the non-viable, about to kill her pregnancy.
It turned out she was at her mother's house recovering, doctor violated hospital policy and got fired for it and saved her life, she was recovering, the kids were with her mother, who was at the store getting additional food.
Grew some gray hairs that day!
The hospital administrator had an attitude problem, thinking I was some National Guard bozo (her words) and well, the police were summoned, saw my ID and sidearm, siding with me. She insisted that the hospital, regardless of the laws in force at the time, would never change their policy. A quick call to a friend in D.C. halted all federal funding to that hospital until they complied with the law, as was authorized under the law. Never sure came quickly for them!
Yeah, I bite and I bite hard in multiple ways.
God was their guide they said, interesting given that they're still notorious for being malpractice central for the entire Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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@delorisjones4469 so said many, who died, it stopped when the bullies got shown their own blood.
If your house is on fire, are you going to wait around inside until Jesus comes to put out the fire?
And many said that when the Gestapo and SS were rounding up Jews for extermination, it took soldiers to stop it, as Jesus apparently was a bit too busy.
BTW, which Apostle is still alive, given that same Revelation also said some will still be alive to witness his second coming? I'll wait, as we're flat out of living Apostles by nearly 2000 years. And the number of the beast was Hebrew numerology for Nero's name, don't think we have much to worry about with Nero, him being quite busy doing that dead thing.
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@adriennerango1519 actually yes, I did indeed excel in civics as well.
But, I was responding to "this is national security", as if that's a reason to suborn our laws and Constitution. And my point was originally the very point in which you just referenced, co-equal branches, checks and balances and no damned king, despite the Heritage Foundation's efforts.
Now, what else is going on while this shiny is being held up to distract us? Every other time Trump held up a shiny to distract, other shit was going on in the background, including the infamous Agenda. So, what else is going on in the background, now that he's putting tinsel up on the power lines at the top of the pole?
The last time this kind of crazy was going on in a leading conservative party, the adults left the room of the Whig Party and formed the Republican Party. So successful, their very first presidential candidate won the election - Abraham Lincoln and the Whig Party collapsed under nativist and ultranationalist weight, quietly disappearing.
The Republican Party of today has no such courage left, so they'll happily destroy our culture, Constitution and government in order to acquire and retain power, creating a literal empire, where a republic stood before.
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