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My point was that short-sighted MAGA will cheer Trump taking guns away from people they don't like, not realizing it sets the stage for the next dem president to do the same to them.
Let's hope not. Anyway, that wasn't my point.
May all my trans brothers, sisters, and enby pals be peaceful, not harmless.
Wait until President Newsom's executive order to that effect.
Yup. I live in Louisiana, where you don't even need a license to conceal carry. Yet I don't even open carry. Why? BC I am brown. If walked down the street with a firearm, racist pigs would never stop tackling me. If I did CCW I would be summarily shot.
Supposed 2nd Amendment absolutists on the right will say nothing, or will even cheer this. Not realizing that in a few years, it will give President Newsom the power to declare anyone who votes Republican is too mentally unstable to own a gun and confiscate them. Amazing, the short-sightedness
Also, I should clarify it wasn't the actress' fault. She was well-cast, imho. It was how she was written that I found off-putting and un-Guinanish.
And I'll add this: OG Uhura was a perfect balance of form and function. Aesthetically. If you will
Ok. I'll admit I had a "GOTT DAMN AHOOOGA" reaction at first. Then it started dawning on me that she wasn't acting very much like Guinan. At all.
Not with Alex Kurtzman in charge. Nu Trek Guinan was an abomination.
Red state governors have to answer to their citizens more directly. And they know a substantial amount of their support comes from cities, even if those cities are blue. They can't afford to piss those people off.
Kind of interesting that red state governors have demurred when asked if they'd welcome military occupations of blue cities in their states.
Not guilty.
American restaurants are too loud. Go to any nice restaurant in any other country. Like a feckin LIBRARY. You'll never see dining in the US the same way again.
French conservators are aghast at the proposed loan of the Bayeux Tapestry, warning its much too fragile to be moved www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Brilliant
I propose a Jaws remake where the Mayor listens to Brody & closes the beaches. The rest is just a sad drama about Amity shop onwers struggling in vain to keep their businesses afloat against the "jaws" of greedy landlords hiking their rent to force them out. The shark is just symbolic for capitalism
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Maybe the plan is to deploy national guard at key polling stations in states without voter ID laws to enforce the executive order and forcibly prevent people without ID from entering the polling place. Completely illegal, but who will be able to stop it? Best prepare for that possibility.
He's right. They're going after blue states. Blue states should hit back. Pass state laws making it a felony for law enforcement to conceal their identity or refuse to show a badge. Absolutely no reason this can't be done.
Awesome. Honestly, I stopped watching his show a long time ago. But the man is talented, a class act, and mostly importantly, this is a giant thumb in Trumps eye. 👏 👏 👏
The next administration needs to order her remains to be exhumed and flung into the Potomac.
Nah, fuck that. This is window dressing. Get legisatures to pass laws with some teeth. Require all law enforcement to show their faces, produce identification on request, and make it a felony for failing to comply.
They'll be groundskeeping and serving drinks at Mar a Lago soon 🙄
How long until we see a Trump address to the nation that looks like this
He should have stopped at "my opinion is irrelevant" because everything after that was 100% grade A horseshit.
Which, it should be pointed out, ISNT SCIENCE. Eugenics is discredited Nazi horse crap that needed to be buried with the 20th century.
(((((((HUGS)))))))
20 years. It's hard to imagine. I remember when I first got back, despairing at reports that it could take 5 years for the city to recover. Here I am 20 years later, and I'm still not over it. Guess I never will be.
It's horrifying to think the objective here may be eugenics. But if you think about it, it explains everything.
futurism.com/scientists-s... The upside of scientific curiosity and modern technology is that it has improved our lives beyond measure. The downside is, it’s come up with ways to kill us all many times over. So far the balance has been in our favour. Let’s see which way this tips the scales.😁
Oh, that's a tell. Anything other than, "the president is in excellent health, end of story" is a major red flag.
TIL that the famous refrain in Beethoven's Fifth is also Morse Code for the letter "V," and now I'm wondering if that (V = 5) was somehow intentional.
Prayer does work like meditation works. It provides health benefits like reduced stress. Thinking it magically stops school shootings is childish and delusional.
It's not about immigration. It never has been.
WTF did he think was gonna happen? Fuck
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Yeah, not likely. In red states, even in the blue cities, we are armed. And we shoot back.
Also, baked into the Texas gerrymandering is the assumption that Latino districts who went for Trump in 24 will stay loyal. I think that's a huge mistake, and it will backfire.
There will be elections. There will also be suppression. We have to accept that. But, in virtually every midterm election, the party in power loses seats. Add on top of that that Trump is EXTREMELY unpopular right now. It's an uphill battle with only so much gaming the system the GOP can do.
And here's the thing: there is strong evidence that it worked! Mass shootings went down when it was enacted, and shot way back up when Bush repealed it. I'm pro 2nd A, and I think we have to tread carefully regulating firearms. But facts is facts.
People pissed off enough to hand the dems a supermajority in the House absolutely means something. Since that will hand his enemies unlimited subpoena and investigative authority, it could well mean the effective end of his presidency.
If 1 in 5 people approve of his handling of the Epstein files, I can think of no explanation except there are way, way more pedophiles in this country than I had ever imagined.
Right? And people still somehow believe in a just god.
Human nature. Give a guy in a hole a ladder, the first thing that comes to his mind is how good its gonna feel to jam his boot in the face of the guy coming up after him.
So much for the old saw about indicting a ham sandwich
A friend of mine texted me that he was laid up with shingles that ran from the tip of his penis, through the perineum, all the way to his anus. His doctor had just said he didn't need the vaccine yet, and boom. Incapacitated. I was at Walgreens getting my first dose less than an hour later.
When this administration is dead and gone, the revelations of the secret illegal atrocities they've been up to will drop jaws.
Good thing they're heavily armed. They can just shoot the garbage.
Who did this?
New Orleans is an ideal target: a blue city in a red state. A MAGA governor who would welcome the national guard. A Black female mayor... who is under indictment! But everyone here is armed, and we have permitless CCW, so they won't dare.
There is a whole movement of techo-fascist elites who want to do away with all governments in this country top down, and replace them with local corporate feudal warlords who compete for citizens. Read up on Curtis Yarvin. One of his biggest fans is a guy you may have heard of named JD Vance.
Pol Pot died quietly in bed. As did Stalin and Franco. And Mao. Hell, Mao has a square dedicated to his memory in his hometown. There is no justice unless we make it.
All you frogs do is complain, complain complain. Is the water hot? Sure. Getting hotter? I suppose. But it's not like it's boiling or anything!
I'm not sure why. What could be more welcoming than heavily armed military goons barking "PAPERS PLEASE!" in your face as you emerge from the Metro at Foggy Bottom.
DC is not that big, and I have walked all over that city at all times of the day and night. Granted, I am a guy. But I have never once felt unsafe there.
Not even a week and they're already morphing into cops
When my dad's dementia became really advanced, he started concocting whole revised histories of his life. But we let him, and we played along, because he was not the most powerful man on Earth with the power to destroy all of civilization on a whim.
Gutted by the news that Sacramentum’s vocalist Nisse Karlén has lost his battle with mental illness and died by his own hand. He lives on through his musical legacy, and in memory, such as my own of the band’s performance in St. Louis two years ago. Requiescat in pace.
Nothing to see here… just armed national guard intimidating government workers and students in my hometown.
We are on the wrong side. When will we finally admit it?
I don't understand what the end game is supposed to be here. If she's not the lawful US Attorney, any prosecutions by her office are fatally tainted. Is the plan is to have every conviction in that district over the next 3 years vacated on appeal? If not, then what?
I wandered the earth for most of the rest of 2005 not knowing if I'd ever be able to return home, if I would ever have a home to return to. I do not recommend it.
I can't watch it. I lived it. It's been 20 years, but it's still too soon.
Yeah. I've had one foot in "anything is possible" land ever since Trump v. US.
That's a bunch of bored Guard standing around tourist areas directing traffic, because there's nothing else to do.
I don't know. I've been waving the bloody flag for a while now that people are misplacing their trust in the military to not follow illegal orders in suppressing dissent, but that's in context of civil unrest. Even I can't see the military obeying an order to force legislation at gunpoint.
Interesting. So they're going to use section 502F as a way to deploy the Guard, beyond the 2 weeks 12 weekend requirement, & take them away from their jobs and families, indefinitely, and maybe without pay? That's gonna be REAL popular.
I wouldn't read too much into the idea that he's some kind of ally now. Rogan is famous for parroting the opinion of the last person he talked to. By Monday, he might pivot to endorsing death camps for immigrants.
"Rules for thee, not for me"
Oh man. "Stop hate?" MAGA is not gonna like that.
Yeah, I really hope this doesn't backfire.
When. Not if. Unless he's stopped, it'll be a question of when. And by the time he gets to placing troops here, it'll be too late to stop it.
Dear #Louisiana: You need to call Governor Landry now and all of your reps to have an emergency session. Tell him to have the National Guard stand down and return home. There is no emergency. The President is a madman. If military violated Posse Comitatus in the state, Louisiana would freak out.
Pigs have realized that they need to murder a black man to get the protests in DC kicked off. Gotta violently suppress something, and the black community hasn't taken the bait yet. This guy's lucky someone was filming.
In a sane country that's not in stage 4 metastasis, this would be exhibit A in the corruption trials starting next week
Democrats throwing trans folks under the bus is one of the stupidest things I’ve seen from the Democratic Party. Rather than focus on the country’s need for better healthcare, a clean environment, civil rights, and so many other important issues, they keep responding to idiotic GOP talking points.
Perhaps what disturbs me the most is what that says about us. Whatever it is, it ain't good.
I want to know who approved a search warrant. Emil Bove?
Ok. Then maybe you can finally shut the fuck up about it then?
Maybe it's a cry for help?
I think they may want to revisit the Intro to Con Law curriculum at Upstairs Last Door on the Left Law School.
Yes, what America needs is a dull-eyed bottle blonde with an 80 IQ lecturing us about slavery. Let's just rip out the existing exhibits and replace them all with this dipshit on a giant screen telling us slavery wasn't THAT bad.
There are so many criminal defense attorneys in NJ with an uncontrollable priapism right now.
Love her.
Love her.
I guess I can get with the idea that Mr. Pibb died for my sins. I've at least considered the possibility that he's a real person.
*snoopy dance*
And they would be right... if she had been filming someone in the bathroom without their consent. She was the only one in there, and presumably consented to filming herself, they're idiots. I know, right? Cops threatening people because they don't understand the law? Who ever heard of such a thing
Conservatives will never understand that to normal people, this effort to project an air of strength looks like weakness and desperation. Conveying your point in a manner that shows that it stands on its own merits is real strength. Surrounding yourself with a bunch of camo'd goons is not.
I have to admit: I'm astonished how well this has worked. I'm no fan of Newsom. But I have to admit that his ability to understand and manipulate the MAGA mindset is nothing short of superhuman.
Nothing beats my machete for fighting back the catsclaw constantly trying to overcome my fence. Doesn't mean I'd use it for delicate surgery.
Newsom has been dunking on his ass nonstop, and after taking 2 weeks to craft a response, this is the best he's got?? I have to say, I'm disappointed. Weak. Low energy. Sad.
A whole phalanx of people wearing trench coats and balakavas standing silently outside his house would make his tiny brain explode. It would be glorious.
I hope she at least asked these idiot pigs what felony they planned to charge her with, just to watch the drool slip out of their slack jaws as they try to process this black chick knowing their jobs better than they do.
I live in what used to be one of the most dangerous cities in America. However, over the last 5 minutes, we've managed to completely eliminate murder!
That... is not at all how statistics work.