“How does a Republican lose by 14 points in a safe conservative Texas state Senate seat that President Trump carried by 17 points in 2024? Answer: When there’s a voter backlash against the Trump Administration, notably its mass deportation debacles,” the Journal wrote, describing the special election in Tarrant County.
It could also be the raping of children…
You know what they say: the best time to build a time machine is 50 years ago.
I think that’s basically the movie Primer too, they’d turn the machine on, go hide in an apartment for X amount of time, then go back to the machine and emerge 5 minutes after they turned it on and just walked away.
But gravity effects time, sticking close to a planet isn’t going to be hard.
Ironically enough the first (if we ever get them) time machines are going to be a hell of a lot like modern “UFOs” are described. You couldn’t risk landing on the planet, elevation changes are what’s really a nightmare to account for. Show up and hour early and everything is a foot higher because of how fast we’re spinning.
So you’d want a space craft, because space is big and empty. And realistically it’s going to take something bigger than a telephone booth or even the 1980s embodiment of Florida on four wheels with a hood designed to do cocaine off of to house a time machine.
And Dr Oz thanked him for it…
Like, I never thought it would happen, but I had held out hope for an 25th to get rid of him. But if they’ll pretend he didn’t just shit himself in the oval office, they’ll never acknowledge anything
It’s what they should have been doing right after the election
Like, they knew what was gonna happen
They’re not sugarcoating it, they’re normalizing it…
And the answer to “why” for all those questions is oligarchs bought the news stations after Clinton de-regulated it with the Telecoms act of 1996.
The media isn’t run for the sake of journalism, it’s not even run for profit anymore. The oligarchs goobled it all up so they could influence everyone else, and they don’t like it when anyone from their class is held accountable for anything.
It’s the same as when medieval royalty would always side with each other no matter what.
They don’t see us as the same species as them.
I accidentally went to a private Lee Brice concert once well over a decade ago.
I had no idea who he was, but it was at one of those Coyote Ugly type bars a friend served/danced at so it was free and I knew going in I was literally the only guy there.
Brice was wasted, didn’t use a mic and just sat at a table so all the women had to crowd around him to hear anything.
It legitimately felt like a college party where some douche pulled out a guitar, but everyone was actually into it. Literally the worst “concert” I’ve ever been too, but still, the audience was me and like 50 very attractive women. So a pretty fun night at the bar except when he was trying to sing. Which he barely did.
What solves this and a lot of other problems is actual accountability.
Body cameras on the entire time. Every time someone uses any kind of force, archive a 5 minute clip and make the officer/agent write a report justifying why they resorted to it.
If they had to justify it all, they wouldn’t just go wild with it.
Right now I honestly think they get the same guidance as Starship Troopers on munitions use
It’s every expansive empire, but even biological life follows the square cube law.
Once something gets so big, it can’t survive.
For life it has to do with transporting oxygen throughout the body.
For empires it’s being able to maintain and pacify the populace of conquered lands. If you expand too fast, you don’t have the populace on your side and have already moved troops forward. Then you end up with rebellion between your troops and your city. If your lucky it just causes a logistical nightmare when rebels stick to your own lands.
If you’re unlucky they march in towards your capital forcing you to pull troops back and if your unconquered enemy capitalizes, your troops are eventually caught in the middle.
But impatient rulers destroy empires.
For anyone wondering why trump suddenly wants a new Rush Hour movie:
The film was directed by Brett Ratner, the Rush Hour director who has largely been absent from Hollywood following sexual misconduct allegations made against him in 2017. More than a dozen photographs of Ratner with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and unnamed women also surfaced in a tranche of documents from the Department of Justice on Friday.
the only reason someone would bother replying to that comment the way you did, would be if they had some kind of problem with the subject matter
Nope, just seemed like a random karma grab that just distracted from the Epstein stuff.
No one gets irked enough to comment only when someone “posts something unrelated”.
Definitely not the only time I comment.
Do you support trans rights?
Yeah, it’s no one else’s business what someone does with their own body. But anyone who thinks anything biological is binary clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about. There’s no clear lines in nature, we just pretend there is to teach kids a simplified version in school.
But I treat people the same regardless of gender anyways, so I just honestly don’t care what someone else is doing.
So to me, it’s weird when someone just brings it up randomly when a more important and completely different topic is at hand.
I don’t get why it matters.
It does not
After the woman was detained, her husband said he called his attorney. Shortly after, he received a call from St. Peter Chief of Police Matt Grochow, whom he has known for years.
"I was talking to him, kind of venting some of my frustrations,” the husband told MPR, before encouraging the chief to make sure local officers were more visible during ICE operations. “If [local police] were present and they could see you, I promise you their behavior more than likely, or hopefully, would, you know, be appropriate and law-abiding,” he said.
After the officers put her in their car and drove toward the Twin Cities, they themselves received a call, the woman said, and quickly turned back.
“ICE returned the female to our police department, I saw her, and I gave her a ride home,” Grochow wrote in a statement to MPR about the incident.
Two lessons from this:
Cops do have influence over ICE and what they do.
Cops won’t use that influence unless it’s a personal friend that also has lawyers on retainer.
The main problem is it’s not an article about trump sharting himself.
I already posted the video to the super serious politcalvideos community last night tho, so don’t worry.
But yes, the president sharting so bad he had to immediately end a press conference and kick out journalists while his administration stands there and literally pretends it doesn’t stink is indicative of our overall political climate.
If that was a a full shit (I think it was) then we just watched the president poop his pants and everyone pretend his shit literally doesn’t stink.
Dr Oz literally thanked him.
No one in that video will ever reach a line they think trump needs to be removed, or they’d have had a visible reaction to this.
Is it funny?
Abso-fucking-lutely.
But people will watch this, and even if they just laugh and move on, laughter is very effective against fascism
The fucked up part is there was probably a shit ton of people who were trying to go, knowing full well what happened there.
Not even just because they want to rape children. Just because it’s exclusive.
When you have that level of wealth, even 2011 Elmo level of wealth, your brain chases anything exclusive because you can buy anything else.
A secret cabal of world leaders into shit that would make their most feverent supporters disown them?
That’s like the most exclusive club in the world, and lots of people want to rub elbows regardless of activity. Or even just need something to try for, drawing them to any exclusive club like how Maxwell was a reddit powermod.
That doesn’t make any sense based on Shakespeare’s original usage…
Or any common usage since, I’m genuinely curious what you think the phrase means.
Any chance you could tell me what you’re implying?
Not only does he have dementia, no one is giving him accurate information to start with.
If Faux News says there’s rioting in Seattle, trump just takes that as reality.
It doesn’t matter what happens, just what trump sees on Faux News. There’s always talk about other dictators influencing trump, but it’s just whoever he hears last and he watches Faux daily, so it’s almost always the last thing he heard.
What does that have to do with literally anything in the article?
Because he was friends with her husband who called his lawyer first…
ICE just fucked up and tried to kidnap someone who had wealth and connections. And the cops just showed that if they actually gave a fuck, they actually do have influence over ICE.
They just won’t use to save us, only the people they personally know.
His brain is cooked…
He flipflops between state/local governments being responsible for federal.property to the feds being responsible like half a dozen times just in the quotes.
What bends eventually snaps…
One of these days it’ll be like GW Bush and everyone is going to claim they never supported him and didn’t really understand why the rest of the party did.
And it’s going to happen in an instant.