They got scammed the first time around too. Remember “Finish The Wall”? Trump didn’t build an inch of wall with that money, it just vanished into thin air and appeared as a few extra digits in his bank accoount.
The same people who forked over money for that and then admitted regretting it afterwards were the same ones gleefully preordering this phone. They’ll be mad about it for a bit and then they’ll fall for it again in due time. Easy marks.
More testing of the waters for 2028 when he inevitably refuses to leave office.
It’s already an incredibly popular sign at every No Kings protest or just random local protests in general.
Even if it was just Comey who did it, this doesn’t constitute a direct or actionable threat. 86 is kitchen jargon to get rid of something, and one interpretation of that could be to kill, but another could be to get rid of him using the legal channels already in place (impeachment, invoking 25th amendment, etc.).
This indictment has no legs and will get tossed out before any competent judge.
There are a few videos out there that break down the… let’s say questionable or highly suspicious series of coincidences that trail behind the shooting, as well as the kneejerk reaction from the right in response that raises some eyebrows, so I would say just go watch those. People are really latching onto flimsy evidence for this one. I haven’t seen anything really convincing yet that would suggest that the government orchestrated a false flag attack, and I feel like this administration is too incompetent to be able to handle a covert operation of that nature without fumbling it badly.
I like to lean on the side of Occam’s Razor and say that it’s pretty likely that in a country with hundreds of millions of people and hundreds of millions of guns and a very publicly hated president, it’s not that surprising that a few of those people have tried to kill him and got close enough to try. As far as security goes, yes it was a much lower security detail but the shooter was also apprehended at basically the first possible security checkpoint and Trump and the dinner guests were never in any danger. The security worked exactly as it should have.
A white California man tried to KILL our deeply unpopular pedophile president so we need to get RID of the fillibuster so we can FUND the DHS so that they can DEPORT more BROWN PEOPLE!
If only Crooks had better aim, we could have had the pink mist televised for the whole world to see.
Donald Trump, the private citizen, is suing the United States Government - of which he is currently the chief executive of. Since he has the authority to direct the justice department and court settlements are paid out of taxpayer income, he can direct the attorney general to “settle” with the plaintiff (himself) and have that settlement money get funneled directly into his private bank account.
It’s a scam that, if it had been performed by any other president in the history of the nation, would have been a scandal that dwarfs Watergate and led to an immediate bipartisan effort to impeach and remove the president for blatant corruption.
But since it’s Trump, this is just expected of him, I guess…
All the more reason to say no to him. As if I needed more reasons.
Monobiomes are probably the rule and Earth-like continental planetoids with diverse topology are probably exceedingly rare in the universe.
The Trump admin doesn’t consider competency as a crucial skill to be a military logistician. In fact, the only crucial skill they care about is loyalty to Trump.
It isn’t gambling if you know what the outcome is going to be.
If the people betting on these polymarket shares were in a casino, they would have been escorted out long ago.
You can kind of see this as a general win for anybody who is a fan of using psychedelics for treatment of mental health issues, but it’s important to point out that both of the people mentioned in the headline have ulterior motives for this move.
Trump wants to get Joe Rogan back on his side after he alienated him with his Iran antics. Joe Rogan is one of the biggest conservative megaphones in the nation and he can’t afford to have him be talking shit about MAGA before the midterms, so he’ll throw him a bone about this one issue that he doesn’t give a fuck about anyway.
Joe Rogan is doing this to be able to hopefully one day self-administer psychedelics, not get meaningful treatment or aid from a professional to guide him through the process and change himself for the better.
I’m not sure which of these two are being more selfish at this point.
It’s still protected from precipitation, but if I close it all the way wasps inevitably build a nest in there.
This sounds like a problem that has a solution already baked into it.
It’s an uncomfortable, sweaty-palm conversation that needs to happen. Sugarcoating it isn’t going to help in the long run.
When I was a kid I had two cats. One of them, the older cat, got run over by a car one day. My parents told me about it that night. I was like 8 years old and it absolutely devastated me, but knowing what happened allowed me to grieve properly and let all of my feelings out.
My other cat just disappeared one day, and although I suspect that she also died in a similar manner, not knowing the truth always gave me hope that one day she would show back up on my doorstep meowing to be let inside.
My point is that if you try to obfuscate the subject, the risk is that your kid won’t properly understand what happened until much later in life and all the unprocessed emotions can cause trauma. Bluntness might seem cruel in the moment, but you have to do it. Ask for their full attention, sit them down, and tell them what happened, and offer comfort in whatever way you can. The news will hurt them, and they will possibly lash out at you, but eventually they will recover from it and go back to feeling normal again.
Good luck, OP.
True investigative journalism is finding out if bears shit in the woods. Details at 11:00.
Oh no, those subtleties aren’t lost on me, I’m just lamenting that literally anyone is falling for this scheme. Even if this would be technically unenforceable it’s still 1000% bad and should never even be in congress. I hate that every few years some draconian bullshit like this pops up and we need to muster all of our collective will to raise awareness and fight it. Someone else said it best in the thread - we need to win every time, but they only need to win once.
Does me tapping my order into a self-service kiosk at a restaurant count as “using” the operating system that it is running on?
Like, I feel like this is going to be really difficult to enforce, and big business might actually push back against it if they think it will hurt their bottom line, but my god can we stop with this nanny state internet surveillance bullshit already? The government is too stupid to actually protect anyone with this dumb law because there will always be loopholes and workarounds.
It’s real, but 1000% staged. No way secret service would have let an unvetted Doordash driver approach the front door of the White House, let alone meet the President in person. It’s a publicity stunt.
Despite this, some people still believe it’s an organic moment, as if any Doordash driver would be comfortable just standing there as a political prop for two hours instead of running more deliveries.
It’s similar for Chess AI (and by that I mean Chess Engines that have been developed for decades, not LLMs) except that the engines will play extremely principled and cautious Chess, right up until it gets out of the book/theory territory and it calculates 20-30 moves into the future and determines that an incredibly unintuitive and bizarre move is the “best” position, but even the top grandmasters would likely never find that specific move that the engine determined was the best move you could make.
In some cases, you can tell when someone is cheating by seeing them make top engine moves that don’t do anything or really advance the board state in a meaningful way the turn you make them because it forces the opponent to make one or more less optimal moves that the player could capitalize on, but humans are terrible and seeing these patterns because they are super analytical and require precise calculation. Also, asking them to explain why they made those moves is another way to catch them in the act - and a subject of a great deal of controversy in modern chess tournaments when some players give less than convincing answers when pressed on why they made certain moves in the game.