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harbo , in Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post

He can’t stop digging

Ilikepornaddict ,

He keeps digging, yet somehow he’s still outside the hole. I know the prosecutor wants to make sure they get everything right, but this man is embarrassing the entire country, and making a joke of it’s institutions.

MostlyBirds ,
@MostlyBirds@lemmy.world avatar

Our institutions have been a joke for almost 250 years.

ImFresh3x , (edited )

I am 100% convinced that he thinks pushing the envelope as far as possible thought out this will stall the process, cause conflict, and make the court look like it has a vendetta against him. He’s going to do this most with NY, DC, and GA case, and not as much in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida case because his entire argument in those other cases is that the courts themselves are trying to silence him. And who knows. It might work. It’s worked for him well in the past.

His only way out of this is to stall, stall, stall, and win the election by making himself look like the victim to his core supporters and few dumb fuck centrists in swing states.

And it’s working. You’ll be seeing influential people who were critical of trump come out and say “I hate trump but it’s obvious he’s being attacked simply because they hate him.” These people will be paid millions by his campaign. People like Joe Rogan etc. will “gradually” become full on trump supporters with the narrative they they still don’t like trump but hate what the DOJ is doing more and paint trump as a future political prisoner.

The only way out of this is a huge effort to get people to vote. They’re counting on apathy and muddy waters.

TheWoozy ,

Doubling down, bluffing, and rat-fucking has always worked for for him in the past. He can’t change now.

Argongas , in NYPD officers detain online influencer after giveaway devolves into chaos

I really hope "influencer" is a temporal addition to our society, dies soon, and is remembered in the future as a particularly ridiculous aspect of the early 21st century.

doot ,

like flash mobs

elbarto777 ,

Like pokemons.

Argongas ,

At least flash mobs bring a group of people together in real life to do something together in community. Far more value than influencer.

gramathy , in Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post

Trump never having been jailed for contempt is baffling

VanillaGorilla ,

I think you misspelled infuriating.

supercheesecake ,
@supercheesecake@aussie.zone avatar

Different rules for the rich and powerful.

What baffles me is his supporters all rage against stuff like this but don’t recognise their orange idol sits at the top of the pile.

KevonLooney ,

They’re not against it in principle. They want to be the one doing it. It’s others winning they object to.

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

They’re not against it in principle

Exactly, they have no principles just wins and losses against the other side where everything is a zero sum game

Deceptichum , in To fix the labor shortage, economists point to women - and better child care
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

To fix the labour shortage, I point to wages.

Avg ,

This even makes sense in context of the article, my wife doesn’t work because it makes no sense to go to work and dump all the money she’d make into child care.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Work evenings. My wife did that when our kids were really young.

Central_Incisor , in Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.

Looks in the refrigerator. Look an incandescent bulb! Oven? Incandescent! Flashlight? Incandescent! Bathroom? Incandescent (halogen). Old lamp new bulb? High efficiency incandescent! Oh and then there are all of the exemptions to the higher (not high) efficiency standards like the one for bulbs with a left handed thread.

Incandescent lights were never banned, the efficiency standards were raised for a set of commonly used household lights and that was it.

thelastknowngod , in Oregon lifts ban on self-serve gas, leaving N.J. as the only state prohibiting it

They always let me pump my own gas when riding a motorcycle in NJ. My mom would be clueless if they dropped that law though.

kameecoding , in Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace."

Sillicon Valley reinvents Company Scrip.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip#Lumber_compan…

chalupapocalypse ,

Wow, and here I thought deep rock galactic just made up a word

That’s shady af

_number8_ , in Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post
ME5SENGER_24 , in Oregon lifts ban on self-serve gas, leaving N.J. as the only state prohibiting it

There are some bizarre and pointless laws in this country.

GiddyGap ,

And some people will go to extraordinary lengths to defend them.

morphballganon ,

The way I heard it, if the only people pumping gas were employees, the company didn’t have to pay as much liability insurance.

karlthemailman ,

Then why make it a law? Gas stations would all choose to have full service only if it was cheaper.

SCB ,

It’s a law specifically so that these jobs exist. It has nothing to do with liability insurance. Rather, one guy was able to lower his prices by having people pump their own gas and other gas stations didn’t like that

Reingold decided to offer the consumer a choice by opening up a 24-pump gas station on Route 17 in Hackensack. He offered gas at 18.9 cents a gallon. The only requirement was that drivers pump it themselves. They didn’t mind. They lined up for blocks.

"The other gas station operators didn’t like the competition. Someone tried shooting up Reingold’s station. But he installed bulletproof glass, so the retailers looked for a softer target - the Statehouse. The Gasoline Retailers Association prevailed upon its pals in the Legislature to push through a bill banning self-serve gas. The pretext was safety, but the Hackensack fire chief had already told all who would listen that Rein- gold’s operation was perfectly safe.

nj.com/…/the_real_reason_self-service_gas_was_ban…

minorsecond ,

Man, fuck lobbies representing business. What a load of shit.

grayman ,

That kind of sounded like a scene from The Jerk.

Wallybinbaz ,

Great news, you’re the eighth customer today. You’ve won a free oven mitt!

Thisisforfun ,

Was probably reasonable when they were enacted - before your grandparents met.

andrew ,
@andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun avatar

Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn’t mean that we too can’t not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.

moitoi ,

You never went to Switzerland where the only noise you’re allowed to do after 10 pm is pooping.

Buddahriffic ,

Now I’m curious about the situation that lead to that to that exception being added and if there was a death involved where someone held it in until morning when they should have just gone right away.

moitoi ,

The legend says that you aren’t allowed to flush the toilet after 10 pm. Actually, people must avoid making noise after 10pm by law. It’s not here for fun.

Switzerland has a reporting culture. People will report you to the police and/or your landlord if you’re making too much noise after 10pm. Also, Sundays and holidays are by law a day of rest.

Janoose , in Trump boasts at Alabama fundraiser that he needs ‘one more indictment to close out this election’
@Janoose@kbin.social avatar

Oh, so he’s definitely getting indicted in Georgia.

Justice , in Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post
@Justice@lemmygrad.ml avatar

He very obviously wants to get a dramatic scene of feds walking him from his home either grabbing him under the armpit, a guy on each side, or in cuffs. The scene we see for… basically every arrest by feds ever.

Since he clearly wants it and by far met the standard under our current legal system to be properly arrested and booked, give him what he wants. Hold him in a cell for a few days without bail. Rile the hogs a little and put down the feral ones. If they see their daddy facing consequences, even if it’s just the treatment any of us would receive (although we’d get the knee on our head after our baby got flashbanged treatment), maybe the illusion of him being untouchable goes away a little. There isn’t a significant number of mentally deranged hogs out there, certainly nothing the bloated FBI and state police departments can’t squash, so just do it already and stop being pussies. It’s pretty much that or drop all the charges because you aren’t serious about holding him accountable.

BaroqueInMind ,
@BaroqueInMind@kbin.social avatar

Your proposal assumes most of the MAGA wacko nutjobs aren't armed up to handle bloated FBI and poorly trained local law enforcement.

I'm lower-middle class and barely own under 1k rounds of ammo for various guns thanks to blue laws making it cost-prohibive, and that shit is expensive af in states with sane gun laws.

The rural MAGA retards spent their paychecks on ammo in their shithole red states and can buy an essential entire arms room for way cheaper. Good luck to the rural law enforcement guys with high school educations fighting brainwashed retired war veterans that have gone through several mandatory post-college quality military schools.

Dark_Arc ,
@Dark_Arc@lemmy.world avatar

They’re not going to go shoot up their own town, and the FBI and local law enforcement aren’t going to go hunt down everybody with a stockpile of ammo that voted for Trump.

Realistically, they’d go for wherever Trump is being held, and the respective SWAT teams (including FBI SWAT) or active duty national guard would deal with it.

I hope it wouldn’t get to it, but that would also be valid grounds for the deployment of the insurrection act (unlike Trump when his team wanted to use it to steal the election). Those old veterans with their subpar domestic equipment would be up against fully armed active duty national guard, army, marines, seals, etc

I am losing no sleep overnight about MAGA wackjobs “rescuing” Trump.

baldingpudenda , (edited )

The problem is that they arent gonna rescue trump. They will just do raids against infrastructure, take out cops that arent with them, local politicians, etc. They are morons, but all it takes is one asshole that knows what to do to make them effective. With republicans hamstringing the government for 50 years, and federal police recently, it would need a counter insurgency from the military.

I think we should have let Sherman finish the job and listened to him during reconstruction. The south is rising again. We need an “Operation Southern Liberation” and bring democracy to them.

Caradoc879 ,

Oh so we should just give in to terrorism? Roll over and let trump do what he wants because of that? The fuck is wrong with you?

baldingpudenda ,

Sorry I wasn’t clear, we need to do a military intervention so that these fascists in republican clothing can stop weakening our nation by slowly taking away our democracy. They control the voting in a manner that they can maintain majority in their fiefdom state which sends those assholes to congress.

Phlogiston ,

I will lose sleep over the nut jobs that fantasize about shouting up their local town police force to “rescue trump”.

These are the same types of people that caused the civil war. I don’t the great sort is at that point yet - but it worries me that they are willing to destroy the country to (try and) maintain their position of power over others.

I don’t see how we defuse and resolve those conflicts. They’ve been going on for a long time.

Justice ,
@Justice@lemmygrad.ml avatar

The right wing militias could be dealt with easily, but no one wants to just do it. You declare them armed enemies of the state, make lists of the leadership and anyone associated that you can, go in like a military conquest with blackhawks and all the firepower, take them all down, shut down all their sites, and then immediate take down anyone in the following months who wants to do lone wolf shit saying it’s because of the raids. Yeah it won’t be pretty, but some short term asspain is better than decades of them just existing.

That’s how you’d do it, but tbh, my biggest problem isn’t the worry but rather the absolute knowledge that the feds could do that any time they wanted easily. But they wouldn’t stop there. They’d turn around and have to “both sides” (because advocating for equality for humans is the same as genocidal death cults, according to many liberals (which is both republicans and democrats)) the shit and start rounding up all 12 of us socialists in the country. So, I have mixed feelings on it. Currently the answer from me is do not do it. If there’s a significant push from actual leftists (no, not the disgusting libs like Pete or another Biden) into power then I’d advocate for immediate destruction completely and utterly of all the Nazi-related groups. No mercy for Nazis. People used to think that was something to say and mean it. Guess those days don’t exist anymore based on how people never want to advocate for what’s necessary to destroy the dealth cults.

antonim ,

These are the same types of people that caused the civil war.

I’m far from an expert on American history, but I’m 100% sure that no civil war was caused just by unorganised morons who like to wave their guns.

borkcorkedforks ,

Seems like people shouldn't underestimate the nutters/fascists.

If they're actually harmless/useless then whatever. If not then treating them like they pose no danger has ramifications I'd personally like to avoid.

donuts ,
@donuts@kbin.social avatar

These obese inbred fuck nuts can spend whatever they want on guns, bows, samurai swords, nunchuks, DIY flame throwers, or whatever else. They've already proven that they are incompetent and incapable of throwing a successful insurrection against the United States, even with minimal resistance.

If these dipshits try to pull another January 6th the hammer will be dropped so hard on their asses we'll need a paint scraper to get them off the street.

Justice ,
@Justice@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Buddy, did you read too many Solider of Fortune old magazines? Spend too much time rereading Turner Diaries?

Take an objective look at the US police state. You’re talking about backwood Missouri or Kentucky or some shit. Why? That’s irrelevant, not that I think your shit holds water there anyway, but Trump would be arrested in one of three places only: NYC, DC, or his place in Mar a laga in FL. Perhaps a courthouse nearby in any of those general locations. Out of all those, FL is the only one with any substantial amount of LOCKED AND LOADED PATRIOTS BROTHER ™️. If the hogs want to try to take on DC or NYC I actually encourage them. Either side who loses I will get to laugh my ass off. But it will obviously be the cops with their infinite budgets not the 55 year old guy who drives his 4wheeler out to hunt deer and has neevr stepped foot in NYC or DC- also that guy sure as shit ain’t going to either of those cities to save some dumbass rich guy. People in general are shittalkers and never walkers. The hogs are the biggest of those types. They cannot even fanthom walking their talk. These are the guys stroking out every time Hunter is briefly mentioned or they see some fake shit about China meanwhile they’re fully cucked to US corporations. They are entirely incapable of doing anything.

But even just focusing on FL since it’s the only relevant hotspot. What are they gonna do? If 20 of these guys showed up, and that’s generous, the FBI will just pull in 100 armed feds. Fuck the FL state police and fuck anything Meatball Ron might consider doing, they’ll just swarm the area with their alpha-hogs and dare the militia dudes to give them a reason to do what they’ve been wanting to do for two decades and just wipe their little asses from this world.

There’s not, never has been and never will be any possibility of any of these weird KKK, neoNazi, whatever else racist shit groups standing against the kings of all that stuff: the police. The police happily protect these types all the time but hogs are hogs and police are the alpha hogs. If those little fatboy hoglets step up to them and try to challenge their authority to do whatever they’re doing we all know how it goes down.

The entire idea is laughable on the surface. Please, use your brain.

BaroqueInMind ,
@BaroqueInMind@kbin.social avatar

Your comment brings me false comfort that the Feds and cops are competent and intelligent.

havokdj ,

On the feds behalf, you seem to have mistaken malicious intent and negligence for a lack of competence and intelligence. Cops fit the bill, but the feds are not stupid, they have got better shit to deal with.

brygphilomena ,

I think Jan 6 showed that they will show up.

S_204 ,

If you think your broke untrained fat ass has a shot in hell of taking on even the Uvalde police department, you’re fucking delusional LMFAO.

Trump supporters are statistically the stupidest people in the country, they’re not anything remotely close to an organized militia. See the losers in Michigan who tried to kidnap the Governor for a laughable example.

BaroqueInMind ,
@BaroqueInMind@kbin.social avatar

broke untrained fat ass

You literally don't know who I am or what I do for a living to make this assumption, but ok.

Trump supporters are statistically the stupidest people in the country, they’re not anything remotely close to an organized militia.

You are correct, but also really fucking dumb to even consider giving them the benefit of the doubt. Always assume your enemy is more competent and trains more than you, so you can have a goal to reach for during your own training. "Train as you fight."

See the losers in Michigan who tried to kidnap the Governor for a laughable example.

Yeah, hopefully Y'allquaida/Gravy Seals/MAGA Retards continue to all be dumbass losers and justice comes to them, and I know since they are losers in their real life endeavors i hope it continues in their fascist shenanigans. No one wants them to organize and develop a credible threat to our democracy.

wazoobonkerbrain ,
@wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world avatar

In practice, how often is someone more dangerous with multiple weapons than they would be with one?

How many incidents have unfolded where the outcome changed because the perpetrators possessed multiple firearms?

I don’t understand the point of stockpiling weapons. You can only shoot one, and you’ll probably be dead within seconds of opening fire.

erre , in The first pill to treat postpartum depression has been approved by US health officials
@erre@programming.dev avatar

I’m ignorant on the topic, are regular antidepressants not effective or recommended for postpartum depression?

Regardless, glad there’s research into treatment for postpartum depression. New mothers have it hard enough without having to deal with depression too.

dunning_cougar , in Feds alert judge to Trump’s ‘If you go after me, I’m coming after you!’ post

What’s he going to do to a federal judge’, groip in the street outside the judge’s house? That’s against the law.

jesterraiin , (edited ) in To fix the labor shortage, economists point to women - and better child care
@jesterraiin@lemmy.world avatar

That we rationalized taking away children, in their most important phase of development, from the most important entity for this phase, is the prime example for how we failed as the mankind.

blazera , in To fix the labor shortage, economists point to women - and better child care
@blazera@kbin.social avatar

What labour shortage? I thought Bidens been praising low unemployment.

LibertyLizard ,

Low unemployment is the logical consequence of a labor shortage.

That said, I don’t believe we’re in a labor shortage. We are experiencing the natural consequences of decades of stagnant wages and rising costs. Higher wages would pull more people into the market, but that would cut into profits so business leaders invent an imaginary “labor shortage” which requires government intervention.

blazera ,
@blazera@kbin.social avatar

I dont see what the logic is. Low unemployment means more labour

MostlyBirds ,
@MostlyBirds@lemmy.world avatar

Uh, no. I don’t even know how you came to that conclusion. Low unemployment means a smaller pool of people to fill open positions.

blazera ,
@blazera@kbin.social avatar

Theres a pool of eligible workers, and low unemployment means more people in that pool are working. More total actual workers rather than potential.

LibertyLizard ,

Unemployment rates are the rate of people looking for work, and higher rates usually indicate a lack of open jobs. Lower rates mean there are more jobs available. It does not necessarily mean there are more people in the labor force. That’s a separate metric. But even if more people are working, a labor shortage is still possible. Why? A shortage happens when there is more demand for something than there is supply, so it can happen at any level of supply, if there is enough demand. So even if there are more workers, if employers want to hire even more, there could be a shortage.

flicker ,

Also... we had this pandemic thing and a shitton of people died and it is so weird to me how everyone seems to just pretend that didn't happen.

HuddaBudda , (edited )
@HuddaBudda@kbin.social avatar

There is also a problem that most of the jobs right now are unable to pay rent on their own, so some people are starting to work 2 jobs.

So whenever I hear record employment, I wonder what that statistic would be if it only counted people that worked a single job. How many people in our workforce only need one job to survive in this economy?

And how many people that work two jobs are still living paycheck to paycheck?

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