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FlyingSquid , in Secret Service notified as Alex Jones hosts show with 'assassinate Biden' in title
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Not only is that illegal, the dumbfuck doesn’t even realize that there couldn’t possibly be a better way for Democrats to sweep the election than on a wave of sympathy if Biden were assassinated.

UltraGiGaGigantic ,

That and most likely running a candidate that isn’t geriatric.

FlyingSquid ,
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Biden could be literally so ridden with dementia that he couldn’t recognize his own name and a wave of sympathy would still create a huge blue wave if he were assassinated.

todd_bonzalez ,

Alright, you’ve sold me. Let’s do it.

bloodfart ,

That’s what the show posits. The title is something like “they’re gonna assassinate Biden”

FlyingSquid ,
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I don’t even want to know who Alex Jones thinks “they” are this time.

bloodfart ,

Could be the donors, could be the party, could be a true believer.

I don’t listen to his show so idk the reasoning but this is probably one of those stopped clock situations.

They lose with Biden, if it goes instead to a brokered convention they lose. If Biden dies then there’s a good chance they win.

Your question of who is the sticking point though. The party doesn’t care about winning, the donors are all giving to both sides anyway, only a true believer would do such a thing.

There’s not a lot of precedent for that though. There was the congressional baseball watcher, but even then it was an ill conceived haphazard attack with little preparation.

Pardon the pun, but democrats just don’t got any shooters.

FlyingSquid ,
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I completely disagree. You have Trump and his people calling Biden the most evil president in history. That could absolutely turn into an assassination from a Trump devotee.

bloodfart ,

nah, the american conservative movement is just trying to stay in their lane and let the democrats fuck this one up themselves. there’s no benefit for their party, donors or true believers to a biden death.

that’s not to say they can’t screw it up, just that they won’t allow or condone something as damaging to their chances as bidens death.

FlyingSquid ,
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Since when have lone nuts stayed in their lane?

bloodfart ,

That depends on if you’re including people “known to law enforcement” as lone nuts.

If so then yeah, if not then no.

Your typical real deal lone nut doesn’t target political figures, instead opting for the uhh propaganda of the deed.

The ruby style lone nut isn’t really acting by themselves, and always seems to have a bunch of people around them influencing their decisions.

FlyingSquid , in She was put in a body bag and sent for embalming while still alive. Her horrified family wants answers
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Maybe funeral home workers should start regularly checking for pulses just in case?

orrk ,

I get the feeling they do…

and no, that’s not better, it means there is a routine fuckup happening and no one cares

catloaf ,

It’s more that the human body can be really fucking weird. Your vitals can drop to extremely low levels, your temperature can drop to room temperature, you can appear entirely dead for over an hour, but still recover.

Usually this happens to old people who were already at death’s door. It can be very hard to find any sign of life sometimes.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
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There’s a reason graveyards used to have bells attached to ropes in the graves.

If you woke up in a grave you ring the bell and hope to god the groundskeeper was close enough to hear it.

Honytawk ,

Maybe we should bring back those little bells on graves.

FlyingSquid ,
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There is a person in a graveyard here who was interred with a working telephone.

gravelyspeaking.com/…/taphophobia-and-a-telephone…

Mostly_Gristle ,

Not really necessary anymore. If they weren’t dead before, once someone has gone through the modern embalming process they will very definitely be dead afterward.

pageflight ,

It sounds like they were paying attention and responsive:

At 2:09 p.m. funeral home workers unzipped the bag, and, according to DeNoto, discovered that Balducci “was still breathing and had a pulse.” The funeral home called paramedics, who intubated Balducci while rushing her to nearby John T. Mather Memorial Hospital. When Balducci got there, DeNoto said she was “noted to be unresponsive.”

“She was placed on palliative care and held on until 5:20 a.m. on February 5, 2023,” DeNoto said. “At that time, she passed.”

FlyingSquid , in Anti-LGBTQ+ GOP governor candidate allegedly endangered kids at his childcare center
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Holy fuck.

The DHHS also noted that Robinson’s childcare center failed to put sleeping infants on their backs, improperly refrigerated infant formula, improperly stored medications, had exposed electrical outlets, lacked a certified childcare administrator on site, and allowed staff members to talk on cell phones while supervising children.

They literally could have killed babies.

Delusional ,

Sounds like they were sure trying to. Completely negligent. But negligence is just what I’ve come to expect from any GOP.

FlyingSquid ,
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It’s almost literally the Carlin joke about how Conservatives think- If you’re preborn, you’re fine; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.

Drusas ,

I miss Carlin, but I'm glad he's not around to see all of his content become too real to be funny anymore.

FlyingSquid , in Saudi Arabia Threatened to Sell Off Europe’s Bonds If EU Seized Russian Assets
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We’ll see if Saudi Arabia’s attempt to control the West works this time. They sure do a good job with the U.S. despite being behind 9/11.

FlyingSquid , in State Farm Seeks Enormous Rate Increases in California to Prevent Insolvency | KQED
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Of course they fucked renters harder than owners. What a shock.

razorwiregoatlick , in Secret Service notified as Alex Jones hosts show with 'assassinate Biden' in title
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I guess Biden should just have him assassinated since he is clearly a threat to his ability to perform his presidential duties. Surely this is what the SCOTUS was referring to when they made that ruling.

HoustonHenry ,

POTUS got the thumbs-up emoji from SCOTUS

Schadrach ,

Still amazed that SCOTUS gave an opinion that literally permits POTUS to have them executed.

They only have the gall to do that because they believe Biden won’t abuse it and Trump will win.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
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We joke about this stuff. But when you stack up how Palestinian protesters on college campuses or BLM organizers in Ferguson and Baltimore or Quakers protesting the Iraq War were treated relative to a real live active guy with deep ties to domestic terrorist groups, its mind-boggling how little actually happens to the shock jock crowd.

Its not like Presidents are shy about straight up assassinating political dissidents, whether they are American Islamists and their families living abroad or Civil Rights leaders in Chicago and Philly. So how do these far-right types get to run nationally syndicated Radio Rwanda uninterrupted for decades across multiple administrations with no more than a polite knock at the door?

irreticent ,
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“[…] or Civil Rights leaders in Chicago and Philly.”

Just a reminder that the Philadelphia police bombed a home and killed 11 American citizens. The resulting fire burnt most of the houses on that block.

“Philadelphia police dropped two explosive devices from a helicopter onto the roof of a house occupied by MOVE. The Philadelphia Police Department allowed the resulting fire to burn out of control, destroying 61 previously evacuated neighboring homes over two city blocks and leaving 250 people homeless. Six adults and five children were killed in the attack, with one adult and one child surviving.”

FlavoredButtHair , in Trump's Project 2025 is now being searched in Google more than Taylor Swift and the NFL
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  • figjam ,

    Do you really believe anything that comes out of his mouth isn’t him just saying what people want to hear?

    sep , in Federal appeals court rules cops who handcuffed 10-year-old girl for drawing offensive picture must face excessive force lawsuit

    Insane!! So… where is this drawing?

    breadsmasher , in Billionaire Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang convicted of fraud by New York jury
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    I bet you he faces less time than some woman who steals baby formula, or some dude caught with a gram of weed

    FlyingSquid ,
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    Still, two billionaires in a few months being convicted of fraud by New York juries shows at least a little promise.

    breadsmasher ,
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    Being convicted is great. I just doubt theres a punishment, the conviction is just meaningless. A label that does not affect billionaires.

    FlyingSquid ,
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    It doesn’t say what it is, but I am guessing that there is a minimum sentence here that will apply no matter what. The maximum is 20 years per count according to the article, so I’m guessing even the minimum won’t be great.

    The question is whether or not he’ll be able to appeal it. Same with Trump.

    FlavoredButtHair , in Trump's Project 2025 is now being searched in Google more than Taylor Swift and the NFL
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    ‘parts’

    Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

    Have you not learned anything?

    It doesn’t matter what Trump says.

    Zorg ,
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    Because he’ll say anything, and everything, then deny he has ever used the word “thing” - doesn’t even know it, never heard of it before…

    Freefall ,

    Pfft if he is so untrustworthy, can you even name and cite, with links, 3487 times he lied to the public? Checkmate Libs!

    So VERY /s

    Pretzilla ,

    You are way off on the Lieometer. More than 12,000 as of 2019.

    President Trump has made 12,019 false or misleading claims over 928 days

    washingtonpost.com/…/president-trump-has-made-fal…

    GoodEye8 ,

    Fox news? FOX NEWS? I guess it makes sense. If you believe Fox News to be credible then you might as well believe Trump wouldn’t blatantly lie about project 2025.

    FlavoredButtHair ,
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    samus12345 ,
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    Newsmax? Really? Are you trolling or do you not know that they’re even worse than Fox News?

    SoleInvictus ,

    Fox News? If you don’t believe Fox News, then take some quadruple strength Fox News! If that doesn’t work, I have entire reams of propaganda to show you!

    /s

    samus12345 ,
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    “Don’t trust Fox News or Newsmax? How about good ol’ unbiased OAN?”

    Freefall ,

    Name probably checks out…I am forced to assume this is a poor /s…because that take is SO bad.

    SoleInvictus ,

    You’re kidding, right? Anyone who isn’t 90% Fox News Flavored Kool Aid knows Trump is notorious for lying to get what he wants, even before his stint in politics.

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  • RandomVideos , in Federal appeals court rules cops who handcuffed 10-year-old girl for drawing offensive picture must face excessive force lawsuit

    Kids can be directly punished if they break a law in the USA?

    In Romania(if i remember correctly), you need to be at least 14 to be punished(if it is proven that the person knew what they were doing was illegal). I assumed it was the same in other countries

    FlyingSquid ,
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    Land of the free, home of the brave.

    Also, she didn’t break any laws.

    UnpluggedFridge ,

    She wondered aloud what jail would be like. That triggered the arrest. The curious musings of a child, during an interrogation in the absence of her parents or a forensic child psychologist.

    Kazumara ,

    There are some deeply red marking on this map, over in the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_criminal_responsibility#/media/File:Criminal_age.svg

    Rubanski ,

    Lol, 0 years olds getting jail time , wtf

    JonsJava ,
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    We all must do our part to ensure that the private prisons are filled to the levels in the contracts. /s

    IamSparticles ,

    I feel like that map may be a little misleading. Just because a state doesn’t have a statutory age limit on treating a child as an adult doesn’t mean that is common practice. In most states, the default is that any crime committed by a suspect under the age of 18 is handled by the juvenile court system, where penalties are far less severe, unless some special nature of the crime prompts a court to try the accused as an adult (eg murder or violent rape). A few states set the juvenile cutoff a little earlier.

    So it’s more like “we reserve the option to prosecute a child as an adult, but we almost never do”. www.jjgps.org/jurisdictional-boundaries

    ipkpjersi ,

    Just because it doesn’t happen often doesn’t mean it would never happen. Ideally you would want reasonable limits in place to prevent any possible problems in the future, like a corrupt judge and prosecutor, etc.

    bane_killgrind ,
    VirtualOdour , in South Korean politician links rising male suicides to women

    Korea has a huge problem with toxic masculinity and shame culture, it’s started to come to a head as more Korean women grow up using tiktok and Twitter which gives them a more global perspective and makes them less likely to accept bullshit.

    The rule for women has been ‘we don’t care what happens to you as long as no one finds out about it, and if they do its your fault’ which is tied strongly to their very competitive culture. One ‘stain’ on your record snd you’re ruined. Tiktok is spreading a more western expectation in Korean women and some Korean men which angers the traditionalist element and results in headlines like this.

    FlyingSquid , in Anger mounts in southeast Texas as crippling power outages and heat turn deadly
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    It sure would be stupid if Texas wasn’t connected to the national grid because that would make solving this problem a lot slower and a lot more expensive.

    Sure would be stupid…

    ininewcrow ,
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    Don’t, Texas is a mess

    FlyingSquid ,
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    Did they not listen to the litter campaign?

    thefartographer ,

    Trust me, you don’t want connect your grid to our disease. The infection needs to be cut out first.

    FlyingSquid ,
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    You guys do have the wind farms. Fat lot of good it’s done you, but…

    Poor (not really, fuck him) T. Boone Pickens. He thought they would power all of Texas after he was gone.

    thefartographer ,

    Like I said, gotta cut out the infection

    You’re admiring our shoes but the foot’s still gangrenous

    givesomefucks , in Anger mounts in southeast Texas as crippling power outages and heat turn deadly

    The Harris County Republican Party criticized CenterPoint in a social media post for its “seemingly lack of preparedness.”

    The reason this keeps happening in Texas is republican deregulation though…

    FlyingSquid ,
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    They can’t keep deregulating if they can’t keep blaming the government. And the more they deregulate, the more that goes wrong, the more they can claim the government wasn’t prepared for.

    Texas_Hangover ,

    Yes. Hurricanes should definitely be regulated harder.

    givesomefucks ,

    Texas doesn’t regulate their power grid…

    It’s why they can’t connect to the rest of the country’s power grid…

    I’d say someone from Texas should know that, but if y’all did you wouldn’t keep voting Republican >

    protist , (edited )

    Connecting to any of the other interconnects would make absolutely no difference in this case, where the issue is a hurricane knocked down trees and power lines. The Texas grid has functioned just fine every single day since the 2021 ice storm that landed it in the news. What’s happening here is a local outage like would happen in literally any city that experiences a severe weather event

    Edit: Lots of downvoting but no one explaining how connecting to another interconnect would make any difference at all here. For context, Hurricane Beryl and Hurricane Sandy made landfall with the same sustained wind velocity. Sandy knocked out power to over 6 million people for days in NY and NJ

    girlfreddy ,
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    protist ,

    Uh…none of these say anything about how connecting to another interconnect would affect anything about these Houston outages. The Texas grid has been up and running this entire time, the current outages are due to downed power lines in the Houston area

    girlfreddy ,
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    And if Texas demanded interconnections between individual Texan providers Houston might not be facing almost a week-long electical shutdown.

    Sharing is caring, buddy.

    protist ,

    You don’t understand how electrical grids work at all

    Texas_Hangover ,

    Yeah no shit. But even we can’t stop MASSIVE STORMS from knocking down power lines. It has nothing to do with what grid we’re on.

    BakerBagel ,

    Funny how other Gulf States don’t have serious power emergencies twice a year. The fact of the matter is that Texas has the least reliable power grid in the country, making them the least prepared for any natural disasters. Which is a problem since Texas is the second most prone state to get a natural disaster.

    givesomefucks ,

    Do you know what “redundancy” means?

    Texas_Hangover ,

    Do you? If power lines get knocked down, they’re ain’t gonna be no electricity. What states have “redundancies?”

    givesomefucks , (edited )

    If power lines get knocked down, they’re ain’t gonna be no electricity

    Unless the grid has redundancies…

    But like, I’m assuming you didn’t mean to use a double negative there?

    I dunno man, I don’t think we’re gonna work this out there seems to be communication issues

    ocassionallyaduck ,

    If route A is down, route B is used.

    This is redundancy.

    Texas only has route A.

    That is the issue. Power cannot come from anywhere else than route A because there is no connection to the national grid, route B.

    This doesn’t prevent last leg localized power outages, but it does prevent the widespread grid wide failures Texas regularly experiences.

    But you don’t want to hear this, so go buy a diesel generator instead and enjoy being independent.

    Texas_Hangover ,

    I already have a generator. And we are literally discussing the last leg here. Our grid is fine.

    ocassionallyaduck ,

    Lmgdao.

    If you think your government forcing regular citizens to buy generators to make sure they aren’t without power is normal, you’re a lost cause.

    The Texas grid would be better off it it wasn’t solely reliant on local sources and has redundancy. Your answer to that is to become the redundancy out of your own pocket. Lol

    Lightor ,

    Our grid is fine? Jesus, bury your head deeper in the sand. There have been multiple reports on the issues with the grid in Texas.

    Fosheze ,

    Literally every state except for texas. The longest power outage I’ve ever personally seen in my entire life was less than 10 hours and that one only affected a couple city blocks. Most power outages in my area last less than a minute because thats all the time it takes to automatically reroute power around the damaged sections. In any reasonably designed grid large scale power outages that last more than a few moments just don’t happen.

    Lightor ,

    You’re part of the problem. No matter what breaks down in a Republican system you people do whatever you can to avoid the reality that Republicans are greedy. And their greed hurts you. But sure, let’s blame nature even though no other state has a problem on this scale, this often.

    Texas_Hangover ,

    Bro, you think Republicans can control the hurricanes and I’M part of the problem? Y’all people delusional.

    Lightor ,

    Never said that bud, need to read better.

    What they can control is the integrity of their grid. No other state has this problem. Plenty of states get hit by hurricanes and none have this massive statewide emergency multiple times a year.

    But ya blame the weather, not the people fleecing you as your grid is in shambles.

    RememberTheApollo_ , (edited )

    Maybe you should try nuking them?

    If you KNOW you get massive storms you harden your power grid as much as is feasible to minimize damage. Instead Texas has chosen the path of deregulation in order to maximize profits at acceptable losses. Your loss. Their gain. That’s what happens when the private sector rules.

    cm0002 ,

    Hmm well Florida seems to do fine with their MASSIVE STORMS, I wonder why?? Hold on, checks notes

    Ah, yup, Florida has a decently regulated electric grid (for now anyways) and is connected with the national grid. Imagine that.

    Texas_Hangover ,

    Wow, I didn’t know Florida was hurricane proof. I’m pretty sure people lose power when the LINES ARE DOWN in Florida as well.

    cm0002 ,

    The difference is Florida would have been mostly back up by now from a cat 1, probably 12 hours maybe a day max LMAO

    FlyingSquid ,
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    But even we can’t stop MASSIVE STORMS from knocking down power lines.

    We could, because we could stop burning all the fossil fuels that are creating the climate change that is causing all the massive storms.

    Think the oil companies in Texas would go for it?

    FlyingSquid , in Treasury, IRS announce 'major milestone' of $1 billion in past-due taxes collected from millionaires
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    However, the funding enacted in 2022 that is allowing the IRS to pursue its plans still has its critics, particularly among congressional Republicans.

    “How dare they raise revenue from the tax cheats who vote for us!”

    Paraponera_clavata ,

    “tax cheats who bribe us!” FTFY

    Stovetop ,

    Tax cheats who bought the votes that put us in power, and to whom we are completely in service.

    lemmyng ,
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    “tax cheats who bribe us!” FTFY

    danc4498 ,

    Why are we going after the jobs creators 🤪

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