We also need to figure out what Trump broke in the Secret Service and fix it, because this shit is pure incompetence.
It’s extremely obvious that Trump values loyalty over competence. I seem to remember that he gave key posts in White House security to the people who had been in his private security detail beforehand. People like Keith Schiller.
It would also not surprise me if he got to hand-pick his Secret Service detail to be people who he could get along with (i.e. people he felt were loyal). We may find out in a few years that Trump deliberately picked the most loyal ones, who also happened to be the most incompetent, and is partly responsible for their lapses. That is, if we’re allowed to. If Trump wins, he’s gonna take his Sharpie to all this and we’ll never find out how it all really went down.
Yeah. It shows his lack of intelligence too. Would you rather be protected by a yes man. Or… someone trained to fucking protect you that cares nothing about you and only about protecting their package. I’ll take option B 1000000% of the time. Thanks.
Diaper tyrant didn’t break anything that wasn’t already decades in the making of its decay by the very same fucknuts currently steering his slobbering ass around.
“Softening,” my ass! They simply mean it literally.
By the way, the banner said “we are all domestic terrorists.” No exceptions: every single CPAC attendee is literally a member of a terrorist organization.
I think calling them weirdos at that point does a disservice to weirdos. Someone setting up pipe bombs during an insurrection is a terrorist. Anyone supporting them is a terrorist as well… That makes MAGA a terrorist organization.
Also, here’s what Trump broke… It should be noted that Murray was involved in the investigation of the Jan 6th texts and emails that were deleted shortly before his retirement…
My personal opinion… Someone said “Walk away or this will get really messy for you.”
I think calling them weirdos at that point does a disservice to weirdos.
Yeah, but (as a weirdo myself) I think we should take one for the team, since – weirdly, unlike “terrorist” – it actually manages to stick and piss them off.
You’d think that being called a terrorist would be worse. However, I have read a lot that child-like insults actually hurt more than mature ones. We established them when we were children, so they’ve been with us longer and carry more emotional weight. So it’s technically more effective to call someone buttface instead of shithead.
Just look at their commander-in-cheetodust and his tendency to call his opponents names like “Sleepy Joe,” “Crazy Nancy,” or “Lying Kamala.”
During slavery and Jim Crow, violence was acceptable the way it was done. So these people continuing that thinking really shouldn’t surprise us.
I mean it was surprising to me, until I put it in the context of history. The US right wing has always relied on violence and they pass that mentality down. Seems outrageous to the rest of us, but to them it’s just a tool and the way to do things. Which is why they project of course.
Trump: “I am chickening out of the debate with Harris, and trying to force it onto a right-wing propaganda network that won’t let me lose.”
New York Times: “Trump has accepted the invitation to debate Harris.”
No he didn’t, you fucking hacks. How the fuck does one accept their own invitation? He wasn’t invited to shit, he burned his invitation and is demanding Harris play a new game.
Fuck Trump for being a cowardly weasel, and fuck the New York Times for this bullshit narrative.
I asked my question because the NYT headline that I personally saw didn’t say “Trump agrees,” and I wanted to verify whether that was the actual headline or an interpretation of it.
IKR. at this point I am angry this is still happening. There have been several in recent years. There is just no excuse for not knowing at this point. Andvthat includes the parents… extreme winds and storms were in the forecast.
I think these should just be banned unless operated by professionals. Something about them invites unsafe practices, people think it’s a kids’ toy so it’ll be safe and foolproof.
Yeah, but I hate penalizing all the people who are responsible for the actions of those who aren’t. And who would even determine what a professional is…
But it ends up as a race to the bottom. Everything is dangerous in some way to some irresponsible people. We can’t ban everything cause someone could manage to accidentally kill someone with it. We would have nothing left.
bounce houses aren’t really a necessary thing for the risk. We aren’t banning “everything” just bounce houses which are used only a lil. That’s actually what bans are perfect for - small, niche items that aren’t popular. Bans become ineffective if what you’re banning is already popular, eg alcohol. Alcohol is also something you can make at home. You can’t make a bounce house at home. A ban is an appropriate suggestion here.
hierarchy of controls. The very things that make bounce houses appealing are what make them dangerous and we rely on people to make them safe, notoriously unsafe thing in the hierarchy of controls.
Bounce houses are super popular. If you have kids, it seems like they are everywhere. And people could make them at home if they wanted. Nothing requires complex manufacturing. But they are easier to buy. And people do. I had a small one that I only used indoors for my son that I got on Amazon. If they were banned, I wouldn’t have been able to do that. And why, because others misused them. So I would be punished for other people irresponsibility.
That would set a legal precedent. And some judge would decide where to draw the line. It would end up being that politics would define what gets banned and what doesn’t. Like stimulants. Some people rely on them to function. But others want them banned because people abuse them, and can die from overdoses and such. Right now we are in the middle ground, they aren’t banned, but the barriers for people who need them mean many go without, and suffer because of it. Once we set the legal precedent with bounce houses, stimulants would be easy to ban.
Our record on holding people accountable is abysmal. We certainly aren’t unique in that regard, but as context for this case the US has a history of being fine with violent white protestors and completely unhinged in response to minority protestors. Jan 6th matches that pattern.
US has a history of being fine with violent white protestors and completely unhinged in response to minority protestors
And that’s apart from being fine with the war crimes abroad. But it never affected anyone within the country, so that’s all fine and dandy thing of the past.
Everyone there conveniently forgets that “history” and only reiterates about the “violence” when it starts to affect themselves.
It just might be that your country loves, or likely worships violence.
They weren’t black people who could be working road maintenance crews. Genuinely the reason these people acted so entitled and stormed the capital after taking an L is because they felt like they were gonna get clemency. What you’re seeing now is that clemency. The lack of accountability in this nation created that raid. The lack of accountability in this nation is what’s following that raid.
Because this administration thought we should extend an olive branch by appointing a conservative Attorney General. That was an error.
Merrick Garland didn’t even open an investigation into Trump for 2.5 years, and he only did that because congress publicly pressured him into it.
Conservatism is cancer and our nation is riddled with it. We are trying to treat it, but our prognosis is questionable. Anything shy of complete eradication of the cancer will eventually result in another deadly flare-up.
And yet the demise of the coal industry accelerated in his administration, with no apparent pause despite Trump rolling back the safety regulations that were protecting the coal miners. He’s pro coal baron, not pro coal miner
After reading the article, it says there was a pipe bomb found earlier that sweep at the RNC also. It makes me wonder if beyond the MAGAts, there may be foreign interests involved here at the same time?
Probably no foreign interests (not directly anyway, plenty about stirring up division). First it’s way too sloppy, if a competent foreign country wants to do something they will do something far more guaranteed. Reminds me of this: youtu.be/b4meFC1ee7Q Second no country would want that to come out and come back to them. It would be extremely painful.
They were literally there to murder the Republican vice president and anyone else who refused to support the coup. It’s not surprising at all that the RNC was a target.
About ten years ago I got a ticket for an illegal u-turn as the sign prohibiting it was about the size of an index card so I didn’t see it.
I acted genuinely surprised when she told me why she pulled me over and shrugged my shoulders like oops. Ok you got me.
She proceeded to try her damnedest to find something else to stick me with including the fact that I had purchased my vehicle while living at one address while my license reflected a different address where I had moved. It’s illegal to not update your address on your license, so she thought she had a gotcha, but I easily shut that little stunt down.
I had my then thirteen year old daughter in the car with me and the officer was questioning her trying to get her to say that I was kidnapping or trafficking her or something like that. That didn’t work either.
I took my ticket and went on with my life.
A few weeks later, I saw in the paper that she got popped driving drunk with a child in the car.
I’ve never had such a satisfying chuckle though I felt terrible for the child.
My SO got pulled over for not maintaining his lane while making a turn, through a newly set up construction area (wasn’t there on his way into work, was at midnight on his way home, and, No One maintains a lane out here, ever).
They got him for a marijuana DUI, his blood test came back with the Lowest Testable amount. Like, the residual, not actively high amount. $10,000 of lawyers and repeat visits to court, and the MVD department (they can each charge separately out here?) After the 5th-ish visit on the hearings, the cop comes up to us after, “proud of you sticking to your story” … then, since he didn’t show to the next one it was finally dropped. Fuck the police.
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