I think it’s a bit unfair they call it just “paint” when it was merely cornstarch that would wash off by itself.
There’s a huge difference in the degree of vandalism if it’s something that wash off by itself.
Media uses language like this on purpose, most of their copy comes from single-sources and everyone on every news station is repeating the same rhetoric. They did this with the soup/painting incident as well, making it seem like the protestors ruined priceless artifacts instead of spilling harmless food products on a sheet of plexiglass.
It’s possible. And I think it’s likely. That the activists wanted this exact news cycle, where they falsely report that there is damage, gaining widespread coverage, and drawing attention their way, only for people to later learn that it was temporary and grow to respect the act.
Possibly. I’d imagine the vast majority of people don’t see the followup that there wasn’t damage, here, or the Mona Lisa, or the other events. The goal was outrage coverage for sure, and without causing damage so anyone who actually cares is fine with it. The media will just call it paint, and now that the potential for damage is clear they’ll stop talking about it.
This freak lost a fucking Casino. The place where people just give you their money. A CASINO!!!
He is an idiot and the worst "business man".
Con man looking for a new con.
Fuckwit is my go to. Or “Too stupid to breathe.” Or bring out some Linus Torvalds, but honestly Trump doesn’t deserve to be graced by that mans insults, as awesome as they are from a “JFC dude, that is going way too far”, except Trump would actually deserve them unlike the poor kernel maintainers.
If the market is adequately regulated they wont be shittier landlords. There somehow is this romantic idea of smaller scale landlords to be like the good old guy that want to help a family find a good place and accept a modest profit. They exist, but the majority are just equally cutthroat like large corpos. Difference is that large corps have more means to be strategic about it and accept risks like 5% of tenants suing successfully while the rest just accepts the illegal treatment.
It is not an argument against regulation though. Regulation of markets like housing and healthcare, is reasonable and necessary. These cannot work as free markets because the one side has their life depending on it, wheras the other just can have another customer.
living isn’t a requirement, have you seen how many people willingly consume drugs and sugar despite knowing the risks. Let the free market collapse the upper class (almost certainly after the working class but still)
Let me tell you how it works in the real world right here right now in the UK. Large corpos set targets on how many rentals they want to acquire. For example, Lloyds announced a few years ago that they’re building a portfolio of 50k properties. Yes, fifty fucking thousand homes!
And so small landlords are forced to sell due to changes in the law. Corporate investors buy them in an instant at full asking price or even higher to ensure that property value doesn’t go down and so you, a mere mortal, can’t buy shit.
Next, they freeze the properties and don’t release anything on the market. That creates an insane housing shortage and rental prices go through the roof. A few years later they will start introducing their portfolio to the market slowly to avoid crashes at 2-5x price compared to just last year. People are desperate and pay through the nose.
Boom! Mega profits! What is your 3% yearly cap when they just jacked up the price five times? It will take many years to make a dent.
You know what would help against that? regulating how much property a company can acquire in an area. within a certain timeframe. Or regulating that the land tax and similiar things go up after having say more than a hundred or a thousand properties.
He’s getting exactly what he wanted by having an article written about it and having it shared across social media. But wow, it feels so good that he got mocked in the process…
In no way do I condone his actions, so let’s start with that. Coulda, shoulda, whatever, is not what his trial was about.
Given the video evidence presented, he shot in self-defense. Given Washington state’s law regarding self-defense, he shot in self-defense. Not going to replay it all, you can see for yourself.
All in all, it was a clusterfuck of biblical proportions. “Should have never happened.”, isn’t a legal doctrine. “He went looking for trouble and found it.”, isn’t a thing.
As to why we’re still talking about this little maggot? Fuck if I know. I’d be the first to punch him in his fat face. I would happily spend the weekend in jail and lose on a battery charge.
“Please lift the gag order so I can continue being an asshole online and intimidating/threatening jurors an’ witnesses an’ you, judge, 'cuz I’m a weak, insecure man and need to rile up my base to kill you.”
I mean, I don't think this is a decision most people would make for understandable reasons, but personally I would martyr myself throwing this orange asshole in prison.
Boomers complain about youngsters wasting all their time playing pointless video games or fucking around on their phone and then turn around and do all this fake nonsense. At least video games are fun.
Crime makes it sound like he did one thing, which might be excusable if there was a mistake or confusion. 34 crimes should make it clear that he is just a criminal who does criminal things.
I’ll take the downvotes and agree with you. If it had been a single check instead of a dozen it would be like 3 charges instead of 36. The chargeable counts are sort of arbitrary. It was serval falsified records as part of a single coverup.
Being pedantic is about making this look maximally bad for trunk to try to cost him votes. The onus is not on you to play that game if you don’t want to.
But also you could’ve just not taken the bait here and saved us both the downvotes.
Edit: deleted? You fucking coward. Own your opinions. Just because people don’t like what you have to say doesn’t mean you’re wrong. It’s just fucking downvotes! (intended lightheartedly)
I upvoted. You can call it a garbage opinion. All I did was agree it was unnecessary pedantic. If you think that’s garbage then fine you’re entitled to that opinion. Fuck you, but you’re entitled to your opinion.
They are absolutely delusional. I went to the cesspool that is /r/conservative, hoping, PRAYING for people to respond like normal human beings on reading news like that.
Nope.
None of this.
Complete delusion, with select quotes:
“He still has my vote”
“Liars! Liars on the witness stand. This poor man does not deserve this”
They’re not just in the South anymore either. They probably wouldn’t admit they want a king, even though you’re right. But it’s the same movement regardless. They are the children of the Confederacy, attempting to bring it back.
Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, all the major ones. I’d like to think that Reddit is less affected by it than the rest of them, but I’m not certain that is accurate anymore.
Reddit is or was definitely less affected. I remember an article for SEO people from a while ago about how Reddit was the least valuable “social” media site and all the reddit users were like “of course it is. It isn’t social media”. Now that reddit admins are taking a more direct approach to delivering content that their users aren’t looking for, that has changed.
The only time I even sort of liked social media was when it was only college students. I bet that’s what the old internet people thought when I first got online in the eternal September…
It’s when they tried to monetise it and then figured out that “to make the most money, we need people to stay on our site the longest” that things went to shit.
The algorithms soon learned that echo chambers of outrage worked great to maximize viewership.
Facebook used to just be your class schedule, and you could see the names and school emails of others in your class.
No profile pictures, no likes, not even friends.
It was just a way to email someone from class you thought was cute over the pretext of meeting up to exchange notes. That was all anyone used it for, for like the first year.
But Myspace and others already existed at that point, and it was always open to anyone. Only Facebook restricted it to people with .edu emails.
I was at one of the first three schools that had it when it rolled out.
So maybe by the time it was open to any .edu address there was pictures?
But when it first launched to those three schools, no one had pictures, you had to at least remember your crush’s name, not just pick them out of a lineup.
It was literally 20 years ago… And I’m going off memory…
I know it would have been less than a year before pictures and friends, because it was always a huge joke about how many friends someone had, especially with one of my roommates at the time.
This has nothing to do with bathrooms, privacy, or “protecting women.” The entire intent of laws like these is to attack trans people and make it effectively illegal to be trans in public. Fascists need a minority enemy in order to maintain power and we are their latest favourite punching bag.
That wasn’t exactly why, according to the article. This was, apparently, the shittiest attempt at damage control I’ve ever seen.
But South Dakota Democratic Senate Minority Leader Reynold Nesiba considered the disclosure more calculated than stupid. He said the story has circulated for years among lawmakers that Noem killed a dog in a “fit of anger” and that there were witnesses. He speculated that it was coming out now because Noem is being vetted as a candidate for vice president.
“She knew that this was a political vulnerability, and she needed to put it out there, before it came up in some other venue,” he said. “Why else would she write about it?”
She also writes about shooting a goat the family owned because it was mean to her kids.
She has basically no chance of being Trump’s VP now, but this is the level of quality he’s looking for in a candidate.
I prefer an actual quote from Palin to this apocryphal one. When Katie Couric asked her what newspapers she read to keep informed Palin said “All of them”
I mean she kind of said what Tina Fey parodied her saying, which was:
“When you’re talking about what’s going on at the border—the non-existent border,” Palin said, “that reminds me how important it is, that all Alaskans realize it. Now Alaska is strategically located on the globe—as you know—you don’t laugh about the fact that you can see Russia from Alaska, and Canada is right there on our other side.”
You can see one Russian island sometimes from one island in Alaska.
“[O]ur next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of,” said Palin, trying to explain how her state’s proximity to Russia adds to her foreign policy experience.
“As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state,” she added.
She basically has no chance of being Trump’s VP now…
Disagreed. This cements her as the front runner. She’s had the cosmetic surgery to give her that far-right plastic bimbo look, she’s cruel to animals and brags about it (Trump famously hates animals and pets), she’s a woman and someone who wont upstage him in the spotlight, she kisses his ass religiously, and she’s generating controversy to take away heat from whatever insane shit he’s doing this week. She’s the lock in. You think Trump gives a shit about traditional “electability?” It’s been clear since he started campaigning the second time that any and all guard rails that may have been there the first time around are gone. His entire platform is just cult of personality. There is no policy. He doesn’t care which traditional voter block she can attract/rebuff. She’ll be there to look pretty, back up everything he says, and not upstage him. Nothing else matters for him.
Nah, while he’ll be sympathetic, Trump has a crude grasp of the notion that his base likes dogs, same as his crude grasp of the notion that they like the Bible. He’ll move down the list and give her a political appointment if he wins.
I grew up in the south. I have heard countless stories about killlng dogs who don’t perform well on a hunt. This is how conservatives brag about how little empathy they have, because they see empathy as weakness. They use these stories to show that they are happy to kill anything for any reason. This kind of story is so common here that happily killing animals seems fundamental to being a conservative.
I assure you, his base is in no way offended by her story of killing a puppy.
Don’t forget that he wanted to drove home that night, but was forced to stay one more night by Boeing’s lawyers to give an response in court in the morning.
There’s a good reason anesthesiologists get paid as much as they do. There is no way paramedics get enough training to be granted the ability to use sedation like this. And any tool given to police becomes a weapon. This whole policy is a recipe for disaster.
I’ve been a paramedic for fourteen years. I’ve used chemical sedation before, but I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve used it, and it was always for people that posed an imminent danger to both us and themselves and couldn’t be successfully controlled otherwise. What’s more is that medical control was always (rightly) super spooked about it and would order shit like 4mg of versed for a 300 lb dude who is still managing to move with three grown ass firemen holding him down (for those not in the know, I might as well have blown a raspberry in the guy’s ear for all the good that did). BUT they were right to be scared, because airway management is a high-stakes thing under the best conditions, but then you add trying to do it in the back of a moving van with limited space and no means of pharmaceutically reversing the benzo? Yeah, that’s a bad day.
Never once did we sedate someone ‘for’ the cops, though; it was only ever that the police needed us to once-over them before they go off to jail or the ER, or they were 100% a medical patient and the cops were helping us to keep from getting our asses beat by someone not in their right mind until we could get them under control. It seems like this pattern of sedating people for the cops really only took off in the last four or five years, and sort of seems to coincide with the proliferation of Ketamine as a more common ALS ambulance medication, IMO.
That’s totally a fair point and I would love to think that all medics are awesome like you. What I don’t like is having the cops even remotely involved in the decision and not being held just as accountable as the medics. Ultimately it’s the medic’s butt and licence on the line while the cops just laugh at getting away with murder.
RN here. Maybe actually try blowing a raspberry in their ear next time and report back with the results. It might throw them off their game just long enough to get proper restraints on them.
My buddy was an EMT for about a decade, and point blank told me that his training included when and how to tell cops no. It wasn’t a hard training course like something in a textbook, but it was a soft training course from all of the more experienced EMTs who he shadowed. And as he got more experience and began having new EMTs shadow him, he began to see why it was so important to teach. Every single one of them had stories about times they had to protect their patients from the cops by hiding them inside the ambulance, and times that the cops wanted them to do blatantly illegal and dangerous things to their patients.
Again, it wasn’t a hard written lesson, but every EMT he shadowed had an entire “hey uhh this is an uncomfortable conversation, but we’re heading to a scene where cops are already pissed. We may need to get between them and a patient” monologue. And every single one of them was completely stone-faced when giving said monologue. EMTs have some dark humor to cope with the shit they see, but that really wasn’t present here. It was always a very serious “just so you know, your duty is to the patient; Not to the police.”
Even ketamine as I understand it, requires monitoring of blood pressure. I have a friend with a heart condition and he was unable to undergo ketamine therapy. Ketamine is sadly becoming just a very profitable wellness drug business.
Versed, doesn’t that make you forget things, my ex-wife used to work in a surgery center and she said when patients wake up in the middle of surgery they would get an extra dose of versed and never remember it happened.
Yeah, it can be and often is used to induce retrograde amnesia, where you don’t remember what happened while under the effects of the drug. In EMS, it’s mostly used for stopping seizures, though it’s also used for the sedative qualities.
Under current United States federal law, all former presidents are entitled to lifetime protection from the Secret Service. Barring an act of Congress or a presidential executive order, the Secret Service is bound by law to protect former presidents for life. There aren’t any exceptions listed in the statute governing the protection of former presidents. Source
They wouldn’t be condemned to prison, they would work in a prison. The logistics would have to be worked out but I guess they would work alongside the prison guards and have agents constantly around prisoner Orange. It would suck for them but they would be normal rotations/breaks and such.
one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States applies to Trump’s repeated and widespread efforts to spread false claims about the November 2020 election while knowing they were not true and for allegedly attempting to illegally discount legitimate votes all with the goal of overturning the 2020 election, prosecutors claim in the indictment.
one count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding was brought due to the alleged organized planning by Trump and his allies to disrupt the electoral vote’s certification in January 2021.
one count of obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding is tied to Trump and his co-conspirators’ alleged efforts after the November 2020 election until Jan. 7, 2021, to block the official certification proceeding in Congress.
one count of conspiracy against rights refers to Trump and his co-conspirators alleged attempts to “oppress, threaten and intimidate” people in their right to vote in an election.
Yet. The electors scheme that dumps directly participated in to conspire with election officials to forge and mail in false elector documents is still undergoing investigation and, with new updates every month from Republicans giving information to the authorities.
This is the one that I thought would be the most likely of causing him serious legal trouble, but this happened across seven states with an unknown number but around a dozen election officials that agreed to forge documents at Trump’s and his team’s request and then send in the documents to trick the national archives and pence into falsely certifying Trump as the president-elect in the 2020 election.
It’s batshit insane, and he was directly involved, and multiple people can corroborate that. The doj the FBI, some of those Republican collaborators are already working with them, I check in every couple weeks just to see what the latest news is.
The investigations and prosecutions by individual states and government agencies are ongoing, so prosecution of trump is still very much on the table, but only when all of the circumstances and information available has been organized and arrayed, and all of the smaller fish have been targeted and dealt with first.
As of March 2024, the Arizona AG is said that they’re nearing the end of their investigation.
But that’s one state of seven. And there’s also the FBI and the doj investigating this, so there’s a lot going on.
I’m surprised they didn’t consider selling classified submarine plans to be treason, as part of the classified documents case.
At one point in his interviews, Butler says he told investigators that Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt repeated classified submarine secrets following a conversation with Trump in spring 2021.
Semantically, according to US Legal Code you can’t commit treason without being at war, and war has not been properly defined by the federal government.
Not against Trump himself, unfortunately, but as I mentioned everything’s still moving forward so just got to wait and see how everything is prosecuted.
Is it only about protecting him or also avoiding him discussing unwanted topics with other inmates in that case? He’s still the recipient of privileged information…
It’s exactly this. It’s protection for him is a side effect of protecting the country. While these two things will generally overlap, if they ever diverge…
I’m not criticizing liking a good burger. there’s nothing like a good burger.
McDonalds barely qualifies as ‘edible’; never mind food… and forget “good”
as for nuggets… I like to be able to tell what I’m actually eating. Pureed chicken product…? no thank you. (pop corn chicken is still “chicken”… it’s not heavily processed into a sludge before being shaped. It’s just bits of “waste” chicken that get chopped into that form. Trimmings, or possibly breasts chopped to shape.) (chicken tenders are from a strip inside the chicken breast- frequently they’re part of the breast, but there’s a bit of connective tissue between.)
Having seen the tube the chicken nuggets are extruded from at a meat plant, at least in Canada they’re pretty much just chicken. Looks like refried beans, sure, but it’s chicken.
While the initial grind is fairly thick. The continuous mixer they dump it into with all those lovely chemicals, continues breaking it down (and drying it out.)
(For the record that picture he keeps coming back to is frozen yogurt or ice cream. If it’s pink it’s cherry or strawberry.)
the meat industry kills animals for consumption and requires more land than a crop producing farm alone would. emissions from those farms are killing the environment and would be partially responsible for the death of humanity within the next 200 years. However, they are not the only thing which is murdering our planet. We can and should move to a less meat centric diet, sure. but that’s not everything we need to do in order to prevent the murder of humanity. Everything modern life touches is murder. The means of transportation we take to go to work, the electricity we consume, the clothes we wear, the items we consume all contribute to our own demise. And companies will try to greenwash themselves, sellinrg things with ‘natural ingredients’, being ‘carbon neutral’ or ‘100% recycled’. But in fact, they are just as bad or worse than their competitors, and use their eco-friendly marketing to get you to buy their products, often at a steep markup, for no tangible difference in what they are actually doing for the planet.
you can say that I’m pathetic. sure, I am. But you’re stuck in the same consumeristic capitalist hellscape I am.
Maybe you should make statements a little less facile than “meat is murder” when every dollar you spend is another nail in our communal coffin.
It’s not so complex, to make meat, it requires growing crops and then raising the animal. If you cut out the raising animal part and eat the crops you have partaken in less death of animals. We all live with the conditions we have been put into though, I don’t blame anyone or think anyone is pathetic.
It really does harm the planet more to consume meat than vegetables, at least on the commercial level, since we then have to process and transport the grain to feed the livestock. My problem with meat isn’t necessarily with the death of the animal. Obviously, I’m a proponent of humane conditions for the animal while they’re alive and humane methods of death when they die; my problem lies with the commercialized food system in general. We have become so far removed from the process that most of us don’t even know or care where our food comes from.
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