Please do not perceive me.
However bad you think that is, it’s almost definitely worse.
TL;DR: The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto, a car endlessly memed on by an entire generation for its flammability.
You should go read that article, because it’s short, but just look at this chart I pulled from it.
42% of American households contain at least one firearm. That 42% includes every single American cop, who will shoot you dead in the street without trial with no remorse or repercussions if given the opportunity. It also includes every white supremacist terrorist, who will shoot you dead in the street without trial with no remorse, and maybe some repercussions if your family manages to get them into court and you get lucky with the right judge.
The other 58% of us do not own firearms and, generally speaking, are afraid for our lives.
I’m with you, and I agree with your general sentiment, but most people are afraid to die. It’s ridiculous to expect people to have a competent plan to assassinate a president under normal circumstances, let alone when our police forces are killing people in the street or disappearing them, gaining national news attention for doing so and seeing zero repercussions. The people who always made a big stink about having their guns and using them to prevent tyranny are the people that are destroying our nation. They ARE the tyranny.
Regular people are generally nonviolent and scared. What you’re asking is equivalent to asking why nobody just walked up and stabbed Genghis Khan to death. Like, yeah, it’s probably possible to do, but five seconds of thinking about it should make it pretty apparent why nobody took that opportunity.
Besides which, several Americans have taken shots at him already.
I’ve spent my entire life watching the “minority” Republicans successfully squash, blockade, deflect, filibuster, or poison every single bill any Democrat has ever put forward to make anyone’s life better, while simultaneously presenting and passing their own bills that make everyone’s life worse in service of their own paycheck.
Now that the tables are turned and a similar sort of action is required of the Democrats to literally save the foundations of our democracy, they do nothing.
That’s why.
I’ve been a proud Democratic supporter and blue voter my entire life and I’ll continue to vote for them if I continue to not be offered better options. But I’m not happy about doing it anymore. I no longer trust the Democratic party to be a bastion against fascism and that’s just the long and short of it. The most basic showing of resistance against any of this bullshit probably would have locked in my vote for Democrats for the rest of my life, but they can’t even do that. We have Bernie Sanders and AOC doing the same things they’ve done their entire lives, and every other person is just sitting back in shock watching their office get looted and doing nothing about it.
… will have the morals to stand up to fascist orders from the executive branch and disobey them, displaying that they are at odds, or if they will simply obey unlawful, fascist orders to not get prosecuted under the UCMJ.
Obeying unlawful fascist orders will get you court-martialed, not avoid it. Not obeying them might have you scrubbing latrines for six months, getting a punishment from your CO, but obeying them will end in prison time. This precedent was set at the Nuremberg Trials and this is the reason every soldier is drilled with the knowledge that you are not encouraged, you are obligated, to ignore unlawful orders because the law WILL NOT have your back for performing them.
Alright, fair. I see your point now. Sorry to come out swinging like that. I think I misunderstood what you were trying to say originally.
The “security failure” was in government operatives using unsecured modes of communication. Signal itself did not have a security failure, the US government did.
The bit about it being a “”“glitch”“” is a direct quote though (and a bold faced lie by the president).
Trump told NBC News that Goldberg’s presence in the chat had “no impact at all” on the military operation, and defended Waltz, claiming that the leak was “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one”, as the White House sought to downplay the incident.
Y’all really need to learn to read the article before having a false opinion on it.
You’ve seen something change. They aren’t even pretending to be liberals anymore, neo or otherwise.
As in, he could not possibly have been hired anywhere to perform any job by anyone qualified to be a hiring manager. He’s unemployable. All he knows how to do is buy other people’s companies and install himself at the top of them.
Could recall him into the fucking ground
At this point I hope he does. Shake 'em by the ankles until change stops falling out.
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
A cooperative, wide scale Erebus manhunt could bring peace to the 41st millennium
You should try having nothing else better to distract you for 12-15 years. With no books, no TV, and no internet, if you need to figure out how to build a forge, you’d figure it out eventually. Through sheer boredom if nothing else.
I would call them “unfit for their position” as a judge’s personal beliefs have zero influence on the written law and a judge’s job is to interpret the law as it is written. If you’re bringing your personal politics into the courthouse as a judge you have failed your job requirements.
I am happy to see a liberal judge in our current situation, because conservative judges have been flagrantly abusing their positions for many years now, but the parent comment is correct. Having a liberal vs a conservative judge should be nonsensical. Unfortunately the nonsensical is commonplace in America now.