@MattWalshBlog I know it's a hoax because he broke at least 4-5 gun laws prohibiting him from doing what he did. And everyone knows that criminals obey gun laws, that's why they're so effective.
I’m officially convinced. It was a hoax. The Trump Administration recruited a leftist Kamala Harris voting Trump hater to participate in a staged assassination that would include the shooter getting shot at and then locked in federal prison for the rest of his life. The Kamala Harris voter agreed to this plan, that works against his political and personal interests, because he’s just like a really generous guy. Meanwhile the Trump Administration, despite dastardly planning multiple assassination hoaxes, decided to keep their patsy alive and a permanent liability to them, rather than just killing him like they could have easily done. They did this because they also are really strangely generous in a very odd and specific way. So in summary we have a plot where all parties involved are working against their own interests with no real discernible benefit to any of them. There is no evidence of this plan and it doesn’t even make any intuitive sense and the motives for everyone are unclear if not insane, but still I believe it because I’m a very smart person.
I mostly avoid commenting on what President Trump says from day to day, while pulling no punches in my assessments, whether positive or negative, of his policy. His Iran ultimatums feel different. Making such threats is a policy. If he were to follow through on them, the consequences would be immediate, irreversible, and catastrophic on a world-historical scale.
So while some will inevitably insist he should be “taken seriously rather than literally,” or that he is executing a sophisticated “madman” strategy in a complex game of 5-D chess, or that he needs everyone’s steadfast support to maximize his leverage, now rather than later seems the time to say that the actions that he is proposing would be a disaster for our country, both strategically and morally, which makes the remarks themselves a terrible mistake.
Simply put, what’s the point of all this? If these are empty threats that we all know he will not carry out, then they are ineffective threats (the Iranians are on X too!), merely making the president and our nation look foolish. If they are not empty threats, then the president is asserting the American position that such actions are acceptable in this situation and ones we are willing to take. We are not living in some quantum thought experiment where he simultaneously is and is not serious. We cannot expect the Iranians, but only the Iranians, will believe him.
Whether the threats are empty or not, we should be willing to say: This is wrong. We should not establish a pattern of threatening escalation from a blockaded strait to elimination of a civilization. We should not launch strikes intended to devastate the lives of millions of people and take our nation to total war without indisputable justification, or before the American people have deliberated upon and assented to the path with full understanding of what total war might mean for them. Those principles are vital to our Republic, independent of whether the strategy could “work.”
But it’s also worth emphasizing that the strategy is a dead end. This war is actively weakening American power, increasing the danger to American citizens, and frustrating the president’s important efforts at addressing our many domestic challenges. It has closed a strait that was previously open, strengthened the incentive for other nations to pursue nuclear weapons, and in this most recent rhetoric made more plausible their use. Our choices for continuing the war appear to be catastrophic escalation of the air war or extensive deployment of ground troops, neither of which were planned or had support at the outset.
Stepping back from these threats and admitting such actions do not offer a path to resolving the conflict may be unpalatable, but it is by far the least unpalatable option available. Let us all hope cooler heads prevail.
I fucking hate the “minimum wage is for high schoolers” talking point.
A. No it isn’t, that’s historically inaccurate.
B. Telling a kid to work hard and earn money the “right” way, then turning around and saying he deserves less just because of his age is bullshit.
Pay should be based on performance. Nothing else.
If you’re against raising the minimum wage, that’s fine. Make a better argument that isn’t belittling kids trying to work hard and earn something for themselves.
Pussy rednecks will lie to federal officers, say they lost them, amd either end up in prison for 10+ years for lying or never ever be able to practice or replace parts for the rest of their lives, just storing ancient ammo. Imagine thinking you're covered by saying you lost them.
Pathetic gheys
Canada says it will go door to door to collect guns… and people still say nobody’s coming for your guns.
Let that sink in.
In Canada, 98% of gun owners basically said no to the government’s so-called buyback program.
And instead of backing off?
Now the conversation turns into police going door to door for collection.
That’s not a buyback.
That’s not voluntary.
That’s confiscation dressed up in softer language.
And this is exactly why gun owners never trust the line:
“Nobody’s coming for your guns.”
Because eventually the mask always comes off.
First it’s common sense.
Then it’s registration.
Then it’s bans.
Then it’s buybacks.
Then it’s door-to-door collection.
So I want to hear from y’all:
What do you call it when Canada sends people door to door to take legally owned guns?
Comment:
BUYBACK
or
CONFISCATION
And bigger question—
Do you think Canada is the preview of what anti-gun politicians want everywhere else?
Drop your answer in the comments.
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They were forced to be unarmed… and now politicians are using that to argue you don’t need a gun.
That should make every gun owner furious.
The people at Virginia Tech were not unarmed by choice.
They were disarmed by policy. They were trapped in a gun-free zone.
And now a politician is pointing to their courage in that moment as “proof” that you don’t need a firearm.
How twisted is that? They weren’t choosing between a gun and no gun.
They were denied the option. And somehow the lesson we’re supposed to take from that is:
“See? You don’t need a gun.”
No. The real lesson is that courage without the ability to fight back is still courage — but it is also a tragedy.
So let me ask you: If those students had been given the choice, do you honestly think they would have chosen to stay defenseless?
Why do politicians protected by armed security keep telling regular people they don’t need protection?
Why is forced helplessness always repackaged as moral virtue?
And why do anti-gun politicians keep using disarmed victims to push more disarmament?
I want to hear what you think.
Were they unarmed by choice… or were they failed by the very policies politicians keep defending?
Drop your answer in the comments.
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@elonmusk I love how right wingers need to exaggerate this.
99% of left people said something along the lines of “what happened to Charlie was horrible, I don’t support the violence, but I will not mourn him”
1% of people openly cheered it on.
You all focus on the 1%.
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@McDonalds How about hire someone who can fix your mobile app? The new update can't place mobile orders on android. Users all over reporting it. Chop chop, can't imagine how much money you're losing every day because of it.
@keyjotoo@MAGAVoice Refusing to stand in line to vote is the most lazy American thing I've read all day.
Real American: "I'll put my life on the line and die to protect our freedom."
Silly lazy American: "Is that a line? *yawn* I'm le tired, nap time"
@MAGAVoice In Oregon, we have used mail in voting for years. It encourages more people to vote. I don't have time or desire to stand in line for hours, to vote. There is NO fraud.