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Captainant

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  1. Bingo - the law exists to bind but not protect the out groups, and protects but does not bind the in group
  2. Real answer: trump effectively uses the Soviet technique of flooding the zone with bullshit and lies and falsehood so that he can operate under a smoke screen.
  3. BO&W and bozo are doing a weird "push all the Republican rhetoric as unimpeachable fact" bit. I have no doubt that the perception of using those terms was damaging, but I definitely didn't see it in regular use in my life and online time. I did see a whole shitload of republicans pushing that as a grievance to motivate their base though. So it's a bummer to see people so uncritically repeating the anecdote as if it's reflective of reality
  4. Ok, whatever you say Steve Bannon.
  5. So scared of violent crime, they're gonna stop prosecuting folks for illegally owning long guns in DC. Totes not setting up a paramilitary force in the seat of power.
  6. Notably, I'm not calling you or this administration "nazis". I'm saying their behavior is fascist and consistent with how the nazis behaved during their consolidation of power and state violence. But don't let me stop you from jumping to victimhood
  7. The crazy thing is that there's other recipients of CHIPS funding via grants that are not receiving demands of equity or compensation for what was a previous act of Congress. Just completely off the rails that the President is trying to take a bite out of a company. I could have sworn folks around these parts felt passionately about the government seizing private property....
  8. In the 1930s, the nazis deployed brown shirts and filled their ranks with the dregs of society that didn't have a job or prospects to look forward to. They then used that paramilitary force to attack their "untermensch" and political enemies. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-police-in-the-nazi-state We are at the point where the feds are hospitalizing journalists and activists for asking too many questions and taking too many pictures. The posse of highschool drop outs that ICE is hiring is just a modernization of hitlers Brown shirts - a paramilitary force that answers only to their fuhrer and doesn't give a shit about breaking the law or protecting public safety.
  9. Again, is this really true? As an adult I don't think I've ever seen Dems actually in power, and when they """have""" it hasn't been Dems road blocking legislative efforts, or playing identity politics games. Tbh, it feels like you and bozo are internalizing and evangelizing the MAGA framing and messaging by just "many people are saying Dems bad" as your whole commentary. It's not rank and file, it's the fish rotting from the head. It's not AOC or Mamdani being divisive or playing identity politics, but that's certainly how fox frames it to get the uncritical chuds onboard. And then the dem leadership is more than happy to tow that line for MAGA like a good controlled opposition does, because they're scared of letting go of their free insider trading meal ticket
  10. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window My guy, the majority electoral position in the country - the """MIDDLE""" - chose trump. Recalibrate your enthusiasm
  11. Pfft. Not even ultra pasteurized. What's the point, even /s
  12. They're probably in a state of incredulity
  13. Anyone looking for COVID tests, don't go to the old website. It's a conspiracy site now http://covidtests.gov
  14. You're citing a pre-trump47 article to tell me how what trump47 is doing is bi-partisan, just FYI. Reframing a grant as a stock purchase is some pretty rancid deal rewriting mid flight. https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/trump-admin-in-talks-to-take-10-stake-in-intel-via-chips-act-grants-125081900100_1.html Beyond Intel, the White House official also floated the possibility that the administration could convert other Chips Act awards into equity stakes. It’s not clear whether that idea has gained traction broadly within the administration or whether officials have broached the possibility with any companies that could be affected. It's going to sour any business from taking grant money for fear of it turning out to be a baited hook. The feds operating with such dishonesty is bad for business.
  15. They're getting bailed out from decades of paying out record dividends and stock buybacks. This is more taxpayer subsidy of executive bonuses. If they're buying back over a hundred billion in stocks, maybe they are the source of their own business problems. God, I love the Almighty Free Market and it's infinite wisdom to punish inefficient firms
  16. There's a stomach bug going through Houston at the moment too I think
  17. That's great for you and all that, but the pedophile you voted for isn't releasing the Epstein files for some reason. I wonder why he's giving his co-conspirator such a good deal at club fed in aggyland
  18. Before the outbreak, most Texas doctors had never seen a measles case because of how uncommon it has become, said Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner Jennifer Shuford. She credited testing, vaccination, monitoring and education with helping to end the outbreak. I wonder if that means that the previous antivaxxers changed their minds after they realized that vaccines prevent death, or if that's just preseason sunshine pumping before the next respiratory disease season
  19. The US dead-ass just copied the V1 and V2 for our first cruise and ballistic missiles - our first sub launched nuke the Regulus Missile was a first gen iteration. The base design is well-proven at least
  20. Hayden threw out the first pitch at a Cubs game a few days ago, love his jersey number lololol
  21. What are you talking about? Owning large swaths of property and extracting wealth from the poors that live on it is the basis of every modern healthy economic system.
  22. Well that sure fuckin didn't take long
  23. Release the Epstein files. This is all a distraction from his pedophilia.
  24. The feds have no control over the posses that they've armed and unleashed. https://abc7.com/post/federal-agents-fire-shots-man-during-operation-san-bernardino-police-say/17562097/ Martin says he was working with his father-in-law and 18-year-old son-in-law on Saturday morning when their vehicle was suddenly surrounded by unmarked cars and masked men. "They hopped out with their pistols already drawn. Then they proceeded to ask us to lower the window and open the doors," Martin said. Martin stressed that they asked, but the masked agents did not identify themselves. Martin and his family stayed in the locked car as agents insisted they come out. Video shows moments later, the agents shattered two windows. "Once the glasses were shattered, my father-in-law feared for his life, from his perspective. And so he... I guess the car was already in drive, so he drove the vehicle away from where those agents were at," Martin said. In the video, three gunshots can be heard. "Thank God the bullets didn't go through the truck. They just went in, got stuck into the door, but they were aimed at my brother-in-law, who was in the passenger front. And so I was just glad he was OK," he said. The family sought the help of San Bernardino police, who soon arrived at their home. "So once they showed up, we made a report with them. They told us FBI was going to get in contact with us," he said. The family says instead, it turned into an hours-long standoff with several federal agencies showing up at their home. They say an officer seen pulling out a weapon on video during the vehicle stop is the same person who fired the gunshots. "He said that he didn't shoot... that those three shots were him tapping on the glass. But we have bullet holes inside of the vehicle now," Martin said.
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