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Vance argued for higher tax rate on childless Americans in 2021 interview
  • These days, look for any family in America with 5 or more minor children and find a "devout Christian" as the patriarch.

    Mormons are famous for this, and they support their breeder mentality by tapping into the same government resources they say they despise, sometimes venturing into fraud.

  • Nassau County’s plan to deputize armed civilians for hurricanes and other emergencies gets pushback.
  • "Other Emergencies" is a euphemism for liberal/non-white protests. The idea of their home town being overrun by "leftist" mob violence occupies both the nightmares and the fever dreams of the kinds of gun owners who would respond to this call-up.

    DeSantis reactivated the Florida State Guard on similar grounds of "disaster relief" then started training them like soldiers. Now he has a force of 1500 or so that reports directly to him and cannot be federalized. He even sent a few of them to the Texas border to test the waters.

    Expect to see more of these yokels try to muster up armed thugs in the coming months. I fear the worst no matter the outcome of the election.

  • The crew had some things to say
  • He got fucking dragged by Trumpworld after he resigned over Trump's stance on Afghanistan (or was it the Kurds?), it was probably one of the most severe about-faces I've ever seen from conservatives about one man. Went from a Marine's Marine, a warrior-scholar, to a complete disgrace to the Corps as far as they're concerned.

    Really cemented my view of Trump as a cult of personality when I saw that narrative, and the base eating it up, in real time.

  • Would Trump privatize weather forecasting? What to know.
  • I was under the impression that basically every commercial weather station just copied the NWS's homework, which is a decidedly Republican arrangement: have the taxpayer foot the bill for the actual work while private interest reaps the benefits.

    If the NWS goes away, they'll have to do their own meteorology. Maybe there's some way to spin some profit from that situation that I'm not degenerate enough to see yet, but it seems like it's against their own interests.

  • The Whole Murder Thing, I'm Guessing
  • The angry mob wanted to kill him, not the orchestrators that would have pull with the USSS. Do you think they were going to drive him out into the mob to the world's shittiest gallows?

    If it ever came out that people in the Trump administration actively participated in a well-defined plot to kill Pence, they would fry. That's why they sicced the mob on the capital to commit spontaneous violence. Difficult if not impossible to prove conspiracy, and the people getting jail time would be the red hat morons, not the people in charge. Again, they (the orchestrators) were half-hearted cowards that were more concerned with saving themselves if it failed than doing anything to make sure it succeeded, and for this moment in time we should be thankful for that.

  • The Whole Murder Thing, I'm Guessing
  • I don't think they were going to kill him. I think their play was to bring him off-site "for his safety" so he couldn't certify the election, at most a kidnapping.

    The whole thing was too noncommittal by the big players in case things went to shit, which it did. They didn't have the balls to plan out an assassination of the VP.

    It might have worked if they had the balls to do that, and other things.

  • Democrats Need to Wake Up From Their ‘West Wing’ Fantasy
  • The DNC is controlled opposition for the owner class. They exist to attract and squash any substantial change to our current system, and to give you hope that such change is still possible so long as you stay civil and play by the rules.

    What would you be doing right now if every single person in government behaved like Republicans?

  • New NATO Climate report points to Russian backed social media misinformation campaigns related to climate
  • They ain't called "a gas station masquerading as a country" for nothing. The world switching to renewables, either proactively now or out of desperation later, would be a massive hit to them.

    Other than that maybe climate refugees? But they likely intend to conquer the places these people come from anyway, and don't have many qualms about "dealing with" unwanted populations.

  • Violence is the answer when you can get white people to ignore it
  • Violence and the threat of violence is an inexorable part of any system of law since forever. All the people bleating "this is unacceptable!" know this, they just don't want things to get out of their control.

  • 'Gay furry hackers' breach conservative US think tank behind Project 2025
  • Are you aware that you won’t be able to wear a furry tiger costume when you’re getting pounded in the ass in the federal prison I put you in next year?” Howell asked.

    Part of me wants to laugh at the seething impotence...but he not only thinks Trump will win, but that he himself will get arrest powers in a Trump regime and will be able to wield it against his enemies.

    Please vote...and prepare for the worst from these fucking freaks.

  • New York Times editorial board declares Trump ‘unfit to lead’
  • His failure to meaningfully divest from his business interests coupled with the numerous times he used his office to funnel money to himself such as forcing the Secret Service to stay at Trump properties as he traveled.

    There, one.

  • Nato summit: Ukraine on 'irreversible path' to membership
  • As an American I think that would all be reasonable...if the official US position was that Mexico has no right to exist, the Mexican people should be forcibly integrated into our society as 2nd class citizens, and the US Army was in the process of a "peacekeeping operation" in Mexico to carry all this out.

    For all our flaws, we respect the borders of our neighbors and don't have irridentist aspirations that belong in the 19th century. Russia is the aggressor here, and they have demonstrated that they have little interest in global peace or human rights, only increasing their sphere of influence.

    Continually rolling over for thugs because it's what avoids nuclear conflict will only lead to a global order based on thuggery, and it likely won't even avoid nuclear conflict in the end.

  • Loyalty
  • There's some subtle differences in the frame shape and other things that I'm too dumb to articulate. The only marks I can see are import marks from "CAI" - Century International Arms, which would be strange to see on a USGI 1911.

    I think this model is a Star BM, and surplus retailers were hocking these things for ~$250-300, about 6/7 years ago. I almost got one but decided against it.