I can’t help but think that this is Project 2025s way of reducing global population. Let all the poor, brown people die so that, in a few years, rich western nations can come in and rape the land for resources without significant resistance.
I don’t know. If the kids had eaten those pills, they would have been fucked up or dead. Either way, authorities would have gotten involved. I suspect that this was his plan from the beginning.
Edit: Wait, is MDMA a date rape drug? I assumed he was staging this to go after DQ. Was he instead trying to drug them to assault them?
Boy, this guy must really have a grudge against DQ. I suppose that must have black/latino/gay/trans employees or something. That’s enough to send most MAGAts over the ledge these days.
For all we know it did. We believe that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old but it’s estimated that conditions suitable for life only appeared about 200 million years after that. Since the oldest fossils we’ve found are 3.7 billion years old, there is a 600 million year gap between when we think life could have formed and out earliest records of it.
There is every possibility that life formed multiple times in different environments on Earth in those first few hundred million years and then been wiped out by one of the frequent cataclysms that ravaged the early Earth. We have no way of knowing though. If life formed around a volcanic vent and then got wiped out by a meteor impact there would be no evidence it ever happened. Even if such life was wiped out by a climatic shift or something like that, there still wouldn’t likely be much evidence left if any right now. The Earth’s surface has been changed so much in the last 3.7 billion years, there are very few areas older than that where such fossil records from before that could be found.
Not sure about all the risks but one that comes to mind is SIM Swapping. If criminals can get enough information from your social media accounts, they may then get access to your phone account. That will let them switch your number to another sim card that they control. With that, they can intercept any calls or messages sent to verify your identity and gain access to any accounts using your phone for 2FA.
It’s a signal to others that if they support Trump, they can go out in a blaze of glory, be buried with honors, and make their surviving family a nice chunk of change in the process. This isn’t really about this specific traitor, it’s a message to all the other potential future traitors.
When and if that happens, the billionaire’s kids will all just be home schooled by private tutors and protected by constant armed surveillance. The poors will, as always, be left to their own devices.
Isn’t there a conflict of interest here? I mean, his boy-toy Vance is the antichrist’s VP and all.
This one was released and returned to Israel within a day of being arrested in Vegas for “luring a child with a computer for a sex act.”
Because they wanted her to. She said Trump did nothing wrong. Now she gets a cookie.
“Even people with documents are hiding because they’re scared.”
As intended.
And this isn’t just the lead and the love interest: supporting characters look this way too, and even villains (frequently clad in monstrous makeup) are still played by conventionally attractive performers. Even background extras are good-looking, or at least inoffensively bland. No one is ugly. No one is really fat. Everyone is beautiful.
Heh, this reminds me of this scene in Last Action Hero (Just watch until 1:34 or so for the scene I’m referring to.
Honestly though, I think this might be starting to change. Looking at shows like Resident Alien and Wheel of Time, for example, there are plenty of casting choices that go against that trend. Now, I’m not saying anyone in these shows is ugly or anything like that, but there are a lot of folks being cast who are not “classic Hollywood pretty” and it’s very nice to see. I like seeing people playing the everyday Joe art who actually looks like an everyday Joe. It really breaks immersion for me when the “ugly girl” part is played by someone who is beautiful dressed in a frumpy outfit.
We’re so conditioned to think realistic violence in games is fine, but realistic sex in games is “wrong” or “sad”.
Not just in games. In all media. You bring to mind a great quote from George R. R. Martin.
“I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.”
Fine. If that’s the case, I’m firing Trump. I have as much authority to do so as he has to fire Cook.
Seconded. If the Earth were the size of a globe on your desk, he entire biosphere would be thinner than a piece of paper. We have filled the whole thing with our waste and toxins and we are destroying the very systems that we rely on to produce our food and air. If we do not start paying attention and taking steps, I sincerely believe that there will be a society ending global crisis in the next 2-3 decades.
In the video, which became public in May, one boy can be heard asking, “There’s a girl in here?” Another adds, “Why is there a girl? I’m so uncomfortable there is a girl.” Their comments prompted another boy to insist that the trans student leave.
Right wingers see a video on line and assume it’s the full story and get their collective panties in a twist. However, the school district, which cannot legally release any detailed information about the investigation and punishment had this to say:
“At no time would LCPS suspend a student simply because they expressed some kind of discomfort. A reading of our Title IX resources should make it clear that there is a high bar to launch a Title IX investigation and an even higher bar to determine a student is in violation of Title IX.”
I’m thinking this went a little bit further than a couple students whining and must have turned a fair bit worse.
No details on the nationality of the homeowner? I wonder if they are Hispanic. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if some MAGA zealots tried to play ICE and it turned out like this.
Yeah, it’s tough to navigate if, like me, you’re not a lawyer. I’ve been doing a bit of reading on this today and I don’t think he’ll need the governor’s permission. If he can cause enough chaos and violence to justify invoking the insurrection act. That act says, in part:
§333. Interference with State and Federal law
The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—
(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.
This is really terrifying. First, because the law does not clearly define what conditions must exist for the law to be invokes. “Insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” - Could this be more vague? And second because of the phrase, “or by any other means.” He can use literally any other means he chooses. Remember when he told the proud boys to stand back and stand by? Well by invoking this act he could directly arm them and order them to go into a state or city to quell whatever he has decided is an insurrection.
And if your wondering whether or not he would invoke this act? Remember that back in January of this year he issued an Executive Order that included this tidbit.
Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807. [Emphasis mine]
So he’s already tried to find an excuse to invoke it. Now he’s trying to manufacture an excuse.
That’s a really good point.
It is legal in some places including Oregon, if you live in the United States under the Death with Dignity Act passed in October, 1997. I don’t know much about it other than the name, but if you are in the states you can check their web page for details and requirements.