Correct. And it’s not strange.

This comment appears to have aged well.

Hunted a bit growing up. My guess is, if you hit a human pretty much anywhere above the thighs with .30-06, they’re not going to live through it. The hydrostatic shock is devastating and the exit wound is significant.

If the round was armor piercing, .30-06 has enough force to go through a car engine block.

The point of making stuff that lots of people do illegal is that it makes selective enforcement much easier. Protesting hippies in the 60’s? Make weed illegal and you can bust them for that. Plant the weed on them if you have to.

Black folks getting out of line and demanding equal rights? I hear jazz musicians like to do heroin, let’s make that illegal with harsher penalties. Later, do t the same thing for crack cocaine.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/

A big landlord self-insures.

My belief is that inflation benefits trump personally since it devalues the mortgage debt on his real estate holdings, while increasing the nominal value of those properties.

Tuberville, for one

This is one of Trump’s humiliation rituals, this time for Senators. They’ll either accept and participate in the ritual, or Trump will run them out of the party.

Part of this will be tempered by the fact that a lot of these will go through the recess appointment process. The Senate won’t be able to prevent this even if they wanted to. It’s up to Johnson or whoever ends up being speaker of the House.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-cabinet-recess-appointment-senate/680697/

The red state police (like state troopers), red city police, county sheriffs, and any number of federal agencies under homeland security and DOJ.

There plenty of personnel available to make the lives of people here both legally and illegally miserable. And remember, the misery is the point.

Directly capturing and imprisoning / deporting only 5% of this population would make a huge impact on inflicting misery and fear.

As far as what people will and won’t do when given orders, almost nobody in this country who works full time has any safety net or nest egg. If you decide to quit your job on principle, many people are less than 6 months away from eviction. That makes it very difficult to stand your mortal ground without solidarity. Blue regions might develop that solidarity. In red regions, seems less likely.

But that’s not important right now.

I’m not impressed with your imagination. It was clear as day this was going to be an absolute shit show.

Nah. They got themselves into that information bubble because it validated and made them feel ok with their misogyny, their xenophobia, their general bigotry. If you watch just a little Fox, Infowars, Rogan and decide, “hey, this is good stuff and deserving of my attention”, you weren’t a good person to begin with.

Only the current generation of trees. The previous generations that have been broken down into soil are mostly not going back into the atmosphere as co2

They’re not going to cast votes. This will all be done with recess appointments, and all of these “concerned” senators will “express their concerns” with the exploitation of the recess appointment process and lament that there was nothing they could do about it.

They had really hoped that Mr. Trump would cooperate with the advice and consent process, but what can they do if he pursues the recess route? It really is too bad and all of that.

Elizabeth Warren had a great reaction about how the department of waste reduction has two leaders and apparently needs two people to do one job.

This is bullshit, you made no mention of golf anywhere.

I think “habitual liar” would be fair.

Why would there be term limits?

Did you miss the part where he said he got $100 in tips?

It’s easy to forget all the shit Ashcroft said he was going to do, like misinterpret existing laws to go after porn producers, harrass gay folks, all kinds of other Christofascist shit. Then 9/11 happened, and this is a pretty good summary of what happened:

he sought to sweep away any meaningful restrictions on his power and use the fact of September 11th to do so.

But this is an attorney general who treated dissent and criticism as if it was treason, who launched the largest campaign of ethnic profiling we’ve seen in this country since World War II, who sought… who treated judicial review and congressional oversight as inconvenient obstacles to getting the job done.

And I think ultimately he’ll be seen as a disaster, both from a civil liberties perspective and also from a national security perspective.

You’re an optimist. This decline is gonna be way more than a generation.