I mean, whatever gets the low information voters’ attentions.

Praise the lord and vend the ammunition.

I stand by my original statement. Once you abandon your core values and stoop to your enemy’s level, is there a difference anymore?

Remember when a year before the election was too early to nominate a supreme court Justice, but later it was totally cool to jam one through during the election.

Pepperidge Farm Admiral Patrick remembers.

That also can be fixed by my “get out and vote” + “vote for people who aren’t part of the problem”. Both of those supreme court seats were stolen by Mitch “Fucking Hypocrite/Dirty Bastard” McConnell** whose reptilian fingerprints are all over that mockery of our constitution.

SC justices can be impeached and removed, but there need to be enough in Congress who aren’t in on the plan to make that happen. Again, get out and vote for people who aren’t part of the problem. Tell your friends, too, lol.

** Reptilian because he looks like a cartoon turtle; I don’t believe in lizard people lol

I’m getting tired of hearing these “Why doesn’t Biden just be a despot to stop another despot?” knee-jerk takes. Even as a joke, it’s not helping. Once you stoop to your enemy’s level, is there a difference anymore? Think about the kind of precedent that sets. As a country, can you even come back from that? We’d be trading one very dark path for another.

We have a system of checks and balances that can be used, assuming we elect people who aren’t part of the problem.

People need to get the fuck out and vote. Every election, every office, school board seat, dogcatcher, etc. Got friends who don’t vote? Try to get at least one of them to. Yeah, gerrymandering exists but it doesn’t hold a candle to voter apathy when it comes to damage done.

Glad to know I’m getting downvoted because I don’t support becoming the very thing we’re supposedly fighting against.

i love how everyone wants to regulate this dangerous thing

What wonderland do you live in? lol. I want to go to there.

Fireworks used to be heavily regulated in my area, but in recent years, you can basically get anything short of a stick of dynamite from any of the hundreds of pop-up tents that set up in shopping plaza parking lots every June 1.

I don’t get a good night’s sleep from mid-June through September because of neighborhood kids setting the damn things off every night until 2 - 2:30 AM.

Of course they did. 😔

Louisiana has been extra-shithole the last few years, so that move is totally on brand.

incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation

I’m pretty sure the word “former” has no business being in that sentence.

His wretched kids have never needed a pardon, though, right? They’ve just been investigated and/or asked to testify, but nothing that would require a pardon. I guess he could have tried preemptively pardoning them, but I don’t think it ever got that far for any of them.

Cohen identified Trump (aka Individual-1) when he was on trial for fraud re: the hush money payments (which led to the 34 felonies Trump was just convicted of). Trump is definitely not going to pardon him after that.

Plus it’s also free labor they can lease out since there’s that handy-dandy loophole in the 13th Amendment 😡

I’m referring more to big fish like Bannon, but I’m curious who you mean (besides the J6 mob).

“My heart goes out to the homeless, but I don’t want to see or be reminded of them”

–Those same NIMBY’s, probably

His history of stiffing / screwing over / bus throwing aside, I don’t for one moment think he won’t pardon someone who has been loyal to him. Not as long as it doesn’t cost him any money or cause his ratings to drop.

It’s the BBC, so I’m giving the benefit of doubt that it was just written by a really out of touch human. The actual article is pretty good coverage and highlights why it’s such a terrible decision.

The only thing in the article that even slightly implies “help” is this line:

Jailing the homeless? ‘At least I’ll have a bed’

So, headline seems to be intentionally click/rage bait even though the article itself is pretty sound.

I was homeless through some pretty terrible circumstances but it turns out it’s illegal to be homeless, so I decided not to be homeless anymore /s

To whoever wrote the headline: How can it possibly help?

Now it’s twice 😉

Oh, yeah. I’m aware of all that. Good info, though.

I meant for the purposes of what moz was saying from that “On Tyranny” TL;DR guidance. Like, should I just assume that metadata is going to be immediately used against me to determine if i’m an “undesirable” ?

May have answered my own question there lol

Also true. But, like, what are the states going to do about a mad king who’s federally untouchable?

I’m trying hard to not be an alarmist (mostly for my own mental health), but it’s not just that the floodgates are open; the dam has burst and we’re all downstream.

True, but he can pardon them easily.

If they refuse, they can be replaced with yes-men who will.