Today's Jeopardy question:
Because Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, estimated at more than five times that of the United States.
Today's Jeopardy answer:
Why are we starting a war with Venezuela, starting with blowing up boats, followed by a huge naval and Marine build-up?
I'm starting to think we should elect people based on their internet history. Here's a hint - the more anti-X they are, the more their porn viewing is of X. If X is LQBTQ+, the internet history is chock-full of gay porn. And if it's child porn, well, let's not even talk about it.
He likes big big things, because they make him clap and laugh, from fire trucks to arches.
Look through the labels to the man, and it's clear who he is. A simple arrogant man who was never told "no" as a child.
And we elected him President.
Shame on us.
He has obvious thoughts that don't consider nuance.
He has simplistic solutions that don't address the depth of problems.
He announces by fiat because nobody ever said "no," instead of listening, learning, and creating agreement.
If you think of Trump, not as President, not as reality TV star, not real estate magnate, but as the person he is, a person with an IQ in the low 80s who was born to unimaginable wealth and never told he was wrong, everything he does or says falls into place.
For those who understand the rule of law, this should terrify you:
The United States Supreme Court is about to decide that a statute is constitutional until, in the majority's personal opinions, it has outlived its usefulness - then it's unconstitutional.
I am coming to the most fatalistic, depressing, & inescapable conclusion of my political life.
A majority of Americans truly believe the US should be white, Christian, & of Western European descent, & everybody else is just a guest, tolerated only with good behavior (behavior acceptable to them).
Thoughts and prayers.
If the People can no longer turn to the law, where must the People turn?
The People must rebel.*
*This is the worst possible, yet only, answer. And I'm twisted in knots looking for another one.
Let's stop pretending that putting an army of poorly trained vigilantes on the street, in masks, with a command to arrest brown people is even the slightest bit legal. Arrest them all.
If you agree, feel free to share.
Strip search them and do a body cavity search. And of course, take booking photos of every single one of them and publish them immediately. Let them spend the night in jail, and then try to prove to the judge that the person they grabbed was committing a crime.
Remember, being a law enforcement officer is an affirmative defense to the crime, not a presumption of innocence, meaning they have the duty to prove it. If they are grabbing people while wearing face masks and nothing but a "POLICE" patch, nothing to prove identity or department, arrest them.
Assign a police officer to follow every single ICE agent and ticket them or arrest them for the slightest transgression, from speeding to turning without a signal to traveling in vehicles with mis-assigned license plates, to assault, battery, deprivation of civil rights, and even to kidnapping.
Mayors of cities about to be invaded by Trump's ICE and National Guard invasion (which has nothing to do with crime rates and everything to do with performative politics) should do the following:
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Beta models are returning encouraging results, but rumor has it they’re working on a Mark II version which can be folded for easier transportation.
They’ve developed devices code-named “ladder,” and they are presently field-testing them to determine if they can be used to raise a human being above a wall and safely return them to the ground in the other side.
On painting The Wall black:
Mexican scientists are already working on a way to defeat this ingenious wall. In fact, they are already testing some of their experimental devices in the US. If you see a roofing truck it might actually be Mexican scientists.
Good call.
Imagine if half the cars on the road had Mexican flag window stickers. The racist bully bastards wearing masks and ICE vests would devolve in mumbling puddles of goo from the combination of over-stimulation and lack of satisfaction. Think of it as Bigot’s Blue Balls.
Reposting until it's a movement.
Who hurt you more today?
1. The homeless person living on the street, asking you for change?
2. The CEO who took the $1,000,000 in profit you helped generate and gave it himself as a bonus, instead of giving you a $2.00/hour raise?
Imagine if half the cars on the road had Mexican flag bumper stickers. The racist bully bastards wearing masks and ICE vests would devolve in mumbling puddles of goo from the combination of over-stimulation and lack of satisfaction. Think of it a Bigots Blue Balls.
Feel free to share.
Keep them busy.
Keep them nervous.
Make it harder to racially profile people by looking like the people they're racially profiling.
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*Everybody should have one these days, with the sh*t that's going on.
**Suggested answers include, "I had a great vacation in Cancun," "I thought it was pretty," of, if you dare, "I wanted to catch you in the act, congratulations!"
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2. Drive legally, at or under the speed limit, turn signals, etc.
3. Have a dash cam running at all times.*
4. Wait to be pulled over.
5. Video the reaction when you turn out to be as white as the driven snow, and record when they ask you why you have a Mexican flag.**
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FWI (F'ing with ICE): Project "Bigot's Blue Balls"
[Warning, this is a project for American-born white people only - I would never ask Black or Brown friends to take this risk.]
1. Put a Mexican flag bumper sticker on your car or truck.
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But the monied Republicans, the people whose wealth funded the Trump schemes and lined the Trump pockets, were looking to Ivanka’s children to carry on the name. And that is how the war began.
but more importantly, loyal only to the Trumps. At the end of her second term it was expected by many that Barron, Trump‘s youngest and the daughter of his third wife, Melania, would be next in line. He was the favorite of the MAGA foot soldiers - white, rural, uneducated, and perpetually angry.
A year later, when Trump‘s illness could no longer be concealed from the public, he quietly retired and Ivanka rose to the presidency. She was reelected with 99% of the vote after Democrats were declared enemies of the state. and she presided over a government that was overwhelmingly Republican,
Ivanka rose to the vice presidency, Eric Trump was appointed Secretary of State, and the Trump family had an iron grip on the American government.
