I have a solution to their problem. Fuck off out of the North and then you don't have to worry about the common travel area.
Funny events in anti-woke world
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Eh, the UK can be petty and take in 51 refugees (or possibly they can afford even more, being a rich nation of many millions of people) and they can be a security threat to Ireland.
Tina Peters, County Clerk Who Embraced Big Lie, Is Indicted Months After Election Data Leak
Tina Peters, the Republican clerk of Mesa County, Colorado who was long suspected of aiding a leak of sensitive election machinery data from her own office, has been indicted on multiple counts by a…
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Thoughts and prayers for Peters
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Leaked voting machine BIOS passwords may implicate Q-friendly county clerk
Leaked BIOS passwords led investigators to Tina Peters’ office in Mesa County, Colo.
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Ladies, Gentlemen, and Assorted, I do not believe this man is rich
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Trump Fundraises For New Jet After Emergency Landing
The former president is fundraising for a "Trump Force One" jet, his PAC said in an email.
Jesus Christ.Ladies, Gentlemen, and Assorted, I do not believe this man is rich
Trump Fundraises For New Jet After Emergency Landing
The former president is fundraising for a "Trump Force One" jet, his PAC said in an email.
Of course. Political campaigning has always had high risk of being a corrupt gravy train. Then consider Trump's history, even pre-politics.
Anyone would have to be delusional to not realise that every dollar donated to Trump is a dollar much of which will be used for outrageous expense claims to defray his personal expenses, not least because he has a long history of it through various foundations and start-ups (many of which have consequently been legally shut down). And yet fuckwits still give him money.
Must have been a real light bulb moment for him when he realised he no longer needed to commit fraud to funnel money into his personal accounts. He can just ask people to buy him a jet.
Ladies, Gentlemen, and Assorted, I do not believe this man is rich
Trump Fundraises For New Jet After Emergency Landing
The former president is fundraising for a "Trump Force One" jet, his PAC said in an email.
Why pay for something when you can get a gaggle of suckers to spring for it for you? Money, fool, latter soon parted from former, etc.Ladies, Gentlemen, and Assorted, I do not believe this man is rich
Trump Fundraises For New Jet After Emergency Landing
The former president is fundraising for a "Trump Force One" jet, his PAC said in an email.
His supporters will do anything to "own the libs", I suppose.
I am depressingly convinced he had an eye on his bank account right from the start.
He'll have always been interested because he's a narcissist with an overinflated sense of self-importance, but the rumours are high he started a run mostly just trying to squeeze more money out of the producers of The Apprentice. Then on getting elected, as well documented, he directed a load of tax-supported government activity to his businesses.
Then he left, and just started to pocket money directly. I am reminded that L. Ron Hubbard, then just a lowly science fiction author, opined to his colleagues that the way to get rich was to start a religion. A political cult isn't so different from a religion.
I cannot believe that was my high school.You know, the Russian flag is also red, white and blue, I can see why that could be confusing.
"Wait, what? Black Panther? Oh my God, he wants to kill Whitey! I'm Whitey! CALL THE COPS!"
Sidney Powell, please don't scowl, take a seat for our interrogation.
Dont be fraught, you've been caught, funding Nazi cults' exoneration.
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Dont be fraught, you've been caught, funding Nazi cults' exoneration.
Sidney “Release The Kraken” Powell Is Secretly Funding The Legal Defense Of Oath Keepers
Defending the Republic, the nonprofit Powell founded after the 2020 election, has raised at least $15 million but has been quiet about where that money is going.
www.buzzfeednews.com
That would be a mistake, as the fact he still has enough gullible people behind him to ensure it happens will prove. Or maybe he did lose it all. Either way *in Trump voice* “Sad. Very sad.”Ladies, Gentlemen, and Assorted, I do not believe this man is rich
Trump Fundraises For New Jet After Emergency Landing
The former president is fundraising for a "Trump Force One" jet, his PAC said in an email.
And they say white culture doesn't exist 
Wonder how much it bothers baby boy trump that he'll never get the level of unearned adoration his father stumbled into.
Ffffs
Wonder how much it bothers baby boy trump that he'll never get the level of unearned adoration his father stumbled into.
Ffffs
Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Esther Byrd to the state’s Board of Education, a move that will almost certainly serve to further politicize that appointed panel.
A former Marine, Mrs. Byrd is currently the legal assistant and office manager for the Law Office of Cord Byrd, P.A.
Byrd is the wife of Rep. Cord Byrd of Neptune Beach. Rep. Byrd, the incumbent in the current HD 11, is one of the House Republicans who sided with the Governor by voting against redistricting maps preserving a minority-access district in North Florida.
However, Mrs. Byrd is perhaps best known not for her biographical details, but for her staunch advocacy during the Donald Trump administration on behalf of far-right elements.
After the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, Mrs. Byrd offered a defense of those “peacefully protesting” the certification of the 2020 Presidential Election while alluding to “coming civil wars.”
“ANTIFA and BLM can burn and loot buildings and violently attack police and citizens,” Byrd wrote on her personal Facebook page. “But when Trump supporters peacefully protest, suddenly ‘Law and Order’ is all they can talk about! I can’t even listen to these idiots bellyaching about solving our differences without violence.”
Those comments came after another incendiary post.
“In the coming civil wars (We the People vs the Radical Left and We the People cleaning up the Republican Party), team rosters are being filled,” mused Byrd. “Every elected official in DC will pick one. There are only 2 teams… With Us [or] Against Us.”
“We the People will NOT forget!” wrote the person who now sets policy for Florida’s education system
Rep. Byrd won re-election handily in 2020, but during that campaign, his spouse’s comments that catered to the fringe elements in the GOP came to the fore.
In October, Mrs. Byrd offered an unsolicited defense of the Proud Boys, a group of youngish men who bill themselves as “western chauvinists.”
Trump infamously urged them to “stand back and stand by” when pressed to condemn the alt-right movement.
Mrs. Byrd, a staunch supporter of the former president, subsequently claimed that many of them and their supporters have been thrown in “FB Jail,” a metaphorical lockdown preventing them from posting to Facebook for some period of time.
“Why do you think Facebook is throwing people in FB Jail who share information about Proud Boys? (Side note: I must really have great friends cause a whole bunch have been locked up!) I think it’s because they’ve seen a drastic spike in searches and they are worried that people are educating themselves rather than blindly believing what MSM narrative. Anyone have a better theory?”
Those statements came months after Byrd made comments supportive of QAnon after the couple was photographed on a boat flying a QAnon flag.
Mrs. Byrd asserted on Facebook contemporaneously that the Byrds were in the photograph.
For his part, the Representative claims that his wife shouldn’t be read too literally.
“People use hyperbole all the time,” Byrd told WJXT last year. “The Speaker of the House has said, and I quote, ‘I just don’t know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country.’"
Asked to clarify that statement, Byrd said “people talk about civil wars in the Republican Party.”
“There are factions. People believe different things. It was a figure of speech and that’s how it was intended.”
Byrd’s appointment is subject to confirmation by the Florida Senate.
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So someone just shot up a bunch of cars on the highway near where I used to live. And it made me think. I could in theory get a gun, but what am I supposed to do if this happens to me. Am I just supposed to have a loaded pistol near my car at all times while wearing a bulletproof vest?
The policy answer to that isn't obvious. You could in theory have more police but could you cover every mall, highway, school, etc in America, and with what budget? What about conceal carry? Cool more gun-related suicides, please. And are some guns more dangerous than others given the fact that AR-15s kill fewer people compared to car accidents? But then there's the fact that many a policy is based on people's existential dread of something. That's why cars are still around, but tanks aren't despite the fact that cars kill so many people, I am pretty sure a crazy tank driver would freak people out more than a car crash. So if gun deaths are worth reducing due to their dread/terror, and the fact it kills a good number of people of which is mostly suicides, and handgun deaths. How do we solve it?
It will have to come from a package of policies. No one with a serious mental illness should have one, no one who is a terrorist/on the no-fly list should have one(granted the no-fly list isn't perfect as some kids have gotten on it, but let's say we account for some exceptions), more funding to the ATF and regulations with ID checks for guns, and ending the gun show loophole, along with more mental health funding which is desperately needed. But that's low-hanging fruit, and likely won't reduce as many gun deaths as we want due to the fact that someone without a mental illness but with a bad day could still plan a shooting, along with suicides, and other homicides.
So how do we stop those? There is no other way around it, but to reduce the total number of guns in America. But how do we do that? It's very hard in America. The first thing any serious gun control advocate should do in my opinion is taking down 2A. You won't ever get a pistol ban unless you take down 2A. And AR-15s can't be banned thanks to the Supreme Court being republican. But that's hard, and also won't stop guns flowing in from the southern border. My point to all of this is for the US alone to reduce gun deaths. We would need to reduce the number of guns in South America, and North America, but there's more. What about guns from the Philippines, and 3D-printed ones. So my solution to this is even harder to implement than a 2A ban, but it's the only one I can think of.
We would need to stigmatized guns and treat them like cigarettes when it comes to civilian use. Worldwide. In Mexico, in the Philippines, and in the US. That is the only way you can ever get rid of gun deaths that come from guns. But this is by far very hard to do, and while you're doing that climate change just helped create a Category 5 hurricane again in Louisiana, another war in Asia occurs, so you have to divide your attention as a policymaker.
My point to this isn't we shouldn't do anything, it's that it's very hard, and to those of you who say I want to have power which many progressives love accusing me of. I don't. I don't want to have to think about this. I don't want to get emails from one mother whose son or daughter or nonbinary person died, and thinks her issue(related to her kid's death) is the most important issue, and meanwhile, there is a war in X country, a natural disaster in Y country, a crisis in our own country, and another humanitarian disaster in Z country. It's harder than you think. And yes you can delegate tasks, but every official only has so much political capital. the ATF thinks guns, smoking, and alcohol are important, the state department and DOD think the war in Ukraine and China are important, the EPA thinks climate change is important, the CDC thinks Covid is still important, and I guess to an extent they are all right, but not every issue will get solved...
The policy answer to that isn't obvious. You could in theory have more police but could you cover every mall, highway, school, etc in America, and with what budget? What about conceal carry? Cool more gun-related suicides, please. And are some guns more dangerous than others given the fact that AR-15s kill fewer people compared to car accidents? But then there's the fact that many a policy is based on people's existential dread of something. That's why cars are still around, but tanks aren't despite the fact that cars kill so many people, I am pretty sure a crazy tank driver would freak people out more than a car crash. So if gun deaths are worth reducing due to their dread/terror, and the fact it kills a good number of people of which is mostly suicides, and handgun deaths. How do we solve it?
It will have to come from a package of policies. No one with a serious mental illness should have one, no one who is a terrorist/on the no-fly list should have one(granted the no-fly list isn't perfect as some kids have gotten on it, but let's say we account for some exceptions), more funding to the ATF and regulations with ID checks for guns, and ending the gun show loophole, along with more mental health funding which is desperately needed. But that's low-hanging fruit, and likely won't reduce as many gun deaths as we want due to the fact that someone without a mental illness but with a bad day could still plan a shooting, along with suicides, and other homicides.
So how do we stop those? There is no other way around it, but to reduce the total number of guns in America. But how do we do that? It's very hard in America. The first thing any serious gun control advocate should do in my opinion is taking down 2A. You won't ever get a pistol ban unless you take down 2A. And AR-15s can't be banned thanks to the Supreme Court being republican. But that's hard, and also won't stop guns flowing in from the southern border. My point to all of this is for the US alone to reduce gun deaths. We would need to reduce the number of guns in South America, and North America, but there's more. What about guns from the Philippines, and 3D-printed ones. So my solution to this is even harder to implement than a 2A ban, but it's the only one I can think of.
We would need to stigmatized guns and treat them like cigarettes when it comes to civilian use. Worldwide. In Mexico, in the Philippines, and in the US. That is the only way you can ever get rid of gun deaths that come from guns. But this is by far very hard to do, and while you're doing that climate change just helped create a Category 5 hurricane again in Louisiana, another war in Asia occurs, so you have to divide your attention as a policymaker.
My point to this isn't we shouldn't do anything, it's that it's very hard, and to those of you who say I want to have power which many progressives love accusing me of. I don't. I don't want to have to think about this. I don't want to get emails from one mother whose son or daughter or nonbinary person died, and thinks her issue(related to her kid's death) is the most important issue, and meanwhile, there is a war in X country, a natural disaster in Y country, a crisis in our own country, and another humanitarian disaster in Z country. It's harder than you think. And yes you can delegate tasks, but every official only has so much political capital. the ATF thinks guns, smoking, and alcohol are important, the state department and DOD think the war in Ukraine and China are important, the EPA thinks climate change is important, the CDC thinks Covid is still important, and I guess to an extent they are all right, but not every issue will get solved...