Nah, fuck this sentiment. Force a vote and be loud about every law that they break. If there’s a contingency of congress that are going to be obtuse about resisting fascism, then they can face the disgruntled mass of voters in the next election. If Dickhead Durbin hadn’t already decided he’s not going to run for reelection I’d be voting him and Tammy Duckworth out for compromising on Republican policies. Instead I’ll only get the pleasure of voting against Tammy in the primaries.
Yeah, and history casts such a golden light on all those jews in concentration and death camps back in the 1930’s and 40’s. Like yeah, I get it. They were being brutally raped, tortured, murdered, and forced to toil and die in their own filth and disease, but I mean come on…they had potato soup to sustain them for quite a while. If they weren’t willing to refuse the food that Nazis brought them, then they may as well been supporting the Holocaust. 🥴
In case it’s not clear. Israel is doing exactly what Nazi Germany did during the Holocaust. They’re committing open genocide against Palestinians and daring the world to intervene for fear of being called antisemetic.
It really doesn’t matter when the number is that large and its the ethics of accepting such a valuable gift anyway. My main concern other than ethics is that it’s going to cost taxpayers a significant amount more to retrofit the plane with defense systems, communications, and redundancies than to just build it that way from scratch. Plus they’ll need to verify security of electrical components and systems as well. All of that will be done on our dime since it will be the Air Force performing all of that.
Every state gets their cut somehow. Illinois’ property tax is just Missouri’s personal property tax or Florida’s sale tax. There’s fluctuations that encourage certain economic activity or attracts people with certain financial situations, but for the most part any variance in the total tax burden is probably weighed out by the benefits of those taxes. In Illinois roads are (somehow) much better than in Missouri despite having probably tens of thousands miles more, education is better, public health is way better, etc. The big one is welfare for farmers down state when crops fail due to flooding or drought.They’re ungrateful little bitches about it(I know because I grew up there) but everyone should have a sense of financial stability if they’re contributing to society.
You may well have a chance. I think he would be a great presidential candidate, but there is a sticking point. I fear that a nonsignificant amount of people who haven’t been hearing about his actions would vote against him or abstain based on his billionaire status.
At the very least you can mute the tab
To give you some hope, I use gesture navigation on my android and to go back I swipe from the right. Problem is, that’s also the gesture for downvoting in the Voyager app. There’s been multiple times that I’ve been done reading comments and want to go back to my feed, so I swipe to got back and accidentally downvote at the same time. Normally I go back into the thread and undo my downvote but I’d bet that I’ve missed it before. It’s subtle when it happens and it happens often enough that it’s probably once or twice a scrolling session.
It’s pretty difficult to kill/do harm to a sitting US president. There’s an entire agency tasked with nothing but ensuring that their life is never physically threatened. In addition there’s probably only about 500,000 people that are physically close enough at any one time. Most people just want to live out their life to the best of their ability. Take care of their kids, spend time with family, enjoy personal activities. Successfully harming the president comes with either a death sentence or life imprisonment. No matter the circumstance. It would set an extraordinarily dangerous precedent if the assailant managed to avoid consequences.
What are you not getting about this situation? She traveled with no issue for 2 decades before this. Why would you need to travel with expungement documents in the first place. That doesn’t apply to travel at all, which is why she was released to get them. Being detained by ICE indefinitely isn’t a “that sucks…but that’s just how it goes sometimes” situation. And that’s why there’s an article about it. But if you want keep licking boots, you might just get to the center. I won’t stop you.
So leaving a town to you is equivalent to the travel it takes to leave the country?
Other than distance traveled, the time afforded to travel said distance, and providing the requisite documents needed to cross a border(which she had), yes. The article doesn’t mention how often she traveled to Ireland. Maybe she went every other year to celebrate Christmas with her family.
Especially when you say “I never equated hometown and country. I merely used it as a metaphor” I never did… but did. Your two sentences directly contradict.
No, using a metaphorical comparison does not literally equate the two things being compared. A metaphor suggests that one thing is like another in some figurative or symbolic way, not that they are literally the same.
She thought her stuff was expunged. Which clearly it wasn’t since apparently they pulled it up. If it’s still in the records somewhere…
It says in the article that she presented them with documentation of the expungement of her charges. So if she was able to provide them with documentation, it clearly took place. It shouldn’t take a law degree to figure out that having your criminal records expunged doesn’t wipe any trace of them from government databases. It only removes them from the public eye and prevents them from coming up during background checks for things like housing or employment. The government would still have a record of her prior convictions.
I read my comment back to myself and realized that I wasn’t as clear as I intended to be. I think that what the Reverend is doing here is right and just in the ‘eyes of the Lord’ so to speak. No complaints there. But what I’m meaning to point out is that they are detaining him for not praying the right way while they are (by the word of their own book) hypocrites, praying on ‘street corners’ to be seen by the masses.
Was she leaving the country legally? Yes.
Was she re-entering the country legally? Yes.
Did she ever have a warrant out for her arrest during those times that she left the country? No.
That’s the bottom line. But for the sake of the argument, I never equated hometown and country. I merely used it as a metaphor to show you how travelling to her home country doesn’t qualify her as a flight risk.
Because that’s a broad generalization that’s based on the assumption that being well-traveled makes you more likely to flee the law. Her continual travel to and from her home country has no bearing on whether or not she poses a flight risk. If that were true, anyone that moves away from home and regularly travels by car to and from their hometown should be held in custody.
You’re aware that ‘flight risk’ isn’t a literal term right? Like, it doesn’t mean that there’s a chance they’re going to board a plane and fly away lol
I’m no theocratic scholar, but I grew up catholic and would still consider myself to be catholic despite not practicing by attending church. I’ve also never read the bible, but if I’m not mistaken, I’m pretty sure there’s a passage in there that says prayers should be private acts and calls people that grandstand their praying efforts hypocrites. I certainly wouldn’t say that’s what this Reverend is doing, but I’ve thought for years that christian nationalists were doing explicitly what is mentioned in the bible as hypocrisy.
They can advertise it as being as capable as a toyota tacoma as much as they want but it will never be true. The tacoma has been widely regarded as one of the most reliable trucks of all time and without getting exact numbers has way more cargo capacity than the telo. They should just market it and sell it for what it is. A much needed introduction to the world of micro trucks in urban spaces for north america.
Unrelated, it’s crazy to me that Xerox has remained in the lexicon for so long.
I did verify.
51% is awfully close for me to have such harsh feelings towards a town investing in clean energy despite being founded due to coal. But I won’t dissuade anyone from sharing that sentiment.
I’ve no idea how arancini have not migrated across the globe. It’s unbelievable. My first time encountering it was at a local pizza place in Rome. It’s a little off the tourists locations, but its called ‘Mastro Donato Pizza Gourmet’. If ever you’re in Rome, I would highly recommend.