US Politics

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, JCon said:

Funny how you can steal millions and get a minor fine that only covers part of the criming.

But, if you were to steal a pack of gum, someone could legally shoot you. 

What a country! 

To underline your point- the US courts have established that it is ok for a cop to shoot someone without provocation if that officer "feels" threatened, but anyone who is stopped by police is not allowed to become agitated when an officer puts a gun in their face in an otherwise non-threatening situation. What?

[Tracker]

Superintendent: Official Learned Of Weapon Before Student Shot Teacher

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Administrators at the Virginia school where a first-grader shot his teacher last week learned the child may have had a weapon in his possession before the shooting but did not seize the 9mm handgun he brought to his classroom, the school system’s superintendent said.

School system Superintendent George Parker told parents Thursday night in an online meeting that a school official was notified about the weapon before the 6-year-old shot the teacher at Richneck Elementary in Newport News.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/school-shooting-newport-news_n_63c17eace4b0fe267cb9af54

[JCon]

3 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Superintendent: Official Learned Of Weapon Before Student Shot Teacher

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Administrators at the Virginia school where a first-grader shot his teacher last week learned the child may have had a weapon in his possession before the shooting but did not seize the 9mm handgun he brought to his classroom, the school system’s superintendent said.

School system Superintendent George Parker told parents Thursday night in an online meeting that a school official was notified about the weapon before the 6-year-old shot the teacher at Richneck Elementary in Newport News.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/school-shooting-newport-news_n_63c17eace4b0fe267cb9af54

The principal should have gunned down the student. Might hit a few other students but that's the price you need to pay for freedom. 

[Tracker]

12 minutes ago, JCon said:

The principal should have gunned down the student. Might hit a few other students but that's the price you need to pay for freedom. 

This is life in America:

[bustamente]

Soon the House will have Captain's of industries, self made zillionaires, people that invented a cure for cancer, have been to the moon and back. Thanks George Santos for the blueprint of being a liar and getting a seat at the table.

[17to85]

40 minutes ago, JCon said:

The principal should have gunned down the student. Might hit a few other students but that's the price you need to pay for freedom. 

America, **** YEAH!

[bigg jay]

1 hour ago, Tracker said:

This is life in America:

Grabbing the wrong item could make for an bit of an awkward situation.  😂

[Tracker]

19 minutes ago, bigg jay said:

Grabbing the wrong item could make for an bit of an awkward situation.  😂

Either way, there would be excitement and a lot of heavy breathing.

Edited January 13, 2023 by Tracker

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, bustamente said:

Soon the House will have Captain's of industries, self made zillionaires, people that invented a cure for cancer, have been to the moon and back. Thanks George Santos for the blueprint of being a liar and getting a seat at the table.

 

                                   

[bustamente]

AG Barr told anyone who would listen that you can indict a sitting POTUS, so why investigate. Personally since nobody is above the law I think you should be able to investigate. anyways a lot of this garbage wouldn't be happening right now if Garland had the balls to arrest Trump for you know breaking the law and stealing classified documents

[Tracker]

                                                Ammunition Bulk Display in Boise, Idaho- ammo by the pound

 

                                         

[Tracker]

Alabama Attorney General Pledges To Prosecute Women Who Take Abortion Pills

A spokesperson for state Attorney General Steve Marshall said that although Alabama’s near-total abortion ban does not penalize a pregnant woman seeking an illegal abortion, he plans to rely on an older law to prosecute people seeking abortion care in the state. 
A spokesperson for state Attorney General Steve Marshall said that although Alabama’s near-total abortion ban does not penalize a pregnant woman seeking an illegal abortion, he plans to rely on an older law to prosecute people seeking abortion care in the state. 
Alabama’s attorney general confirmed what many abortion rights advocates have warned for years: Women can be prosecuted for using medication abortion, despite the state’s abortion ban explicitly stating it does not criminalize the pregnant person.

A spokesperson for state Attorney General Steve Marshall told the conservative outlet 1819 News last week that although Alabama’s near-total abortion ban, the Human Life Protection Act, does not penalize a pregnant woman seeking an illegal abortion, he plans to rely on an older law to prosecute people seeking abortion care in the state.
“The Human Life Protection Act targets abortion providers, exempting women ‘upon whom an abortion is performed or attempted to be performed’ from liability under the law,” a spokesperson for Marshall told the conservative outlet, and first flagged by feminist writer Jessica Valenti.

“It does not provide an across-the-board exemption from all criminal laws, including the chemical-endangerment law — which the Alabama Supreme Court has affirmed and reaffirmed protects unborn children,” the spokesperson added. Marshall’s office did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alabama-attorney-general-pledges-to-prosecute-women-who-take-abortion-pills_n_63c1a323e4b0fe267cb9f55c

[bustamente]

Trumps deposition in the E Jean Carroll case has been released and he is as stupid as everyone thinks he is. 

[Tracker]

John Kelly manipulated Donald Trump to befriend Kim Jong Un to prevent all-out war: book

New York Times correspondent Michael Schmidt is publishing a paper back copy of his book, Donald Trump v. The United States, that will feature a 12,000-word addition that includes new information he discovered after publication about the relationship the former president had with Gen. John Kelly.

Kelly, who served as Trump's second chief of staff, became increasingly concerned about the rhetoric that Trump was using publicly and in private to taunt North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Coming into the position, Kelly was shocked to learn that Trump was completely unmoved by the chance of thousands of people dying if Kim decided to bomb something.

"When Kelly said ‘this could destroy the economy’ he thought it was something that might appeal to Trump’s love of his own economy. Trump didn’t appreciate that," Schmidt told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace. "It was only after Kelly suggested to Trump ‘why don’t you become his friend? No one in history has ever done that.’ He knew it would never lead to a denuclearized North Korea but it would ratchet back the public and private rhetoric that was spinning out of control."

It's exactly what Trump did and it's how America was saved from going to war with North Korea over the egos of the two leaders.

"It's the indifference to death that I've never seen so starkly," she said. "We knew that Trump had an indifference to suffering in the spiked wall he wanted at the southern border and the nukes he wanted to shoot into Mexico. But the indifference in your telling of Kelly's efforts to educate him on the horrors and the heinous nature of war feels like an inflection point for kelly."

Schmidt agreed, saying that no person understood the horrors of war more than Kelly, particularly when he lost his son in the post-9/11 wars.

"And he's trying to explain to Trump what this could look like, what a DMZ with North and South Korea firing on each other could look like. How this could all spin into ways that could lead to missiles flying all over the place," said Schmidt. "And it didn't work to connect to Trump. He couldn't connect to Trump that way. It was only through Kelly, saying to Trump, 'You can be the deal maker. Go all the way back to Eisenhower. No one has done this. You can do this.' And Trump goes along with it."

It explains the about-face that the public saw between Trump and Kim from taunting each other on Twitter to writing "love letters."

https://www.alternet.org/john-kelly-manipulated-donald-trump/

[Tracker]

Kari Lake Says If She's Not Made Arizona Governor, America Will 'Turn Into A Venezuela'


Failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake insisted in an interview Friday that if she is not made governor of Arizona, the U.S. will turn into Venezuela.

The Donald Trump-backed Republican raised the specter of a Venezuelan America in an interview with far-right student agitator Charlie Kirk.

Lake lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs in November, the election has been certified and Hobbs has taken office. Lake also lost a court case last month challenging the election result and has since appealed.

“There’s a boatload of evidence in our favor,” Lake baselessly claimed in the interview. “We just need a judge to wake up and realize what’s on the line here, and if we do not restore honest elections right now, our country will turn into a Venezuela. We have Venezuelan-style elections, and this is how you destroy a country.”

Ironically, the ascension to power by someone who isn’t chosen in a free election is typical of authoritarian leadership in Venezuela, not in an American democracy.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kari-lake-governor-or-venezuela_n_63c22194e4b0b2e15071b4ca

[17to85]

30 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Kari Lake Says If She's Not Made Arizona Governor, America Will 'Turn Into A Venezuela'


Failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake insisted in an interview Friday that if she is not made governor of Arizona, the U.S. will turn into Venezuela.

The Donald Trump-backed Republican raised the specter of a Venezuelan America in an interview with far-right student agitator Charlie Kirk.

Lake lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs in November, the election has been certified and Hobbs has taken office. Lake also lost a court case last month challenging the election result and has since appealed.

“There’s a boatload of evidence in our favor,” Lake baselessly claimed in the interview. “We just need a judge to wake up and realize what’s on the line here, and if we do not restore honest elections right now, our country will turn into a Venezuela. We have Venezuelan-style elections, and this is how you destroy a country.”

Ironically, the ascension to power by someone who isn’t chosen in a free election is typical of authoritarian leadership in Venezuela, not in an American democracy.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kari-lake-governor-or-venezuela_n_63c22194e4b0b2e15071b4ca

Feel like we need this: 

 

[bustamente]

45 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Kari Lake Says If She's Not Made Arizona Governor, America Will 'Turn Into A Venezuela'


Failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake insisted in an interview Friday that if she is not made governor of Arizona, the U.S. will turn into Venezuela.

The Donald Trump-backed Republican raised the specter of a Venezuelan America in an interview with far-right student agitator Charlie Kirk.

Lake lost to Democrat Katie Hobbs in November, the election has been certified and Hobbs has taken office. Lake also lost a court case last month challenging the election result and has since appealed.

“There’s a boatload of evidence in our favor,” Lake baselessly claimed in the interview. “We just need a judge to wake up and realize what’s on the line here, and if we do not restore honest elections right now, our country will turn into a Venezuela. We have Venezuelan-style elections, and this is how you destroy a country.”

Ironically, the ascension to power by someone who isn’t chosen in a free election is typical of authoritarian leadership in Venezuela, not in an American democracy.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kari-lake-governor-or-venezuela_n_63c22194e4b0b2e15071b4ca

If she stops spewing this **** rubes will stop giving free money and she will have to find a real job, those nouveau Karen haircuts just don't happen

[bustamente]

It's incredulous that people still put this **** stain on a pedestal, how on earth they could of made him President is all that should be used to reform the electoral college.

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

This was totally expected... Everyone knew this was going to go this way... even so- it's still kind of astounding to see an audience being treated as such ******* brainless sheep... not to mention how obscenely hypocritical this is. 

 

So expected- still jarring. 

 

 

 

**** these dishonest rage farmers. 

 

Seriously just GTFO.

Edited January 14, 2023 by Wanna-B-Fanboy

[JCon]

The right is always projecting. 

[17to85]

1 hour ago, JCon said:

The right is always projecting. 

At this point I am not sure if it even is projection... I think they really are lost and just assume that because they are this horrible the other side has to be doing all these same things as well and are just better at hiding it.

[Goalie]

The USA will be the reason the world ends sooner Rather than later.  Honestly just start the civil war and let's see who wins. Republicans vs Democrats live @ Wrestlemania!! Fight to the death.. death... death... 

 

AOC AOC.. it's Kari lake from behind with an assault rifle,  takes out AOC.. look out it's Grampa Joe opening a can of woop ass, and he can't seem to open it. 

 

Just a circus there 

Edited January 14, 2023 by Goalie

[Tracker]

3 hours ago, bustamente said:

It's incredulous that people still put this **** stain on a pedestal, how on earth they could of made him President is all that should be used to reform the electoral college.

Trump isn't just stupid. He is powerful, unassailably and utterly ignorant, possessing no self-awareness at all.

[bustamente]

This will surprise no one but a Republican committee chairman who said they didn't need to investigate Trump and the stolen classified document wants Biden head on a pike for handing over classified documents.

[JCon]

1 hour ago, bustamente said:

This will surprise no one but a Republican committee chairman who said they didn't need to investigate Trump and the stolen classified document wants Biden head on a pike for handing over classified documents.

Biden just used his mind to declassify them. That's what passes for unclassified among the morons.