WoodScientist @ WoodScientist @sh.itjust.works Posts 0Comments 345Joined 1 mo. ago
Why would you post this trash? If people want to read chatgpt's takes, they can access it themselves.
I didn't realize courts could punish people by banishing them to Poland, let alone for a period of 8 years!
My own spouse, but...as the statisticians would say, that is not really two independent samples.
Tankies get paid in vodka and cigarettes
I choose to believe this is literally true. Like Russia or China is running this really, really weird international psyop. They find depressed edgy American teenagers online, and literally send them shipments of vodka and cigarettes, on the explicit bargain that they have to post Russian or CCP propaganda. Or Hell, maybe it's North Korea doing it. You know, it has to be North Korea. This feels like their type of weird. Regardless of the source, it's a vast shill/edge lord army literally paid for in vodka and cigarettes smuggled over the border. I know it's ridiculous and completely impractical logistically. But damn it, I do not care. From now on this will be my internal image of tankies. American teenagers literally paid in North Korean vodka and cigarettes.
Place sea mines defending the cables. Post maps for civilian ships to keep out of the mine zones. Anyone goes near the cables anyway? Well, you were warned.
Want to stand up? Publicly announce now that you will vote to convict him on an impeachment resolution. There will never be an impeachment resolution going through the House now. Even if there was somehow Republican support for it, it would die in the Senate. But if half of the Republican Senators came out and publicly said, "are are willing to vote to convict Trump and remove him from office now. Send us an impeachment and we will quickly hold a trial and convict him."
THAT is what standing up as a Republican senator actually looks like right now. Until she is willing to do that, she's just another traitor to the Republic.
Doomerism will doom us all. Fatalism is fatal.
That ruling has been grossly exaggerated by doomers. In practice, the ruling means very little difference for the actual running of an administration. Trump was the first president to ever face prosecution, and plenty of presidents have done incredibly shady things. There has been a decades-long taboo against prosecuting former presidents. And even after what Trump did, the prosecution was still very careful to only go after things that weren't covered in his duties. The SCOTUS did rule the previous Justice department consensus into law, but they didn't say that the president has complete immunity for all acts. The SCOTUS set themselves up as the final arbiter of what was an official act or not, but they DID NOT provide absolute immunity. Spreading FUD helps no one.
Also, the ruling only applied to the president, not to his administration. He may not be prosecutable for violating many laws, but his underlings still are. In theory, the president could simply continually issue daily pardons for everyone in the executive branch, pardoning them of all federal law violations. But that's actually incredibly dangerous for a president to do. For example, if a president were daily issuing a pardon for everyone in the White House, what's to stop the White House chef from introducing a slow poison into his food that will take several days to take effect? Or maybe Musk would use his new control of the Treasury to literally just steal every penny Trump personally owns. If you don't use broad blanket pardons, then many lackeys will have to risk criminal prosecution to follow your illegal orders. But if you do use broad blanket pardons, you could end up pardoning people you never intended to. If you're a president issuing frequent pardons to all of your staff, you could easily end up pardoning someone who is attempting to rob or kill you.
Oh, and many illegal actions employees might be asked to carry out are illegal under both state and federal law. Trump may simply refuse to prosecute any federal violations, but that won't stop state charges. And while federal agents have some legal protections when carrying out their legal duties, that doesn't apply to illegal actions. A state can't arrest an IRS agent for just doing their job, but they can certainly arrest an IRS agent if they decide to become a serial killer. Eventually this kind of conflict can lead to civil war. But that would only increase Trump's chances of being assassinated. And I bring up assassination because that's the fate many wannabee dictators end up meeting. Trump himself has faced at least two assassination attempts, and it's something he likely thinks about daily. He has to realize that if he pushes things far enough, a Secret Service agent might even just take one for the team.
You can't prove me wrong!
Alright Rorschach...
The universe was created last Wednesday morning at precisely 7:26 AM Greenwich mean time. It was created with everyone's memories and the whole physical structure of the universe arranged so that things appear much older than they are.
I know the best way to prevent spam. Well, specifically I know someone who does. He happens to be the leading expert in spam mitigation. In fact, he's so good, he was arrested for it, and his history purged from the net. I would give you a name, but that would only make his treatment in prison even worse.
Thankfully, I have a few connections that I can use to free him. He's currently being held in a remote Russian prison, but the guards are corrupt. For a mere $10k USD or so, I can free him. Please direct donations to Bitcoin address xjejksoej28sj77.
I just send my stuff to Jim sometime in February or March, and he takes care of it.
The woods.
Well we just need to find some sort of latter-day Napoleon, and we're off to the races!
The flaw with this scenario is that it assumes Trump would try to simply cancel the elections. Instead, he would be more likely to regulate them in a way that makes unseating him impossible. For example, federal regulations might be implemented that required states to use voting machines, voting machines that are produced by corrupted companies. He just straight up steals the election through rigged voting machines. Or they mess with registrations and voter purges to a level more than the amount that already got Trump elected this time. See the SAVE Act..
Or alternatively, the election systems themselves will be unaffected. However, the candidates will be carefully managed. Any Democratic candidate that would present a significant threat to MAGA will be arrested on trumped-up charges. The courts will miraculously cease to give the Democratic candidate the same leeway they did to Trump when they "didn't want to interfere with the election." Or he'll manipulate the Democratic elites so much that they end up electing someone even more conservative. They end up running Ted Cruz or something insane like that.
Remember, even the citizens of the Soviet Union got to have elections.
If an insured denies a rightful claim, they should have to pay for it three fold. They should have to pay for the actual treatment. Then an equal amount should be paid to any lawyer or patient advocate. And the company should have to cut a check for an equal amount for the patient.
The problem is right now there's no downside to wrongfully denying a claim. Worst that happens is that insurance later ends up paying what they would pay anyway. There needs to be a strong financial disincentive to wrongfully denying claims.
Obviously this means that with the US fallen to fascism, only France can carry on the light. France will liberate us all!!!
You know what? At that point, I think I might just be done with computers.
Trump's next executive order: all computers in the US must be sold with two floppy drives pre-installed.