That's why they can't go with the obvious route of saying he has dementia issues--the cult wouldn't hear of that. But he can conveniently have a debilitating event or illness. Sure, the cult will have conspiracy theories, which is why they have to be sure to make it look plausible. But even if they have to resort to him having an "unfortunate accident", there's nothing the cult can really do about it, he'll be gone. He's just too unpredictable and uncontrollable for them to let him keep going rogue so much. Destroying the global economy and causing a worldwide depression is not part of their plans.
Gotta also consider the odds that he's not there for much longer anyway. The Project 2025/Heritage Foundation people got JD Vance in as VP as they wanted--he's one of them.
So I've been predicting since he won that the 25th Amendment will be used (if something else doesn't happen to him), probably not until after the midterms so Vance can still run for 2 more terms. They need to set up the right conditions before ousting him, which will be making him look physically incapable of continuing, like saying he's had a stroke or something. Congress/Senate has to believe it so they'll go along with it.
We’ve already had a shooter with a near miss. ... Probably a conservative who feels betrayed or person who is truly far left, (not just a progressive).
That person had been searching for info on the schedules of both Biden and trump. That along with some of the other info we learned about him makes me think it wasn't so much a partisan political motivation as the desire to become famous and/or take someone famous down on his way off the planet.
When thinking of calling the police on someone, you have to first ask yourself, "is this a situation where the significant chance of death to the person versus the amount of danger they pose to others is really a risk worth taking? Because there are definitely cases where the answer is clearly Yes. We don't want to let a victim get killed or raped or beaten by ignoring a threat, but we also don't want to get someone killed when what they're doing requires restraint, but not the death penalty.
But oftentimes the best course isn't clear. In a healthy society, we could call properly trained authorities worthy of being trusted to handle those situations, who would be trained on things like how to de-escalate, how to use only the amount of force actually necessary while ensuring people's safety, and who have been psychologically evaluated to weed out those with personality traits that would make them unsuitable for such a role.
But our police forces are not that--they are basically the exact opposite of that.
They probably read the person who lied/was mistaken in another post and automatically believed them. They're both getting lots of upvotes for saying it was a 12-yo child who called (it was actually a 19-yo). Some people are more into getting upvotes than being accurate.
Where did you get the idea the caller was a 12-year-old? It says in the article he was 19. The victim was 17.
Brad Andres, who took the video, has an auto shop nearby and told the AP he noticed a disturbance when he stepped outside to take a phone call around 5:20 Saturday. His 19-year-old son, Bridger, called 911 and reported it as a domestic dispute in a backyard.
“This was really traumatic for me to watch, for me and my son to be a part of,” Andres said. “My son was the one that called the 911 with the hopes of helping the family deal with the situation that was going on. He had no idea that what was going to transpire.”
How the hell does anyone at this point have no idea what was going to transpire?
It was projected from the beginning there would be short-term financial struggles, and here we are, but it’s necessary to stop getting fleeced by these other countries.
No it wasn't. Trump's whole campaign he touted how he was going to lower prices on Day One, end the war in Ukraine in 48 hours, stop the war in Gaza and blah blah blah. Only when he started fucking around with his on-again off-again tariffs and the undeniable resulting economic damage did they start throwing out the "there will be some temporary pain" messaging.
And the whole story that we were being "fleeced" by other countries is bullshit. He's so stupid. He went on and on about what a "stupid" trade agreement we had with Canada and Mexico but he was the one who negotiated that trade agreement, in his first term. But he apparently can't remember because of his dementia.
It’s a rule, not a law: Viewing it as a law (rather than a rule of thumb or tendency, for instance) would imply that all that is needed is 3.5% peak participation and a campaign will always win. It also implies that if movements don’t achieve that threshold, they cannot succeed. Neither of these implications is necessarily true. Most nonviolent campaigns have succeeded with fewer than 3.5% peak popular participation.
God, I'm sick of these concern trolls trying to dissuade the people from taking action in Every. Single. Thread about protests. You're wrong, go away if you have nothing positive to contribute. We're just getting started.
Nope, they're still full-on MAGATizing out there. If they realize anything yet, it's only subconsciously and they'll never admit it, even to themselves.
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