Who is on the side of ending qualified immunity: pretty much anyone who isn't a cop or authoritarian.
As much as the votes on reproductive rights and cannabis gave me hope, the legislature’s responses on both left me cold, as some of these scumbags are not above ignoring the will of the electorate, and with the way the winds are blowing now, I’d not put it past them to move forward now to do just that.
I think there’s potential of the issue passing—as with the aforementioned reproductive rights and cannabis measures—but I fully expect a ballot issue on abolishing QI to meet a whole bunch of rigging and disenfranchisement fuckery, plus I fear that people may be intimidated or otherwise discouraged from voting altogether.
Okay but how about compensation for all those people he’s fucked over by dismantling federal programs? I want this guy to be standing by a freeway on-ramp wearing a barrel and begging in vain for spare change, before dejectedly walking up said on-ramp to lie down in front of an oncoming cement truck.
Spot-on re: 1. When I saw that I thought, “why fucking bother with these people?” Don’t Coachella/Burning Man/SXSW demographics comprise primarily techbros and other guillotine fodder nowadays?
It’s by design though, isn’t it? Are there even any crypto green flags? Why are any of these ventures treated as anything other than rug-pull scams?
I’d once heard that it wasn’t even about West Virginia, the state, but rather west Virginia, the region. Dunno about the veracity of that statement, but
In practice, the whole point is to draw it out, to maximize fear and suffering, it’s not a bug. I’m surprised they actually allowed the firing squad to go forward.
Man, I’m not convinced that this would change much. Nearly twenty years ago, I’d listened to something about the death penalty, in which the sister of a murder victim was interviewed; she was told that there was incontrovertible evidence that the person on death row for her sister’s murder was in fact the wrong guy. She replied, “I don’t care, someone has to pay for my sister’s death.” Because we have the death penalty in place explicitly for the purpose of exacting revenge rather than serving justice, there will always be someone who relishes the opportunity to carry out the execution, just out of blind rage.
UPS has always been hit or miss at best in my experience, but of the three, I’ll concede that it’s the least garbage. The other two have delivered packages to the wrong house—not as in like, “next door” wrong house, but as in “some house miles away” wrong house—or they sometimes just flat out don’t deliver a package and return it to the sender. If they do deliver a package, it’s rarely on time.
As for USPS, nowadays, my wife has tracked packages to see that they are brought to our local mail sorting facility, but then for some bizarre, inexplicable reason, they’re sent off elsewhere, even to another state, before being delivered here days later than the estimated delivery date. I have no idea what the hell is happening, but it’s insane and insanely stupid. And I know who is to blame, at least with this service anyway.
Wasn’t he just an enlisted PR stooge?
They’re all shit too. Fat lot of good privatization would do. USPS was Cool and Good until DeJoy was dropped in to throw wrenches into the cogs.
It’s Final Destination 1488, coming to theaters not any time soon
Actually genuinely surprised at this, even more so that it’s a bipartisan bill, even more more so that they’re paying attention to polling.
I fully expect it to go nowhere.
Unrelated [saw it in a link], Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio Governor?! Christ, no.
I fully expect him to win. Sorry, been a doomer for months now.
When someone asks me what I do, I list hobbies. I’m not my job.
Any plane the President is on board is designated Air Force One. I know you’re half joking, but
I got a text from the dealership that sold me my car asking if I’m interested in a new car. I’m not anyway, but I responded that I’m not going to buy anything from them as these dumbass tariffs are coming. Too bad, so sad, I bet they voted for this shit too.
They drove me away with those tactics before I ever saw they were on YouTube. No, Donald Trump was not EVISCERATED by a tweet that he -couldn’t- -didn’t- couldn’t read, kick rocks with that dumb Avenatti hashtag resist horseshit
He cares. It’s all [self-]image. He doesn’t care whether they care or not, it’s a blow to his ego. It’s the Hindenburg.
I imagine these people in ICE have their dream jobs, they’re just not getting as much done as they want Those nuclear weapons inspectors who were fired, on the other hand, yeah
I think that has crossed the minds of a lot of people in the last several months, mine included