Good. Wish he’d done it a year ago, or 4 years ago.

Holy shit… this isn’t an Onion article?

The reason is that one is trained to (supposedly) keep the peace and prevent and investigate crimes. The other is trained to kill people. Military methods are incompatible with effective police work.

Up to a year, up to. I’m betting on 1 month of home confinement.

Clearly, such pardons would be intended to tell his followers that if they commit crimes to help him, he will pardon them for those crimes. I don’t see how this could have any other effect than encouraging more violence.

Too autobot-ish.

Member of Parliment.

Following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation announcement on Monday, Trump claimed credit for the decision, saying that people in Canada “love” the idea of becoming a U.S. state. This prompted Ford to make his own comments about acquiring U.S. territories.

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus rejected the idea outright, pointing to differences in the nations’ laws. Angus stated on X that Canada has rules preventing “sexual abusers” from becoming leaders, a clear reference to allegations against Trump.

I would love to have seen Trump’s face when he heard that rejection.

The department attempted to contain the fallout by quietly adopting a new social media policy in July 2015 that explicitly prohibits discriminatory speech and threatens termination for violations.

Makes sense. We don’t care if you’re racist, just don’t advertise it because it makes the department look bad.

No evidence of that so far has been released. Terrorism is an act or threat of violence to try and force political or cultural change. If this person just killed themself like this without having some sort of manifesto or working with some group trying to force political or social change, then it’s just a dramatic suicide. My money is that it’s terrorism of some sort, though, and the authorities just haven’t released or found the evidence of it yet.

Here’s a situation where I would probably support the use of extraordinary rendition.

From another article…

While some early Tesla models, including the Model S, were prone to spontaneously catch fire if they suffered underbody damage, it’s unlikely the Cybertruck, which has been recalled seven times since it went on sale in November 2023, was released with a similar flaw.

Nah, no chance a cybertruck would have the same flaw. No chance at all, am I right?

Is this an omen for the new year or just a fitting metaphor for it?

Oh, I wasn’t meaning to suggest you were wrong. I’ve actually feel that Falken’s statement there makes perfect sense. Falken only goes wrong when he refuses to act to stop WW III on the assumption that since it’s going to happen eventually, why not now?

I imagine that the hold up was trying to find out who his friends are and what they were preparing for.

The neighbor reported that Mr. Spafford had told him that he and his friends were “preparing for something” that he “would not be able to do alone,” the court papers said.

My suspicion is that he and his friends were planning on taking out Harris (and maybe others) if she won the election. Since Trump won, they are moving now before he and his friends can dispose of evidence.

You sound a lot like Dr. Falken from Wargames.

I’ve planned ahead. We’re just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light and we’re vaporized. Much more fortunate than millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath.

It’s a great way to keep the UFO nuts contained. Let them scurry around the surrounding area as much as they want. Occasionally arrest one who gets too insistent and the others will take that as confirmation that something big is hidden there.

Some barely secret aircraft, a whole lot of accounting and clerical staff, and a tremendous amount of security to make it seem like there are major secrets being protected there. That is what I would put at the world’s most well known secret base, anyway.

Right about the :42 mark, the old man pretty much taps the cop in the chest with the back of his fingers. You can also see it in the body cam footage. It was a very slight tap and I very much doubt the cop even felt it through his body armor. This was a massive over reaction from the cop. He should have been charged and the AG is dead wrong here. Frankly, old people do not heal well from falls and breaks. I won’t be surprised if he ends up dying as a result of these injuries.

Never talk to the cops unless you absolutely have to, but if you do, keep your hands completely to yourself, particularly if you are a minority. Use lots of pleases and thank yous and yes, sirs. Otherwise, the cop may just decide to kick your ass and they will get away with it.

You’re just trying to stir shit up for no reason.

They are stirring shit up to, I assume, advocate for change.