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ck4829's JournalOh, so would Republicans like to use their new powers of clairvoyance on other things?
* Page was an American white supremacist and Army veteran from Cudahy, Wisconsin. Apart from the shooter, all of the dead were members of the Sikh faith.
* A former friend described him as a "loner" and said he had talked about an "impending racial holy war".
* Photographs of Page appeared in media reports showing him with a range of tattoos on his arms and upper body, which were said to show his links to white supremacist organizations.[61]
Buuuuuut...
Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards declined to speculate on the motive behind the attack, saying "I don't know why, and I don't know that we'll ever know, because when he died, that died with him what his motive was or what he was thinking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Sikh_temple_shooting
Why did Jason Dalton do it?
And New Mexico...
Atchison had previously been investigated by the FBI for threatening to commit a mass shooting and had previously been in contact with the 2016 Munich gunman. The investigation was dropped after it was determined he did not own a firearm. The motive for the shooting is disputed, with some organizations arguing the shooting was motivated by far-right extremism and incel ideology, while the sheriff's office stated that there was no evidence the shooting was related to Atchison's views, only that he had "serious issues" and was simply "hell bent on mass casualties for his own personal notoriety"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Aztec_High_School_shooting
So there's no evidence linking Thomas Matthew Crooks being motivated by calls that Trump is a threat to democracy much less politics at all, but Republicans are running with it.
So since Republicans are now apparently gifted from BeYoNd with mental powers beyond normal human understanding, could they solve those disputes above? Tell us the motives... they can do that now, right?
And why stop there?
Where's Judge Crater at?
And during the summer of 1973, in an Indianapolis demolition site, a five ton wrecking ball was stolen, what's up with that, Republicans?
https://books.google.com/books?id=wOdbAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA21&dq=five+ton+wrecking+ball+stolen&article_id=1171,3524988&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMgbGrvamHAxVljYkEHWQpB3wQ6AF6BAgGEAI#v=onepage&q=five%20ton%20wrecking%20ball%20stolen&f=false
So what else could be solved by Republican psychic powers? Heck, why aren't they calling US and telling us the answers to our questions preemptively, right?
A preemptive "Why did Democrats and the left push the right-wing to violence by not catering to their fee-fees?"
It came up recently because of an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled “My Liberal Campus Is Pushing Freethinkers to the Right”. (This widely-ridiculed article was written by a young man the Times identified as a “senior at Princeton”, not mentioning he’s a Republican activist).
Amanda Marcotte wrote about this peculiar phenomenon for Salon last year:
“Murc’s Law” [was] named after a commenter at the blog Lawyers, Guns, and Money who noticed years ago the habitual assumption among the punditry that Republican misbehavior can only be caused by Democrats. Do Republicans reject climate science? Must be because Democrats failed to persuade them! Did Republicans pass unpopular tax cuts for the rich? Must be that Democrats didn’t do enough to guide them to better choices! Do Republicans keep voting for lunatics and fascists? It must be the fault of Democrats for being mean to them! Even D____ T____’s election was widely blamed on Democrats — who voted against him, to be clear — on the bizarre grounds that Barack Obama should have rolled over and just let Mitt Romney win in 2012:
https://whereofonecanspeak.com/2023/03/02/youve-probably-never-heard-of-murcs-law-but-youve-seen-it-in-action-lots-of-times/
President Biden’s campaign jumped on the comment, with a spokesperson saying it shows that former President Trump’s allies are “dreaming of a violent revolution to destroy the very idea of America.” Commentators ranging from former GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) to MSNBC hosts and guests reacted with alarm.
And in the wake of the comment, though without mentioning it, Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 — an initiative led by the conservative think tank that aims to provide a conservative policy blueprint for the next Republican administration and that has also ignited political firestorms. Heritage and Roberts, though, are standing by the comment, dismissing the criticism as being in bad faith.
“Americans in 2024 are in the process of carrying out the Second American Revolution to take power back from the elites and despotic bureaucrats. These patriots are committed to peaceful revolution at the ballot box,” Robers said Wednesday in a post on the social platform X, continuing to describe the threat he sees and warning that “the Left may not allow a peaceful transfer of power.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4757210-heritage-blowback-bloodless-revolution/
Putin is the fifth gunman
US warns Russia about an impending terrorist attack, what's the response?
* Putin publicly rejects it
* But adds (checking notes) the gay community as a whole to "terrorists and extremists"
* Russia continues bombing Ukraine in something that if anyone else did, it would be called terrorism
If you're mad or upset at ISIS for what happened, be sure to also be mad or upset at Putin.
A big part of Project 2025 is that it exists to make "president-ing" easier for Trump
Absolutely, there is a lot of psycho right-wing stuff in it, and this is not to dismiss that, but another critical part of it is about making the office of president easier for Trump and to enable his paranoia about a "deep state", you know the thankless bureaucrats and people in the processes that stop Trump from line item vetoing government money from going to "inner cities" or selling Alaska to Putin for a bag of beans and him name dropping him in a speech where you have to listen and like it or else you get introduced to an open window.
Did Abraham Lincoln need a Project 1861?
Did FDR need a Project 1933?
Did Barack Obama need a Project 2009?
Did Joe Biden need a Project 2021?
So why does this supposedly brilliant businessman and a man who was potus before need a Project 2025?
Question to America: If you are looking for a job, you can face: drug tests, social media checks, reference checks, you
might have account for every single gap in your resume longer than a month, and more. And we're not talking about high profile jobs, or jobs where you'll come into contact with lots of money, jobs operating heavy equipment, or interacting with children and/or vulnerable populations.
I'm talking about minimum and near-minimum wage jobs here.
You know people who have been there.
You know people who are there.
You might have been there.
I have been there.
You NEED a job to pay the bills, to pay the rent, and to put food on the table and you faced this level of scrutiny; and yet you are actually thinking about just handing one to Trump? Why?
You're the hiring manager here, not him. If you saw that resume anywhere else; if he told you in the interview everything was everybody else's fault, that everybody is conspiring against him, that there was record turnover in what he managed, that he circumvented policy to put acting secretaries in place, that he handed out pardons to his inner circle like candy, that drugs were handed out like candy, he just brings crooks like Michael Flynn in, and then there's the state of economy in 2017 vs 2021, that he was impeached twice, and let's not forget the antics on January 6... then would you hire someone who did things like that?
There's a lot of you that complain about affirmative action, about immigrants supposedly taking your jobs, so how would you feel if you were passed over for a job so that someone with a record far worse than your record and accomplishments could have the job?
If you are OK with this level of scrutiny that you face when you look for a job, why not apply it to Donald Trump?
In 2017, our govt called it a 'terrorist tactic' that *COULD* happen. Today, it's a common 'war tactic' used by Russia
Secondary terrorist attack:SECONDARY EXPLOSIVE DEVICE ATTACK TACTICS:
After an initial attack, terrorists may try to target first responders and onlookers by detonating a second explosive device in or around the anticipated safe area or evacuation locations..
Terrorists can conduct secondary attacks by infiltrating suicide bombers into crowds of bystanders or by detonating preset bombs remotely through the use of timers, remote triggers, or motion sensors.
http://web.archive.org/web/20171018172947/https://www.dni.gov/nctc/jcat/index.html
https://www.dni.gov/nctc/jcat/index.html (And current page that still has that up)
To... "double tap":
A Russian missile strike hit civilian infrastructure in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens of others, Ukrainian officials said Friday.
After the first missile struck the Black Sea port city Friday morning, killing and wounding civilians, Ukrainian emergency service personnel who had rushed to the scene were then caught in a second strike, in an attack known as a “double tap” used by Russia throughout more than two years of its war in Ukraine.
“The Russian missile attack killed a paramedic and a rescue worker who had arrived at the scene after the first explosion to provide assistance. There are also heavily injured among the medics and rescuers,” Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa regional military administration, wrote on Telegram.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/least-14-killed-dozens-injured-135301898.html
And back in August:
Of the five, two were said to be civilians, one was a police officer and two were first responders. But the identity of the only woman in the group could not be discerned as her personal belongings were said to have been shredded in the blast.
The Iskander missiles that hit Pokrovsk had been launched 40 minutes apart, known as a “double tap”, leading to death and injury among those who rushed to the scene, near a hotel used by journalists, after the first strike.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/08/russian-strike-on-ukraine-city-kills-five-damaging-hotel-frequented-by-journalists
Women of America - Are you ready to be the next Kate Cox?
Are you ready for Republicans to spill out your history on the media?
Are you ready to be called every name in the book?
Are you ready to not have any privacy?
Are you ready for Republicans to say that you are wrong, that your doctor is wrong in front of the whole world?
If you can get pregnant, then you can be the next Kate Cox.
It's OK everyone, a memo and a video will be sent out. Stop overreacting.
Instead, GOP leaders accuse abortion rights advocates of deliberately spreading misinformation and doctors of intentionally denying services in an effort to undercut the bans and make a political point. At the same time, however, some states are taking steps that they say will provide more clarity about when abortions can be legally performed.
In Oklahoma, the AG sent out a memo in 2022 informing prosecutors and police that doctors should have “substantial leeway” to provide certain abortions. Last year, the office added that patients don’t have to be “septic, bleeding profusely, or otherwise close to death” — but reiterated a past warning that doctors should be prosecuted if there’s evidence they violated the law by providing an abortion when a woman’s life wasn’t actually in danger.
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-bans-exceptions-doctors-lawmakers-7cefca4a248076268c789ea05b367f1a
So relax, the same people who can't tell the difference between sugar and meth are now properly entrusted by the people who don't know anything about a woman's body to decide if a doctor should be prosecuted based on if that woman's life was actually in danger or not. Sure, you could lose your license and go to prison, but all the bases are now covered!
I'm sure everything will be fine now. So stop worrying about it.
While I expect, hope, and am 100% sure Biden will win re-election, it's time to clear something up...
Since a lot of people did say it was unthinkable in 2016 too, so the "unthinkable" could hypothetically happen again in November.
So here's what else will be unthinkable:
'Unity' or 'healing' with conservatives who use "liberal" as a pejorative, who talk about "real America", with people who see scumbags like Michael Flynn and Roger Stone as heroes, with the people who see Ashli Babbitt as some sort of martyr after victim-blaming Breonna Taylor and Elijah McClain
Ignoring Trump supporters suddenly dusting off Romans 13 about the government needing to be submitted to or whatever, oh, I'll notice
Agreeing with Qanon or Mike Lindell or whatever other crackpots you get
Seeing the potus as selected or appointed by God or whatever nonsense you call that
Pointing to the Dow, NASDAQ, or the stock market as a whole as an indicator of a "strong economy" when it was seemingly fine to ignore that for four years
All non-starters, sorry.
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Is there a realistic opportunity for the opposition to increase its support or gain power through elections?0/4
Russia has never experienced a democratic transfer of power between rival groups. Then prime minister Putin became acting president when Boris Yeltsin resigned in late 1999. Putin served two four-year presidential terms from 2000 to 2008, remained the de facto paramount leader when returning to the prime ministership, and again became president in 2012, violating the spirit if not the letter of the constitution’s two-term limit. A 2008 constitutional amendment extended presidential terms to six years, and a 2020 amendment allowed Putin to run for an additional two terms, meaning he could remain in office until 2036.
Opposition politicians and activists are frequently targeted with fabricated criminal cases and other forms of administrative harassment designed to prevent their participation in the political process. Aleksey Navalny was poisoned with a toxic nerve agent in 2020, with evidence later emerging that the FSB poisoned him. Navalny, who sought medical attention in Germany, was arrested upon his return in January 2021 for violating probation. In January 2022, Navalny and eight prominent supporters were added to the government’s terrorist-and-extremist registry. In March, Navalny—who was already imprisoned in a penal colony—received a nine-year sentence over embezzlement and contempt-of-court charges in a politically motivated trial.
Legislation enacted in 2021 banned individuals associated with extremist organizations from running for election. Among other restrictions, Russian citizens who hold a second citizenship or a foreign residence permit and people who have been found guilty of one of 400 criminal and administrative offenses were unable to run for office as of that year. Also in 2021, Golos reported that nearly one-tenth of all Russian adults had effectively been denied the right to run.
https://freedomhouse.org/country/russia/freedom-world/2023
And that's just one 0/4.
That's what Michael Flynn lied for... talking to that 0/4.
That's what Tucker Carlson interviewed... giving legitimacy to that 0/4
That's what Donald Trump wants to have the freedom to attack NATO members... that 0/4
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