We’ll just have to increase taxes until they can’t afford surveillance I guess.

Yeah. People who want bleak hopelessness already have non fiction, fiction is for the rest of us.

Progressives are well known for their love of domestic surveillance, so this makes sense.

/S

He will do it again. This is why we need to convict, remove, imprison, and execute before he can be pardoned.

I always thought it was a missed opportunity that he didn’t volunteer for the Voyager mission when it passed DS9. It would just have been a month or two and they could really use his experience.

Turns out my Lemmy app Summit, crashes instead of editing. I would have said this in an edit, but…

I see how that could be unclear and will edit.

Nawar Al-Awlaki, a US citizen, was killed January 29, 2017 in a raid on an Al Quaeda training facility in Yemen along with as many as 29 other (Yemeni) civilians.

From the article:

The raid in Yemen was described as “risky from the start and costly in the end”; the “botched” operation raised questions about the choice to go forward with the raid “without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations”.

Her father Anwar, also a US citizen, was killed by drone strike in 2011.

People at the time criticized Obama for ordering the drone strike and killing a US citizen, which is valid and one of the great failures of his term, but Nawar’s murder was worse in every way and I only ever see it as a footnote.

This isn’t trump’s first time murdering children. People give Obama shit for the extrajudicial murder of Anwar Al-Awlaki, but nobody batted an eye when trump killed his 8 year old daughter a few years later.

Plus all those kids he killed with Epstein, but we don’t get to see those files.

That’s a “Hell No” from me!

Now that she’s unemployed and unemployable, she needs a hobby and new skills. Learning to count numbers over her finger quantity will be an exciting journey for her. I only hope she stays out of the headlines forever.

If the ratings aren’t high, is it even news?

The Republicans murdered civilians in Iran, Venezuela, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, Minnesota, and all across the US.

They fully turned ICE into the gestapo and have used it to terrorize citizens and legal immigrants and intimidate or murder legal dissenters

They poisoned an already unbalanced media landscape.

They destroyed national parks and monuments up to and including the White House.

They have openly flaunted corruption in all branches of government to criminalize abortion which certain justices deemed established law in their confirmation hearings, accept presidential emoluments from foreign nations, destroy public scientific databases and erode public institutions.

They abandoned our allies and global commitments to create a dangerous global security and food situation for decades to come and completely zeroed out US trust and soft power.

What is too far? What the fuck could possibly be too far? Instead, be afraid that you Democrats don’t do enough, cementing in our minds that your party is useless, which will lead to the next situation being worse than the current one.

I’ve heard this is the case and book 8 sure feels like the whole worlds are ending

Read the whole series this far twice and eagerly await the last two books and the TTRPG

Some people don’t like it. Biggest stumbling block seems to be book 1.

Met more than a few people who won’t read it at all because we who have read it keep trying to tell them how good it is. If you’re one of those people, the book is too good for you and I forbid you to read it. We don’t want your kind in our fandom.

You have to stop trump from stealing the money before any will be spent to the benefit of the people.

Bearded and (I’m guessing) polyamorous.

• Hegseth: pardon for war crimes, prison, then back to Fox News

• Miller: murders his wife after his promotion, gets a pardon, dies in a bunker like his hero instead of surrendering to police

• RFK Jr: trades on his family name, takes a deal, a few years in club fed where he dies from raw milk but everyone treats it like a big conspiracy

• Vance: tries to leave the party, tries to make a deal, writes a “tell-all”, stabbed by a methed up magat for betraying trump while shopping for a new chaise longe

• Don Jr: flees the country

• Bovino: prison

• Patel: represents himself at trial, prison, tries to bribe a guard, more prison, Fox News contract until a sex scandal

• Rubio: flees to become viceroy of Venezuela but dies there at the hands of Venezuelan military coup

• Big Balls: tries to snitch, gets blamed for all Musk crimes, dies in prison under mysterious circumstances leaving an email confession for impersonating Elon in all matters including the Epstein stuff

• Natalie: light prison followed by Fox News but quickly ages out and is replaced

Federalist society membership should be an automatic disqualifier.

Behold, a man!