Are you sure? Because I’ve heard the mysterious female body has ways of “shutting that down”. If, for some unfathomable reason, she doesn’t want to be raped.
Let’s face it, nobody really knows what goes on down there.
We all know there’s no solving “woman problems”, so they’re going to have to live with them in jail.
It’s just a mystery, I tell you!
No, you got that backwards. Her body can “shut that whole thing down” if she is raped, so that she does not end up carrying the rapist’s spawn – unless, of course, she has a secret urge to get pregnant (whether she is aware of it or not).
Pirates vs. Drug Lords sounds like a cheapo action movie, similar to Dracogator vs. Colossal Boa Or somesuch. I’m sure it would be the perfect answer to the drug problem, and I encourage all Republicans to enlist on a privateer.
First bounty hunters to round up undocumented immigrants, now pirates to target drug cartels.
Officially sanctioned bully thugs to carry out dubious government actions. How wonderful.
Maybe they should all get special shirts to signify their status. Something sedate to emphasize their serious role. I’m thinking a nice Park Ranger brown.
What a horrorshow idea!
(I’m getting Clockwork Orange vibes from that.)
The one I’m half watching/waiting for (more than actually expecting it) is …
Depending on how far they took it, it could be an unprecedented (upward) transfer of wealth to the (publicly-traded) private sector.
It’s wildly unpopular, yet it’s both the kind of thing this oligarchy/kleptocracy/corporatocracy/kakistocracy should drool over and the kind of thing that an administration who feels emboldened, and that they can act with impunity, might be tempted to do.
Maybe most important: think what it would do for the net worth of basically every single one of Trump’s appointees, his buddies (Forbes 400 types), Trump himself, and his family.
The ultimate grift.
This is going to be a long 4 years.
These screenshots are from this imgur post (not mine) but come from this reddit post:
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That reminds me of what happened when I worked for a Native American tribe.
They are run by an elected council, and there was a complete takeover at one point while I worked there. Every member of the council was voted out and replaced by new people (all of the folks were from feuding families, both old and new council members) and they went through and fired just about everyone in a leadership position within tribal administration.
The IT department I belonged to went from a team of 6 to a team of 2. My boss, my boss’s boss, and his boss (who ran the entire tribal administration) were all fired. I ended up having nobody to report to except some 20-year-old kid who had just been elected to the council, who to be fair was a nice guy but had no idea what he was doing and had no power to do anything (because everyone else on the council just told him what to do).
I saw rules being violated left and right, saw everything falling apart, and I no longer had a budget or any backing to change anything. My biggest concern was that we had a failing network (made of a hodge-podge of switches and routers bought on the cheap over the years) and absolutely no backup system in place for our servers or any other data, which was something that my department was in the process of replacing before most of them got fired and I suddenly had no way to continue the project.
It also didn’t help that certain council members came in and started getting mad at how we were doing our jobs, even though we were following all of the rules set by the council. The new council could sit down and rewrite the rules if they wanted to, but they didn’t want to bother; they just wanted what they wanted and wanted it right now, and it didn’t matter if you broke the rules in the process because they were telling you to do it. I even had one lady literally screaming and throwing things at us like a kid, this was a lady in her 60s who hated that we didn’t just immediately do what she told us without asking any questions (even to clarify what she needed).
I got my ass out of there before a disaster happened and I became a scapegoat as the only person left with any responsibility. (While I still had one coworker, she was completely desktop support and I was the network administrator, so it would fall on my head, and there could even be legal liability if something really bad happened because things weren’t in compliance.)
I think I know exactly how it must feel for them to be working in federal government right now. Suddenly your bosses are incompetent, vindictive clowns, critical things are coming to a screeching halt, and you can barely do your job anymore, and certainly can’t do it properly or safely. It’s a nightmare.
Now that he’s getting death threats, he was just joking.
But I’m not sure what to make of it.
“When a bill has been filed that would regulate what a man is able to do with his own body in his own home, it suddenly has people in an uproar,” he said in a statement on his official Instagram page, saying he created the proposal to highlight the “double standards in legislation.”
So, was he serious and now he’s walking it back or was this always the endgame.
Poe’s Law is a harsh mistress.
No, his whole point from the get-go was to shine a light on all the laws wrapped around a woman’s body and what happens when you point that kind of weapon at penises.
And he’s a Democrat.
Ron DeSantis is fighting with the Republican-controlled FL legislature because their immigration crackdown bill (called, of all things, the TRUMP Act) puts the Commissioner of Agriculture in charge of immigration enforcement instead of letting him appoint an immigration czar.
Senate Republicans urge Trump to sanction ICC after failed legislation push (The link goes to Yahoo.)
Here’s the money quote:
“I would have preferred to have Congress speak on it. But if they won’t help, let’s let Trump do it.”
I’ll wait a moment while you push your eyes back into their sockets and pick your jaw up from the floor.
Okay, here’s more from that link.
Senate Republicans are recommending President Trump issue an executive order to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its pursuit of war crimes cases against Israel, after Senate Democrats blocked sanctions legislation absent a bipartisan compromise.
The appeal comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet Trump at the White House on Feb. 4.
Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he has encouraged Trump to issue the executive order and said the president was responsive, but he didn’t elaborate.
NPR and PBS have come under fire from the new FCC Chair.
Per Media Bias Fact Check:
NPR: Overall, we rate NPR (National Public Radio) Left-Center Biased based on story selection that leans slightly left and High for factual reporting due to thorough sourcing and accurate news reporting.
PBS (NewsHour): Overall, we rate PBS NewsHour as slightly Left-Center Biased based on story selection that slightly favors the left and High for factual reporting due to a reasonable fact checking record.
Lean left, highly factual. Ah. I see the problem.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
–Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian, paraphrasing Joseph Goebbels, WWII German Propaganda Minister
DeSantis to the people of Florida; DO AS I COMMAND, PEASANTS!