Talk about knowing your audience.
“No, really, you shouldn’t have.”
To be fair, federal officials who act with professionalism and don’t treat the laws of their land as inconvenient restrictions only applicable to other people? After getting rid of nearly all those folks here, I doubt the concept they still exist elsewhere ever entered Patel’s mind
Owens says her YouTube show is going dark because of the assassination plot against her and that the White House has confirmed that it’s real. (It hasn’t.)
And why does everyone make such a big deal about 3D printed guns, anyway? 3D printing is a terrible way to make guns, and homemade guns were a thing long before 3D printing ever existed, anyway. To make a 3D printed gun that can be fired more than zero times before exploding in the user’s hand requires a very specialized sort of printer that’s more expensive than a milling machine that can make a standard, full-quality gun.
Because 3D printers, for most people, are a lot easier to use than woodworking or metal machining.
Luigi Mangione used a 3D printed gun to kill the UHC CEO.
It’s also worth noting that for many people it doesn’t need to be able to fire more than a few times.
Also, some (many?) cases, the entire gun isn’t printed, just the lower receiver. I think that’s the part that makes it a gun, legally.
Milling machines aren’t all that expensive these days. You can get small lathes and mills from alibaba for under a grand. Plus, 3D printers are rapidly coming down in price and even ‘regular’ printers can print a rather wide variety of materials.
Right, that was my point. Why bother with a crappy 3D printed gun, when you can buy a cheap milling machine that’ll make a high-quality gun?
If you could say “This gun will fire three times, but if you try to fire it a fourth time, it’ll blow up”, then that would be useful. But it’s not predictable. A gun that will probably fire correctly three times might still blow up on the first try.
Not everyone knows how to do that. I watch a bunch of machinists on youtube and I wouldn’t have a clue how to make a gun. I have to imagine, even once you have all the materials and consumables and you learn how to read the diagrams, you’re still going to need some (or a lot of) practice. But you could buy a 3D printer and some filament, download a file and start printing with very little knowledge. If you woke up one morning and decided you want to learn to 3D print, you’d have parts in your hand by the end of the day.
This^^
Low barrier to entry and purported untraceability is the key to the concern.
That might be exaggerated to the point of hysteria or might just be journalistic laziness repeating an “everyone knows” facoid that’s more misleading than informative. Gosh lnows journalism has been full of that for decades.
Whiskey Pete accuses Mark Kelly of wearing his medals backwards.
Twitter points out that it’s a mirror image.
Except enlarged photes show words on the medals that are not reversed. (“NASA”, etc.)
I don’t want to hear anything about the military from Pete Kegseth.
Technically correct, but practically irrelevant. The Republicans have ruled over and backed Trump through all sorts of preposterousness. That the Dems might control Congress is a flicker of hope in a sea of dread that they have sufficiently undermined election integrity to win even in the face of current national and frustration.
And before you say “If that were the case, they could just elect him,” he’s not actually eligible to run for election, so they need some pretext to keep him in office.
No, because he would rather be “President- for- life” of the entire United States.
The Supreme Court have done a lot of things since then that because that would undermine the Constitution/ undermine their own power/ make their murder legal. I don’t trust them to be sane or self- consistent.
The Constitution had already been shredded, we’re just holding on to the shreds hoping we can find some way to stitch them back together. We’re all pretending this is still “the United States of America” as incorporated in 1789 because to admit the truth would mean such drastic changes to our lives that we live in denial.
Many people seem content to give up actual liberty in the name of protecting some nebulous concept of “liberty”. They seem prepared to have a little fascism to preserve the idea that we’re still “the land of the free”.
Quote from article;
“…were revolvers inspired by toy Nerf guns and popular among amateur…”
Wait. Toy guns that look like real guns are going extinct because of children being shot for having the toy in the wrong circumstances. So toy
manufacturers create fantasy designs out of bright color plastics to ensure they aren’t mistaken as the real thing.
So people start making 3D print design guns to resemble the toys but be functional. Assuring that some kid somewhere is going to be shot for having a Nerf gun.
Because of it wasn’t invented yesterday, it never happened. 3D printing is the height of modern do- it- yourself fabrication, so it must be appropriate for every possible need. Plus, the idea of an undetectable gun gets it more attention than it deserves.
Even so, talk about stupid. Shut the fuck up Kegsbreath!
For me the last straw was ruling that the POTUS was effectively above the law (from a personal basis), that anything given the fig leaf of being “official duties” made the person immune from criminal prosecution. That was the most batshit thing I’ve heard from SCOTUS in my lifetime.
At the same time, they don’t always do everything Trump asks for. As you said, it’s not consistent. You can’t count on them stopping Trump, but it also doesn’t mean they won’t.
I really hate that uncertainty. It definitely doesn’t engender a lot of hope.
It’s not gonna happen. He’s a tired old man who’s barely lucid these days, can’t stay awake even when he’s on camera, and is reaching Nixonian levels of unpopularity, which is only going to get worse for him when the AI bubble inevitably bursts and the illusion of prosperity propping up our economy evaporates. The midterms are going to be a bloodbath and he’s going to be well into his lame duck period before the 2028 candidates even start declaring their intentions. A senile 83-year-old child molester who two thirds of the country hates is not going to be able to establish himself as a dictator.
The only way Trump will ever be “president for life” is if he dies before his term is up.
Unless he’s still sort of alive and someone plays the Edith Wilson role.
We hope so, but in no way know that this will be the case. Stating things confidently doesn’t make them necessarily true. Many many people made equally confident predictions about Trump before of the last decade and none of them have been true.
It’s not that far-fetched of a prediction. Midterms are rarely good for the president’s party and next year is unlikely to be an exception. Democrats only need to flip a single-digit number of House seats to win a majority. In the Senate, Republicans have to defend 22 seats and can only afford to lose 3.
And Trump is essentially already a lame duck. His own Secretary of State is distancing himself from his foreign policy, Congress is pretty much ignoring his deranged ideas about healthcare and “tariff dividends”, his attempts to prosecute his enemies are getting laughed out of court, and he was all but forced into signing a bill he spent six months fighting against.
These are not the actions of a man who’s about to embark upon a glorious thousand-year reign.
QFT. I’ll believe it when it happens. I’m one of the ones who thought he was toast when he dissed a gold star family back in 2015, then several times more under various indictments and lawsuits.