If there happens to be a reflective surface in the right place:
Og help me, I laughed so hard at this.
I didn’t even click that link, and I still know exactly what video it is. There’s another one where the object of her amazement is the Moon.
True facts. I shared it with my husband, who replied, “And now she’s in Congress showing dick pics of the President’s son.”
To which I replied, “…I think I missed some news today.”
Sure enough.
We did not see these rainbows in our sprinklers 20 years ago, what the heck is in our water supply, what is oozing up out of the ground to cause these effects so prodominatly?
ImFlukeSkywalker arrested for child porn.
If you’re not familiar, he’s a Luke Skywalker/Mark Hamill lookalike/cosplayer that’s very popular on imgur.
You wouldn’t guess it from the thumbnail, but he really does look like Luke Skywalker, just not so much without his hair/beard.
“These are not the childpr0n downloads you’re looking for.”
Hey, worth a try at this point…
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But really, as if we nerdgeeks needed any help getting a worse reputation.
Peaceful tourist at the Capitol is going to the Big House for seven years.
And how peaceful was this tourist? Let’s see what he took for his picnic in on The Mall:
- 9-millimeter pistol
- hollow point rounds loaded in the pistol
- high-pressure rounds loaded in the pistol
- an extra round chambered in the pistol
- an extra magazine with ammunition
- body armor
- gas mask
- two-way radio with an earpiece and throat mic
- bungee cords, binoculars
- ski mask
- two knives
And his activities were so genteel, to include:
- first to reach the northwest steps of the Capitol
- first to physically attack a Capitol police officer
- screaming insults at police officerss
- urinating on a wall of the Capitol
I recall being a tourist myself in Washington, DC. I guess my parents forgot to check the guidebook. We never had any of the stuff he did nor did we do any of the stuff he did as a “peaceful tourist”.
Seven years is too short. He really deserves a longer sentence, but, hey, I’m not the prosecutor (who asked for a ten year sentence) nor the judge, so I’m not privy to whatever metric they used.
I had zero doubt what that link was going to be.
Serious question.
Do we think these insurrection assholes going to prison is going to be a deterrent from anyone doing this shit again?
Obviously, he has no plans for a picnic. No MREs on the list. Dead giveaway.
I, for one, certainly think so.
Obviously, YMMV.
Well, this asshole won’t be doing it again for a few years.
I tend to agree. Unless Trump pardons the Insurrectionists, then it’ll be open season for using violence to quash democratic elections.
If Donald Trump is ever in a position to pardon these terrorists there won’t be a need to quash democratic elections, You’ll have seen the last one.
I think that it’s likely to deter the more casual ones who would otherwise be unlikely to consider the consequences. The “I didn’t think leopards would eat MY face!” crew, if you will. The serious SovCit, anti-government extremists who hoard weapons in anticipation of overthrowing the duly elected government because they think the National Guard troops won’t oppose them would probably try again.
That’s what people said last time. It wasn’t true then, and it’s not true now. Trump does pose a risk to democracy in the US, but his re-election would not mean it’s time to give up on it.
I agree. After Trump was elected, this board was filled with hyperbole that the country was going to fall apart and there was doom and gloom about everything Trump was about to do.
I pushed back pretty hard, saying that Trump was not elected emperor, there are a series of checks and balances, and Trump won’t be able to just do anything he wants. And I was 100% correct. He was a disaster for what he did (and failed to do) but he wasn’t the harbinger of end times as some claimed he would be. And he was told “you can’t do that” so many times by his advisors, the courts, and so on that it became a cliche. He tried to be a dictator and this country won’t allow one.
Arguably, his worst effect was the example he gave, and all the people on the right who decided to imitate him in order to ride his coattails and get votes from his base. The Republican Party wasn’t all that great before, but it has really gone to hell now, to the point of criminality, and others justifying and defending the crimes. And he has attacked democracy itself in the things he has said and done.
The country needs justice for what he’s done, and I have faith that it’s coming. But no, while it would be an extremely bad thing if he somehow got elected in the midst of all the shit he has done, it won’t be the literal end of democracy and/or the nation.
It would be a terrible blow, however. Perhaps the next step toward that very thing.
Too close for my comfort.
I admit when I was able to emotionally detach from the horror it was pretty fascinating to see all the vulnerabilities in our democracy as well as how it managed to hold together… Those framers may have been onto something.
Except, we are not really living in the Founders’ America. There are massive cultural differences between the country they lived in, what they envisioned, and what we have become. And the difficulties we are dealing with track right to some of those disparities and how many of the practical edifices of early America are no longer really practical.