What is inhumane is what murders do to their victims.
For what it’s worth, I knew one murderer who was executed. And I regularly saw another murderer, but never spoke to him, who was also executed. The two were brothers and there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that they both deserved it.
I have also met a couple of other murderers, again brothers. One murdered the his brother’s estranged wife for the promise of being paid by his brother. The one who actually committed the murder committed suicide waiting for trial. The other got off because the jury did not believe the prosecutor proved his guilt even though they were convinced that he did it.
Life in prison for murders would be fine with me if it was absolutely certain that under no circumstances would they ever be released. But since there is a possibility of them being released even though they were guilty, death takes care of the issue.
Smapti
June 7, 2026, 7:01am
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billy-jack:
For what it’s worth, I knew one murderer who was executed. And I regularly saw another murderer, but never spoke to him, who was also executed. The two were brothers and there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that they both deserved it.
I used to know Paul Hill’s daughter from an AOL chatroom 20+ years ago. She was absolutely of the mind that her dad deserved it.
enipla
June 7, 2026, 10:05am
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“Niga, you taking notes during a criminal conspiracy???”
enipla
June 7, 2026, 10:18am
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fade in to trumps ‘mind’ ~~~~~ “Rail gun… Rail is right in the name. Rail means train, train means steam.”
And coal. Let’s not forget coal.
For that matter, why not convert the entire USN back to coal? Gotta keep the mining companies happy.
Smapti:
Corporations are “people” in a legal sense, and it’s a good thing they are, because you wouldn’t want to try to individually sue all of a company’s shareholders if the company had wronged you and you were seeking legal recourse.
Except that’s a bullshit argument. Corporations are a creation of the law, and so we can define them, and treat them, in any way we want to. To say they must be legally “people” in order to sue them is nonsense. And to then act as if they’re really “people” in other matters is insane.
We wrote the law, it was not handed down by god or the Universe, and so we get to decide what the law says.
Remember that, AIUI, ‘corporations are people’ was a footnote in a SCOTUS ruling that has been run with and expanded over the years. Congress could certainly rein it in if their reelection campaign funds didn’t depend on them not doing so.
Corporations have to be fictive persons in order to exist in a legal framework, at least in civil law. They are not persons in other areas of the law: they don’t have human rights, including the right to vote in elections, and I don’t think they actually are subject to criminal law though I could be wrong there. I think if Safeway murders someone, the prosecution goes for the individuals committing the murder, and those setting it up, rather than the corporation as a whole, even if it’s part of the workday. (Perhaps someone will test this with the tobacco companies one day.)
Trump, like the wealthier corporations, seems to be subject only to civil law, and not under very much pressure should he choose to flout that, either.
The pithy TL;DR of that one is “I’ll believe that corporations are people as soon as Texas executes one.”
“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
–Voltaire
Monty
June 8, 2026, 3:38am
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Add “total lack of self-awareness” to the felon’s flaws.
President Donald Trump has derided the Obama Presidential Library as over budget, called its construction a “disaster” and compared it to a trash can . Now, the former president’s foundation is extending an invitation to arguably its most vocal critic.
Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett, who served as a senior adviser in the Obama administration, told USA Today
“Judge for yourself,” Jarett said during a preview of the center last week . “When our visitors come, they will see a spectacular campus… If [Trump] would like to come and visit it himself, we would welcome him and give him a tour.”
Every day is TACO day!
President Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” and walked away after moderator Kristen Welker challenged him about unsubstantiated claims of “cheating” in the California primary elections.
The dustup between Trump and Welker arrived during a rain-heavy sit down, full of weather-related interruptions, amid the president’s pre-midterms visit to Wisconsin, a crucial swing state for both parties that he won in 2024.
After Welker noted that “Republicans are doing well in California” following the June 2 primary contests, Trump said “they’re dropping fast because it’s a rigged election,” which led to a tense back-and-forth in the interview that aired June 7.
Republicans have criticized the dayslong, ongoing counting process in California’s primary races.
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, a conservative, and Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton are both in second place standings in their respective contests, but Democratic foes have gained ground. California has what’s known as “jungle primaries,” in which all candidates regardless of party compete against each other, and the top two hopefuls advance to the general election.
As Welker and Trump discussed the California races, including the vote-tallying process, Welker noted “that’s how they count the votes in California.” Trump responded, asking, “Do you know why they’re doing that? Because they’re cheating on the election.”
Welker then asked Trump if he had evidence to support his claims, and the president responded that “all I have to do is look” and “I listen to people.” The NBC anchor again asked for evidence of election fraud and repeated that the typical dayslong process is “how they count the votes in California.”
The felon worshipping reoffenders are worse than you thought.
At least 97 of the more than 1,500 Capitol rioters pardoned by President Donald Trump have since been arrested for, charged with, or convicted of crimes unrelated to Jan. 6.
The figure, published Thursday by the independent legal outlet Lawfare , is nearly triple the largest prior tally and amounts to nearly one in 16 of the insurrectionists swept up in the clemency order Trump, 79, signed on his first day back in office.
The crimes “run the gamut,” Lawfare reports, from low-grade offenses such as trespassing and drug paraphernalia to grand larceny, stalking, plots to kill politicians and police, and fraud against the government. At least 14 pardonees have been charged with sex crimes or offenses tied to child sexual abuse material. At least six have faced domestic violence charges. At least 20 have been hit with DUI or public intoxication charges.
Most damning, five of those Trump freed were arrested over conduct that happened at least partly after their release. That means the clemency order may have actively enabled their alleged crimes.
One of the five, Lawfare reported, is Andrew Paul Johnson, 45, a Florida handyman freed by the pardon in 2025. A Hernando County jury convicted him in February of five charges, including the molestation of two children, and he was sentenced to life in prison in March. Police said he tried to silence one victim by promising to share restitution money he expected from the Trump administration over his Jan. 6 case.
Only the best!
Guess who’s erasing history and how he’s doing it.
The Trump administration has ordered the removal or review of a growing number of plaques, signs and interpretive panels at U.S. National Park Service (NPS) sites, many of which reference slavery , racial inequality and other themes.
The latest example comes from Boston, where officials moved to remove quotes at the Bunker Hill Monument—part of a broader effort tied to a 2025 executive order directing federal agencies to eliminate material deemed to portray the United States in a negative light.
Historians, lawmakers and advocacy groups say the removals risk erasing key historical context at federal sites, while the administration has argued the changes are meant to present a more “balanced” or “uplifting” account of U.S. history.
Of course there are more examples at that link. When it comes to bigotry, the felon is definitely prolific.
Republican calls secretary of war crimes’ speech “vile”. (Video link; the below is the blurb.)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has come under fire from within his own party for his decision to link a D-Day commemoration to anti-immigration politics.Speaking at an American military cemetery in France on Saturday, Hegseth, 46, marked the 82nd anniversary by stating: "Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies. “Beaches in Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion, or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not,” he said.
51st State (Cuba) has a warning for the felon.
The Cuban people will fight to the death against any US military invasion, the country’s ambassador to the UK has said.
Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter told The Telegraph that “Cuba could be destroyed”, but that its people would defend it “even if that makes the Cuban population zero”.
Her message comes in defiance of increasing American threats of military action in Cuba .
The US ousted Nicolás Maduro , the Venezuelan leader, in January and ordered a blockade that choked off fuel shipments to Cuba, which has led to food shortages and economic collapse across the island. That was before the US and Israel started bombing Iran.
Despite the ongoing war in the Middle East, Donald Trump, the US president, appears to be turning his attention back to the small island 90 miles from Florida.
The Trump administration has hinted that Raúl Castro , whose brother, Fidel Castro, led the 1959 revolution against Cuba’s US-backed dictator, could be seized, just as Mr Maduro was. Mr Trump has also moved the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier to the Caribbean.
And now we have a volunteer kapo.
When George Zoley, the founder of a private company that manages more than 20 federal immigration facilities testified before Congress in 2020, he spoke about how his own immigrant experience shaped his life.
Zoley, the CEO and executive chairman of private prison firm The GEO Group , was born in 1950 in a house with no plumbing or electricity in the remote town of Florina in northwestern Greece, according to a transcript of his testimony at a hearing on ICE contractors’ response to the Covid-19 outbreak.
“Fortunately, in 1953 my family received approval to immigrate to the United States where we traveled by ship landing in New York City and where we were processed through Ellis Island,” Zoley said, referring to the fabled American gateway for more than 12 million immigrants who arrived there for processing between 1892 and 1954.
“My own immigrant story has shaped the core values that have guided my entire life and career, which include the principle of never placing profit above the value of people,” said the CEO of the nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants and ICE’s biggest contractor .
Let’s see what those values are.
Now, six years after the hearing, GEO Group’s Delaney Hall facility in New Jersey is under scrutiny over allegations of inhumane conditions and mistreatment.
The 1,000-bed Delaney Hall facility is part of a multi-billion-dollar business empire built largely from government contracts for housing detained newcomers pursuing their own dreams. It has become a flashpoint for demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown – and the site of recent clashes between baton-wielding law enforcement officers and protesters under clouds of tear gas outside its walls.
“(Zoley) would never want for his family (to go through) what I went through in that detention center,” said a South American immigrant who was detained at Delaney Hall last month and asked not to be named for fear of retaliation. “I do not wish that for nobody.”
The conditions at the center show “a complete lack of character on his part and disrespect towards immigrants,” said the man, who is in his 40s, when told by CNN of the CEO’s immigrant experience.
“For him to create and have those types of detention centers, making millions and millions of dollars, it’s very hypocritical,” the immigrant added. “I do not believe that he would put in his son’s plate the food we were served at the detention center.”
Get ready to welcome the 51st State (Diego Garcia)!
June 7 (Reuters) - The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported on Sunday.
U.S. officials have drawn up a proposal to bypass the U.K. and make their own deal to take control of Diego Garcia, the report said.
The plan is among several options being drafted by the White House, in a paper aimed at providing alternatives to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ceding sovereignty of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius, the report said.
“President Trump has been consistent in his position that the United Kingdom should not give away the British Indian Ocean Territory, which includes our joint U.S.-UK military facility on the Diego Garcia atoll,” a U.S. official told Reuters.
“Diego Garcia’s strategic location in the Indian Ocean makes it a vital and indispensable military installation of significant importance to the national security of the United States,” the official said, adding the U.S. remains in regular discussions with Britain to preserve the island’s viability as a regional security platform.
Britain’s government in April put on hold its deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, home to the U.S.-British Diego Garcia air base, which had been criticized by U.S. President Donald Trump.
What’s missing here, of course, is the plan for Mauritius to return the islands to the Ilois. Want more information about the place? Watch Stealing a Nation .
The felon’s vanity war is going so well, the military has to use obsolete equipment.
The Air Force will seek new ways to accomplish the missions of the A-10C attack jet , under an amendment added to the House Armed Services Committee’s version of the National Defense Authorization bill. While the Air Force has long campaigned for the Warthog’s retirement, the recent demand for the jet in conflicts in the Middle East has seen it earn a reprieve, with its standdown now scheduled for 2030.
Some of the numerous amendments to the bill come from Abe Hamadeh, the Republican representative for Arizona. He calls for the Secretary of the Air Force to keep supporting A-10 training, testing, experimentation, maintenance, and sustainment efforts through to the planned retirement date, as well as preserving lessons learned and operational expertise from A-10 missions to help shape future replacement systems. This would include keeping a formal training unit to teach pilots until the retirement. This is especially notable, since the unit in question, the 357th Fighter Squadron, graduated the last class of A-10 student pilots at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, back in April.
Meanwhile, the Air Force officially concluded A-10 depot-level maintenance in February of this year, with the deactivation of the 571st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and the A-10 Weapons School is due to be shuttered this year.
“I never promised you a rose garden no new wars.”
Amid ongoing scrutiny over the U.S. war with Iran, President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his foreign policy stance — and denied that he ever campaigned on the promise of “no new wars.”
In a wide-ranging interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker that aired on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” Trump said he built a “tremendous military.”
“First of all, I didn’t guarantee no war. Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?” Trump said. “I built our military. I inherited a terrible military. We had no equipment. We had nothing. I built a tremendous military. When you say I promised, I didn’t promise anything.”
Trump said he doesn’t like “endless wars” but added that the current conflict with Iran “is not an endless war,” asserting that the Vietnam War lasted for 19 years “because of stupid people.”
“We’re there for a few months and the threat is largely over,” Trump said. “Soon, it will be over. But you cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon, or they will blow you up. There will be no Kristen. There will be no NBC. There will be no ‘Meet the Press.’”
Throughout his campaigns for president, Trump has repeatedly criticized the U.S.'s involvement in lengthy military action in Middle Eastern countries, including lambasting former President George W. Bush for the war in Iraq during a 2016 GOP debate .
While campaigning in Pennsylvania in 2024, Trump told rallygoers : “I will not send you to fight and die in stupid foreign wars that never end.” He reiterated the promise in his 2024 victory speech , stating at the time: “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.”
Only the best!
A Trump-appointed federal judge in Idaho is facing criminal charges after a heated confrontation over parking which saw him snatch a man’s glasses from his face and stomp on them, according to reports.
Judge Ryan D. Nelson, who sits on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, is facing one misdemeanor count of battery and one of malicious injury to property for allegedly knocking another man’s glasses off his head and throwing them across the parking lot during the incident, The Idaho State Journal
The confrontation occurred in early April when a driver pulled into a parking space and allegedly verbally criticized the judge’s parking twice, the unnamed man told the Idaho State Journal.
“That’s when [Nelson] went crazy,” the man told the newspaper. After the verbal spat, Nelson allegedly took the man’s glasses, threw them across the parking lot and stomped on them.
The cage match at the White House is apparently illegal.
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal lawsuit seeks to halt the upcoming UFC fight card on the White House South Lawn in a mixed martial arts show timed for President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday and part of the celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary .
The filing Saturday by the Public Integrity Project on behalf of two Virginia residents contends the Trump administration’s authorization of the June 14 event was unlawful. The lawsuit says such approval violated National Park Service regulations prohibiting sporting events on federal parklands, Congress did not consent to the towering arch overlooking the event space and no environmental review was conducted before the construction.
“This is fundamentally a private, commercial, corrupt use of our most sacred national monuments for private gain,” said Brendan Ballou, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. “And that is what is motivating this lawsuit.”
Oh no, an unqualified reality star might not get the job he wants! Just the name “Spencer Pratt” sounds like a fictional bad guy in a crappy 80’s college movie.
Basketball players could do the funniest thing right now.
Refusing to play with that turd in the house would roil the world.
Gyrate
June 8, 2026, 12:34pm
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But the team owners are probably Trump supporters, alas.
davidm
June 8, 2026, 12:42pm
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Love_Rhombus:
Bedbugs have infested the Animal and Plant Inspection Service, which is charged with containing invasive pests. Karma! It’s not a free article, but you should be able to get the meat of the issue. I remember that Mar-a-Lago was said to have bedbugs.
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The department sent staff home twice, but has declined to do so a third time after the insects returned.
This will keep happening unless they also fumigate all of the employees homes or simply let everyone work from home from now on.
bobot
June 8, 2026, 1:39pm
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The Knicks’ owner is footing the bill for Trump’s attendance. Fuck that guy. Also, an outside the stadium watch party has been cancelled due to Trump’s threatened presence.
Apparently coal ash is more radioactive than low level nuclear waste.
Also I would not sign up for navy duty on a coal powered submarine. But maybe I don’t have the bravado Trump has as he sends his soldiers and sailors into deadly wars.
Ah, if only one player had the guts to throw him a hard ball aiming at his snout after innocently* calling “Catch!”!
* “Obama would have catched it, and I thought that the president was the fittest & healthiest president ever, so of course he wouldn’t fumble it.”
Well, the owner needs to learn a message too, sounds like.
(This is in reply to Gyrate.)
Jimmy Dolan? He’s been known to be a complete jackass for years. Knicks fans already hate his guts