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Have divers found the Felon’s approval ratings on the Bismarck?
It may be simple inertia in some places - it may be permitted but it may be no one is using it so no one sees a reason to change anything. Maybe. One can hope.
Frankly, I’m very surprised that it’s banned (on the district if not state level) throughout Kentucky and Tennessee. A pleasant surprise, just unexpected.
I’d like to see that map of school corporal punishment overlaid with a heat map of where parents themselves are more likely to hit their own kids.
Although a Brit, I have enough of an understanding of US politics to not be surprised by the colour shading of that map, sadly. Very predictable.
President Dipshit has another meeting with Putin in private.
Who could have guessed ( or bet ) on that…?
Trump-Putin limo ride ‘without adult supervision’ raises alarm for CNN analyst - Raw Story
So Trump attempted to humiliate Zelensky when he visited, but for Putin he rolls out the red carpet. Scum.
It’s appalling but 100% expected.
Setting aside Zelensky’s treatment, offering a ride and Putin accepting it was a good gestiure (probably pre-agreed).
It’s a good thing that trump brought along what passes for his “brain trust” instead of Putin telling him how it’s going to be and what to say afterwards. Putin doesn’t need his comrades yet even things up.
Love the gesture of timing the overflight of the f-22’s and a B-2 just as Putin arrived. Frightening, I am sure.
I’m more worried about the outcome of their “negotiation”. Trump’s a moron and, worse yet, he doesn’t realize he’s a moron.
“The United States will withdraw from NATO. In exchange, Russia will take back Alaska.”
“What? That’s ridiculous!”
“Okay, Donald, you’re too smart for me. I give up. So how about this? The United States gives Russia Alaska. And in exchange, Russia will allow the United States to withdraw from NATO.”
“That’s more like it.”
“Nobody can make a deal like you can, Donald.”
Because America is a right wing country, and it it’s always been a core tenet of the Right that the strong have the right and duty to abuse and terrorize those less powerful than them. Since children are by nature weak and helpless, it being their moral duty to abuse children and that they should enjoy doing so is baked into rightwing ideology.
Beating a child means they are enforcing the divinely-ordained proper social order, and imparting the desired state of fear and helplessness in the child. The fact that they can beat a child means that they should beat the child.
The USA has done the business logic of partitioning NATO into West NATO and East NATO. Which side the UK is on depends on Greenland and Canada. The Eastern part is on their own.
Trump wants more of a slice of the Arctic oil rights. When the USA bought Alaska, oil wasn’t really a thing you needed (iETA: in abundance) and somehow finding gold there was a discovery. The very AFB they are standing on is there to defend against the CCCP.
Oh, I see Montenegro somehow joined East NATO last year, and trump seems like they deserve and would approve an invasion from Russia. There is no Article 5 anymore. Not even in Western NATO when Greenland is annexed.
I don’t think this is fair. (I also don’t think it’s wrong.)
From the perspective of those in favour of corporal punishment, they truly believe that the threat of violence prevents bad behaviour, and that the occasional real-world example of violence ensures good behaviour.
See also: Hell; police force; military force
They don’t think about it as control through violence and intimidation, but rather re-interpret control through violence, intimidation, and abuse of power as “instilling morals.”
I’m old school Biblical child raisin’,
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 KJV
'Cause I think children’s live are just that sacred. /s
One shouldn’t bring up this passage to these fine folks lest they get ideas.
It’s because those morons believe the Bible demands it. Here it is in Proverbs 13:24:
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
And, for some odd reason, the exact expression is from Samuel Butler’s Hudibras.
My mind just locked up for a moment seeing these two words in the same paragraph as the felon’s surname.
In China, corporal punishment in schools is illegal. My school’s child protection policy, as required by law, mandates poster throughout the school to raise awareness of said policy. Whoever wrote the English version (the posters are bilingual in Chinese and Englsih) is very bad at word choice. The first awareness point is
Who Can Hurt a Child?
What? We have permission now? No, the correct word choice is Might, not Can.
Another violent criminal held in ICE custody across the coutnry from her home, but with her child.
A brief trip to Canada and a small paperwork mistake landed a Washington state mother and her 6-year-old son in US immigration detention for more than three weeks, her attorney told CNN.
Sarah Shaw, a New Zealand citizen who has lived legally in the US since she arrived in 2021, was detained at the Blaine, Washington, Customs and Border Protection checkpoint when returning home after dropping her two oldest children off at the Vancouver airport for a flight to visit their grandparents in New Zealand.
Shaw, 33, chose the flight out of Vancouver because it was direct and she didn’t want her children to have to navigate a layover alone, her attorney Minda Thorward, told CNN.
But Shaw didn’t realize the travel permit that allowed her to exit and re-enter the US had expired. That’s when Shaw and her son, whose immigration documents were valid, were taken into custody by CBP.
Shaw tried to get a humanitarian parole, which would have allowed her to enter the US and return home, but she was denied, her attorney said.
Shaw then asked if her boyfriend or a friend could pick up her son since his documents were up to date, but she was again denied, Thorward said.
They were transported to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, roughly 2,000 miles from their home.
Shaw’s detention is among the latest examples of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, which, despite pledges to focus on violent criminals, has also swept up lawful residents like Shaw.
Shaw arrived in the US as a tourist in 2021 and married a citizen that year. Shortly after, the marriage ended, and she filed an I-360 petition in April 2022, her lawyer told CNN. Her application remains under review after multiple delays.
Shaw had been living in the US under a “combo card,” a dual document that serves as both a work permit and travel document. She secured the permit through her job working for Washington state, her lawyer said.
When it came time to renew both parts of the combo card, Shaw paid to have the work permit renewed, but didn’t renew the travel permit “because she didn’t have any plans for travel at that time and it’s expensive,” Thorward said.
In June, Shaw received confirmation of her work permit renewal, but mistakenly believed it also extended her travel authorization – a “minor administrative paperwork error” – according to her lawyer.
“She had completely re-established herself. She had a full-time job, an apartment, adopted a dog, a new boyfriend, and the kids were in school and doing great,” Thorward said. “She made a mistake, but she has no previous convictions – none. This is a very clean case.”
Hillary Clinton says she’ll nominate the felon for the Nobel herself.
Washington — Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and President Trump’s former rival on the presidential campaign trail, said Friday that if Mr. Trump secures an end to the war in Ukraine without Kyiv ceding territory to Russia, she would nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize herself.
Clinton made the comments on the podcast “Raging Moderates” with Jessica Tarlov, as Mr. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska to discuss a possible end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war, where Putin is the aggressor, invading a neighbor country, trying to change the borders — if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor, had to, in a way, validate Putin’s vision of greater Russia, but instead could really stand up to Putin, something we haven’t seen, but maybe this is the opportunity,” Clinton said.
“To make it clear that there must be a ceasefire. There will be no exchange of territory. And that, over a period of time, Putin should be actually withdrawing from the territory he’s seized in order to demonstrate his good-faith efforts, let us say, not to threaten European security,” she continued. “If we could pull that off, if President Trump were the architect of that, I’d nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize, because my goal here is to not allow capitulation to Putin, aided and abetted by the United States. I think that’s a terrible, terrible precedent.”
I guess she can begin writing her nomination on the 12th of Never. There’s no way whatsoever the felon will pull this off. He doesn’t even want to have that happen. What he wants is for Russia and Ukraine to simply both say the war’s over.
Killer Kennedy caves to his old partners in stupidity.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is re-establishing a task force meant to scrutinize childhood vaccines for safety after the anti-vaccine advocacy group he once led sued him for not doing so sooner.
The move to restore the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines comes days after Kennedy Jr. was rebuffed by a major medical journal over his demand that a study confirming the safety of childhood vaccines be retracted.
It also comes less than a week after a man who blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed killed a police officer outside the CDC’s headquarters in a shooting. Kennedy Jr. was slow to respond to the news of the shooting and only visited the location three days after the attack.
In an announcement on the Department of Health and Human Services website, the mission of the task force was described as “[improving] the safety, quality, and oversight of vaccines administered to American children.”
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, wrote that reinstating the task force was a way to “[reaffirm] our commitment to rigorous science, continuous improvement, and the trust of American families.”
In alluding to “trust” from Americans, Bhattacharya seemed to reference rising vaccine skepticism across the country—with one poll finding that the percentage of parents who say they’ve skipped vaccines for their children has almost doubled since 2022. Measles, meanwhile, is making a comeback.
Kennedy Jr. has been a champion of the anti-vaccine movement. He founded the Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit that questions vaccine safety, and ran it from 2015 to 2023.
In May, that organization funded a lawsuit against Kennedy Jr. to try to compel him to restart the childhood vaccine task force, which he has now done.
Shouldn’t such decisions be made based on, say, SCIENCE?
The felon still wants a war with Mexico. (The bolding is mine.)
The White House has authorized the Pentagon to use military force against Latin American drug cartels—but the sweeping directive also appears to violate the sovereignty of America’s southern neighbor.
Sources working in or with the Trump administration told Rolling Stone Thursday that the president is serious about attacking Mexico unless the nation gives Donald Trump “what he wants.” U.S. government officials just had one stipulation: Don’t refer to the intimidation campaign as an “invasion.”
“It’s not a negotiating tactic,” a senior administration official told the magazine. “It’s not Art of the Deal. The president has been clear that a strike … is coming unless we see some big, major changes.”
No kidding that this is not Art of the Deal. That was fiction. This is dangerous reality.
Cruella de Vile’s side piece is fudging the numbers for his taxpayer funded sinecure!
White House officials are investigating whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s de facto chief of staff, Corey Lewandowski, has undercounted his work hours in order to cling to his temporary government job.
As an unpaid special government employee, Lewandowski can work within the government without disclosing or relinquishing his other business interests, but he is only allowed by law to work 130 days per year.
The Department of Homeland Security claims he is still well below that threshold, having clocked just 69 days this year. But four administration sources told Axios they thought that was a gross undercount, and that Lewandowski had already exceeded the allowed time.
Two sources said Lewandowski sometimes enters government buildings with other employees to avoid swiping his own badge, and sometimes using his personal phone and email for official business in order to avoid leaving a paper trail on government systems.
Why am I not surprised?
It would not surprise me in the slightest if the state legislatures, ever mindful of the smaller and more local government is the better QOP is famous for, mandate the districts not only start implementing CP stat, but have a list of how many swats are administered for each transgression, starting with sassing the teacher.
I was thinking the laconic If myself.
I’m unnerved by CP also being the abbreviation for CP.
He cannot be left alone and have Putin be the last person he spoke to.
“Vladimir asked me if one of his pilots could borrow an F-22 and I said, sure, pick one out of the lot.”
Putin had visited a memorial to the cooperation between and American and Russian airmen in Magadan with both flags and did mention there was a twin of it in Fairbanks. Did not mention the Russian tri-color was removed in 2022. Betcha it’ll be back tomorrow.
And one last time, I have to remark that he did fly entirely across Russian territory, which was much further and used up much more fuel, requiring refueling in Magadan. The usual route (which Lavrov probably flew) goes over lots of Arctic Ocean. I’ll just wild-guess that only about 5 countries have submarines that can shoot down a plane. Hmm.
Which makes it the perfect backdrop for a Trump appointee, don’t you think?
Of course. That’s the way to support the teachers, don’t you know? Why would you even imagine spending more on the facilities (to include feeding the children nutritious food) or raise teachers’ salaries is the way to go? This way the students know not to speak up and then the lack of complaints can be used as proof it’s a great program working better than any other program in history.