I think you can dislike pedophiles and even want to see them punished, yet still recognize that some asshole doing it to get revenue from their YouTube channel is not the right solution.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that most crime is the result of either poverty or neurological flaws, and torture is not the best solution to either problem.

People need to be kept safe, and the criminal justice system is ostensibly the mechanism we’ve decided to use for that.

TLDR:

He has to pay people to pretend to like him, so he thinks the people who hate him have been paid too.

It seems odd to me that they refer to the number of children treated as “fewer than 10”.

Why can’t they say how many?

Are they going to say that somehow the liberals crowded the place so there was no one there to back her up?

To which I’d say, in that case the conservatives fascists were too unmotivated to counter them.

I don’t think most people get a direct, personal warning of the possibility of being arrested.

The president can’t pardon someone for state crimes.

Most security doesn’t really require a lot of intelligence, but I think “happy to lick Trump’s asshole” is probably not an adequate qualification for positions in government.

We need to stop seeing governors and senators and representatives and saying, “they would be a great president!”

Instead we need to see teachers, co-workers, and neighbors and say, “they would be a great on the city council or county government or as a state representative.”

We need to stop thinking in terms of only one chance of victory every four years and start putting people who care about us in places where they can help.

Of course, that means we have to be prepared to run, and that is hard as hell. So many of us are stretched to the absolute limit just trying to survive. I honestly don’t understand how anyone can do it.

He isn’t going to pay them shit. He wants to make us pay them.

Or American really. The subset of Americans they care about is so close to zero it isn’t worth considering.

…so far.

Excuse me? What makes you think I’m a fascist?

That changed about a month ago.

I’ll believe it when I see something change.

Her company is also looking at alternative manufacturing sites in Sri Lanka, Vietnam and other lower-cost factories in China, she said.

Note that none of the options she is considering is U.S. manufacturing. Tariffs won’t bring jobs back to the U.S.

Betteridge’s law of headlines has never been as true for any headline as it is for this one.

The only way refusal to pay taxes will result in any change in the U.S. is if everyone refuses to pay.

Perhaps because they always were.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/opinion/columbia-students-rallied-against-nazis-now-they-them-on/

I would hope they would have a better understanding of tariffs than Trump.

Better option: short it.

Civil war happened, and we didn’t fix it because Lincoln was assassinated, and Andrew Johnson was pro-South.

We were on this path before Nixon.

The letter also reveals that the Education Department plans to remove the “Submit a Complaint” button from the Federal Student Aid (FSA) website, an online tool that allows student loan borrowers, parents, and other users to report issues with federal financial aid programs.

Administration officials argue that getting rid of the button will reduce complaint volume.

Some fucking geniuses there. Don’t fix the problems, just take away the people’s ability to report them.