I’ve seen the same clip. Charlie Kirk was in the process of answering a follow-up audience question so it could have just as easily been an event coordinator communicating to whomever was running around with a microphone in the audience to get the next audience question ready and potentially even indicating what kind of question they were after given the complexity of the signal

Also while sitting in a tent plastered in “prove me wrong”

Yeah I’m going to be a bit surprised if Trump’s body survived to the end of his term. My wife was a CNA for a while in a couple of assisted living facilities and the conditions he has and the general decline that’s been visible in his public appearances, he’s not got long left at all. For an average joe in a nursing home I’d guess months left, for a leader of a wealthy country I’d say he has a chance of surviving to the end of his term, but he’s going to be less and less able to hide the declining state of his health as time goes on

The craziest thing about that is that being a halfway decent human is the default position. You have to actively try to be a peice of shit at the scale he was

Conspiracy theories are already saying he had increased security and started wearing bullet proof vests, but I doubt there’s any truth in that

Jezebel posted a story about paying an Etsy witch to hex Kirk just 2 days ago

My first thought was that the pacing and humor was perfectly on-point for the Onion so it makes perfect sense that that’s where it came from

Honestly a better outcome than the wall being cut out, replaced and auctioned to some rich fucks with millions to spend on artwork. And Banksy reportedly hates that so that’s cool that it’s gone now

The “fully depreciated” part really makes me sick to the stomach with the implications

I don’t think you’re being creative enough!

I was just in LAX the other day and saw one of these signs in the security line. I can confirm with my own eyes that the sign is real.

Honestly, knowing the administration is hiring ICE agents at 100k+ starting salaries (for context, you generally have to be pretty late in a professional career with a multi-page resume to be approaching such salaries) arresting, detaining and forcibly deporting on chartered deportation flights is a heck of a lot more expensive and takes a lot longer than just handing families a couple grand plus $500 in plane tickets to get out. I suspect they’re quietly doing this to bolster deportation numbers since forcibly deporting takes a ton of manpower and therefore is quite a bottleneck for meeting the deportation targets Trump has stated

That’s the dumbest part of it all is that pirates seriously get the best movie/TV experience of anyone. I mean, maybe if you spend a shitton on DVD and BluRays to rip you can match that experience, but even that can be legally dubious depending on the jurisdiction

I’ll take a pair of rubber feet too!

Religion is important though. Ultimately for one to live a fulfilling life one needs to tend and maintain their mental, physical and spiritual health. Religion is how historically most have maintained their spiritual health (and mental health too), and in modern times organized religion doesn’t have a monopoly on spiritualism, so people can find whatever worldview and practices that help them maintain their peace with the universe and their place in it. But importantly, many people do still turn to religion for their mental and spiritual health

Movies and TV have in recent decades really leaned heavily into a level of muscle that isn’t possible for the average person to attain without performance enhancements. This combined with gymfluencers who take performance enhancers and people who’s hobby is lifting so they spend many hours a week at the gym plus average people not having the time or money for the gym makes a perfect storm of most people not knowing what a healthy amount of muscle or a healthy build looks like

Oh and expectations have always been for women to be overly thin so far too many women are led to feel that their healthy weight isn’t skinny enough

The weirdest thing about this is given his build he could still be much more physically fit than 2/3 of his detractors. Natural muscle is not as prominent as modern media has made it out to appear and to be as crazy built as some folks look you simply have to use extra supplements and push your body far further than is actually necessary for any kind of day to day life. You can be skinny and still perfectly strong and healthy

I bike about 100 miles a week, and every bike ride I stop at the outdoor fitness area for some water and do a few pullups to even put my build a little. I’m skinny and lanky as fuck and honestly built pretty similar to him

I’m remembering a paragraph of one of the Witcher books where a vampire is at a fancy ball at a royal court and while eating a garlic soup with his silver spoon he was explaining in great detail to a patron seated near him that vampires are deathly afraid of silver and the slightest touch of silver will immediately kill them

Yeah I’ve focused more on finding stuff I like, and that happens to primarily be punk music. But there’s a lot of stuff I like and really the only genres that I can’t do are country (it’s just nails on chalkboard for me) and pop (because it’s too over-engineered)

My wife and my oldest enjoy some pop music and I can find the parts I enjoy but it has to be small doses and has to be something with a hint of actual creativity and soul to it

Howard Jones is an incredible vocalist. Have you heard his (not so new anymore) band Light the Torch?

That argument suggests you bought the lie of what the age verification is for. When every service is required to perform age verification, it quickly becomes not about porn but control.

They’re trying to close the Pandora’s box that is the internet decades after the fact, and they’re learning the hard way how impossible and unpopular that is