100%. Jackasses at SDNY have been letting rich white collar criminals do whatever the hell they want for years, them saying Trump is turning their office into a joke is like saying Saudi Arabia acquiring EA is going to destroy that company’s respect for artists and really is a leopard’s eating faces moment.

A bunch of these sheriffs committed their crimes since the last election. How were voters supposed to hold them accountable for things they hadn’t done yet? Why is Beshear allowing these known criminals to keep exercising official power over these voters until the next election?

Everything about this “news” story would have been easy for Tilly’s owners to orchestrate as publicity for their projects

At least we protected America from Iraq’s WMDs /s

“No more taking the high road! When they go low, we will also go low, behind them, choking on their exhaust! Give me $5 for a mask!”

Any bets on what job he got offered by the Trump administration for this (arc)? I’m going to guess he ends up working for RFK Jr.somehow (arc).

The impact spread quickly to neighboring communities, including the small city that shares a name with the township.

“Although we are two separate governmental units, we are a very cohesive community,” said city of Grand Blanc Mayor John Creasey. “This sort of thing is painful for our entire community. I’m struggling to digest all that has happened, and my heart goes out to all of the affected families.”

Nervous reporter calls wrong number by mistake, feels obliged to put comment in story anyway, more at 11

This ain’t a problem a loan adventurist can resolve

This might seem like a typo but the advocates of finance capitalism are actually part of the problem here

Even a broken right clocks its day

Off the top of my head, something like social ownership of all necessities (e.g. housing healthcare education security natural resource management etc.) utilities (e.g. water/sewer electricity internet garbage etc.) and infrastructure (e.g. bridges dams public transportation systems etc.), administered by a network of democratically elected and transparently administered (e.g. subject to public records requests, required to make annual reports, etc.) local and regional councils with a variety of checks and balances on each other, reserving luxury and entertainment goods and services for private ownership, and establishing strong legal and cultural recognition of individual’s free speech and privacy rights (and I think at a minimum privacy requires every person having their own room with a door that locks, so society e; the tenants collectively own the apartment complex (but the maintenance is funded by a neighborhood council that is funded by a city council that etc.) but you own your unit)

And you have to wonder whether they were behind it

Actually, almost 6/10 think things are getting worse. They prefer Republican approaches over the Dem approach to those issues when they’re forced to pick one or the other, but a majority disapprove of both parties.

Basically what we want is for Senator Chris Pine to judo chop some terrorists after rescuing orphans from a burning building and then solve poverty and racism with a motivational speech about what makes America the greatest country on earth. We aren’t evil but we ain’t smart and we’ve ended up being taken advantage of by some of the worst people on the planet.

It kind of doesn’t though. The specific thing it found (italicization added)

The poll found that large shares of Americans believe Republicans’ views on crime and policing, immigration and the economy are closer to their own than Democrats’ views, according to CNN’s report. Republicans have a 15-point advantage on crime and policing, a 7-point advantage on immigration and a 5-point advantage on the economy, according to the poll.

and earlier in the article

The poll also found that 58% of respondents said things are going “pretty” or “very” badly in the United States today, while 42% said things are going “pretty” or “very” well. Americans still carry negative views of both political parties, with 52% having an unfavorable view of Democrats and 51% having an unfavorable view of Republicans.

A relatively large portion of Americans think something isn’t working right now and aren’t happy with what they’re getting. They would still like to solve all of their problems by just inflicting violence on the right people because we have watched too many bad action movies and cop shows and modern military shooters and have some seriously fucked up beliefs about the utility of violence, but Americans see gardeners and school teachers and doctors and parents being dragged away by masked government agents that lash out violently with zero provocation and they say “no, not like that, you’re not hurting the right people, this isn’t what I voted for, etc.”

Also, Republicans numbers are being artificially boosted by the fact that Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries can’t go more than three days at a time without saying something that makes them sound completely full of shit.

That would be a lot easier and more predictable way of doing things, but election or no election I believe popular will matters. Authoritarianism is a lot harder to do when the subjects are restless.

I don’t think so, Republicans are thinking we need even more fascism but Dems and Independents are not happy, so it’s more like 2/6 instead of 4/4

a) cult members gonna cult b) registered Republicans (and Dems) have been a smaller proportion of the electorate every year as more and more people choose independent (arc), and

Trump does not have that level of trust from independents. The NPR-Ipsos poll shows more than half oppose using troops to fight crime.

The thing is this company has a nuclear arsenal so the whole world’s on the payroll (so to speak)

That’s a fair point, I’ve been thinking about how they’re going to get cornered by their own stupidity and then do the cornered animal thing of lashing out even more violently, but maybe a few years of explosive frightening chaos is better than a slowly descending suffocation

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Also works for your own hands (though I generally do not recommend eating those)