Impeachment was attempted after the Jan. 6th Insurrection, if it didn’t work when he was trying to monkeywrench the levers of power by subverting the confirmation of the vote, and it won’t work now. He’s been shooting his stupid mouth off for decades, being old doesn’t necessarily make him demented despite very obvious signs of aging poorly.

Thank you for making me laugh until my sides hurt, I needed that.

Sure, but they would have done it 8 months ago if they had an excuse. We didn’t give them one, and we made it 8 months more without an escalation to overt declaration of martial law.

I can’t agree, you’re saying that they would have done it right after inauguration if U.S. citizens had given them an excuse, and that you’ve all made it that long without an escalation or martial law. The only part that I’ll grant is the absence of marital law, there sure as shit has been an escalation, you have massive retaliatory deployments of taskforces and ICE across the nation in Democrat-leaning states/cities. They’re conducting what would normally be considered legally questionable if not outright illegal surveillance, assaults, arrests/detentions/ deportations and killings of civilians. How you don’t consider this a significant escalation escapes me.

On the other hand, if fed up citizens react with violence, that permanently will normalize what’s happening right now.

Speculation, pure and simple. It’s your opinion and I’ll grant you it, but I don’t agree that it would have already happened day-one if it were going to happen at all, let alone that the current state of affairs would be permanently normalized simply because of the current POTUS and his lackeys. The lot of it is illegal, and clear abuses of constitutional/civil rights. Staying hands-off while the situation slowly worsens isn’t a safe bet considering the guaranteed eventual loss of rights should that assumption prove correct - if you’re going to lose them anyway, why wait?

Technically there have been ruins and tombs with traps and riddles. Take a look at some of the info about the Curse of Tutankhamun’s Tomb alone, including stuff like an anthropologist named Field having his house burn down, then flood after its rebuiling (purportedly because he had accepted a mummified hand as a paperweight which came with a cursed bracelet attached).

Granted, there’s no Myst or Tomb Raider-style tomb puzzles unless you count translations of ancient dialects used by the original architects/artisans/scribes/etc., but a lot of death has been associated with burial sites/tombs, whether or not you attribute them to curses or long-dormant mould being disturbed and breathed in…

I hear you, and I understand this rationale, but I keep feeling as though a lot of people are missing the subtext - they’re going to do it anyway, they don’t need any actual provocation to take those actions, they’ll manufacture (not quite false flag, but in the ballpark) the scenario and narrative required to strip states, cities. and citizens of their rights.

Conservatives and MAGA are salivating at the opportunity to gain the power needed to liquidate their ideological opponents… Frankly, I’d be shocked if they don’t do it, or at least give it the old college try.

Should the Senate approve the measure, it will need to pass the House and be signed by Trump.

Well, that was a great idea, it’s a good thing that the person it’s designed to rein in can’t simply nullify it with the stroke of a pen, right? /s

jump shots bipartisan War Powers resolution into trash from across Senate floor

CBP massing in Minnesota? What’s the deal, lots of people jumping the border in Grand Portage? /s

Citizens are already sick and tired of ICE operations in Minneapolis, but sure, double down and pour more law enforcement into the area. What a fucking joke, not only should reinforcements be assigned from the National Guard, but even the mayor has said they’re unwelcome. Go home Feds, and take your ball with you.

Fuck, that was so brutal. Even given what I’ve learned about cops over the years, this case is particularly egregious, that poor fucking kid was murdered by pigs and paramedics with fucking ketamine of all things.

I’m not aware of that specific case, but yeah that tracks. I’ve read about incidents where the cops were enraged about things like victims of traffic accidents or assaults by officers being soaked in blood, getting it on them, and stating that they ‘didn’t want to risk getting hepatitis/AIDS’ as justification for declining to provide lifesaving medical intervention. In some cases, the delay in care led to deaths, while they stood by, and weren’t censured by their departments.

They’ve been using seizures from acute health incidents and tazers both as justification for escalation of force because “suspects were resisting” for quite a while.

Cops do it constantly. TBH I’d chalk that level of bullshit up to them constantly using ChatGPT to write their reports now, except that they’ve been pulling the same bullshit forever and getting away with it nearly every single time.

Bonus points for failing to discern the source of nearly everyone’s dislike of AI - rampant theft of independent artists’ work to produce drek art which profits random wankers, its use to replace humans and dispossess them of their jobs via obsolescence, etc. This guy siccs AI on a project of a kind that’s arguably its best intended use (for a laudable purpose), and people approve, but all you can say is that people are hypocrites for having criticized AI’s most common, shitty uses.