So... disappearings happening in Portland.

Guess I naively thought there was some teensy little spark of him left that could go "oh my God, what have I become!? ".

But...I thought that about Storm once upon a time too, so...

Hessians hired by the central government suppressing the 1st Amendment rights of Americans against the will of local and state government.

@Paladin is overjoyed.

Were the tax and regulation cuts worth it?

You forgot the Supreme Court seat.

But @Paladin can hear me, mom!
He has super hearing!

And ats go into his alerts box!

You CAN hear me, can't you, Paladin!?

You're just in a slump! Fight it, Paladin! You can be great again! You're just in a slump!
Fight it! You're just in a slump!

*Paladin pounds on the sides of his head, lands in a junkyard, screams, splits in two, and fights himself*

Announcer- But who will win? Good Paladin, or evil drunk stubbly Paladin?

There is a good side to paladin? When did this happen?

Seriously, WTF?

A ruler with no popular mandate, chosen by the system and not the people, sitting thousands of miles away sending mercenaries to suppress the rights of the people to assemble and petition their government for redress of grievances, against the express will of local and state governments.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

Goes to show how hollow the talk of state rights, liberty, 2nd Amendment, Don't Tread on Me, blah, blah blah, coming from conservatives in this country really is.

As I've said before scratch a Libertarian and under the surface is a fascist.

Cassandra/Aurora was always right about them.

Back in the day, I thought she was a shrill kook.

I'm sorry, @Aurora.
You were right.
Forgive?

But the vast majority of those people are Trump supporters and are totally cool with all that.

Now if it was Obama or some other Democrat doing it? They'd be having aneurysms over it.

AKA Black Water

Where's Republican Federalism During Trump's Urban Invasions?
A president from a party supposedly committed to restraining the federal government is now sending enforcers to cities over local objections.

Okay. That's...reaching. The Z is for Zerstörer, which is German for...Destroyer. The USN used the prefix DD, as in USS Johnston (DD-557) or USS O'Bannon (DD-450). The Kriesgmarine eventually stopped naming any ship smaller than a Cruiser and simply went with hull numbers. Z-26 was one of the fifteen Type 1936A or "Narvik" class of destroyers. Construction was started in 1939 and she was completed in 1941. She was sunk in 1942 after doing, well, pretty much nothing of note.

So, I HIGHLY doubt that arm patch is a reference to a WWII German Destroyer.

And when George Lucas wrote Star Wars, he had no idea that "Vader" was the word for father in some languages. (He also probably didn't know that Vader would turn out to be Luke's dad, but that's another story.) It is, undoubtedly, one of those coincidences that just happens to be neat. (I happen to know the author of that tweet, and he's not the type to go for crazy conspiracies.)

Eh... A lot of rednecks are sure gonna be pissed when they learn that their Camaro's are Nazi's.

Wait... Whew... I just had to check. I'm glad the Germans lost the war before they could build Z-71, or else I'd have to light my truck on fire.

Apropos this, @shootER you know what you have to do:

"During the Pacific War (World War II) the company was dedicated to truck production for the Imperial Japanese Army. Because of severe shortages in Japan, military trucks were kept as simple as possible. For example, the trucks had only one headlight in the center of the hood. The war ended shortly before a scheduled Allied bombing run on the Toyota factories in Aichi."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Toyota


Remember Pearl Harbor. Burn it down.

That's the problem. They're not coming for people like them. It's those bothersome colored folks (forgive me) and people who should just go home and all this would stop.

It's not an honest, god-fearing, patriotic, gun-loving white rancher in clear violation of Federal law. Now that, they'll flock to like moths to a porch light.

Just like they're more than happy to tell someone saying racism is a thing in modern America to STFU, but if you tell someone using actual racial slurs to STFU, they start screaming about censorship and cancel culture.

When having a conversation with someone, there are certain presuppositions you have to make. We can all agree that gravity is real and it exists. Right? So, any conversation we have about launching an otter into space in a submarine using a conveyor belt would carry the presupposition that gravity is a thing.

I have known something for some time. There is a problem with systemic racism in the United States. Now, this problem may be systematic. Or, it could be that there are enough cases of individual racism to make it appear to be systematic. The end result is the same either way. We can argue over the finer points at a different time.

That said, if you can't go into a conversation with the presupposition that racism is a systemic problem in the United States, then any words said after that realization are a waste of everyone's time. Until you can agree on that point, there's no point in conversing further.

See also how they will insist conservatives aren't racist, but when someone loses a platform for being racist they will somehow see it as an attack on conservative voices.