Moiraine

They did the English audience a favor by switching all of the Portuguese to English. When the characters are talking English it's actually meant to be Portuguese. So you only have to read the Japanese.

So humans can survive in -300 degress F for 30 years now? I guess I bought the wrong type of long johns.

I just find it hard to believe the idiots who would be mad about something like this are swayable. Chances are the message was automated, since this is the 4th year they've done it. It's potentially an oversight to let it go again this time given it's on a religious holiday this year, but if they had not made the proclamation after doing it the previous 3 years in a row, there is another group of idiots who would have been upset and asked why it wasn't mentioned (e.g.: is Biden ashamed now that it's an election year!?), and this group of idiots are more likely to be potential Biden voters.

They started doing the proclamations in 2021. This year it just happens to be on Easter. Kinda funny it was in 2024 though. The next time Easter is on the 31st is 2086.

I think they should have vetoed it again due to China/Russia blocking the ceasefire's reliance on releasing the hostages. Also, the Hamas requests are unreasonable. "“Israel has not agreed to any of (Hamas) requests related to a complete ceasefire, the withdrawal of all forces from the Gaza Strip, even in stages, and the return of all displaced people to their homes,” Naeim said."

If the bridge collapse was a universal awful day, then every day is an awful day.

What was awful yesterday?

I've posted about it before but just looked it up again. My farming cousins complain about welfare and freeloaders on FB sometimes. The data on subsidies is available online. One of them has received $360K since 1995 and $60K since 2019. The other has received $270K and $25K.

Was the ship too tall or did it hit a pylon? Edit: just watched the video. Edit2: Ok I decided to Google instead of ask Huskerboard.

I don't think it will be ugly. People like to talk big. But the only reason J6 got as big as it was is because their leader organized it and it was a single location for people to come to.

I think this is a fantasy. Trump trying to stay in power in 2029 after getting elected in 2024 is something I see as feasible, and even accomplishing it is feasible. I think it's extremely unlikely anything happens (in the next 5 years) if Biden wins, and it's also unlikely that anything is attempted by more than a handful of the House and a ragtag bunch of people on the streets, smaller than the J6 crowd. I think it's far more likely, if he's leaving due to his conscience, that he doesn't want to be a part of any of it because he doesn't like Trump, and he's too much of a coward to say anything against him for fear of reprisal if Trump wins in 2024.

He's been in office since 2017. He's had dozens of chances to protect his family before things go this far.

If he’s quitting in protest, why doesn’t he instead just vote how he wants?

The closer we get to the election with the polls looking s#!tty for Biden, the more it looks like your call was wrong. But I hope you're right.

It's what the polls are showing so far, but it's not a huge difference.

I would guess the biggest problem of doing this accurately (and obviously the are a lot of problems), is the words documented from the earliest presidents would almost all be prepared speeches, and sound smarter than off the cuff remarks we have from modern presidents. But maybe they base part of it off decisions too. Who knows.

I honestly don't understand what the Republicans who didn't put a stop to this when they could were thinking. I mean, maybe fear of revenge was in mind, but there were multiple times they could have easily banded together and prevented that possibility, including by impeaching him in 2021. Let's just say Trump becomes president and then we're a dictatorship by 2028... who in the GOP since 2016 will be better off with that than they would have otherwise been? Maybe like 2-3 people in his inner circle. No one else. So even if Trump wins, the other leaders in the GOP will not win. They had the power to stop this but f#&%ed up at every single turn. Now let's say he doesn't win. They are going to have s#!t for money for their campaigns because of Trump owning the RNC, from presidential elections all the way downstream. There is no way he is going to do anything that doesn't help him personally, and he's not smart enough to realize some of these lesser elections could help him personally.

In the scenario I shared, the gun wielder is provoked by someone trying to tackle them before they've fired a shot. My problem is a combination of several factors, one of the main ones being that it's a big Republican thing that gun violence should be solved by random heroes. This is a problem when someone runs around the streets carrying a big gun he should have never brought/should not be showing, and then is treated as a hero after killing people. If the Republicans think heroes should stop mass shootings, they should be against open carry. Someone just carrying around a gun for everyone to see increases the chance of someone trying to be a hero and stopping them before they do any harm.

The whole story and the GOP reaction to it is just dumbfounding. What if someone walks into a crowded area acting crazy toting guns and yelling, someone tackles him and gets shot by the person, and they prevented 30 people from dying. Based on what happened with Rittenhouse, the crazy guy would go free and be able to try again later. He basically gave all would-be mass murderers a playbook on how to get as far as you can before crossing that line so you can do the most damage. Just wave your gun around while running around but don't start shooting yet.

Well, it was weird having 2 people assume my reply meant I didn’t know what BB was. Nothing about my reply should lead someone to think that. It is funny having Cheney say it. There is nothing complicated to “get” about it. But my reply still stands. It’s telling that even an a$$h@!e like him knows Trump is a threat to the U.S.

Um. I know it’s satire. But this is an actual quote of D.ick Cheney, and satire can be done poorly, and often is by Babylon Bee. Also, nothing about the Tweet is satirical. I glanced at the link and the article is. The tweet is using an (almost) actual quote and stating a fact about Cheney (which is funny on its own, so maybe this is just lazy, easy satire. But either way, if this a$$h@!e thinks Trump is bad, that should tell you something). Here is the actual one: “There has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” On Cheney doing worse, so far, probably. Way worse, I don’t think so. It’s hard to tell how much damage Trump has done at this point, and he can still do a lot more, and wants to. One thing he’s done that’s difficult to measure the consequences of this early is drastically changed the GOP. I already disagreed with most of their policy but now they are much worse than proponents of bad policy.

The fact he's saying it should tell you something...

Not out yet but:

How how so so??

Why doesn't Trump treat the J6 hostages the same as he treats POWs? I.e. with disdain, because they sucked enough to get caught.