Arsenal4ever @ Arsenal4ever @lemmy.world

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Trump the candidate and Trump the defendant have different goals.

Trump the candidate will explain this is the deep state Biden admin curtailing his free speech.

Trump the defendant will have to defend himself from charges that aren't related to free speech. So my guess is he'll let them find him guilty (good for Trump the candidate) and hope that all the elections staff quitting means his people will get in and fix it for him.

I think we should all be alarmed.

George W Bush admitted he knew about and autorized torture. Obama got elected, and said, we have to look forward not backward (FWIW, all arrests are literally looking back.)

Then Obama killed a US Citizen with a drone, and then his 16-year-old son. No one cared.

Trump came into a presidency that appeared to be above the law. Like a bull in a china shop, though. Not with little bits of criming, but a full fledge assault on crimes.

That part isn't Obama's fault. But not holding George W responsible for torture was a bad idea.

It turns out, a lot of US politics is built on norms. You're not supposed to hire your daughter and son-in-law, then let your son-in-law be in charge of freakin' middle east peace, and then walk out with billions in investments.

You're not supposed to lie all the time, and then be supported.

You're not supposed to grab women by the you know what and get elected.

You're not supposed to lie and cheat and do whatever. The Bulwark has an awesome piece on the corruption of Lindsay Graham. It is very informative about how it takes more people to make a Trump.

Me.

Right now, Alabama is ignoring a SCOTUS ruling. So what power do they really have?

The 2024 election will be a referendum on the rule of law.

Does it matter?

Does it matter that Trump is accused of butchering it? Does it matter that Alabama is ignoring a SCOTUS ruling it doesn't like?

Are we for laws or not? Big moment for America, as you don't come back from being not for laws right away.

This is why we need better education in the US.

Also, this is why we can't have healthcare. We don't know why we deserve it.

I was talking to a person once about single-payer Canadian healthcare. And she said, but what if someone doesn't work? Should they still get it?

[I mean, yes.]

I said, how come you don't ask that question about cops and firefighters? You don't say, well if someone doesn't work, should the firefighter's come to their house if there is a fire? We have single-payer police insurance and single-payer firefighter insurance.

But after the fire, you're on your own!

America! Fuck, yeah.

We found some good players in the last few windows.

Trust me, calling a Hurricane season the BP Hurricane Season is not free advertising. A bunch of red hat-wearing cultists will love it, but the vast majority of the planet will understand the premise. And it will tick away at their dominance.

Or we can just carry on and let them open up public lands to drill baby drill whilst we watch average global temps rise.

I deleted my account. That probably showed 'em.

Oil and gas companies are awesome at branding. We need to be better. We should name the heatwaves after oil companies.

We should also name the hurricane season. So the Exxon Mobile Heatwave, and the British Petroleum Hurricane Season. The Suncor Forest Fires.

etc.

And the shoreline!

See, this is not a shower thought. This is a thought.

That said, when you're in a place full of nazis, you're in a nazi place. You might not be a nazi, but you're in a place with them.

The comments are full of nuclear bros who think nuclear is the answer. Something about sun and wind not working everywhere.

I think a few scientists at Exxon Mobile predicted this in the 70's in their worst-case scenario reports.

Welcome to the British Petroleum summer heat wave. Next up is the Exxon Mobile Hurricane season.

Fun fact about the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season, oil and gas platforms can get insurance against a storm in the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season, but homeowners in Louisiana can't get any homeowners insurance due to the expected severity of the named storms in the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season.

sometimes a shower thought should stay in the shower, but we have this sub. So.

You're in a showerthoughts sub, Fred. A showerthoughts sub.

I think people have forgotten what showerthought means. Not serifs, but sheriffs of bad thinking in the shower.