Paul Jenkins

FWIW in Canada the likes of Charlie Kirk would probably be in prison for a rather long sentence under our laws against hate speech.

Apropos of almost nothing, but there is no prospect that the gun that was used would ever be banned or meaningfully controlled. It was a bolt-action hunting rifle -- the farthest removed possible from the semi-automatic "assault rifles" that gun control advocates wish to have banned.

Nearly everyone in the picture is wearing a friggin' baseball cap!

I think a genuine issue is a lot of elites genuinely do hold the election of Trump proves that there was a populist mandate to overturn ths social progress of 2016-2024.

That is an excellent question.

The United States is broken.

I realize that this is not the point, but what the fuck happened to hat etiquette? Men do not wear hats indoors and absolutely, positively, do not wear them while eating.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

What about calling the State Department fascist assholes? Is that allowed?

It is logical, in the sense that it is consistent with their self-interest, for politicians to attempt to maintain a taboo against political violence.

Fascist Russia is at war with the West.

Deterrence through "strategic patience" is a failed doctrine which escalated Russia's invasion of Ukraine into a global war.

Retaliation with overwhelming armed force is the strategy the West must adopt to defeat Russia and end the war.

Other, more serious countries, etc. etc.

Apparently we are all now to stop denigrating MAGA and to eulogise Charlie Kirk but, unfortunately, MAGA are a bunch of fascists and Charlie Kirk was a nasty little shit, so no.

An above-average amateur could do it without too much trouble, abstracting from adrenaline. It would be quite easy for any semi-professional.

This.
Exactly this.

So beautiful.

Surely he will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda?

Does it involve these pieces of shit being flogged to within an inch of their lives?

Martial

What about saying that a senior State Department official is a worthless fascist piece of shit? Will that get reported too? Will that bar me from his shithole country? Enquiring minds...don't give a fuck.

Because under the regime's pet court, the answer is always to make life more difficult for non-whites.

Great, but this is clearly performative. His heart isn't in the fight.

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

No, that is definitely not what you have snipers for.

Absolutely. I met McNamara in 1993. I have a story about his terrible judgment.

One begins to suspect that very rich people are constantly and openly committing unspeakable crimes together, recreationally.

Absolutely.

We condemn the Supreme Court’s decision to allow federal agents to profile people based on how we look, the language we speak, and the type of work we do. This is a dangerous attack on workers’ freedoms in Los Angeles and across the country, and our solidarity will not waver!

I've been pretty tepid about radical solutions for SCOTUS because it will probably destroy it for a generation or so, but when you have a majority that refuses to write opinions or sign their names to decisions that endorse using race and ethnicity to detain people, what are we trying to save

This is very different than Nazi Germany, for one, the Supreme Court passed the enabling acts instead of the legislature