This cracked me up more easily than it should have. 
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Not giving a heart to that! 
MAGAts are not funny.
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I wonder if the Orange Nutter has any idea of the millions of humans sniggering at all the various photoshop jokes & memes at his expense.
Imagine being that rich & âpowerfulâ yet so openly dispised & laughed by such a massive number of people. Add to that, the fact that the people who think great things about him, are also the laughing stock of the rest of the world. It basically makes him the Clown King.
What weird times these are.
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Dont laugh too hard
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This is what being bitten in the arse looks like
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Major changes underway here.
The house my kids were leasing is being sold for too much considering the work needed. So my daughter will move back here and my son is building a tiny house on a lot a friend of ours is selling him. That means I have to vacate the mother in law apt and move my PC/library room to my sonâs old room which means the furniture there has to goâŚand my body is not up to the task.
My momâs friend died of cancer last night. It was a vicious fast moving event. She was sick 2 weeks. Her mind was not right. It was very sad but at least I saw her SundayâŚ
And I am still waiting on my bathtubâŚseems trivial amidst it all but I will really need it once my daughter is back.
Not sure on the timing of any of this but it will be soon.
In the meantime, I will spend time roaming the hills and valleys of Tamriel to help clear my mind.
My fortune cookie for today
UghhhâŚI follow USGS on X and had alerts turned on.
Today, I get a quake alert from an unknown source on X and find out USGS alerts have been turned off.
Turned them back on and blocked the hijacking source
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That fortune cookie is rooting for that bath tub, you deserve it!
You shouldnât be shifting furniture, thatâs what sons and their friends who let them build on some land are for 
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Looks like itâs my turn! We shall see if they are as accurate as Telamon. The intense stuff usually breaks up over the Mississippi before it gets to us. Iowa and Minnesota will take the brunt of it. Weâll likely get more flooding. We can get tornados, but itâs usually straight line winds or down burst, whatever they call them. My theory is the wind coming over the bluffs and the speed increases as it goes through a coulees that happens to go in the same direction. Hopefully it does even hail.
My town has been hit by a tornado once a least. One went straight down main street, that was before my time. I can dig anywhere in my yard and find debris, I like to imagine it is from that. Itâs all antique trash. Maybe it was the original residents personal landfill or a building was tore down and filled over.
Update: a little rain and wind at least for my area, Telamon for the win.
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The US is now officially a police state with law enforcement being reimbursed by the private sectorâŚ
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Somehow I canât find that in there, got a pointer?
The most immediately concerning to me is the beginning fusion of military and law enforcement, which is so many red flags I canât even start to count and shows that Trump has no idea of either the military or law enforcement. Though thatâs hardly surprising, considering how militarized US law enforcement already is.
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Well if the private sector is paying law enforcementâŚ
And from other articles it seems the main point is to stop all criminal prosecutions against law enforcement. So if they kick you 50 times in the street, or taze a person with their hands up and they die, there will be no recourse.
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As I said, I didnât see that in there. Not saying it isnât, but if it is I definitely missed it.
Yeah, that one is a bit of a puzzler for me⌠Some of the measures are perfectly sensible and I was downright horrified that they were not already the case (such as payed attorney for litigation of offenses that happened on the job⌠like, seriously? You send people out there to enforce the law, and you donât pay them a lawyer if somebody thinks they did it wrong? Itâs perfectly fine and very necessary t ofollow up on those allegations and prosecute them if they turn out to be founded, but expecting a police officer to pay their own attorney in that process is so far out there I donât even know where to start.
On the other hand, it is extremely difficult in the US to indict an officer of the law in the first place even in serious cases where in Switzerland an investigation is launched by default just as part of the protocol that some other things in there are probably not a good idea.
It certainly doesnât inspire confidence hearing about âunleashingâ a police force that is already internationally known for its horrible lack of protocols, procedures and restraintâŚ
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Ok so this is what I saw
This mechanism shall include the use of private-sector pro bono assistance for such law enforcement officers
Basically stopping all cases pending against police officers on trial for abusing their power and position such as beating the crap out of people when they pose no threat etcâŚ
On another note, my brother just spoke to a local import export store owner. He had a $500k shipment on its way. He had to cancel it because it now has a $1 million dollar tariff on it.
He said shelves will become bare real soon
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As I read it, itâs not intended to have any major effect on its own. I think itâs enabling legislation, setting the legal framework for future developments. As I see it, it paves the way for a quasi-military citizenâs militia, with full enforcement powers over the civilian population.
The Brownshirts are coming.
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I missed that one indeed. Now that Iâm hearing it, It sounds more like the set-up for a future protection racket than the set-up of privatization of the police, though⌠
Yeah, thatâs very much the vibe Iâm getting here.
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The way I see it, Trump made a lot of errors in his first term - because neither he, nor the people behind him, understood how power actually works in the US. When he lost to Biden in 2020, he tried to stay in power by any possible means, including false accusations of election rigging, attempting to coerce sympathetic states into fasifying voting returns, and an assault on the Capitol by an armed mob.
Trump, and (more importantly) his backers, have learned from the failures of the first term. They wonât make the same mistakes again.
When Trump incited his supporters to attack the capitol, he realised the power he gained through followers prepared to do violence on his behalf. But the people who attacked the Capitol were disorganised, unruly, and lacking any clear objective. They were more a liability than an asset.
The right to assemble, and the right to bear arms âin defence of the nationâ are already enshrined in the constitution. If Trump could organise his supporters into disciplined groups, under an effective command stucture, if those groups could be given police powers, and if they could be indemnified against prosecution, then he could use them to legally suppress any and all opposition.
And thatâs where I think these presidential orders are leading. I think heâs carefully building the legal framework for his own private army, with full civil enforcement powers.
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I feel like that was something that happened in America in the 2010s, I remember a few precincts getting a bunch of the Afghan war surplus and suddenly rolling around in humvees armed to the teeth in body gear.
Was part of a few news cycles questioning wether it was appropriate force or just boys wanting to use all their new toys.
Making legislation to further cement this bullshit is both alarming and not surprising.
He tried to make the proud boys into that in his first term, he was constantly bringing them up and endorsing them. I havenât heard him mention them much this term. Are they even still a thing? For those unaware, proud boys were basically white nationalists but allowed âthe good onesâ into their group 
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