northshorebamaman

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We can’t get Congress to fund DHS right now.

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Doesn't matter. Congress, in its infinite wisdom, gutted its own war powers the moment it allowed a president enough unilateral runway (90 days) to fully entangle the country in a conflict before requiring formal approval.

By the time Congress is “consulted,” troops are deployed, resources committed, alliances activated, and political momentum locked in. At that stage, withholding approval is no longer a neutral option. It becomes defunding soldiers already in harm’s way. That is not a meaningful check.

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….but many people were arrested for those things. Weren’t hundreds of people arrested for 1/6?

Trump himself was arrested for the Mar a Lago document raid

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I think he's referring to arrests of the people who arrested those people. I suck at understanding a lot of memes these days though,

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Useless politician

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redundant

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Depends on how close you are to a warehouse, and what part of the country you are in. I can get just about everything overnight, and a good chunk of stuff same-day delivery if I order in the morning with Prime. Walmart? Not so much.

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I was a short drive from Amazon's headquarters and within walking distance of a warehouse. Amazon quietly overhauled their shipping process last year to wait until they have similar deliveries moving the same way so they can combine them and at the same time changed the fine print on same day, one, and two-day shipping to "estimates."

No. An allegation is not open season for slander.

But accurately stating that an allegation exists is not slander either.

There’s a difference between saying “Trump raped children” as a statement of fact and saying “There are allegations in the filings that accuse Trump of raping children.” One asserts guilt. The other describes the contents of a complaint.

Saying “there are allegations in the files that accuse Trump of X” is not asserting that X is true. It’s asserting that allegations exist. If those allegations were in fact filed in a civil complaint or appear in testimony, then the statement about their existence is true.

You can’t commit slander by accurately describing what a publicly filed lawsuit alleged. The underlying claim can be unproven, withdrawn, or even false. But the existence of the allegation itself is still a factual matter.

It would only drift toward slander if someone said, flat out, “Trump raped children” as an established fact without proof, or if they invented details that do not appear in any filing. That would be asserting a false fact. Simply acknowledging that a complaint made those accusations is describing the historical record.

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trans,

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I'm old school so I still say "chicks-with-dicks,"

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Looks like I'm joining the Amazon hierarchy at the right time.

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I actually just canceled Prime after years of using it.

The value proposition eroded. “Next day” and “two day” shipping started turning into vague estimates that quietly shifted after checkout. The whole reason to pay for Prime was predictability. Once that became soft, the subscription stopped making sense.

On top of that, the marketplace has turned into a roulette wheel of third party sellers. Counterfeit electronics, mislabeled parts, inconsistent quality control. Refunds are easy, sure, but refunds don’t give you back time or certainty. If I’m ordering something for a project, I need it to be the right part, delivered when promised. Not “probably close enough.”

Customer service also feels optimized for containment instead of resolution now. More loops, fewer humans. Meanwhile, places like Digi Key or specialty retailers ship fast, answer real questions, and actually stand behind what they sell. When the smaller guys are more reliable than the logistics giant, that tells you something.

I just stopped paying for a service that no longer delivers what it originally sold. If you’re joining now, I hope you’re catching it on an upswing. From the outside, it feels like the machine is optimizing for itself more than the customer.

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Just the biggest news of all time. Ho hum.

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It’s “ho hum” because people have been conditioned by years of slow drip disclosures. Grainy videos. “Unidentified” language. Half-acknowledgments without conclusions. After a while, the nervous system just shrugs.

Not saying there’s some master plan, but if you were trying to introduce something that historically would’ve caused mass panic, this is exactly how you’d do it. Normalize it in increments. Let the public metabolize ambiguity over time. By the time you say something more direct, it barely registers.

So I'm not saying there isn't a master plan either.

He might be referring to the 2016 "Katie Johnson" civil lawsuit against Trump. That complaint did include allegations of sexual assault and threats involving a minor, but it was withdrawn before trial, no evidence was tested in court, and remains alleged.

As for “threatening to kill children”, I haven’t seen that in the major unsealed Epstein document releases and could well be coming from anonymous claims/tiplines, if the allegation exists at all.

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ETA the downvotes must be from Israel firsters that want it to be about Israel.

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The most effective way to ensure your post gets down voted to hell is to add an ETA complaining about downvotes. That's like the third or fourth rule of the internet. :lol: