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I couldn't figure out how the SCOTUS was going to muck up the immunity case, but we got a pretty good preview today. They are going to drag this out and turn it into something undefinable and unachievable. trying to specifically define what is immune and what is not.... I thought the jury was supposed to do that? Trump enablers again, and one more chip out of the republic.....

well that only took 4 years..... it would appear that the entire justice system is designed to be an enabler for crimes.....

Honda to build electric vehicles and battery plant in Ontario: sources | National Post Obviously Honda is just part of the larger Candian commie conspiracy.....

Define energy Define transition define 'not happening' Try not to contradict anything you have said or claimed already in this 30 page thread. Oh wait, moving the goalposts and changing definitions is your modus operandi.

no one debates that - but that is not what you said

"no one knows more about farts than I do..."

patently false. Solar is still being built at record rates across the country. wind installations are happening in dozens of states.

Most Industrial gas turbines don't last any longer, in fact generally cost millions of dollars per year to keep them running. I know this because that is the industry that I work in.

turns out that Trump was trying to cover it up as he thought the Christian conservatives would be upset that he had an affair with a porn star while he was having a baby or whatever the timeline was. Turns out that the christian conservatives did not give a fuck, as we have found over the years.... they have no morals and can justify their authoritarian goals because 'god's plan' or whatever other bullshit they believe. Trump should have just said "yeah I fucked the porn star" and be done with it, would have saved himself $130K+, a felony conviction, which is coming soon enough, but I expect there will be a month of jury selection, calls for mistrials, perhaps even a mistrial thanks to several jurors who no doubt will be rabid trump MAGA types, and so on. the justice system is a clown show being run by the clown that is under indictment and I have little faith in it anymore. Even if Trump is convicted on EVERY felony count in this and every other trial, the christian conservatives and MAGA types will not give a fuck, it will not change a single one of their votes.

USPS is controlled by Congress effectively and if they bothered, like so many other things, they could actually fix a lot of the issues. They effectively defunded the organization years ago by putting unfunded and unrealistic financial burdens on them to fund the pension program without figuring out the money that would be needed to make that happen. USPS stamps should be $0.80 and that would solve a lot of issues with their money problems. service comes by better fudning and the freedom to make decisions that work, as well as the DIRECTIVES to make it work Given that it is written into the Constitution, privatizing it is not actually an option, nor would I support that. The second you put profits at the forefront, the system will become corrupt overnight. It's not corrupt now, it is just shitty service. Privatizing it would ensure corruption AND shitty service. And agree with the earlier comment that it is being run by people that want to dismantle it, much like public schools all over the country. As long as we keep voting for idiots, this is what we will get

felt the need to fix that.....

And is still breaking the heat records as well - China breaks heat records in 2023 as sweltering weather baked cities from north to south | Reuters

assuming you buy from a gun dealer. private sales are pretty much exempt from any or all such things in almost every state. In many cases that includes gun shows where I can 'privately' sell you my gun in the parking lot. The idea that 'gun dealers' have any affect whatsoever on the illegal gun trade is more gun lobby fantasy and used for this kind of talking points. ALL gun sales need to be escrowed, whether that is through LEO, gun dealer, whatever..... making private sales illegal unless via a tracking and background check system is the first step at stemming the illegal trade of weapons.

I always have an issue with the idea of 'illegal guns'. There is no such thing as an illegal gun. That's like saying there is an illegal car. It is another gun lobby/NRA talking point distraction. Remington, Winchester, S&W do not have an assembly line that creates illegal guns for criminals to use. We have guns that are obtained, trafficked, or owned illegally BECAUSE we do not have any laws to track guns. If we tracked every gun from its manufacture until its disposal, we would go a long way to finding out how guns get into the hands of criminals. But we don't do that, nor do we even try to.

Comparing any gun law to 'the rest of the country' is meaningless given that the rest of the country has ineffective guns laws as well. If the country wants to reduce gun violence, then we need to model gun laws on the countries that have less gun violence and stop pretending that the causes are judges, or mental health, or open carry, or good-guy-bad-guy, or suicides or whatever. The reason we have so much gun violence is that guns are readily accessible to pretty much anyone in the country and there are no laws worth talking about. Look at what it took to get two parents convicted of manslaughter when they bought their mentally ill kid a semi-auto rifle and then he shot up his school. In any other civilized country, that original purchase would never have happened.