Judges also ruled that he couldn’t black-bag legal residents and citizens and send them to prison camps in El Salvador. He ignored the judges and did it anyway. Judges then said he had to return the people he kidnapped. He ignored them again.

A law is only a law if it is enforced. Until I see that fat orange fuck being perp walked through the Rose Garden in handcuffs, laws don’t mean shit.

The optimistic side of me believes this can happen. MAGA has tied themselves and their movement very tightly to Trump. Not to conservatism in general, not to any kind of policy in specific, but to the unique personality of Trump. They tried with DeSantis, and he flamed out hard. They’re trying with Vance, but he’s such an awkward goof that it’ll never work.

I don’t think the MAGA virus can survive in another host, and I think that’s why they are trying to rush into full on Fascism while Trump is still around. Once he’s gone, the Republican party is going to eat itself in the power vacuum.

Be the example then.

This is the outcome I hope for. The other possibilities are a lot more messy.

They won’t stop unless someone makes them stop. That’s how movements like this work, every single time. They never wind down on their own. They have to constantly keep increasing the cruelty and extremism, or else their base will see weakness and abandon them. However bad you think it is now, it’s only going to get worse, unless someone puts an end to it. Historically, there are only a few ways a fascist movement has ever been stopped, and none of them are pretty.

Not really. It’s weird. You kinda have to be familiar with the ranch that raises the beef, and the ones that don’t use a ton of chemicals also don’t advertise to the public. It’s basically only available to small town folks who are “in the know” and boutique restaurants. This has been my experience, anyway. One of my exes comes from a cattle rancher family, so my sample size is tiny. Other people may have other experiences.

Argentinian beef is top tier. While we do have some great beef in the US, it’s all from smaller ranchers that most people don’t have access to, and it still doesn’t compare to Argentina.

It depends on where it comes from in the US. You’re spot on when it comes to basically anything sold in a grocery store. But we have some great cattle that produces great beef. You have to go to high end butchers for it though. Or buy it directly from the ranchers and butcher it yourself.

In case anyone is wondering why they say stupid shit like this, it’s because they need to be able to convince a whole lot of stupid people that being gay can be “cured”, just as it can be caused. And the cure? Religion.

It’s all a big scam.

My girlfriend has a 15 year old daughter (I’m 49). I enjoy her company a lot. She’s a great kid. The thought of any kind of romantic or sexual relationship with her turns my stomach. It should also turn your dad’s stomach, and he shouldn’t be allowed to get away with “I enjoy her company”. But that’s just my opinion. I don’t know your family dynamics, and I know it’s easy to preach about what I think should be done from the outside.

Very tough spot to be in, and I have no advice beyond confrontation. I’m sorry you have to deal with this.

Why they can’t just set something up where these people can go and do the paperwork to “immigrate legally” from where ever they’re currently at I don’t know.

We already have a system that does that. It’s called “immigration court”, and the vast majority of them show up for it.

Nah, we have way too many people on record saying it was specifically about “illegal immigration”, regardless of any other criminal history. They used that excuse every time an immigrant with no criminal record was deported. Letting them jump from base to base is a mistake. Catch them before they get there and shove their face in it.

I can’t tell you why her parents would be okay with it, but I think you might want to ask your dad why he’s okay with it. A tough conversation, for sure, and I think we all kinda know the answer, but making him say it out loud might begin the process to put an end to it.

Holy shit man, so much. So so so much. Honestly I’m surprised I survived childhood.

We used to free climb cliffs. One of my step brothers took a pretty bad fall, about 60 feet down. He cartwheeled and banged against the cliff face, then landed in a sitting position. His right arm was torn open from armpit to elbow, and the bones were sticking out. Compound break. We had to walk him though about 2 miles of desert to get back to civilization and get help. He survived with no other major injuries, but that was a close one.

I used to go camping out in the desert by myself as a kid. From like 10 to 14 years old. I’d take a bow and arrows with me and just stay out there for a few days with my parents thinking I was spending a few days at a friends house. So much shit could’ve gone wrong, and sometimes it almost did.

Then there’s the normal kid shit like playing with fire and chemicals, almost blowing ourselves up or burning everything else down.

People wonder why I never had kids and all I can do is think about all the shit I got up to as a kid. I don’t need that kind of stress.

Just look at a national map of the counties that voted Republican last November and you will see nothing but red.

Rightoid needs colored pictures to understand numbers and still fails. Amazing.

64.1% of eligible voters turned out to vote. Trump got 49.3% of those voters to vote for him. That amounts to about a third of all eligible voters voting for Trump. ONE THIRD is not “the whole country”.

It’s no wonder you guys want the DOE gone. You need the whole country to be uneducated so your own stupidity looks normal by comparison.

Dementia is a punishment worse than death. Just a shame he didn’t get it sooner. Lock him away for the rest of his life and forget he ever existed. Don’t even waste treatment on him. Just let the disease run its course.

The entire nation voted Republican in November. Not just the southern states. It was a Red Flood.

It was 49.8% to 48.3%, with over a third of eligible voters sitting it out. It was a Red Dribble, at best.

That’s the reason why the democrat party has a national approval rating below 25%.

The Dems have an abysmal approval rating because they tried to court the right-wing, which cost them most of their left-leaning base. I know you think you had a gotcha moment here, but you aren’t talking to a Democrat.

Seriously though, I am just tickled how perfectly you described Trump.

Yankees are shallow, arrogant, condescending, cowards who are generally moral-less liars and seek money over anything else in their empty lives.

Spot on. I’m stealing this.

Yankees are shallow, arrogant, condescending, cowards who are generally moral-less liars and seek money over anything else in their empty lives.

You just described the guy that the South overwhelmingly voted for. Twice. What does it say about Southern men that this is what they elected to represent them at the highest level of government?

Cuck. That’s what it says.

I don’t even get the “obj” box on pc. But yeah, got it sorted. I appreciate everyone being so helpful.