A part of the terrible price of guns in the US is as a person living in a gun owning household you are 17 times more likely to perish due to a gunshot wound.
Because the CDC was prevented from investigating we don't know how many of those deaths are suicides.
So hitting a police office with a machette on January 6th 2021 is not only not a felony, it's not a crime and any prosecution was entirely politically motivated.
In 2025 throwing a sub at a police officer is treason.
If you voted for Trump or just didn't vote then you voted for this
And some people use fireworks on New Year's Eve too.
I think that's a bit of cultural appropriation from the Chinese but it's probably got it's own legs now (and it's a lot better than celebrating massacring Catholics)
I'd rather celebrate a new year than religious intolerance - November 5 is celebration of anti-Catholic prejudice in Protestant England that is well past its sell by date
The trade dispute with China is all about creating a counter story to the ongoing conspiracy to protect the USA's serving pedophile president from the release of the Epstein Files.
Trump chickened out of additional tariffs on China and they agreed to keep buying oil from Alaska, they have to buy it anyway, they rely on it But not as much because Putin needs some extra cash so China will buy from him - so a successfuul trip - For Putin
Which the mistake they made last time. But it's not just Trump that should be investigated and prosecuted, every governor, senator and congressman who enabled a tyrant needs to be called to account.
And as at Nuremburg "I was just following orders" cannot be a permissible defence
I've watched American politics and media since Nixon drift further to right, to the point where Nixon would be now a Liberal and Watergate glossed over by every news channel and every paper.
You have reached your destination - you're the Nazi States of America - because you won't vote for a woman
It not easy to sum up such a life altering even in 300 characters but it really was an internal journey from jerk to gentleman in one fully justified put down from Colin.
We have to understand that conservatives and conspiracy theorist are, despite their delusional self-image, more likely to be extremely guillible than most other people. It's because where they may not lack intelligence - often far from it - they lack critical thinking skills
There is some footage somewhere of Sean Hannity agreeing with a someone - I think it was Cheney - to use 'emotive language' when describing political opponents.
The trouble is, especially when used to circumvent rational thought, those terms become normalised and terms used become more extreme
