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And except for the military, almost all government services are provided locally. So, why do we ship most of our tax money off to DC, just so they can lose most of it and return a little bit back to the local government to do all the government stuff ?

The same reason the NRA never stops gun control. The same reason they didn't supply enough arms to Ukraine for them to win. Because the battles aren't meant to be won. They're meant to be continuous. If politicians ever actually solved these problems, they would lose their excuse to grab...

The rot starts in the legislature for sure. But in all the worst jurisdictions there are prosecutors who refuse to even charge the real crime if the perpetrators belong to a "marginalized minority". They completely ignore the fact that the victims are most likely the same minority, and...

Trump was a Democrat in the 90s. Gabbard, Musk, RFK Jr, and many more were a Democrats up until the last election.

In general it is. Unless it's someone else's flag, then it's arson. Or if it's being done in a public place where open fires are prohibited. Then it's basically an illegal camp fire. They're not going to let you roast marshmallows on the national mall, they don't need to let you burn flags...

Issac Newton has entered the chat....

We donated guns to them in WWII in case they had to fight the fascists as a resistance movement. Then they turned them into the government when the war war over, and then invited the fascists right in and voted them into office. Nah, i'm with you. Fuck 'em this time. At least until they sort...

I'm not sure they actually ruled on that. Appealate Judges tend to like to kick a case back with the least controversial ruling they can get away with that gets it out of their court.

I think giving him 4 years off to regroup was their biggest mistake. If he had 8 in a row I don't think he would have been able to do what he is now. He needed the reboot to clean house.

My take on the weaponization is that they should probably all be in prison, and the problem is that people look the other way until you're out of favor.

Trumps biggest mistake in his first term was surrounding himself with Washington insiders because they're "experts"

SCOTUS says they're not a judge, then they're not a judge anymore. It's that simple. There isn't even an appeal they can make. Who would they appeal a SCOTUS decision to ? If they try to continue to show up and make rulings, then their rulings don't have any more force than some guy in a...

New insult for truck drivers: "You drive like you got your CDL from California".

They have what they need for enforcement. They just lack the will to use it. SCOTUS has the power to remove any of these activist judges from office anytime they want. They simply need to declare these ridiculous rulings "bad behavior" and they are gone.

The real problem is that they're mostly right.

The uniparty was around long before Ukraine. Defeating it is not anywhere near that simple. Just like D-day wasn't the defeat of Germany, ending the Ukraine laundromat won't defeat the uniparty.

If there are no consequences, then they have no reason to ever change. The only way to fix it os for some conservative judges to start doing the same thing. Then the left will suddenly discover how dangerous it is and we might get some rules to prevent it. So, some minor federal judge needs...

Prison doesn't need to be harsh. That's not the point. It's a warehouse for people who won't conform to society and we don't have the balls to just kill. The old school theory of "penal colonies" was a great idea. No re-occuring taxpayer expense, just ship them all to some island halfway...

I've given up the conceit that I would be the good guy. I pretty much just try not to get involved at all, but if i'm forced into it, I will have no illusions about being "the good guy". I think almost everyone who thinks of themselves as the "good guy" is just deluding themselves. In the...

Ignoring the small stuff to concentrate on the big stuff only works if you actually put away the criminals. If you just let them right back out, literally nothing will work. You could suspend the constitution and go full blown police state and it still would change anything. And I'm afraid...

For the most part the police *do* their job. They make tons of arrests. If the criminals weren't back on the street in hours the problem would go away. This is entirely on the prosecutors, judges, and legislators.

So just drop all the petty stuff right off the bat. Tell the cops not to even waste their time on it. Take the serious stuff and prosecute it as hard as you can. Pleading things down is wasting your time long term. Which makes more sense, spend a month putting a guy away for 20 years, or...

National guard is not necessary. There are already way more police than we need. You just have to actually lock the bad guys up once you catch them. It doesn't matter how many people you have playing tag in the street when nothing changes when you catch them.

*How* do you know you're the good guy ? Because most of the bad guys think they're the good guy too. I'm not saying you're not, just saying it's not as easy to tell from the inside. It's important to know how you tell the difference, because "I just know" is a great way to deceive yourself...

That's very dangerous mojo. At a certain point it gets hard to tell the bad guys from the good guys. What do you think the difference is ?

I should have been more specific. Even when caught, with incontrovertible proof, they aren't often charged. There is an unethical incestuous relationship between cops and prosecutors.

Look at communist architecture and you'll see exactly what's happening with this stuff. Their goal isn't to make your brand stand out. It's to make all brands into interchangeable cogs. Just look at what has happened to many resturant chains since the 90s. They go from warm fun environments...

That's certainly part of the problem, but I don't even think that's a major part. In the jurisdictions with the biggest problems it's the prosecutors abusing their discretion. "He put 3 people in the hospital, but he'll get deported if we charge him with aggravated assault, so we're just...

There are a lot of things that aren't often charged, but still could be. Cops will lie illegally on reports and testimony and getting charged for that is extremely rare.

Pretty sure a jury would see the same thing we did when they play that video. Nobody is going to buy his "just knocking" line unless they were determined to ignore reality to protect him ahead of time.

If breaking down the door wasn't done legally, then nothing that comes after was legally justified either. OfC, as I stated earlier, if someone's trying to stab you with a knife, you need to end the threat, legally or not. But if the door was illegally broken, then the shooting was murder.

If the guy had a 12ga instead of a knife, there might very well be 2 dead cops and the question might very well be whether *his* shoot was justified. It's not clear that a court wouldn't rule that he was. So, in any encounter involving deadly force, the single most important consideration is...