Considering some rando nearly got Trump, and how the MAGATs have dismantled their intelligence apparatus and completely lack an interest in risk assessment…Iran actually has a decent shot. Literally and figuratively. After all, you don’t have to ID yourself if you claim to be a member of ICE. Just wear a mask, don’t use license plates, and carry weapons, you will look like every other random gravy seal.
I hope that Iran will make Project 2025’s backers find out. Our bastard leadership think there are no consequences for doing evil and stupid things, and are in severe need of an attitude readjustment.
The elimination of ghost jobs, for a start. If you have to jump through hoops for a job that doesn’t exist, that instills a strong distrust in society. People need money to make headway in their life, and shit like ghost jobs corrode the feeling of hope.
Once you cannot feel love for living anymore, that is a great deal of space in one’s heart to be filled with hatred.
It is this kind of thing that made me decide to ignore my city’s municipal codes regarding protest gear. It outlaws the wearing of bulletproof vests, helmets, protective visors, hearing protection, gas masks, and so on. To say the least, I cannot respect a law that is designed to permit bullies to injure or kill people who did nothing wrong.
My take is “plausible deniability”. The sheriffs were delaying their target so that ICE gravy seals can stuff themselves into their KKKop cars and start pursuing their prey.
Badges should come with a QR code, linked to a government database, profiling official officers. Warrants should also get a QR code, with a justice’s signature, reasoning, and a short list of what activities are permitted by the warrant. The judicial branch controls their own database for the warrants and justices, while the state or federal governments have their own databases for their respective officers.
Also, should these conceptual reforms happen, people should be able to immediately send a copy of the presented warrant and badges to their lawyers and agencies via a QR snapshot.
The plumber a couple weeks ago showed me some pictures of the pipes from the inside. It explains why I needed filter cartridges for my shower, why my sink needed looking at, how come the toilet was losing flushing power, and why the water heater’s recirculator never worked. Turns out, the thing burned out from debris.
This residence totally needs a revamp, well beyond my means. 😒
The pipes in my residence are at least 60 years old, made of metal, and the resulting water tastes a bit suspect. I get water from the grocery store and put it in the water cooler. Costs about $10-20ish for 20 gallons, but probably far safer than what the tap provides.
Replacing all of the pipes would cost $19,000+. 😨
The supreme court system as we know it needs to be replaced outright. I think that term and age limits (10 years, age 60), plus each state popularly electing 1 supreme justice to represent them, would be the right way to go. The president can elect a justice to represent their administration, who is replaced by the next president’s pick. Also, a ban on gifts of any shape. No more motorcoaches!
This would make it much harder for justices to become politically captured, or culturally out of touch.
Democratic leaders should have bodyguard details that they have personally chosen outside of the Federal framework. The violence will keep escalating, both stochaostic and direct.
Someone should bring European floats and put them on the parade path.
Being an open source program, the Blue States can modify it for their own taxation apparatus. The money intended for the Federal can be held in escrow, then released into service of the states if the Federal doesn’t negotiate with the Blue States in good faith.
I think that California and the Blue States will make good use of this, considering the shit that the Trump Regime has been pulling.
I was thinking feeding him McDonald hamburgers, Matilda style.
Australia does hire foreigners onto their forces.
International Recruitment - Your experience can make a real difference in Queensland.
Besides, history is a wild and wooly thing that isn’t set in stone. Before FDR and the Great Depression, most Americans wouldn’t have considered the possibility of huge socialist programs such as Social Security. Besides, if a civil war happens, what is “American” will be redefined, simply because the respective sides would have different ideologies. Before the War for Independence, many Americans considered themselves to be British.
Crack open any volume of “The Cartoon History of the Universe”, and you will see something very apparent: Nations and their people change all the time. It is just for you and me, history looks slow, so we can’t easily recognize changes when they are happening.
If we want to change America for the better, we must be willing to discard “traditional” thought. It is when we refuse to consider possibilities, that “tradition” decays into “stagnation”.
We can start from scratch - kill one department and replace it at a time. We probably could hire from Finland and other countries abroad to start clean-sheet academies to raise our first decade or so of officers. They put a great deal of effort and time into training their police, and we can pay them for services rendered. Finland might appreciate our supply of MRAPs and other surplus military gear, considering who they share borders with.
If stealth is key, black play-doh and dunking the screws into black paint might do the trick. Biggest problem with that, is that civvies might walk onto them. As with landmines, caltrops don’t care who stumbles across them - be they cop or child, they are the same.
It is going to be a major issue with resistance and a civil war, that our efforts could potentially harm people who aren’t jerks. 😥
Apparently, rawlplugs make for better caltrops than simple nails. The hollow tube permits air, which keeps the caltrop from getting plugged into the tire.
Now, the question is how to get the plugs to stick together. Maybe wrap them with Play-doh? It isn’t like they have to last for more than one tire, long as they get the job done.
Personally, I think they resemble Xerxes.