Useful idiot has served his limited purpose.

She kinda, sorta, has a point…

Threatening us with good news.

What about the husband vote cancelling out the wives vote?

Both humans have agency. If you are going to frame the issue as treachery, then the husband shouldn’t vote against his wife. Or, is the husband owed two votes and the wife none?

Fuck that.

You buy a pair of shoes, the maker is paid. Why do you have to pay the bastard every month?

I’m actually not a cynic, an attitude mostly lazy and unthinking, but straight up ignoring conventions and laws is what the right has normalised.

Trump didn’t go to jail for Jan 6th, and never will. The paycheck mob did tho.

“Go out there and fight like hell”.

Isn’t that cute? They think that laws apply to billionaires.

Unfortunately this has always been the case with other country’s rules. I’m not a fan of US gun culture, but I’m not American, so I don’t get a vote.

Nobody is forcing you to visit either Singapore or North Korea.

Guaranteed to fail the next health inspection too after Trump’s leaking diaper wreaks every floor surface.

Actually, nobody goes to heaven when they die (according to the bible). Everyone must wait until judgement day when all the graves, etc, open and we all face judgement at that point. This surprised me when I first learned it because it goes against all the Christian culture I’ve ever been taught and experienced.

So grandma isn’t currently in heaven no matter how good she was.

You seem to be implying that handguns don’t count even though it has happened, or actual attempts, multiple times. Ok…?

Handguns did the job on Ronald Reagan and almost for Gerald Ford.

Leaving Abe Lincoln to one side, but if you are lucky and your security detail is a bit lax, a handgun can get the job done. I’m Australian, so we don’t see much of that sort of thing.

This will not go well.

Europe is not designed for oversized cars. As soon as you are off the “A” roads, it is goat tracks in every direction. And, you can forget about parking. Regular cars have enormous trouble already. Every new car gets panel damage within a couple of weeks. Put those monster US vehicles in the villages it will be carnage.

If you have a point to make, it’s alluded me.

Why do we have to sign up to every fucking thing and it’s brother? Everything gets hacked eventually. Why don’t we just hand over our data to the hackers and cut out the middle man?

Not to worry, I’m sure that there are websites around that cater to your squirrel tastes

I’m from Australia and don’t mind engagement with the (mostly) US content.

Let’s face it, the US election is the most interesting event on the planet anyway.

This happened more than 15 years ago and is a pretty wild ride. I may have a few minor details askew, but this is the basic story.

There was this police officer who was operating as a controller for another undercover police officer. A controller is the interface between the undercover guy and his team in the office. It allows the undercover guy to operate loose as a goose and the controller runs about behind the scenes making things happen.

Well, one night the controller gets completely hammered, off his tits drunk, then picks up a hooker and takes her to a dodgy motel and has sex. Then he passes out. The hooker couldn’t wake him, so she takes his car keys and drives to where she was picked up from and abandons his undercover car with the keys still in the ignition.

Back in the hotel, the controller wakes up to find the car gone - along with suitcase containing several thousand dollars that was sitting in the trunk. Every note in the stash, naturally, had the serial number recorded.

The controller panicked and called a bunch of off-duty and on-duty friends who attempted to locate the car, and hopefully the drug-buy cash, before they had to officially report what happened.

In the end, they couldn’t find the car, so the controller self-reported the whole sorry story. He was arrested and sacked, but didn’t do time. They eventually found the car, still with the keys in the ignition and the cash still sitting in the trunk, safe and sound. All his friends got into various amounts of trouble for assisting with the cover-up.

Bonus points. While this wild escapade was happening the controller’s wife was sitting at home with a newborn baby.

It is still talked about today - with reverence - as the single biggest display of mass stupidity in the department.

Yep, I had my data deleted. They told me so, but I don’t for a second believe it.

No acknowledged historian believes that the strategic bombing of Germany shortened the war to any significant degree. The Nazi leaders didn’t care and the civilians endured.

The Londoners didn’t overthrow their government during their blitz, nor did the Germans during theirs.