The left is ramping up their resistance of Trump, and now even local government officials and law enforcement are joining in the resistance.
The left is dumb, in that they are making this look more and more like an insurrection. Here is the insurrection act (pdf not hosted here at this site).
Trump will keep goading them, and they will stupidly continue their idiocy, until it reaches a level that permits him to use military force to suppress the insurrection.
Another liberal fish wrapper is placed in the garbage bin of “I don’t give a rat’s ass.”
Learn to code.
In a completely unrelated story, Trump is turning off the flood of money that’s been ostensibly used for foreign aid. This in no way shows a relationship between government waste, fraud, and abuse and the liberal money machine.
There are only two ways for humans to deal with each other- voluntary interaction or coercion. In a voluntary interaction, both people are free to choose whether or not they will do things with or for each other.
In a coercive interaction, one party chooses to use force (or the threat of it) to control the other. A great example of the two follows:
A man asks if I mind that he smokes a cigar while sitting next to me in the restaurant. I am free to say yes, or to say no.
Or he can do this:
There are those who would see the actions of the steak diner as being the coercive one, but that is not correct in my opinion. By lighting the cigar and smoking it in a restaurant, he is forcing everyone around him to smell his smoke. His actions are affecting others whether they like it or not. The only response to this is to respond with force of your own. The steak eating man asked nicely, but the smoker felt that he would be protected by society’s rules, and used them as a weapon to force others into smelling his cigar.
Now apply that to those who stand in the road as a form of protest. They have taken their right to protest and turned it into a form of coercion: society is being forced to bend to the protesters’ will, or the protesters are not going to allow anyone to get where they need to go.
People are using the rules of a polite society as weapons to be wielded against the very society which protects them and their right to protest.
There are those on the right who would do the same. Carrying an AR-15 into Starbucks, simply because it is legal to do so is a similar tactic.* Don’t be an asshole, and don’t lecture me about how it’s your right.
It’s possible to have the RIGHT to do something and still be an asshole.
Just food for thought…
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*You carry a handgun because you might be in a gunfight. If you WILL be in a gunfight, bring a long gun. Also remember that the best way to survive a gunfight is not to be in a gunfight in the first place. If your local Starbucks is that dangerous, perhaps you could get coffee elsewhere. There is a difference between being armed and being provocative.
Find a fascist.
There are days when I think that I have had enough of this bullshit, and just wish they would get it on already.
Thing is, the ones who post all of that trash talk aren’t the ones always assume someone else will protect them.
Is there any field in which leftist liberals don’t consider themselves to be experts?
Shutting down Venezuela’s air defenses are well within the capabilities of the F/A-18G Growler (there were 2 squadrons of them in the theater) and the F-35. Any air defense system that was turned on would have been jammed or destroyed. Likewise, communications would have been shut down by those same systems, as well as by cyber warfare, and no orders to fire on anyone could have been issued.
But tell us how Trump can only be successful by throwing money around.
It doesn’t matter how he won, Trump won. Cry like the little bitches you are, but this was a successful operation, and nitpicking every little thing about it just makes you look weak and whiny.
Hawaii has strict laws against the private ownership or possession of fireworks. This law was passed after some morons caused a fireworks explosion in 2023 that resulted in the death of six people, one of them a 3-year-old. The result is that the penalty for possession of fireworks is now punishable by 5 years in jail. It’s an island, so it should be pretty easy to stop private fireworks, right?
So I guess that means there were no fireworks in Hawaii on New Years’ Eve…
Now I want you to think about the fact that Hawaii has also made firearms illegal, with the same penalties for ignoring the law…
How do you think that’s going?
I get it, tragedies happen, but that is because some people are irresponsible and stupid. That is THEIR fault, and it can’t be fixed by banning objects.
I get so tired of hearing tipped workers on Social Media crying about how little they make. Watch this:
So in a 12 hour shift, he made $503. That works out to $42 an hour, plus add in the $11 an hour a server in Florida would make, and that comes to $53 an hour. Tips are crazy. It’s how a business gets away with not paying their employees and puts that responsibility on the customer.
We need to get rid of tips and just make servers hourly employees like everyone else. I haven’t seen a single rational argument as to why we still do this, other than servers loving how much they make by tricking people into thinking they are not making $$$.
Remember a month ago, when Trump issued a pardon for the President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted on federal drug trafficking charges, despite the case being built over a decade-long investigation by U.S. officials? Trump caught a lot of flak for that one.
Now we know who the source of information on Maduro was.
Trump used the military to eliminate a burr under his saddle. The ruler of Venezuela openly defied and taunted him, as did the rulers of several other nations (Cuba, Columbia, Mexico, and Canada).
Trump doesn’t do subtle. Well, he did during his first term, but no one got the message. This second term is about sending messages that can’t be ignored, and if they are, well… This is what he had to say about Mexico:
“We’re very friendly with her, she’s a good woman,” Trump told Fox & Friends Saturday. “But the cartels are running Mexico — she’s not running Mexico.”
Then there was the message to Colombian President Gustavo Petro:
“He has cocaine mills, he has factories where he makes cocaine. And yeah, I think I stick by my first statement: He’s making cocaine. They’re sending it to the United States. So he does have to watch his ass.”
Trump also labeled Cuba, which relies on Venezuelan oil and furnished Maduro with security guards, and its president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, a “failing nation.”
This is about a subtle as a kick in the nads. This is a clear message that the carrot of negotiation hasn’t worked, so now it’s time for the big stick of unlubed diplomacy. In my opinion, Venezuela was the fastest, easiest, and most likely to succeed. Still, the entire operation only took a few hours. That sends a clear message that SHOULD be sending shockwaves through the hemisphere, but it doesn’t. Military power in the area:
For all of the public bluster coming from those nations, I am sure that they are taking note of what Trump just did. This will give Trump some leverage at the negotiating table.
EDITED TO ADD:
Because I found it to be funny as hell, here you go: