Government

Chess, Police, Cutting Ties

Donald Trump has garnered a reputation for being a fool that doesn’t understand politics. I think that opinion is accurate, as it pertained to his first term. He was too trusting and took people at their word. That doesn’t work in DC. Out politicians are simply not moral or ethical people- and I’m talking about BOTH parties here.

However, I think that has changed. He is giving people what they expect to see and is playing them for the self interested crooks that they are.

He wanted NATO to pay for their own defense. There was no way to get that to happen while being nice. For too long, the US has been buying quasi-friendship by throwing barrels of money around. This is how Europe could afford free heathcare and other social programs (well, that and gas costing more than $20 per gallon, thanks to taxation).

Instead of the status quo of, “Won’t you please stop taking our money?” he threatened to invade Greenland. He clearly never intended to do so, or it would have happened. Ask Venezuela how that works. Now, though, NATO is so worried about Trump’s invasion, they are once again providing for their own protection.

Case in point: the USA doesn’t use or need oil from the Persian Gulf. Now that Venezuela and the USA can work together to produce oil, the nations of the EU, China, and India can figure out how to secure their own oil without having to rely on using the USA as their worldwide police force and sugar daddy.

And it looks like that is exactly what is happening.

By Divemedic, ago

Litigation Tourist

A German tourist came to the US and filed lawsuits against US businesses.

  • A $100,000 suit against a Mexican restaurant because the salsa was too spicy
  • A $10 million lawsuit against Walmart because it required a US phone number for its WiFi service
  • A $10 million lawsuit against NYPD because the officers couldn’t call him on his European cell phone

Ridiculous. A judge dismissed the taco lawsuit. The others are still pending.

By Divemedic, ago

Washington

The Washington state legislature just passed a law making it a felony to possess digital files that can be used to make any part on a CNC or a 3d machine that could potentially be used as a part of a firearm.

Not only impossible to make work in any practical or Constitutional sense, it opens a huge can of worms.

By Divemedic, ago

Imports

Import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world. Commit an obviouly preplanned ambush and murder, then claim you thought he was molesting a child.

Yeah, that’s the ticket.

The US isn’t built on magic dirt. Third world savages don’t become part of US culture merely because they touch our soil. Immigrants CAN be great Americans, but you have to be selective in who you allow in, or this is what you get.

By Divemedic, ago

Reports

22 Pakis were killed while discovering US embassies are sovereign US territory guarded by armed US Marines.

I’ve also seen reports that, for the first time since 1945, a US submarine sank an enemy ship with a torpedo. Another report i saw says the ship sunk was a submarine stalking the Abraham Lincoln. I can’t confirm at this point. If it was in fact a submarine, this would be the first sinking of any submarine by an SSN. EVER.

By Divemedic, ago

Shooting

A Walmart in Poinciana Florida, an unincorporated community that spans Osceola and Polk County, had been hiring off duty Sheriff’s deputies as security. One of them confronted a group of “teens” who had been shoplifting. That’s when one of the youths decided to pull a gun on the Deputy, thereby changing his crime from misdemeanor larceny into armed robbery, a forcible felony.

The Deputy conducted an impromptu ballistics test of his .45 ACP caliber Glock, which performed as expected. The crowd became a bit irate because the deputy shot a “kid,” so another off duty deputy, along with an off duty firefighter, both of whom happened to be in the store and were armed, assisted the original deputy in securing the crime scene until others could arrive. I can’t post the link to the tweet with the video, because it’s been restricted. Click on the tweet below and take a look.

By Divemedic, ago

Doomed to Repeat It

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. That quote isn’t apparently known by the local media, as Osceola county schools are catching hell from local media outlets for “showing a picture of Hitler” on the morning school announcements. Here is the picture that they are complaining about (the censoring isn’t my doing)

This picture was placed in the announcements was done as a part of “today in history” and is, in my opinion, a valid use of the picture, as it is being done in a context of teaching history. It was not placed there to celebrate Hitler or his ideals in any way. This is pure leftist pearl clutching.

By Divemedic, ago