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Kids need full armor to survive in school these days. Hugs





Some 15 year olds are more mature than others, but no 15 year old is an adult. There is a long history of charging minors as adults since the 1970’s as part of the war on crime. It presumably helps deal with the fact that an age is not the same as a degree of maturity. It’s also a technique for dealing with a particularly depraved crime, such as murdering several people where the DA thinks the maximum punishment for a juvenile isn’t sufficient.
I would prefer a magical system where each person is tried as they actually are, and then upon conviction, sent to rehab where they would stay until (magically) we knew they were better, including time in a half-way house to prove they were better. Puritan USA can’t cope with that though. PUNISHMENT is the primary goal.















Biden has announced that sending in troops to defend Ukraine is off the table, so he is basically telling Putin to go ahead and invade. I know Biden doesn’t like war, but damn we just approved 780 billion dollars for the military for one year. One year. Why if we can not use them to stop the invasions of a friendly democracy from an authoritarian dictatorship. China is watching this and feeling that they can invade Taiwan at any time and the US wont interfere. Hugs






At least Biden is standing up to Putin unlike tRump who was desperate to have Putin’s approval for some tRump project in Moscow, which tRump never got. Hugs


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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes

And this shows what the right wing is now, trolls and insult performance artists. Lets not bother to be role models for the kids nor a democracy other countries look up to. Hugs

Progressives or corporate Democrats. The issues the progressives are talking about and promoting are the same ones the entire party was trying to promote and implement way back in the 1970’s. Back then people like Nancy Pelosi were all for the progressive things like universal healthcare, free education, food assistance, and so much more. Then Nancy got addicted to the corporate money and she couldn’t get enough. She was one of the ones who pulled the Democrats to the right year after year decade after decade. When she was asked why she should be Speaker of the House she replied because she brought in the most donation money. But while the Democrats moved right to be part of the wealthy corporations the people of the US have not. In fact the country has moved more left supporting the LGBTQ+ community, legalizing cannabis, voting rights for people who finished their prison sentences, universal single payer healthcare, help for food insecurity, help for the homeless, help with childcare, and so much more. It really has become a civil war in the US between the wealthy and the public. Hugs

Only because the misleading right wing media keeps lying about vaccines, masks, and the personal responsibility people have to stop the spread of the virus. Hugs

The unity problem is more the result of unrelenting nonsense attacks by right wing media, often simply made up stuff they know their base will not check. Law and order is actually better as the tRump admin used unidentified illegal squads to kidnap people off the streets who were using their constitutional right to protest. These people were taken to hidden locations, illegally questioned, detained, their items searched with out permission, never charged with a crime and then released often with out their phones or other property. Reporters protected by law and the 1st amendment were attacked and their equipment destroyed all to please the wannabe strongman dictator, tRump. The US has far more world respect now with Biden president than when tRump (also known as TFG, the former guy) was in office. TFG destroyed long running friendships with democracies and tried to start friendships with only authoritarian governments. The world reacted badly to that. The laws and people enforcing the borders have not changed despite Biden and the people want them too. The US is still violating the rights of those seeking refuge status as they did before. We still have freedom and some of us are still sane. Talk about nonsense phrases meaning nothing and everything. And before someone shouts Covid as a loss of freedom fact is the SCOTUS found a century ago the government had a right to enforce health laws / requirements. And lastly fuel prices. Fuel prices started coming down right after TFG approved selling the Saudi’s weaponry that every other US president refused, for good reason. But the Saudi’s put lots of money in both tRump’s and his son-in-law’s pockets so who cares about indiscriminate killing, right. Then came the pandemic with Covid ended a lot of need for fuel, travel mostly stopped, office buildings were empty, prices of fuel fell from lack of demand and over supply. Now that demand is rising and the OPEC nations throttling the supply to make up the profits they lost prices of fuel were rising. That is no more. For the last three weeks fuel prices, the cost per barrel of oil has fallen. If you are not seeing it at the pump it is because of price gouging and profit taking. Facts matter. These are the facts. Scottie
Those are not the facts. Where’s your proof that people were kidnapped off the streets and had their phones stolen from them? Which even if that were true would be far less than what happens to those that our current pretender in chief doesn’t like. At least those people, again if even true, would still have their lives. As for the bovine excrement relating to reporters, they relentlessly attacked Trump and he refused to take their questions. No squelching of first amendment rights. Also, if by media you mean news reporters, there is no media anymore, let alone right-wing. They all spew opinion and propaganda these days, even Fox is left-wing, and no three pundits who are slightly right of center are not right-wing nor do they make Fox right-wing. Though, if it somehow magically did, they’d be one outlet amongst dozens.
Hey Anon, ever hear of google? Easy to find the facts. But I did the work for you. Here are three links proving that yes tRump illegally had people kidnapped off the streets.
Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least Tuesday. Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation about why they are being arrested, and driving off.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07…
And, officials offended by charged terms such as kidnapping would like us to instead use the term “lawful detainments”. But under federal and state law, kidnapping is commonly defined as the unlawful transportation and confinement of a person against their will.
By that definition, John Parks was kidnapped by police and armed federal forces on 29 July in Portland, Oregon. “I was surrounded by men in camo, and black,” he told me, with tense inflection, “They put me in the back of an unmarked vehicle and refused to tell me why I was being detained.”
https://www.theguardian.com… And one more in case you miss the point that this was an illegal detention of people exercising their constitutional right to protest read this https://www.washingtonpost….
tRump bragged about having the US Marshal service track down and kill a left wing antifa supporter who shot a maga man in self defense. According to witnesses the police never attempted to arrest the suspect they just ran up and opened fire on him.
President Donald Trump on Thursday gloated over the September killing of Portland, Oregon, murder suspect Michael Reinoehl by law enforcement officers who had been deputized as US Marshals. “We sent in the US Marshals,” Trump said during a campaign rally in North Carolina, adding that it “took 15 minutes (and) it was over.”
The President immediately followed that statement by appearing to indicate that authorities had no intention of ever taking Reinoehl alive.
“They knew who he was; they didn’t want to arrest him, and in 15 minutes that ended,” Trump said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10…
I think it funny you think tRump did not want to talk to reporters. Did you see no media coverage during the four years tRump was president? He took every opportunity he could to push himself in front of the media cameras. He craves attention and wanted as much TV time as he could get. Again these are facts, sorry if they disrupt your alternative reality. Scottie
Oh, okay, so you’re one of those people that considers a riot to be a peaceful protest. Got it.
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Some 15 year olds are more mature than others, but no 15 year old is an adult. There is a long history of charging minors as adults since the 1970’s as part of the war on crime. It presumably helps deal with the fact that an age is not the same as a degree of maturity. It’s also a technique for dealing with a particularly depraved crime, such as murdering several people where the DA thinks the maximum punishment for a juvenile isn’t sufficient.
I would prefer a magical system where each person is tried as they actually are, and then upon conviction, sent to rehab where they would stay until (magically) we knew they were better, including time in a half-way house to prove they were better. Puritan USA can’t cope with that though. PUNISHMENT is the primary goal.