News and Current Events - 2023 +

[Jeff Wrangler]

"At this point, we are sissies compared to Trump and everyone around him," remarked a third House Democrat who spoke anonymously.

Bingo! Exactly! They need to stop being wusses and get down in the mud with the MAGA-ites, and they also need to blow their own horn about what they have done for the people.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Well, here's my take on what the future holds.

As soon as the GOT takes office, he will declare a state of emergency because of the border situation. He will pardon all the January 6 insurrectionists. The state of emergency may well be converted to martial law, which he will not end.

[gattaca]

Martial Law gives the GOT (great orange turd) almost unlimited powers that I don't think even Congress can thwart unless they impeach him and we all know they don't have the @@ to do that after 2 prior attempts when clearly he should have been removed.  The GOP was drunk on power then and even moreso now.  We are all clearly in for another lube-less BOHICA!

[Jeff Wrangler]

Martial Law gives the GOT (great orange turd) almost unlimited powers that I don't think even Congress can thwart unless they impeach him and we all know they don't have the @@ to do that after 2 prior attempts when clearly he should have been removed.  The GOP was drunk on power then and even moreso now.  We are all clearly in for another lube-less BOHICA!

The president of South Korea has just declared martial law. I've seen a good explanation of what that entails, at least in Korea, but unfortunately I didn't save the link. 

If it's anything here like it is in South Korea, there will be no Congress even to attempt to thwart him.

It's coming here. I can feel it. Then God help the country and us all, especially those of a sexual minority.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

I don't know what happens next, but this just occurred:

South Korea Parliament Rejects President's Martial Law Declaration
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-president-yoon-declares-martial-law-2024-12-03/

Here's the full text of the decree, which says it is being done to "protect liberal Democracy."
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/full-text-south-koreas-martial-law-decree-2024-12-03/

Now that sounds like a good thing, but I could also envision the cretin doing it and saying the same thing.
Maybe Biden should do it now then.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

Now the cretin is threatening:

President-elect Donald Trump is demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza, saying that if they are not freed before he is sworn into office for a second term there will be “HELL TO PAY.”

Could someone remind him he is NOT the President right now and to shut the fuck up until he pretends he is next month.

[Jeff Wrangler]

And what exactly does he mean by that, anyway?

[Jeff Wrangler]

I note that the GOT constantly disparages the mainstream media--but he appeared on Meet the Press.

[Lyle (Mooska)]

^^^
Disparage = MAGA.

[fritzkep]

Good to hear.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/vatican-makes-history-by-planning-its-first-ever-lgbtq-pilgrimage/

[Lyle (Mooska)]

I'd hate to live in Lassen County California. They voted NO on every single Proposition on the CA ballot.
Except one: They want increased sentencing for drug and theft crimes.

There's no nuance in Lassen County I guess.

Proposition Title
No   2   Bonds for Public School and College Facilities
No   3   Constitutional Right to Marriage
No   4   Bonds for Water, Wildfire, and Climate Risks
No   5   Bonds for Affordable Housing and Infrastructure
No   6   Eliminates Forcing Inmates to Work
No   32   Raises Minimum Wage
No   33    Local Government Residential Rent Control
No   34   Restricts Spending of Prescription Revenues
No   35   Provides Permanent Funding for Medi-Cal
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Yes   36   Increased Sentencing for Certain Drug and Theft Crimes

[Jeff Wrangler]

I hear the GOT wants to end Daylight Saving Time.

I always wonder if people who think Daylight Saving Time is a Bad Thing think about the implications of not changing the clocks.

Every year just for fun I subscribed to a nice little almanac calculated for the latitude and longitude of my home town, which are close enough to those of Philadelphia. For every month there is a chart that shows the times of the rising and the setting of the sun.

If we did not turn the clocks ahead in the spring, around here anyway, at the time of the summer solstice, sunrise would be around 4:30 a.m., and of course it's lighter well before sunrise.

By the same token, if we did not turn the clocks back in the fall, at the time of the winter solstice, sunrise would be around 8 a.m.

I'm old enough to remember the uproar in 1973 when Congress changed DST to start earlier because of the energy crisis, and we kids had to go to school in the dark. Is this what the DST haters want for their kids?

[fritzkep]

Just what they need, more cause to be angry. And of course they'll aim their anger at Democrats, because all evil stems from them, in their mind.

[gattaca]

Just what they need, more cause to be angry. And of course they'll aim their anger at Democrats, because all evil stems from them, in their mind.

More maggots not having a fracking clue for why DST was even created just that it's something they can bitch and moan about 2x a year.  Heaven help us - the first time a kid gets injured or run-over b/c it's so dark outside when they are walking to school, they will be demanding school start later.   LOL... idiots, idiots, idiots who's brains have been maggotized.  V. 

[Lyle (Mooska)]

I don't mind DST so much, but I do wish they'd put the Spring "forward" time change back at the end of April like it used to be not.