Those were simply disgruntled tourists, with way too many BLM and Antifa instigators. All but the tourists were instigating.

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I bet your average department store make up artist could improve his make-up and make him look more natural. I wonder why Melania has never mentioned this to him?

I'd wager Melanoma's the one who has him all dolled up like we've seen him. Don't you remember what she unveiled to the world with her roll outs of the White House decorating for Christmas? Her sense of good taste is just slightly above those of her husbands on the Fugly Meter.

https://mashable.com/article/melania-trump-white-house-christmas-decorations-ranked

https://twitter.com/joeltyler_/status/935275430986309634

One down...

Three more to go.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/e-jean-carrolls-lawyers-close-with-trumps-own-damning-words

All of this Trump winning... How amazing, so much winning.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jury-says-donald-trump-didnt-rape-e-jean-carroll-but-liable-for-battery

https://www.strandbeest.com/strandbeest

I'm waiting for the Trump campaign to start showing images of the attempted, poorly designed and failed coup d'etat while warning us that THAT is what awaits America if Trump isn't immediately voted back into power.

Meh, LushStories doesn't discriminate against Republicans, Incels, GQP or mouthbreathing redneck racists who hate liberals, socialism and free elections.

Ya'll are welcome here too. Although, your proclaimed ideas will probably get laughed at and argued into the nothingness of the internet.

Free market sarcasm, man. Can ya dig it?

It would be much less expensive for every school district in America to be awarded enough money yearly - to hand out bullet-proof torso and leg outerwear and helmets with audio speakers inside of them - to each student before the start of every school year. Parents who earned above $250k a year would have to purchase this expensive gear for their children, parents below this mark of combined income - would only pay a few hundred dollars a year for these new school uniforms.

Families could probably see a cost benefit all following years by reusing/handing down older Kevlar protection clothing to younger children in their homes.

Or, we could just say - Fuck A Bunch Of That - to the idea of bussing students to buildings where their safety is out of parental control and forced onto the pursestrings of the nation. Just provide free high speed internet to all families of school aged children - and year long online learning commences.

Think of the cost savings - NO MORE INFRASTRUCTURE to worry about, saving the cost of brick & mortar school facilities. No cost of energy to cool down or heat up such facilities. More land could be reclaimed for expensive rental apartments to be constructed in the place of buildings for education purposes. Who needs school buses and the costs associated with transportation? We could totally axe out free school lunches for indigent.

If we do this correctly, the country's wealthy class can benefit tremendously - and probably work out loopholes later - where their children could attend actual physical school buildings and continue to rub shoulders with privileged people of their proper socio-economic class.

If we do this right - we can bring back a world wide South Africa of the 1970-80s, except keep the elite in power and enslave all the rest of us mooks. Especially those of us with a dozen handguns and long rifles per family.

As long as we're broaching stupid fucking ideas and going-nowhere-fast solutions, let's discuss all alternate reality situations.

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I wonder how many parents are able to do that, especially with teenage kids. Not that many I'd guess.

If you're a 35 plus year old parent of a set of 16 year twins - what does that say about you, when your child is smarter or more clever or even more industrious than their much older/more experienced adult parent figure?

If that's the actual case, then - the roles have been reversed and total fubar would exist (and does).

Not many teenagers are going to possess a $5000 desktop computer, properly equipped with a CPU & a GPU and a power supply, along with the expensive RAM and equally expensive computer monitor which would even remotely allow a powerful computer program (like this one mentioned) to load and seamlessly play well enough that the simulation is that much of an addictive draw.

I had not considered the actual/probable desensitivity which probably would accompany playing a game such as this for those kids who do have access to the hardware necessary to make the immersive experience workable. As you may be aware, I have no offspring around me to guide nor advise nor feed/clothe or take care of. But I've had numerous occasions to be around youth aged newborn to age 17 - and though I type and talk like a sailor - on adult websites and even out in public - when I curse, it's usually an unspoken thought - or heavily modulated depending on the audience likely to hear my voiced thoughts.

I don't/won't curse like a sailor around children. I also won't show any violent behaviour, make any verbal nor physical threats to others while in the presence of school to pre-school age kids. I won't participate in overnight booty calls with mothers who still have young children in their home. Not everyone thinks nor behaves like I do, though.

Missouri recently legalized recreational cannabis products for sale. A reasonable parent isn't going to make any trips to the dispensary to purchase flower or dabbing concentrates for their teen age children.

A reasonable parent isn't going to purchase a handgun with ammunition for their children, nor leave said equipment within easy reach and control of kids.

A reasonable parent wouldn't allow their children to access pornhub.

A reasonable parent would know almost exactly what their child or children were accessing (during their alone or friend play-time) via the internet, and set their limits accordingly.

A reasonable parent would not allow their children to glue their fingers and noses to smartphones or desktop super computers - while engaging in social media and computer games - and they certainly wouldn't allow their under 17 age children to engage in a first person shooter game - where the targets are reasonable facsimiles of human beings.

I believe that many of the aborrhent behaviors which plague our society - are taught or introduced to our children by their parents and older siblings. Sometimes that occurs willingly by parents who shouldn't be parents - and oftentimes by parents who are delegating parenting of their children to other people who really couldn't care less about impressionable younger/developing minds soaking up 99% of the stuff they see or experience - during their youth.

There's way too many parents out in our world who aren't prepared for the 24x7 responsibilities which exist when raising a child or a covey of children. It's become easier to throw the kids some coin every week and telling them to purchase whatever floats their boats - while the parent(s) are off doing their own things.

Simply identifying temptations and risks for children is only doing half the job. Advising/guiding/parenting the child(ren) and educating them as to why cocaine, or semi-automatic handguns or watching mysogynistic porn isn't good for your short nor long term health and mental well being - is taking the more time consuming steps which a lot of parents aren't even equipped to deal with over a 17 year period of time.

Hard pass. A person would need to lay out 2 grand for the graphics hardware to run this game at the same resolution with reflections - all drawn by a real time ray-tracing GPU - while dishing out at least 90 to 144 FPS.

https://www.amazon.com/NVIDIA-GeForce-Founders-Graphics-GDDR6X/dp/B0BJFRT43X

I've been listening to hard rock n roll, metal and rap since the late 70s and enjoying rocket jumping while shooting grenades into the demonic hordes of Doom and then Quake & then DOOM again, since the early 90s.

All of that violent playtime never has instigated me to go drop 2 grand on an AR15 and air out people I mildly to greatly dislike.

Tipper Gore was full of shit in 1986, too.

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1268/tipper-gore

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It'll take a while to fix those problems. Gov. Newsom has a lot of work to do before California regains the seats in the US House it lost.

What are you blathering on about now?

California lost 1 congressional seat - and that's due to a slow growth in population (determined by the 2020 census).

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2021-04-California-House-Seat-Census-Population-16133275.php

https://apnews.com/article/census-2020-government-and-politics-california-dd4a4f3ce3070231b0aecdc1cac3e97b

California's current congressional delegation in the 118th Congress consists of its two senators, both of whom are Democrats, and its 52 representatives: 40 Democrats and 12 Republicans.

California has not had a statewide Republican officer since January 2011. Republicans were last elected to a statewide office in 2006, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was re-elected as governor and Steve Poizner was elected insurance commissioner.

Newsome's a governor of an extremely blue state, not in any immediate danger of being over run by GQP.

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you just earned yourself a very very long time out - consider it permanent.

He got pretty close to setting a new record as far as a new voice introducing himself in the forum, then earning a well deserved shit-canning/ IP banning.

Ya'll saved him from contemplating spending $149.99 so he could create his own culture war diversion discussions.

Kudos

For four years the USA and the world suffered a demonstrably incompetent, chaotic criminal masquerading in the White House as a polished, wise, sage and calm US President.

I don't recall you claiming that that moron was mentally incompetent - when it was on display daily with his addiction to Twitter and lodging at his many golf course resorts.

Only 4 years younger that Biden, three times less healthy and more invested in personal loyalty to himself than to upholding the rule of law and the US Constitution, he was a 1 man crime spree (and his many crimes are now being investigated) and he's going to be making demand appearances at many civil and criminal trials where his very words and actions (made in public) will convict him.

He can become the first felon to run for the office of the Presidency in 2024.

Donald J Trump - setting new records and harvesting infamous achievements.

Robert F Kennedy Jr has zero in common with his father and uncle. He has astutely judged the field before his announcement and determined that the best way to not repeat the incidents associated with his two most famous relatives - is to align himself with that subversive/revolution minded subset of rednecks in this country who believe in punishing politicians they don't like - with pipebombs, rifle shots, public beatings and actual insurrections against standing governments.

I'd rather vote for Howard Stern than RFK Jr.

Worst idea in the history of ideas, ever voiced.

Biden's getting the job done without causing chaos and criming every other day or skipping off to his golf course resort to not do a fucking bit of work for days at a time, unlike his septuagenarian predecessor - who routinely looked like he had one foot in the grave - all while he was constantly enriching his own interests.

Meh, I give 0 fux about a Trump arrest/perp walk.

I'm waiting for the indictments to start landing at his doorstep.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/trump-probe-da-urges-law-enforcement-to-prep-for-indictments-this-summer/56OGCLMNOVGPXMJ6YXDPXQOSWY/

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Monday said she would announce this summer whether former President Donald Trump and his allies would be charged with crimes related to alleged interference in Georgia’s 2020 election.

Willis revealed the timetable in a letter to local law enforcement in which she asked them to be ready for “heightened security and preparedness” because she predicted her announcement “may provoke a significant public reaction.”

Trump has called for mass demonstrations in response to overreach from prosecutors — triggering concerns about violent unrest not unlike the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection he promoted.

Several legal observers closely following the Fulton investigation, which Willis launched more than two years ago, said the letters suggest that Willis will seek charges against the former president.

“It obviously seems to imply the case against Trump will be presented to a grand jury,” former Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said. “I don’t think any of the other targets would raise that level of caution. I think that’s the obvious implication.”

Norm Eisen, a former ethics czar under President Barack Obama who co-authored a Brookings Institute report on the Fulton probe, agreed.

“While she does not have the former president’s name in her letter, the evidence and the applicable law in Georgia point to the substantial likelihood that Donald Trump and his principal co-conspirators will be included when she follows through on the plans she confirms in this letter,” Eisen said.

For inspiration, Fulton authorities can look to the preparations that took place in Manhattan ahead of Trump’s arraignment earlier this month in a separate criminal case involving hush money payments.

Authorities erected barricades and shut down streets surrounding the courthouse. The police issued a stand-ready order for roughly 35,000 officers in the region as well as city, state and federal law enforcement agencies. About an hour before Trump’s afternoon court appearance, a number of Manhattan courtrooms were closed, according to published reports. There was also a total shutdown of the route the former president took to the courthouse from Trump Tower and from the courthouse to board his plane at LaGuardia Airport.

The Fulton sheriff’s office referred any questions about Willis’s letter to the DA’s office.

Get back to me when it comes out that Sleepy Joe is regularly consulting with astrologers before making major policy, security and executive decisions.

Like, you know. Ronnie Raygun.

Swanson McNear Carlson III still trumps Madcow though.

I bet she pissed off a shit ton of selfish, entitled people who are used to doing whatever the fck they feel like doing, when they feel like doing it -- cuz... It's America and I gots my rights!

The rest of us don't even know who she is. Fortunately her photograph is well traveled and Tineye exists.

I'd also wager that the same people Lightfoot pissed off will end up being pissed off at the new mayor of Chicago too. For many of the same base reasons..

I wouldn't say it was fun - to watch this law enforcement officer - being soft served by a skilled interrogator - and his own words and gestures. But it was entertaining to watch his facial expressions evolve as he began his internal mental gymnastics - while trying to come off as an innocent/helpful/polite/civilized human being.

He lived his personal life like he felt entitled to damaging the youth populations he preyed upon, for his own enjoyment. 12 years isn't long enough to toss this cretin away. Hopefully, his secret doesn't stay secret while he's incarcerated.

Boys will be boys, after all.

This world would be a LOT better place to live for everyone - if everyone actually experienced what it's like to be a bullied minority - who has a major problem with everyone around them who are contributing to their hard and soft actual persecution/harassment, simply because they are different looking/acting/talking/existing - within a fearful majority population.

I received a hearty dose of that intimidation for the 1st six years of my grade school attendance. My puberty experience as well as genetics - put a stop to all that happy horseshit by the time I entered high school. The lessons of being dehumanized on a weekly basis by my own peers - never has left my memory. I remember them whenever another class reunion I won't attend, comes rolling around.

A very small % of that time as a picked on, puny goofball who wore pop-bottle thick spectacles from the 2nd grade onward involved actual physical violence. Most all of intimidation occurred with verbal abuse and threats of physical violence. The fact that I didn't have a champion near me who could or would put a stop to that bullshit - was probably more a result of the other dozen or so kids, who - like me - were nearly constantly bullied as well. Everyone was looking for a safe space and none existed on the playgrounds or in the classrooms. All of us would huddle together on playgrounds, trying not to be noticed or singled out. It fucking sucks major balls to be victimized, but unless you've experienced it from the victims point of view - chances are slim that you even understand the words and thoughts I'm typing now.

*(edit) There are thousands, millions of people who belong to minority classes in America. Their struggles last their entire lives, battling against glass ceilings, roadblocks, stacked decks, closed minds, power/control freaks and instutionalized, systemic harassments, much like those being witnessed and experienced by many of us.

The bully faction is busy creating new laws prohibiting whichever activity currently offends 'the voting constituents' of the Republicans.

The Republican Culture Warriors are always searching for their next targets to attack, dehumanize and legislate against.

Boys will be boys eh?

Yeah, right up until they encounter a 6', 170 pound 15 year old, hormone-transformed runt - who has learned how pleasant it feels to silence his previous years' tormentors with a glare. But not every persecuted minority can physically outgrow their bullies. I was fortunate, some of my friends continued to take a little shit all the way through their schooling experience, but they also obtained a defender.

Little assholes can and do grow up to be adult assholes. Fortunately, some of them also do grow up and mature to become the complete opposite.

As a civilized society, we seem to be struggling to climb out of the primordial soup of the American melting pot experience. Too many partially developed mental midgets out there, inventing new catchphraes and personal butthurt injuries simply because they are asked to behave like the rest of us humans who live in close proximity to one another. From personal experience, I know what THEY are most afraid of: Emotional uncertainty.

A lot of these halfwits resort to using handguns at, on or close to American schools and universities, to assuage their butthurt. But that's another can of worms. A lot of the silent victims of intimidation also resort to picking up a loaded firearm to try & make their abuse go away. This didn't just start with Columbine Colorado in April 1999.

The other can of worms:

https://www.k12academics.com/school-shootings/history-school-shootings-UNITED-STATES

I've never seen a Dominion owned or manufactured 'voting machine'. I had no idea what they look like. I looked 'em up with Google images. Still haven't seen one in action - I'm guessing they are touch screen tech.

At my voting location - after establishing your identity and residence and voting eligibility - an election judge hands you a ballot with small circles printed next to candidates names for their various positions or offices they are campaigning for and you have to use a black ink pen to fill in the 'entire' area inside those small circles.

Apparently the marking pens can't be blue ink or felt-tipped pens nor pencil lead. Of course, this is in backasswardsville - so maybe the judges were just being smallville hicklets with their instructions to me.

You then take your appropriately marked up and finished ballot to a tabulating machine which resembles an office copier which phototronically reads your marked selections on the ballot which you yourself must insert into the vote tabulator.

Unless it is equipped wirelessly to transmit those records elsewhere - I fail to see how those particular units could be hacked or tampered with as I know the building where this occurs and I did not notice any cabling ran to the tabulator besides a power line which was plugged into a wall.

A judge told me that the tabulator stores all the votes gathered, electronically on a thumb drive for ease of transportation. I assume this particular model must also have an internal SSD or hard drive to record data to, as well.

In the future, I hope to see the newer Dominion voting screens installed everywhere with their manufacturing name proudly displayed, so as to trigger future MAGA - or perhaps even turn them away from their voting precinct 'in protest'.

The NRA & NAMBLA share a few key qualities - they're both cults which know exactly how to groom their targets.

That's his wife, whom he refers to as Mother...taking a page from the Pence playbook of obsequious bootlicking and moral values pandering.

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Seems like you're addressing here.

If you're not a control freak, I'm not addressing you.

If you're okay with the former President of the United States being a known hebophile, as well as a sexual assault specialist of adult females...

Well, that's one of the lines in the sand, I'm referring to.

I'm curious where the control freaks draw their lines of proper behavior?

They seem to love them some female sexualization as long as it occurs at beauty pageants for children, when it's actually girl children on display and prancing around stages in lipstick, heels, rouge, mascara, made up hair, and slinky dresses or 2 piece bikinis. To them, it's apparently gender perfect for this type of behavior.

They seem to love them some Donald Trump ran beauty pageants, where the owner of the pageant has the ability to freely roam dressing rooms where 15 to 16 year old girls are readying themselves in all manner of dress and undress.

What is it about this particular issue which offends and triggers the control freaks of the American society?

Smartmatic will soon get it's bite of the Fox apple orchard. I and millions of Americans hope they don't cease their lawsuit because Fox negotiates a settlement seeking to pay just half of what Smartmatic has filed for. They can get awarded payment and bring Fox to its knees with a legal decapitation.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/smartmatic-fox-news-lawsuit-dominion-settlement-complaint.html

Fox has repeatedly tried to have the case thrown out, making the same argument that failed in the Dominion case—calling it “baseless” and likening it to a “full-blown assault on the First Amendment.” Unfortunately for Fox but fortunately for everyone who feels robbed today, a New York judge has already allowed the case to move forward, citing in a 61-page ruling Fox’s “reckless disregard for the truth.”

Is the Dominion settlement good news for Smartmatic? Its lawyers sure seem to think so. The chest-thumping statement was out within minutes of the news, and the lawsuit is somewhat swaggering itself, opening with, “The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States.”

It cites more than 100 alleged false statements made on the network. At least one analysis said it “appears to be the more dangerous” of the two major defamation suits, though the piece also notes New York has very strong First Amendment protections. (Fox News is also being sued by a former producer for the network who claims Fox tried to get her to lie about Dominion ahead of the trial.)

The Smartmatic case isn’t as far along as Dominion’s yet, raising the possibility of more entertaining discovery to come.