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I honestly might take a slight detour on the way home to see what the aftermath looks like.
Just got home, and honestly, nokings was a big load of nothing in my area. After I left work I drove past city hall. Nobody. Also stopped by where my boss said people had also been protesting. Also nada. This was around 530 local time so probably everyone just went home.

I'm reading in the thread that the 250th military parade was kind of lackluster, too.
 
Yeah? BLM managed at least that in every major city in the country, not just Chicago, Portland, etc.
Still decent crowds all over.
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How much you wanna bet Trump's approval rating craters after this? Not that it matters much, his entire administration lost all credibility in my eyes when he outright said he would import 500,000 Chinese immigrants to take our jobs.
 
Instagram updates from the Las Vegas Military Wife:
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Some background on her:
  • Husband is in the military, specifically Air Force
  • She has five kids, four boys and one girl
  • Has a twin sister that is also very liberal
  • Mormon
  • Served her mission in Russia in the early 2000s
  • Age: mid forties
  • Has lived in countries like Italy and Japan due to husband’s military service
  • Her Instagram account used to be mainly about kids, travel, and daily life, but around 2020 switched to almost exclusively political content
Massive photo dump from this same person (lots of No Kings content in Las Vegas):
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Daley Center in Chicago. Nigger, show me some middle American cities that weren’t full of boomers who went home to eat dinner at 4 p.m.
What would you consider to be "middle America"?
Has there been any updates really on the Minnesota shooter? Still on the loose?
Still manhunt out for him.
How much you wanna bet Trump's approval rating craters after this? Not that it matters much, his entire administration lost all credibility in my eyes when he outright said he would import 500,000 Chinese immigrants to take our jobs.
They're already pretty low.
So a couple hundred people on average, except Philadelphia.

The Brothas clearly didn’t show up.
According to the Louisville Police Department they estimated 6000 people attending. Estimates for the Philly protest are between 50,000 and 120,000 (most are saying 80,000 to 100,000 though). So you can probably use those crowds to guestimate.
 
Trump is a believer in physiognomy (or in his words, "Central Casting") and picks people who look like what you'd expect someone in their position to look like.
Trump wanted to direct movies before his family convinced him to go into real estate. Given how good the man's eye is for optics he would have been good at it.

They use him in the trailer. In the actual game the bear-fucker ends up being Shadowheart. Astarion is evil and the bear (Halsin) is very Lawful Good, so they don't get along at all. Of course you can play as Astarion and have him do whatever you want.
Astarion is pure fujobait: the character and as such causes every tumblr girl to instantly abandon whatever moral compass they claim to have. Bonus points if they're the ones usually crowing about 'media literacy'.
Imagine playing BG3 and going for any one not named Minthara, just insanity. She's positively cuddly for a Drow, an absolute Lawful Evil voice of reason while everyone else in the party is emoting like teenagers. Fags and their vampires and bears, shaking my head.
 
Person in red cap and white tshirt walks up and attacks Brandi, macing her in the face and someone else threw a water bottle and hit her, and threw water on her.

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"She does the wrong think, take her eyes!"

Another optical victory for the DNC.
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He might run for a 3rd time for real. Or just might run as Vice President lmao. That would be really funny.
Gotta overturn the 22nd ammendment first and you'd also open the door to an Obama/Trump election cycle.
 
The most rabid TDS I've ever witnessed first hand is from geriatric boomers. Something about Pmurt really sets them off.
It's because he's such a repudiation of their world view. Just look at the Isreal situation and how much boomers support isreal, and here Trump is distancing us from it.
 
That is the due process. After ICE detains someone, either of two things happen: 1. The alien already has an outstanding order of removal issued by an immigration judge so they get deported, or 2. The alien doesn’t have an outstanding order of removal, so they are put into removal proceedings before an immigration judge. There’s your due process. ICE doesn’t just grab them and throw them onto planes. Why is it so hard for liberals to understand this?
they misunderstand the immigration court. i don't understand it either since i assume its "do you have papers?" "no senior" "ok i order you to be removed from the usa".

This shit was piddly. I stopped paying attention shortly in, so maybe it got better, but I was expecting lots of variety of vehicles, missiles, tons of troops. When they said historical, I was expecting slightly more than jumping straight from a couple of American Revolution troops to the Civil War to Old West cavalry. Constant Sousa music.

This is how you do a military parade:

Gay af parade
its gay because of the gay music and the inability of our soldiers to march in lockstep. its a good test run, they need to run it for next year's fourth of july with actual band music instead of a guy talking over the band of brothers theme song. it needs way more pomp
and circumstance and ill accept a 50 million addition to the dod budget to stand up dedicated parade units just for the fourth of july.
 
Imagine playing BG3 and going for any one not named Minthara, just insanity. She's positively cuddly for a Drow, an absolute Lawful Evil voice of reason while everyone else in the party is emoting like teenagers. Fags and their vampires and bears, shaking my head.
I don't play these games for vicarious romance, I play them for vicarious retardation.
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We'll have to see as time goes on. If Vance is doing any of these things, I doubt we'll hear about it until after the administration. I think you have a lot of good points.
If Trump is smart, he will take Vance aside (f not already) and let him know this is his chance to take charge and show why he would be good president material in 2028 if he truly wants to assume the presidency after Trump's term ends.

Harris was criticized as Biden's do-nothing VP. This is Vance's opportunity to show he is willing to help the party and country during Trump's current term by being an assertive hands on VP.

Fuckkk. How do you tell who's real and fake?
Be vigilant and trust your instincts - especially if you get the feeling something isn't right.

I'm not sure if it's still good advice, but I was once told if a cop car tries pulling you over and something seems suspicious about the car or its driver, you should slow down with your 4-ways on and call 911 to verify that the stop is genuine while informing the operator about slowing down etc. to make it clear there is no intent to flee or elude. I've also hear pulling off into a busy parking lot such as a gas station or mall can be a good idea. Again, no idea if this is still useful or valid, but something to think about should the situation ever arise.

but the real science is that it makes it easier to hide how lefty these people usually are, like even Dylan Roof's manifesto didn't really say anything that is different from what the left preaches about blacks and whites, he just found a different solution.
The left is quick to memory hole anything that puts them or their supporters in a bad light. During Trump's first term, a local school and its city's residents were portrayed as a hugbox of white supremacists by local media when racist graffiti was found in a middle school. The media abruptly stopped reporting anything once it was discovered the culprit was a black student behind the anti-black graffiti.

Similarly, there was social media buzz a few years back about violence and harassment targeting people with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) backgrounds. Once it was discovered black people were the number one culprit behind the harassment and violence, any mention of AAPI people and the harassment they experienced disappeared almost instantly as if someone flipped a switch.

If this suspect/person of interest has any left-leaning ties, expect those with the power to make it as difficult as possible to go digging into his background. As others already stated, Internet Archive is notorious for this and previously delisted several KF pages and archives.

I'm not convinced that the christian thing makes him a republican. there are a lot of christian democrats. most greek orthodox, a lot of catholics desite the abortion thing.
Especially those in Blue area. The Catholic diocese here almost always fellates the Democrats and their platform every election day because the main city is dark blue. The only recent exception was when the abortion proposal was on the ballot; the diocese simply stayed silent that year apart from, "Vote no on Proposal X because abortion bad."

What fucking retard. No it was done as way to get around the law. Which Republicans need to repeal yesterday.
It reminds me of similar renaming efforts to avoid people perceived as racist or problematic. Surprisingly, the local newspaper, in an op-ed, advocated something similar to what Trump did: Find someone with the same last name who made contributions to society and is seen as more worthy of recognition and socially accepted. That makes too much sense and it prevents the activists from having something to be upset about, so it probably won't happen as much as it should.

It was such a mix of different flags and slogans that it's hard to tell what it was supposed to be about.
It could be equal parts of: (1) Organizers encouraging support for any cause célebrè as part of the protest, or (2) Protesters simply choosing to do whatever they wanted under the guise of the No Kings! protest. We already know most of these protesters are so rabidly devoted to the cause they will do whatever they want much to the organizers' chagrin.

I do agree this detracts from the original intent and makes these protests look no different than any other protest.

I spent all day touching grass.
I also had the chance to touch grass and had a fun afternoon devoid of anything political. Upon coming home, a few headlines I saw from my region of Kiwi Land showed pictures attempting to make turnouts look bigger than what they likely were in reality. If the numbers truly were what was claimed for the protest closest to me, traffic around here would have been more of mess than it is on a typical day and that wasn't my experience. Maybe it would be different if there were fewer protest spots; the radio reported enough locations in surrounding cities that the cadre of full-time protestors would be stretched thin to cover them all with any sort of significant-looking turnout.
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