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Meanwhile JD Vance is telling them the US isn’t getting involved….

Meanwhile, Marco Rubio is intervening….

The Socialist party already exists?

Only with the extreme Overton shift in the US. Democrats may be more progressive than Republicans, but that’s really not saying much. Most actual Democrat policy is right of center, to the frustration of representatives like Sanders and AOC.

It’s time for the US to form a centrist party, instead of people having to choose between far right, right, and far left.

Is it just me that saw the picture and the first thing I noticed were the big X logos?

What gun will provide home defense against an ICE SWAT team? Seems to me that a gun in this situation means someone you care about will get seriously injured or die. And/or go to jail for murder.

Makes me think investing in a Halon fire suppression system could be useful. Along with gas masks for everyone.

This is useful in removing the “but I didn’t know!” excuse. He’s now been told, publicly.

This should be done for every member of the current administration who has attended a school of higher learning.

They never said what he was fully fit for.

Depends?

I think this is fake news.

They’re all millionaires now.

Can we use an animal where that’s actually true? Crabs are very much intersexual, which isn’t quite the same thing as bisexual.

They just have to prove that he intentionally went back to his vehicle and then intentionally left it again to confront the people with the firearm.

If he’d run back to his vehicle and then tried to leave the area while waving his gun, that wouldn’t be premeditated.

But that’s not what he did. He intentionally escalated the situation while not being threatened.

“…which has no meaning at all.”

OK. So I go to a donut shop, and ask for a Boston Creme. The clerk pulls out a donut and gives it to me, I pay him and say thank you and am on my way.

Next, I go to a donut shop, and ask for a Boston Creme. The clerk pulls out an assault-style rifle, waves it around, I pay him and say thank you and am on my way.

Yeah, words have meaning. What part of returning to his vehicle, pulling out a firearm and threatening the protesters with it did you fail to attach meaning to?

He threatened assault with a rifle. The fact that we don’t know if the firearm was legally classified as an assault rifle, in any sane location on earth, would be immaterial.

Or are you worried that he may be confused with someone who could have got a few more shots off into the crowd before being disarmed or killed, due to their faster firing firearm with rifled barrel?

How on earth did he ever have their confidence? He has been seen in business circles as a loudmouthed shyster since the 1980s.

Being a narcissist, I don’t think he differentiates between making it great and making it great for him.

How long did it take China to build itself into a self-sufficient superpower that produced goods for the world?

Around 50 years, with a tight rein on the population and a leadership that had consistency and a 30, 50 and 100 year vision that they continually executed against.

Even in the best case scenario of everybody rallying behind Trump and pulling together behind a single strategy that miraculously turns out to work, Trump will be dead in 30 years or less.

So HE probably isn’t realistically thinking this, even if it’s what he’s decided to tell everyone this week.

One thing about Trump: I do believe that underneath it all, he does want to make America a great nation. He’s just ignorant of how to do that or what it would even look like when achieved.

Er, your instructions don’t kill all the telemetry that makes Win11 so privacy invasive.

Unfortunately, your comments about security are spot-on — there have been a number of improvements in the latest Win11 releases that were never added to Win10.

So while Win10 can be tweaked to be a relatively private OS, you need to update to the latest Win11 for security, or switch to a non-Microsoft OS.

It more reeks of the guy you let sleep on your sofa asking to meet with you to transfer the title of your house to him.

The library has been there for over 100 years and is a US and Canadian heritage site, and is supposed to be representative of cooperation and community between the US and Canada.

It’s the Quebec/Vermont equivalent to the BC/Washington Peace Arch, but also happens to be a cross-border library.

Same greatness there as you find with “great bowel movement” or possibly “great white shark” - referencing it’s massiveness, not it’s quality.