You should read less rightwing propaganda tabloids…

The Daily Mail is a known supporter of the Conservatives. They are also one of the pro-Brexit tabloids. According to a Reuters article, the Daily Mail published a controversial headline in response to a Brexit Court ruling criticizing the judges by branding them as ‘enemies of the people.’ According to CNBC, the Daily Mail has also been criticized by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for publishing fake news articles and “hyped up” headlines and “mastered the art of running stories that aren’t true.” Further, CNBC reported that DMG media responded by saying, “DailyMail.com is the very antithesis of click-bait and hype headlines. We just tell stories better than anyone else.”

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/

Of goods made in other countries that go thru American corporations only as a middle man…

Tarrif America, companies from those other countries take over being the middle man.

The middle man can be replaced at a moments notice. It wouldn’t be damaging to any country’s economy, it would be a huge economic boost for them.

That’s what trump, and you, do t understand.

America needs the 3rd world to make stuff that we sell to other first world countries.

But no other economy on the planet needs America.

The taboo of standing with China is that taboo amongst western nations that they would sacrifice their health and wealth to not do it.

That’s definitely not what’s happening…

Although I know there are certain instances where the only thing that matters is defending far right authoritarians because they lied about their economic system. So I understand why I got a reply like that.

The shooter left a manifesto, it doesn’t mention religion once.

Israeli embassy workers were targeted because it was about the genocide Israel’s government is carrying out.

If you think they should be off limits, wait till you hear about Mossad hunting people who worked for Nazis in support positions. Even low level teenagers who worked as secretaries were targets, so why aren’t embassy workers valid targets during the genocide?

You drastically overestimate how much stuff is made in America…

Every time he does this to some idiot billionaire who already paid him off…

The rest start to re-evaluate if Trump’s worth it.

I legitimately don’t understand why what’s left of the free world hasn’t all gotten together and agreed to tarrif America all at the same time.

Just throw insane tareifs, and let trump sit in it for a couple months while everyone ignores all his phone calls and requests for meetings.

That would actually work.

Says the guy who let suitcases full of millions of dollars get “smuggled” to Hamas over and over…

But reporting in the New York Times has revealed that Netanyahu’s government was more hands-on about helping Hamas: they helped a Qatari diplomat bring suitcases of cash into Gaza, indirectly boosting the militant organization, according to the report.

The calculus — the Times reported on Sunday, citing Israeli officials, Netanyahu’s critics, and the man’s own reported statements — was to keep Hamas strong enough to counteract the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, allowing Netanyahu to avoid a two-state peace solution and keep both sides weak.

https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-security-forces-escorted-suitcases-cash-hamas-qatar-report-2023-12?op=1

No one has done more to keep Hamas in power than Israel, because Hamas is their excuse to not treat Palestinians as humans.

Bibi is just probably shitting himself after the people he let smuggle all those suitcase gave trump a 400 million dollar plane.

Less support for Israel could very well have been one of the thing Qatar gets out of that deal

Like I said, there’s video. Here, I found it for you:

I’ve already linked an article with a video of one going off in the holster…

What I’m saying, and have said repeatedly in multiple different ways:

Is none of these incidents are repeatable in a controlled setting.

If you’re still confused what that means, ask someone else.

Those things do just go off occasionally.

Except when the reported conditions are replicated and people try over and over to get the same results…

Cops lie about negligent discharges virtually everytime a cop negligently discharges.

I would be shocked to find a single incident when the cop just flat out says:

I fucked up.

But by all means, if your hobby is defending lying fascists, don’t let little things like facts or logic stop you…

It’s not just Sig saying that…

No one, not even cops, can get stuff like this to replicate, even with the exact same guns that supposedly already did this.

People have looked into this before this article was written

Honestly it’s probably both at the same time.

The drops were 100% real, and an unacceptable flaw that was/is definitely a liability issue for Sig… (Edited to add: this issue was just on the very first ones and has since been fixed, but the required drop to make it happen was slightly out of spec for what is normally tested for. Like I think it would pass the standard test, but the test height plus an inch or two failed?)

But while this specific one sounds rare, a gun going off in their holster isn’t really that rare and happens with loads of brands of guns.

Cops are strapped all day and “open carry” where the holster isn’t just exposed it’s on a cluttered belt with a bunch of other stuff.

Stuff falls in the holster and moving around can apply pressure which pulls the trigger.

After, the cop will likely see the object, and just discard it to avoid blame.

Like I said, a shit ton of people both involved and not involved did everything possible to try and make stuff like cops were claiming happen in a controlled environment, no one, not even police departments, could replicate it.

This was huge news at the time in the gun community

It was possible but only if dropped and landing at a very specific angle and hitting concrete…

The main problem is when cops hear a new excuse, they can’t wait to try it out

So when this became news, every negligent discharge by a cop (they’re very frequent) was blamed on this.

Shit like this:

Shortly after dark one day in September 2022, police officers Yang Lee and Charles Laskey-Castle arrived on Milwaukee’s west side to investigate a car abandoned on the sidewalk. Lee knelt to examine the driver’s side floorboard as Laskey-Castle stood behind him. Then Lee rose — and his holstered gun fired a bullet into his partner’s leg.

Has never been able to be reproduced intentionally.

Here’s an article and body cam footage:

https://www.wisn.com/article/video-shows-unintended-shooting-injuring-milwaukee-officer/45015940

Sig says the only way it could have happened was if something snagged the trigger, and yeah…

Lots of people have spent a lot of time trying to make the p320 go off on its own like cops kept saying. And like I said the only way that was reproducible was a very specific angle drop on something as hard as concrete.

After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.

Certainly plausible…

But I don’t trust the police or embassy officials from a country that’s spent years committing a genocide.

They’re not trustworthy witnesses.

If anyone is upset about that and wants it to change, you should go tell the cops and Israel to stop murdering people and then claiming it was self defense.

When you lie about shit constantly, people just stop taking your word on shit

So vegan he advocated for killing infants…

And now there’s a seat and a chair that needs replaced…

She can take the seat, then get the chair.

Like, I get what you’re saying, it just doesn’t matter.

We need a competent energetic person who understands today’s media in this position. It’s an incredibly important one. We can play another round of musical chairs, it’s not even much of a hassle.

Back in December…

That happened because Pelosi had the backing of the DNC and elected Dems knew the neoliberals wouldn’t hesitate to torpedo an incumbent that went against them even if it meant a Republican got the seat.

She doesn’t have that anymore, and all her threats are toothless. For her whole career she’s never been effective at convincing people to see a different viewpoint to change a vote, she’s just threatened her own party members.

With the “victory fund” they had financial control over a lot of states too, they could shut the tap off to your whole state, or making funds dependent on your state hanging you specifically out to dry.

Like, I think people dont appreciate how much got fixed in the last couple months, because they don’t understand how bad shit really was

Not only that, but politicians are very concerned about their legacies, how they will be remembered

Which is why we need to start being honest even if it’s not polite

Fuck Gerry Connelly. He spent his last years working against his own party and causing harm to the American people.

If he’d have spent the last decade in retirement, sure, we can limit it formalities. But up until the day he died he obstructed justice by taking an important political seat so that he could block someone else from doing the job.

Mike Donnelly would have gotten more done than Gerry did.

A lot has changed since December…

I think if AOC still wants it, she’s got it now.

Pelosi and the rest of the senior elected politicians don’t have the DNC behind them anymore. She was never good at convincing people to see her side, she wielded the DNC like a cudgel and had zero qualms turning it on incumbents who went against her.

half of a private tutor?

That teaches everything. You think every one room schoolhouse was staffed by someone who knew every topic well enough to teach others?

If something wasn’t in the handful of textbooks, there was no way to get that information.

I don’t think he ever made it to algebra, definitely nothing like chemistry or physics. Biology would have been a joke, and astronomy likely limited to memorizing the order of planets.

It was not a good education.