Voltaire

I agree. I was hoping for a lesser charge. But I am not going to bat for this guy, and certainly not this soon. He needs a good dozen years beyond what he would have gotten for manslaughter and willful negligence just to even start to consider re-opening this Pandora's box. Even the I'd say 'no' just to keep the peace if nothing else.

I claim that Floyd's oxygen intake was impeded because it seems to me that his lungs' ability to expand and contract would have been seriously impaired due to them being squeezed between a ?190? (don't know Chauvin's weight) pound man and a concrete road for seven+ minutes.

There was an election to win. Since Biden wasn't willing to step aside, they had to pretend he was fine in order to save the world from Orange Hitler.

I'm sympathetic to the claim that Chauvin didn't get a fair trial. He didn't. But any second trial will have the exact same problems that the first did for the exact same reason. People are focking p*ssed at what happened to George Floyd and any second set of jurors will have to undergo the same treatment that the first set of jurors received. The case is just too big and what those jurors dealt with is the least bad as we can expect with any trial moving forward. In this case, I'm willing to accept that "they did their best to protect the jurors from outside influence" as good enough. I can't expect much more from a second set of jurors nor from a second set of security team expected to keep them sheltered from the anti-Chauvin mob. They won't get it any easier than the first group got. I also agree that he was overcharged. It was the fentanyl that killed George Floyd, not the kneeling. But I'm not going to bat for Chauvin for this because there was still a blatant disregard for Floyd's life. Floyd may well have died anyway, considering that he'd taken well over a lethal dose of fentanyl. But the man was already complaining that he couldn't breathe before he got knelt on. By all means arrest him. And if there is no way to increase oxygen intake, well that's also the breaks. Actively impeding oxygen intake was a blatant disregard for the man's life. Its not unreasonable to think there was a chance that he would have been able to survive his fentanyl overdose if he'd not been knelt on. Chauvin deserved some retribution for willful negligence if nothing else. On a practical level, the optics of pardoning such a high profile defendant as Chauvin is just political poison with no recognizable upside.

I give Israel free reign to do whatever they do because I trust them as decent Western people with decent modern morals, unlike the people they are fighting against. It's well known that close to 100% of any aid that gets sent in to Gaza goes directly to Hamas since they are the ones with the guns. The reason it gets sent in anyways is that after they've taken theirs, then after the Hamas sympathizers get theirs, hopefully some will be left over for everyone else. They also deliberately chose to hide all their bases of operation under schools and hospitals because they are fighting a war against people who actually care about civilians and uses that compassion against them. Also, Hamas doesn;t mind using children as human shields because whoever dies in bombing raids, be it children or suicide bombers, its a valiant way to die, they all go to Islamic heaven because their cause is so very just and sanctioned by Allah.

All Democrats Say Their Health Plan Would Cover Undocumented Immigrants (youtube.com) This is beyond the pale. US taxpayers should not subsidize the health care of illegal immigrants. This should be a non-starter. It makes HC so much mor expensive and the wait times for US citizens to go up like mad. You don't to set your country up as a magnet for illegal immigration by providing free stuff and no enforcement. No wonder things went crazy so quickly. This is/was one of many manufactured crisis by the United States' corporate mainstream left wing party. Democrats are always pullng things like this with huge negative side effect consequences due to poor planning. It is this mentality of subsidizing bad behavior that has made the Democratic Party toxic on not just immigration, but other issues as well, like a 40% out-of-wedlock birth rate because poorly designed welfare programs where we want to help the most needy bit funds are low so what that actually means that generous payments to single moms go away on marriage actually dis-incetivises marriages.

Truthfully, until the last few years, I never much minded having peaceable illegal immigrants present even though they do drive down blue-collar wages, make housing more expensive, and take up resources and make waits longer in places like shelters and clinics for the needy. Obey every other law (other than the original sin of sneaking in) and ... eh... whatever. But things are so broken now because our good graces were taken advantage of and we absorbed way too many. I don't at all mind that large corrective measures are now being taken. Should be no welfare payments nor free stuff government subsidies, punishments for medium-to-large employers that hire illegals. There was a time not so very long ago when I would have supported things like the Dream Act and whatnot. But I am not in the mood to revisit that any time soon. Get rid of the hurdles keeping the gang-bangers here first. Then kick the gang bangers out. When we get to the point where the criminals are gone and we start turning our attention to deporting grandmas, I'll reevaluate the situation.

He's never claimed to have Israeli citizenship as far as I know. (Correct me if I'm wrong Tim). But yeah, Jews living far from Israel criticizing Israel for trying to defend themselves have much in common (and in Tim's case overlap) with liberals in the US that advocate for open borders from their secure gates communities don't understand why the American Hispanics who live in the same neighborhoods Latino gangsters operate out of don't want Latino gangsters living in their neighborhood. It strikes me that every israeli citizen knows that should Israel ever lose a war, 100% of them would be slaughtered.

The first time you get deported should just be a ticket for nonviolent offender. If they sneak in again, hopefully a few years in that funhouse in el Salvador will cure them of the itch to try a third time.

They should prepare for a meteor strike or alien invasion or that alleged dormant super volcano in Wyoming to explode instead.

Rooting for the David Hogg faction to put the Carville faction out to pasture. O can dream. Hogg is the tactical genius the Democrats deserve. Him, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Jasmine Crockett should lead the party. They have some real winners waiting in the wings to take over. Sadly, Carville's sane, well-financed globalist insider crook faction is about to shltcan him, the paymasters will never let the insurgents win, but I'm rooting for Hogg anyway. America is best served if the freak show can cause Dems pain by dragging this circular firing squad out for as long as possible. I know he's a white male buy he would seem to be gay, I don't know how much effort his put into that, an plus d he's a shooting survivor so that should win him some bonus intersectional points. I'd recommend wearing gaudy makeup, dressing like a hooker, converting to Islam, and changing his name to something unpronounceable so the Dems will take him more seriously and give him more respect.

They may be able to cobble together bipartisan support for this and overcome any filibuster. Bernie and his Vermont Dem collogue Peter Welsh are on board.

The rape gangs are for the unwashed masses to deal with. They have a private jet to Brussels to catch to attend a symposium to combat global warming, then another for dinner in Zurich.

The unnecessary gamble the corporate globalists play is that the Muslims secularize rather than spread Islam throughout Europe. No matter, the Muslims rape gangs aren't moving into their gated neighborhoods.

There's a shock. In 2025, I can't believe there exists somewhere in a Western Civilization an insider corporate globalist left wing party that appears less retarded than the insider corporate globalist right wing party.

I fully understand. This was the Lions / Pistons alternative to the Super Bowl for many years.

The riot instigators are too busy being pissed off about drug cartel members and terrorist sympathizers being deported to take time off for this. Get back with them later.

Leftoids also saw fit to tear down a Lincoln statue that had been sculpted by, paid for by, and dedicated to his memory by emancipated black slaves. Then there was the George Washington mural they had painted over.

New York leftoids gladly tore down their Teddy Roosevelt statue and are now putting up this. There's a message in there that is consistent.

Abortion has been their biggest vote getter in recent elections. Now that the dust has pretty much settled on that issued, it seems the big issue they've moved on to is preventing illegal cartel gang members and terrorist sympathizing foreigners from getting deported. They're also still going all-in on facilitating men having access to the ladies room and competing in women's sport.

This is less exciting that I'd hoped for. Was looking for WWI or WWII or Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica type dogfighting. Eddie Rickenbacker would not be impressed.

Some Michiganders get drugs in Canada, but not as many as before (freep.com) There are some things that Detroiters have known for years that doesn't register to people further away from the Canadian border. One is that prescription drugs can be had for cheaper in Canada and a second is that Don Cherry is the greatest/most hilarious commentator in sports.

License to Kill (1989) - Bond Finds Felix Leiter Tortured and His New Wife Della Murdered. (youtube.com)

None of them are going to prison but if they lose sleep and it affects their everyday daily routine because they constantly fret about the possibility, great. They deserve it.

I don't usually do this, it may be the first time, but it just feels right in this instance. I would agree with the Hamas sympathizers to rename Columbia University to ‘Basel Al-Araj Popular University.’