POTUS 46.10: A New Hope

[aparch]

The whining about Keystone XL being cancelled is laughable and predictable. Whining about a pipeline that would not have brought us energy independence (the oil was going elsewhere) and would have created 40 permanent jobs, if that. Then again, these are the bright minds who tell us we can't have wind or solar because "wind dies and sun sets."

I have personally spent time trying to convince friends who post that crap that they're wrong.

But what do I, someone who works in the trades on projects similar in scope to Keystone XL, know about anything like that?

It's the same crap our doctors, nurses, and epidemiologists have been going through for a year, and journalists for five years: someone posting a meme or sh*tty 20 minute YouTube video with no context certainly knows more than someone who has been educated on that topic for decades.



I had it with one and just posted "Bwahahahahaha. Season laborer finds out meaning of seasonal."

[aparch]

This blows me away. I have never known anyone who spent their entire life in the same place.

It's like the middle of this country is the town from Borat.

I feel like 1/5th is too low for the region I'm from more like 2/5th don't move.

Or of they do move, it's just the same thing they're used to but now with *two* McDonald's. And maybe a Culver's.

I'm trying to figure out how to make it more regional for our east coasties.

[MichVandal]

Well over half of the people in this country have lived in the same state all of their lives. 1 in 5 have lived in the same town all their lives. There must be as many reasons as there are people. Part of it is of course over a third of this country is too stupid to know better.

At some point, their forefathers had to move there. For that specific job. So for them to say they can't move, well.....

[Kepler]

Or, it takes a lot of money to move to a different place and most Americans aren’t engineers who can’t bounce around city to city and job to job.

Except I've known lots of people with very little money. They all came from somewhere else, whether it was moving from BFE to the city to live twelve deep in a 2-person apartment while they were working 3 jobs, or moving around the world with the army, or emigrating here after spending years in refugee camps in Iraq or Somalia -- people who would have killed for a nice, fat, tranquil, bovine, stable, feet up and mind in neutral hometown.

tldr: eat me.

[Kepler]

I bet there are as many people in cities as in rural areas who never move.

Then it's the city in Clerks.

Same thing. Perambulate, f-ckers! Run! The grass below our childhood feet is a deathtrap in adulthood.

[Russell Jaslow]

Except I've known lots of people with very little money. They all came from somewhere else, whether it was moving from BFE to the city to live twelve deep in a 2-person apartment while they were working 3 jobs, or moving around the world with the army, or emigrating here after spending years in refugee camps in Iraq or Somalia -- people who would have killed for a nice, fat, tranquil, bovine, stable, feet up and mind in neutral hometown.

tldr: eat me.

I know someone, well into his 70s, maybe even over 80 now, who, with the exception of one year in the Navy (Korea), has lived his entire life, from birth till now, in Watkins Glen, NY.

[rufus]

Top promoters of vote fraud disinformation on twitter

[Kepler]

I know someone, well into his 70s, maybe even over 80 now, who, with the exception of one year in the Navy (Korea), has lived his entire life, from birth till now, in Watkins Glen, NY.

Well, I guess if you start out in paradise...

True story: I saw the largest horsefly in my life in Watkins Glen.

[Spartanforlife4]

Yeah... how about this doesn't happen.

https://twitter.com/DevlinBarrett/st...059097600?s=20

[Kepler]

You have to charge them all. They all committed a crime.

[rufus]

Already contacted the WH. Told them to pretend they were all black Muslims, and charge accordingly.

[Spartanforlife4]

You have to charge them all. They all committed a crime.

There's this quote from the article:

“If an old man says all he did was walk in and no one tried to stop him, and he walked out and no one tried to stop him, and that’s all we know about what he did, that’s a case we may not win,” one official said.

Isn't that still a crime? How do you not win that case?

[Kepler]

Even if you don't win, you charge them. You don't self-censor in cases of domestic terrorism to, what, protect your winning percentage?

Charge Abe Simpson with trespassing and suspend the fine. But charge him. No bullsh-t with these people, they will not be deterred by anything but law and force.

And I want every one of those turds who entered the Capitol on some sort of list of suspected terrorists and white nationalists.

[Handyman]

There's this quote from the article:


Isn't that still a crime? How do you not win that case?

They are going to argue that the Capitol Police letting them in negates the trespassing charge. I have no idea if that is legit or not but that is what they are setting up. They are all arguing they just walked through the open door with no one stopping them and often helping them.

They need to find different charges. Conspiracy to murder a cop seems appropriate.

Meanwhile Republicans are already downplaying it to levels even I didnt expect so fast. Kevin McCarthy is saying we are all responsible. Yeah it is my fault a bunch of Qucumbers and violent terrorists stormed the Capitol. Eat a bag of dicks Kev.

[Handyman]

A palette cleanser: https://twitter.com/RexChapman/statu...61212280426498