NewCharlesInCharge

NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

Panoramic photos of some rally she gave lately that easily gives a Trump rally a run for it's money.

If it's the same one I was thinking of, it was maybe 2,000 people in the crowd.

At the rally where Trump was shot, they were planning for 15,000 in ticket sales. They also had a big crowd milling around outside. This is very rural, an hour drive from the nearest city, the county itself is only about 190,000 people.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

The form also says for real property not to report your homestead.

My net worth is multi-million but on this form I think I'd only have about $500k of assets to report, most of that in the house I helped my mother to buy, and so which my name is on. I'm not landlording and haven't made any individual stock or option bets in awhile.

The form doesn't even require you to disclose cash or cash-like assets.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

If we didn't have police George Floyd would have likely been killed far earlier by one of the people he had wronged.

If there were no police, and a man pointed a gun at my pregnant wife to rob her, I would kill that man. Not even as a matter of immediate self defense, but as a preventative measure. I can't in good conscience risk his continued existence. Most of all for the safety of my family, but for others as well.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

The program is fine, using it to harass your political opponents is clearly not.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

A high school boys bathroom can’t even be trusted with paper towels. Someone was always clogging the sinks with them at my school.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

Kamala’s career intersected with a case like that as well: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/california-ag-wont-review-suicide-findings-in-bizarre-death-of-rebecca-zahau-6630223

Short summary, lady was found hanged using knots she had no business knowing, while her son was hospitalized after a suspicious fall, and a strange message scrawled on the wall.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

It's on Peacock.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

That source frames it as "officials alleged," it's not confirmation.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

I made a report to the postal service once, got back a form response, and nothing else happened. I think my report was probably better than average since I had the theft on video, though wasn't able to read the thief's license plate.

Here's the response I got in December of last year:

This is in response to your recent inquiry concerning suspected mail theft.

This Service Request XXXXXX has been forwarded and is currently being reviewed by the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS).

The Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement of the United States Postal Service. Complaints alleging mail tampering or theft come under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Postal Inspection Service. This inquiry does not require you to contact either the Inspection Service or the Postal Service. A Postal Inspection Service representative will contact you if this inquiry requires further investigation.

Please note, information provided in a mail theft complaint and reviewed by the Inspection Service does not always result in a criminal investigation.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

In my case for awhile we had mailboxes being hit frequently, sometimes more than once a week. We also had a park a few blocks away used as a free shooting range a couple of times in the early morning hours.

We live in a wealthy neighborhood in a suburb of Seattle. My home is more than a couple million bucks and it’s not the nicest one around. Our cops are actually responsive and pretty good at tracking down criminals. But felonies are adjudicated at the county level, and the criminals know that unless they murder someone it’s not going to be taken all that seriously.

Even murders aren’t taken that seriously recently. A guy got killed when he confronted car prowlers in a mall parking lot. Prosecutors asked for 14 years, the judge handed out 12.5 year sentences, which certainly means less than 12.5 years: https://komonews.com/amp/news/local/men-who-murdered-victim-during-car-burglary-at-southcenter-mall-sentenced-to-prison-murder-stealing-cars-hyundai-stolen-vehicle-surveillance-video-king-pierce-counties-washington-tukwila

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

Seattle nearly elected a police abolitionist as city attorney. The top two primary produced a police abolitionist who said she’d stop enforcing DUI laws and a moderate Republican. The Republican barely won.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

I used to hold similar views to you, that laws against recreational drugs were a massive injustice.

Then I saw what happened in cities where drugs were de facto, or in Portland’s case de jure, legalized. The externalities from junkies got worse, not better. Regular citizens have to deal with more theft, more random acts of violence, more derelict homeless camp eyesores.

Now I think keeping certain drugs illegal just makes pragmatic sense. If you’re a sensible enough drug user you’re very unlikely to be caught, but if you’re not it gives society a good tool to lock you up. Maybe the evidence of your theft or violence is shaky enough that you’ll be let off. But “we found drugs in your pants” is pretty rock solid, notwithstanding your protestations that they’re not your pants.

It’s essentially giving cops discretion to arrest people they believe are up to no good just from their appearance, with the extra check that they need some pretext for the stop and must actually find some drugs.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

Vance is weird because he’s grey tribe, his weirdness is just of a conservative Thielish RETVRN flavor than a liberal polyamorist flavor.

If Scott entered politics and became Kamala’s running mate then the Republicans would attack him for being a weirdo as well.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

A kink in this theory are all the debate conditions that Trump was made to agree to for the debate to even happen. No audience, mics to be cut when it’s not the speaker’s turn, etc. They appeared designed to get him to refuse to debate.

Those conditions ultimately were not a help for Biden, but I doubt the Biden team anticipated that. If they did, then how could they have not anticipated that Joe was going to go down kicking and screaming?

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

Maybe in 100 years we’ll have a Moscow Olympics that caricatures the slain Romanov children.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

I'm seeing a lot of rumblings in Catholic circles about the drag performance aping The Last Supper. A lot of "there's one religion in particular where they never would have engaged in this mockery."

Also for extra Culture War points they included a child.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

I recently donated to Trump and the tone and quantity of their email and texts is concerning. If I were wishy-washy it might be enough to turn me off. I ended up unsubscribing. Here's the start of a recent email:

CONFIDENTIAL MEMO

FROM DONALD TRUMP

SWAMP CREATURES ARE FUNNELING IN

MILLIONS FOR KAMALA!

After I exposed Biden on the Debate stage, the Democrats ousted their own nominee. Replacing him with KAMALA who never received a SINGLE VOTE for President, disenfranchising millions of Americans.

OVER $140 MILLION FOR COMMIE-LA!

I’m now facing a CRUCIAL FUNDRAISING GOAL at the end of this week & I have to keep CRUSHING those Deep State Numbers!

They send about six of these every day.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

I'm truly surprised about Dan Ariely getting a TV show.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

I think this was Trump's best moment at the debate, criticizing Biden for having fired not one person during his term.

Wild that a short while after the head of the Secret Service would be fired. Not for being the head of the organization that screwed the pooch and let Trump be shot, but for being a bad politician in the aftermath.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

The Culture War adjacent threads always get spammed with people that probably saw the story in their feeds. But the moderation is great at swatting them down for fighting the culture war instead of commenting on the legal issues.

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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/07/nyregion/trump-trial-hush-money-stormy-daniels

NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

I guess the claim that Trump is 100% faithful to Melania is technically untrue since everyone now knows about the Stormy Daniels story but isn't Melania his 3rd marriage?

As far as I can tell Trump has always denied that anything happened between him and Stormy Daniels.

Her story sounds like one of the Harvey Weinstein accusers: she's invited to his room, goes to use the bathroom, comes out to find Trump undressed, he blocks the door when she tries to leave. The Weinstein story broke in 2017, Stormy's story went public in 2018. Here's the NYT liveblogging the trial:

Stormy Daniels says she came out of the bathroom and found that Trump was in the bedroom, waiting for her, in his boxer shorts and a T-shirt. She had been planning to go, she said. He was seated on the bed, between her and the exit. “What did I misread to get here,” she describes thinking. She says she tried to leave and he blocked her path, but not in a threatening manner.

Her prior recounting of the story in 2011 to In Touch Weekly doesn't contain such details:

https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/stormy-daniels-full-interview-151788/

I had to use the bathroom and I went to the restroom, which was in the bedroom. Like I said, it was a big suite. I could describe the suite perfectly. When I came out, he was sitting on the bed and he was like, “Come here.” And I was like, “Ugh, here we go.” And we started kissing. I actually don’t even know why I did it but I do remember while we were having sex, I was like, “Please don’t try to pay me.” And then I remember thinking, “But I bet if he did, it would be a lot.”

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

I think the point being made was that our ship-based artillery would be enough to neuter Houthi capabilities and make them reconsider the ROI of trying to rope the West into their local conflict.

And it would be relatively cheap. Though artillery rounds themselves are about $10,000 each, which at first I found shocking until realizing they’re about 100 pounds, and 100 pounds of HEI ammo would cost about that much as well.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

Yeah, if they have good anti Kamala messaging they’re going to sit on it until her nomination is a done deal.

Let them revel in Kamala memes for a few weeks and then start the assault.

Otherwise they risk the Dems choosing someone better.

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NewCharlesInCharge 1yr ago

The anti-BLM position has never been that every police shooting is justified. I see anti-BLM as making two claims:

Unjustified police killings are rare.
That blacks are killed by police disproportinate to their population is a function of their being disproportionately likely to present themselves as a deadly threat, not police racism.

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