Phil1111

Just like in many other countries.

Just more proof that Joe is right. Given the current state of the US gun debate. If republicans won't enact meaningful change now. It just ain't gonna happen. It also looks as if high gas prices and inflation are going to dictate who wins midterms. Cheap gas for the 4x4 and more guns. POLITICO Playbook: How gas prices could crush Biden and the Democrats Oh well, its only 45,000 Americans a year. Compared to covid it's trivial. Brent is the winner here.

I wonder if all of the USSC judges had to live in undergound bunkers. With massive security armed up the ying-yang. Just to keep them alive from all the armed nuts running around. If they'd change their minds about guns and the constitution. Nah, silly idea.

CO2 levels are now 50 percent higher than in pre-industrial times — a level not seen for 4 million years. "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that in May, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere peaked at a level 50 percent higher than the pre-industrial average, before we humans began widespread burning of fossil fuels. NOAA's measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide at its Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii averaged 420.99 parts per million during May. There hasn't been that much CO2 in the atmosphere since an episode in the geologic record known as the Pliocene Climate Optimum — which occurred more than 4 million years ago. " "According to new analysis from the Center for American Progress, there are still 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress, including 109 representatives and 30 senators, who refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence of human-caused climate change. All 139 of these climate-denying elected officials have made recent statements casting doubt on the clear, established scientific consensus that the world is warming—and that human activity is to blame. These same 139 climate-denying members have received more than $61 million in lifetime contributions from the coal, oil, and gas industries." Not to worry. Gun violence will take care of the issue.

Wendy is an idealist. Bless her soul. The golden rule of law has slipped her mind. No, not the faux gold fixtures that trump is apt to flout. The rule of law in America where you spread enough gold among the lawyers and the courts. Then the laws apply to your enemies and for your friends, anything.

trump has a new benchmark to break. Beating Eric. Trump Set to Be Questioned Under Oath by New York A.G. Next Month "The questioning of Mr. Trump and two of his adult children as part of the attorney general’s civil investigation will begin July 15 unless New York’s highest court decides to intercede in the case....Another of Mr. Trump’s adult children, Eric Trump, was questioned under oath in October 2020, and invoked his right against self-incrimination in response to more than 500 questions."

Your ideas are as endangered as a Russian general on the Ukrainian front.

Contrary to FOX these are the issues.

It would in Texas "UVALDE, Texas — Even as they scheduled graduation parties and made plans to move for college or start new jobs, seniors at Uvalde High School sometimes found themselves thinking back to 2018, when two of their eighth-grade classmates had been charged with plotting a mass shooting. The two boys planned an attack on the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, the police said, researching how to make explosive devices and creating a list of students they wanted to kill. They had originally planned their attack for 2022, in the spring of their senior year, but the plot was foiled and the two boys, 13 and 14, were arrested. Then, four years later, the unimaginable happened: Another student from the same class charged into an elementary school with an AR-15-style rifle, killing 19 children and two teachers in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. How a town of barely 15,000 people could have had two mass shooting plots in four years — both emerging out of the Uvalde High School class of 2022"

Oh he'll know. FOX will cherry pick, mix and match. What they want to spin as appropriate pablum for the lobotomized minds of their viewers. Tucker Carlson's FOX talking points

Murdoch got rich by knowing the psychology of his viewers.

Everyone remembers how trump wanted to use public funds to cure himself. Trump plans to cure herpes by the end of second term "Sources inside of the White House tell The Chronicle that President Donald J. Trump is planning a major campaign pledge to commit more than $1 billion to cure the herpes virus before the end of his second term.... “He will be pledging more than $1 billion in matching grants to fund large scale clinical trials of various pharmaceutical treatments and combinations of treatments of the virus.” Now that the Saudi's are again awash in oil cash. The Saudi state wants to spend a billion a year to cure whats of utmost concern to the royal family. Ageing. They are worried that their personal piggy banks will outlive themselves.Anyone who has more money than they know what to do with eventually tries to cure aging. "Google founder Larry Page has tried it. Jeff Bezos has tried it. Tech billionaires Larry Ellison and Peter Thiel have tried it. Now the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has around as much money as all of them put together, is going to try it. The Saudi royal family has started a not-for-profit organization called the Hevolution Foundation that plans to spend up to $1 billion a year of its oil wealth to investigate the biology of aging and find ways to extend the number of years people live in good health. The vast sum, which dwarfs American aging research spending, could make the Gulf state the largest single sponsor of researchers attempting to understand the underlying causes of aging—and how it might be slowed down with drugs. But US research organizations considering whether to take Saudi Arabia’s money will be forced to contend with the specter of its human rights record"

IMO Canada is similar to the UK about the acceptance of corruption of politicians. Not near as bad as the US, but plenty bad. The Canadian PM Trudeau has had scandal after scandal but a Teflon coat has prevailed. Hence the state of the current and past coalition governments.

"Mother Charged With Manslaughter After 2-Year-Old Fatally Shoots Father It is unclear how the boy managed to get the Glock 19, but his mother acknowledged that “any child in the room could have figured out how to get the gun out of the bag,” The arming of America and mass shootings is accelerating."while the economy is contracting, inflation is rising, and are paychecks covering less, all the talk of gun bans and regulation on all levels post-Buffalo/Uvalde is sure to keep the sales well over the million mark every month until at least November."

This may help the integrity challenged. Jonathan Pie: 'Boris Johnson Is a Liar'

The breath of knowledge of John and Billvon is surprising. Although Billvon doesn't have the credentials that John has. The absence of huge releases of steam associated with the toot-toot. Vis-a-vis when Billvon posts is somewhat refreshing.

Well to be fair to republicans, IMO Bill Clinton opened the floodgates to this. During the Monica Lewinsky debacle. The UK and Canada recently had big investigations about political lying in their respective parliaments. Democracies seem to be morphing towards autocracies with regards to lying. There is more and more of it with little consequence. IMO President Biden is good for staying on the straight truth tracks. The only way to end this is a jail cell.

Perhaps that bloodlust is why the Christian right loves guns so much.

Scientology and AmmoLand can't be viewed as reliable sources for scientific information.

Then there is the Uvalde PD.

Avenatti Gets a 4-Year Sentence for Defrauding Stormy Daniels of $300,000 "In Manhattan, he was convicted in 2020 of trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike and is now serving a sentence of two and a half years. A lawyer representing him in that case later filed a notice of appeal, and his lawyers in the Daniels case wrote in court papers that Mr. Avenatti intended to appeal that conviction, too..The judge also ordered that Mr. Avenatti pay $148,750 in restitution and forfeit about $297,000..." Imagine what sentence a cop would get for stealing $300K from an injured motorist.

Well at least the US is not number one anymore. Latest estimates have 30,000 Russians killed in the war so far this year. While the NRA/GOP in their war against civilians is only about 18,200 Good thing the GOP hasn't allowed the sale of M777s yet.

Just the GOP getting voters ready for midterms and presidential elections.

There is a You-tube channel that interviews Russians on the street. It solicits their opinions on the war, the economy, world events, etc. If MAGA/GOP voters are still so numerous. The average Russian is more knowledgeable and objective than the GOP ilk.

I try to be an optimist. I'm just so thankful that trump is out. With a war in Europe and the world economy teetering on a recession. There is an enormous drag on democrats to keep trump out in two years. His possible GOP challenger/leader is "Florida's Ron DeSantis wanted to target social media companies for their content moderation policies, crack down on protests following Black Lives Matter demonstrations and punish a major corporation for crossing the GOP in the culture wars. ... For more than a year, Florida Republicans have made the state a test kitchen for conservative ideas that made DeSantis a favorite among GOP voters, who consistently rank him as their second choice to run for president in 2024 just behind Donald Trump. DeSantis has been able to wade into national culture wars by signing into law bills inhibiting classroom discussion of sexual orientation, gender and race, barring protesters from picketing outside a person’s home and limiting tenure at the state’s public universities." So who is the more batshit crazy? Oh! almost forgot and a stacked conservative USSC.