Love Bernie, but this:

But bottom line, if we honestly believe in democracy, if we believe in freedom, all of us must be loud and clear: Political violence, regardless of ideology, is not the answer and must be condemned.

They don’t believe in democracy. That’s it. That’s the core of the problem.

Think back to when Russia was supposed to just roll over Ukraine in a matter of days and consider how years later they are still cowardly attacking civilian targets trying to break the will of this tiny country.

Part of the reason why is because Putin didn’t get realistic reports about the capability of the Russian military because no one wanted to share bad news with him. Also, everyone in the Russian government is only concerned with their own personal enrichment, so they are robbing the country blind.

So consider that and think about what President Pedophile is doing to The US.

Her husband, Jim Brown, a US citizen and military veteran, told reporters his wife was not a criminal and that he “100%” regretted voting for Donald Trump as president.

Fuck you, Jim Brown, you selfish, inhuman piece of shit. You were fine voting for fascism when you thought you’d benefit. Now that it affects you and you find out you’re just as worthless to them as everyone else suddenly you have regrets.

There was a reporter talking to him. Does it occur to the reporters to dig deeper into the regret? Maybe point out that he was fine with this until it affected people he cared about? Maybe ask him if it would perhaps make sense to treat everyone like they are human beings instead of only the people in your family?

Sigh.

This seems like the perfect time to remind everyone that Trump is a pedophile, along with every single Republican*.

* if they redact every Republican name from the Epstein files, the only reasonable reaction is to assume all Republicans are listed.

I did. The article that was posted didn’t mention kicking.

Edit:

Also, this particular comment thread was about a person experiencing ding-dong ditch personally, not necessarily what happened in the event described in the article.

News reporting was different then.

In the 80s, most people got their news from broadcast network news shows or newspapers. CNN only just started in 1980. The Fairness Doctrine wasn’t eliminated until 1987. Fox News didn’t start until 1996.

There wasn’t ever a need for a 24x7 news channel. There still isn’t, but we have multiple 24x7 news networks. They have to blow things out of proportion like never before to try to get viewers.

While that’s all true, I think it’s a worthwhile exercise to examine if the number of people being shot for ringing a doorbell or turning around in someone’s driveway has experienced a statistically significant increase over the number of instances 40 years ago*.

It could be argued that the media (and the fascist scum running the country) blasting stories about made-up or exaggerated crime are directly responsible for any increase in insanity by chicken-shit gun-fetishists.

* Of course, you’d also need to factor in the reality that 40 years ago, in some areas you could murder someone for ringing your doorbell, and depending on the skin tones involved it might not even be reported.

Statistically, it is just being blown out of proportion by the media. No one sells ad space by reporting that nothing terrible happened again today.

Ignore the stories you’ve heard about things happening “somewhere”, and think about what’s happened on your street.

Your neighborhood may be a cesspool of violence and death, but the smart bet is that it’s just as peaceful and boring as mine.

Except, Moakley didn’t say they are trying to kick down the door. You brought up kicking. Moakley just said they are ringing the bell and running away. No kicking involved, so disfigurement seems extreme.

However, it’s also a wish, which means it has no effect on anything. Feel free to wish anything on anyone, it won’t happen.

Although, my high school bully did get brain cancer and die, so who knows? Maybe wishes work sometimes.

Well, that’s one.

Exactly. They don’t want to go back to a time when you could be happy, healthy, and raise a family.

They want to go all the way past those times to Antebellum America, when there were no Federal income taxes (US government raised most of it’s funding from things like tariffs…sound familiar?), when kids died from diseases that we’ve since been able to prevent with vaccines, and when you had to have the kids that survived work the mines to keep the family from starving.

They wish they was in the land of cotton.

What they are trying to conserve is not how it is, it’s how it was.

You know, back before the Civil War when they could own people.

It’s not what I voted for, but it’s what they voted for whether they knew it or not.

Just make it the responsibility of the companies providing the service to stop it.

Pass a law stating that if you’ve added your phone number to the do-not-call list, and you receive a call you did not want, your carrier has to pay you $50. For each call.

Give them time, say five years, to correct the flaws in their systems. Allow them to pass the charge for any calls that get through onto the carrier who connected the caller to their network, who would presumably pass the charge on until it got to the customer that made the call.

Heck, even when it’s implemented, throw them a bone. The customer has to show it’s an ongoing issue by identifying more than one call in a week.

I’d be making a few hundred dollars a week from my personal cell phone. Over a thousand a day from my work phone.

Soon, they’d find a way to make it impossible to spoof a number. Companies would probably stop selling burner phones. Phone companies that make money by providing service to scam call centers would quickly cease to exist. New companies would have to prove that they are managing their customers correctly or they’d never be permitted to connect to the other carriers.

Seems like that’s God’s will then.

And of course, a strike would be seen as a perfect opportunity to shut down the EPA for good.

The failure of the attempt to remove Andrew Johnson after Lincoln’s assassination.

Johnson believed in white supremacy, and he was lenient towards the southern ruling class to keep them in power so that they would suppress the freed slaves*. Leaving the southern elites in power ruined the only chance the U.S. had to overcome the taint of slavery and racism.

Think of the difference:

The traitors from the first civil war may have actually faced consequences for their attempt to destroy the nation in order to keep people enslaved.

A president actually being removed via impeachment would have made the presidency less secure which may have either discouraged some of the behavior presidents have engaged in, or it may have been more likely to have resulted in them being held accountable (of course, I’m thinking of Nixon, Clinton, and Trump).

I think war would require an armed and active opposition. Without that, it’s not civil war. It’s just oppression.

You’re right. Details matter.