In Texas, if you can’t pay bail, it can be years (until the statute of limitations runs out). If you can pay bail, you can get out the next day, but can be out on bail for years (which can come with restrictions of personal freedoms, and is public record [hope you don’t need to find a job during that time]), with court dates every few months, and the DA resetting at the last minute. (personal experience).

I think some people in the admin actually want that. A lot of them are heavily into crypto and other assets such as real-estate, and they won’t be able to balance trade as long as the USD is the world’s reserve currency.

I think they could just print money to pay instead of defaulting because the debt is denominated in USD (still disastrous though).

There are multiple videos to corroborate.

Probably because the article is from a business news outlet. I have heard a lawyer talk about the case, saying it was very unusually for her to be arrested for such charges (Leeja Miller I believe; not really a journalist, just a youtuber).

Years ago, I used to just ignore letters. Nothing happened for years. Moved and switched ISPs (smaller, regional), then was banned by that ISP after a few months, lol. Copyright holders can sue you, so it’s just an odds thing.

I just use a VPN now. Used Tribler before I set up my Arr stack, because Tribler didn’t work well with it. Tribler is faster than i2p if you use 1 hop, but theoretically, the Movie Picture Association could run an exit node and still sue you, if you only use 1 hop. (Actually, it’d probably be a legal gray area for them to run an exit node because they would be facilitating piracy).

If you’re talking about organized resistance, the police can be greatly outnumbered. Mostly unarmed people took over a precinct during BLM protests.

If talking about defending yourself in your home, I’d rather die quickly at home than at a prison that tortures people. Hell, I’d rather die than spend 20+ years in a regular US prison.

I think most of these protests were properly permitted (I know my local one was). Protestors in residential areas would likely get arrested for stuff like disturbing the peace, even if they stayed on public property such as roads. They’d probably try to charge the organizers for something too, which is probably why they aren’t being organized. But, I agree there should be protests at these people’s homes regardless.

Not sure if serious. Recession is almost certain, and the only fiscal “stimulus” that’s likely to come is tax cuts. Will probably turn into a depression. But even the Great Depression had a huge amount of fiscal stimulus and progressive reforms to help get out of it. Not to mention, the crashing of the economy appears to be purposeful:

There’s probably multiple motivations. He serves a motley-crew of white christian nationalists, oligarchs (many with very fascist ideologies themselves), and himself. I think he’s kinda acting like a power-broker/deal-maker for many different people (similar to his buddy Epstein). The numbers don’t make sense because they don’t really matter if the goals are to 1) cause the world to lose faith in the US 2) can be used to negotiate things like de-dollarization 3) can be used to solicit bribes from politicians and businesses. If they really want to bring manufacturing back to the US, the dollar must be unseated as the world’s reserve currency, and there must be very bad stagflation so that we get enough inflation and depressed wages so people are desperate enough to work for roughly the same real wages as Chinese factory workers. If the US is less dependent on other nations for things like manufacturing, the US can do things like invade countries, set up slave and death camps, etc, with less consequence. And the chosen oligarchs get to rule over their own fiefdoms of oppressed workers.

I think I first saw it mentioned about a month ago. I think there’s about 1 protest planned per month from the 50501 and Indivisible groups. There’s also a “continuous” protest in DC starting on May Day. Seems like there are TeslaTakedown protests every week in my area (though quite small).

I could not renew online (not sure why it wouldn’t let me). You need an appointment in my state now. Before this change, it was an all-day affair. I.e. get there before it opens, stand in an extremely long line that wraps around 3 sides of the building, and stand in line for most the day (in the extreme heat, in the summer).

And, I guess it still took most the day even with an appointment too.

It disenfranchises many voters. I know several people who don’t have valid IDs. I was almost unable to to vote last November because my ID expired, and all my local DMVs were booked for many months. Had to set an appointment 3 months in the future at a DMV 50 miles away from me to get an ID just before the election.

Not sure if you’re trolling or not. They’re very obviously following Russia’s playbook of consolidating power, dismantling the state and handing it to oligarchs, and “flooding the zone” with bullshit so people believe what they want. They probably won’t outright claim they’re the King and there will be no elections, but they’ll probably rig the elections, at least in red states, so the Republican party has control of the federal government in perpetuity; similar to how Russia has “elections.” Any media that doesn’t toe the line will get labelled as “fake news,” and probably have “legal” and financial actions taken against them. I mean, a few days ago, and executive order was signed that, among other things, requires voters to show a birth certificate or passport which will disenfranchise many, many voters. So, no, we won’t explicitly have a king, but we will have a totalitarian one-party rule with oligarchs at the top, and an extensive propaganda machine to keep people confused and misdirected. I don’t expect voters like the one’s that wore the “better Russian than Democrat,” to organize in a large militia and fight homeland security, the national guard, or whatever other military the government would deploy on US soil (they’re “considering” invoking the Insurrection Act at this very moment). I suspect most Republicans would just be fine with their team being in power, no matter what the cost; and having propaganda legitimizing their beliefs just makes it easier for them. Republican voters surely won’t rise up to fight for a Democrat that “lost” an election.

Article is paywalled. So I’m gonna “keep on rockin’ in the free world.”

Well, destroying democracy is pretty distracting, so kudos, I guess.

Obviously, the Republicans are the party that’s pushing and doing all this stupid shit, but the Democrats are not using the power they have to impede them. The CR that the Democrats helped pass removes the power from Congress to remove Trump’s tariffs, for example. And the Democratic party keeps following the losing strategy of moving further right. I don’t think they actually care about winning the presidency or congress again; they just want to keep the corporate donors.

Valentina is my favorite. Both the black and yellow labels are good, but I like drenching shit with the yellow (milder one).

LOL. I’m not conservative or even liberal. It seems obvious he’s talking about the 2020 election to me 🤷. Yes, Musk and Trump are fascists, and yes they are destroying the US, and are probably going to cause unimaginable amounts of suffering.

He’s saying the dems rigged the election, so his second term is late enough to be president during the Olympics and World Cup.