The problem is that cluing in the world to the reality, that the PEOTUS is a moron with the geopolitical knowledge of a clueless child, doesn’t really do the US any favors, either. That, in and of itself, is offensive to the rest of the world or indicates that he’s someone they can manipulate and use.

The fact that we’re voluntarily consuming this news demonstrates that almost every commenter on here takes his job more seriously than he does. Any one of us is -literally- better informed/prepared than him at this point.

“How do you find yourself one month away from being the leader of the free world, and yet you don’t avail yourself of EVERY opportunity to be prepared?”

I heard that too. How do you find yourself one month away from being the leader of the free world, and yet you don’t avail yourself of EVERY opportunity to be prepared? I would be up all night every night studying, and I’d be consulting with experts before I talked to anybody, anywhere, ever, about anything.

I am just some random internet person and even I KNOW THAT WE DO NOT OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZE TAIWAN THIS IS A THING THAT IS GENERALLY KNOWN THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS SO DUMB.

Yep. Between all the police murders, civil forfeiture and outright theft like this, I can’t believe the US is not yet in open revolt.

This is the kind of case that should go before the US Supreme Court to rule once and for all whether civil forfeiture or this particular seizure is legal.

Well there is the mass incarceration of certain groups of people, but ok.

Don’t forget the seized laptops mentioned in the beginning of the article when the cars were seized from homes.

Becoming? It’s always been this way, we’re just more cognizant of it now.

My guess is civil forefeiture. One giant sweep of exotic cars means bank for city government. Civil forfeiture is the greatest act of injustice currently in the American legal system and nobody seems to care.

It sounds like you were an unusually mature high schooler. The thing is, if everything is working for you personally, it takes an extra bit of self-awareness to see what’s wrong. She got there, but it took her a few more years than you did.

I’m from the NW originally, and I went to college and am now at a state medical school in the deep south with lots of young men and women like this. This attitude that you quote ‘“That is a privacy issue. Government has no business getting involved”’ is what bugs me the most about them, though. I get that everyone…

I don’t know about Tyrion either way, but there’s already been room made to explain Tyrion’s heritage.

I work for a large research center at a public university, so all of our salary data are publicly available. Over the past 15 years, my employer relatively lowered the entry-level salary (basically by not raising it with inflation), decreased annual increases from ~5 to ~2.5%, and lowered the salary increases between…