“Residents within a one-kilometer radius of these terrorist companies across all countries in the region are also urged to evacuate and move to safe locations.”
Americans: “The fuck is a ‘kilometer’?”
Also Americans: “The fuck is a ‘radius’?”
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In general, we frown on self promoting accounts, but in YOUR case, this article doesn’t seem to be just actively stolen from another source, so I’m allowing it for now.
Opening a discussion with other mods and Admins as to how we want to handle this.
I live in protest central, I know a useless protest when I see it.
Here’s the #1 problem with No Kings:
Trump doesn’t CARE. You can’t shame the shameless. The only thing that will cause him to take notice is if something impacts him PERSONALLY.
Get 8 million people in DC and shut it down for a month? That would have an impact.
A million people trapping him inside Mar-A-Lago? That would have an impact.
As it stands now? Every protest in a blue city or a blue state? Dismissed with a subtle jerking off motion, or in Trump’s case? Not so subtle. Nothing about him is subtle. LOL.
BUT - BUT - if No Kings moves to impact the upcoming Senate races to a point where people up-set the apple cart in the same way they are going to do the House? That is going to NEUTER him and he knows it.
The big thing is, this can’t be a “throw the bastards out” movement, it needs to be about how, specifically, Republican candidates, policy, and ideology are all toxic to us, as a country and as individual people. They went from “the party holding us back” to “the party actively harming us.”
Yeah, and No Kings is not that. Not in numbers or dedication.
That’s the thing, without further organization and action the net result was “Well that was fun!”
That’s fantastic they were doing a food drive and voter registration! Let’s hope they organize “turn out the vote” events leading up to the elections.
6 months to organize. A lot of people have to work on Saturdays.
It will be interesting to see if the general strike on 5/1 has any impact, that’s on a Friday.
What proponents don’t get:
Turning out in the streets with no action doesn’t actually “do” anything. Yes, it gives participants warm fuzzies, but that’s about it.
I really hope organizers used the opportunity to do something productive. Register people to vote, collect volunteers for the upcoming primaries and the general election in the fall, push the red states to reject Republican ideology and candidates that are actively injuring all of us.
8,000,000 / the current US population estimate of 342,400,000 is 2.34% of the US out protesting on Saturday. That’s fantastic, but it’s not enough to move the needle.
Where does it need to be?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
Just short of 12 million. We are getting there.
No Kings June, 2025 - 5 million
No Kings October, 2025 - 7 million
No Kings March, 2026 - 8 million
On this track, the next one will be close to 10 million. Proponents will argue they are over, detractors will say they missed the target, but 10 million more or less.
We are at least 2-3 more protests of this size away from hitting the 3.5% thresh-hold, but it is do-able before the 2028 elections.
Nick Shirley is no more a source than the other agitators like Benny Johnson or James O’Keefe or any of the other right wing stooges later proven to be frauds:
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-s1-5100829/russia-election-influencers-youtube
Hopefully they are using the opportunity to register voters and motivate people for November otherwise it won’t accomplish much.
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Important bit from Snopes:
"In 2002, Omar and Hirsi reportedly applied for a marriage license. The couple married in an Islamic ceremony but never completed the process for a civil marriage, according to Hirsi. By 2008, Hirsi and Omar had separated (per Islamic custom). After that relationship ended, Omar had a civil marriage with Elmi in 2009. When that relationship ended, Elmi moved to England and they divorced per Islamic practice in 2011, but without receiving a legal divorce.
Omar later reconciled with Hirsi and remarried in an Islamic ceremony. In 2017, Omar formally petitioned for divorce from Elmi, and legally wed Hirsi in 2018. Hirsi and Omar legally divorced in 2019.
Snopes found no credible evidence that Elmi and Omar were siblings in a fraudulent marriage."
That’s a source we can get behind! Sorry for the other removal!
$0.184 a gallon.
So that $5.00 price I saw the other day would be $4.816. Not a significant improvement. Even losing my states $0.40 tax would make it $4.416.
Unfortunately, ndtv.com is not a credible source, which makes me sad because I believe Trump is EXACTLY this stupid. Like when the New York Post gets a scoop… damn it! Why them?
Removing pending a more credible source.
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