Komodo Rodeo

Sound advice that, I can’t stand the stink coming off the boarder, and am won’t even consider passing through via connecting flights until shit’s cleared up stateside.

Absolutely right. Similar scenarios have been playing out for a long time, but the additional, onerous measures were seldom applied to anyone with the resources to fight it in court or put the U.S. government on blast in the media.

Some of the stories from years past are so absurdly improbable that they seem like fiction. Americans who’ve lived their entire lives stateside but whose citizenship/documentation was not “in order” have been deported to their parent’s countries of origin, and where they have no contacts and sometimes don’t even speak the language. Jimmy Aldaoud from Michigan whose parents were Iraqi refugees and who was born in a camp in Greece before the family settled in the U.S. He later died of complications of diabetes as he was unable to obtain consular assistance or even insulin.

The apparent shift has prompted several nations to change their travel advice and triggered a frenzy of questions in online travel forums about whether it is safe to go to the US.

Don’t. Wait at least until the next administration. It’s not safe, even everyday Americans are warning family, friends and business colleagues to stay away.

Roland Lescure, a French member of parliament who represents French citizens living in North America, said… “The home of the free and the brave is turning into something very different.”

A fascist, totalitarian surveillance state whose law enforcement has been granted absolute power, and who act with impunity, the checks & balances which were supposed to protect the Constitutional rights of citizens reduced to mere window dressing. Opposition Democrat politicians have busied themselves with impotent appeals to reason, press conferences, press releases, social media posts and ineffective protest marches which they hope will shed light on the situation and spur change (it won’t).

Ah damn, oops. You’re right, I wrote the wrong name even after fetching the Youtube link lol

People call Republicans stupid, but it looks like they may have finally learned a lesson after Naomi Wolf’s headliner in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IYPnnsYJw

“Hey, rural conservative voters. Here’s what his track record is, and here’s what he’s *actually * admitted he’ll do. The policies will harm you and your families. Voting Republican would be like shooting yourself in the foot.”

 *rural voters blast off entire foot with 12 ga. shotgun*

I can’t be the only one wondering at how no one in a closed-doors meeting was able to both contemplate the status of their own security clearance, or how it might be negatively affected by disclosing sensitive (albeit apparently not classified, secret, or top secret) information in the presence of someone who was not legally entitled to hear/see it? According to the source, there were foreign military officers there as well? How the fuck did not one of them stand up and demand that she get the fuck out of the fucking room?

How is it possible for the Secretary of Defense to be so nose-blind to this level of bullshit, as though he thought that it was acceptable to bring his spouse along as some kind of adult “bring your kid to work day”? This isn’t “odd” or “strange”, it represents possible degradation and compromise of national security. Wait in the fucking lounge, Jennifer, Jesus Christ.

A lot of effort when she could have just told everyone she’s a fucking imbecile years ago?

What is happening?

Stupid won. People all over the world are willingly shoveling shit into their faces as though they were trying to win a hotdog eating contest.

My thoughts exactly. I can get on board with newly coined terms and expressions, but frankly, there’s no need if it’s just fascism engaged in sabotage. Just because it’s a unique modern scenario doesn’t mean that Trump reinvented the wheel.

Huh, interesting. Thanks for the info, I was under the misconception that it was directly tied to the rusty metal itself.

Feels relevant to say that this practice was covered on Star Trek: Deep Space 9 in S2E15’s Paradise. Heat stroke is no joke, it doesn’t just feel awful, it can kill. Those sadistic freaks are both too incompetent and uncaring to at least organize the work details so that people aren’t killed by the Sun while labouring.

A literal nightmare scenario.

“You’re 100% going to die, but we need to know when you caught it in case it was incidentally passed to someone else.”

shrugs

Agreed, same deal as with tetanus. The last time that I got cut by rusty metal and went to the hospital, the intake nurses seemed annoyed with me for showing up with such a minor injury (two stitches needed only). When the MD checked my records, they told me that it was a good thing I’d come in for the stitches and tetanus shot, because my previous one’s span of effect would have ended at a few months earlier. You can’t take this shit for granted, if you blow it off or delay treatment it could kill you. No lockjaw for me, thank you very much.

Jesus H. Christ, that’s daunting…

But U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s warnings to Texas to act after finding the conditions in the prison system unconstitutional could resonate elsewhere in the U.S.

narrator voice “It did not, in fact, resonate. Prisoners continued to bake alive in their concrete ovens of cells during days where temperatures reached or exceeded 100° F. Guards, Police, and state legislators were observed to comment that ‘they deserved it’ for committing low-level crimes, while laughing.”

TFW OP posted this literally one hour after a dire wolf meme was dumped in 196 Blahaj

I’m in no rush, although routing options to go around a country so large are a bit of a pain in the ass to arrange. At least there’s the Caribbean for North-South travel, and Canada/Mexico for Pacific-Atlantic transfers…

Same. Half Baked is one of my favourite stoner movies, this shit has been so disappointing.

Just a bad habit for data entry that stuck from use of the old IBM keyboards. Somehow it felt better to shift my attention to the right-hand side instead of the standard layout and extending my hand to the keyboard’s top just below the F-keys. Everything I needed was right there on the right 1/4 of the keyboard…