Dunno, a non-rebreather mask would would work as it doesn’t let you inhale the exhaled air. So a 100% nitrogen flow through it would be on the more painless methods.

Of course, those who want the death penalty don’t want painless so…

I mean, the bar isn’t exactly a high one to cross in our situation. The ONLY good thing about Trump is his five year old with a shotgun strategy in he’s as likely to fuck up a bunch of Republicans on his way of hurting everyone else. Trump is for Trump and no one else.

Vance at least will believe in the party… when I say competence I don’t mean in running the country. I mean competence in when being in control if not a tyrant, but a good enough puppet that he won’t tear down the foundations of the reign.

Understand, when I say competent… that’s the worse category.

I saw on a conservative discussion group about making “TDS” (Trump Derangement Syndrom is what they’re calling it) an actual entry into psychiatric work. I was wondering where this was coming from.

There it is.

I’ve stopped asking about States Rights to do what, they just sidestep it. I just ask them about the confederate constitution.

Article I, Sec. 9(4), Article IV, Sec 2(1)(3), Sec 3(3) (I’ll give a hint, it’s where the CSA federal government outlawed states enacting laws to outlaw slavery. States Rights my ass)

If I get the sputtering boat of “butbutbut” after that it’s what are the secession declarations of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.

At that point either they really didn’t fucking know… I grew up in the South and I was an adult before I knew a lot of these, it certainly isn’t in the education system I’ll tell you that… but if it isn’t the really didn’t know category, then they’re as much a lost cause as their myth.

Someone else pointed it out, Freedom Convoy was effectively the next “States Rights” Don’t argue with them in good faith, they don’t argue in good faith themselves.

They’re the ones that cry “2A” about guns but worship the ground of Ronny Reagan who enacted gun legislation to go against the Black Panthers. This is the group that also talks about 2A and would storm the capital attacking police but calls Black Lives Matter riots and cheer when police show up. Hell, they cry about 2A when they worship Trump who said “Take their guns first, due process after.”

They talk about “Freedom of Religion” but it’s always their religion. War on Christmas, how dare they take down the ten commandments, while cheering for the guy who wanted a Muslim ban, attacked Sikhs post 9/11 because they couldn’t even get the religion they were mad at right, and want to force their religion into schools and courthouses.

They talk about freedom of speech when they scream about being able to lie, but cheer that Musk will throw people off that will actually fact check. The party of “Fuck your feelings” cries how they’re being attacked and needs protected when it’s turned around on them.

They cry about discrimination with Affirmative Action, but it’s simply the new Southern Strategy post Obama. Had a black president, racism is over, wave the flags. Oh, still helping minorities, RACISM! But they still stand with people who wave the swastika and the confederate flag and manage to say with a straight face they are not racist at all.

They made use of the social contract of tolerance, that we’re all supposed to get along as a society. They have done so by spitting in peoples faces, enacting violence, screaming epitaphs and being the worst people ever, then run back to society every time it’s turned on them.

Do not give them the good faith they ask for. Do not treat them as reasonable human beings, they are not. When they can act with basic fucking decorum that is required to be a person, then they can be treated like members of society again.

You’ll have to rinse/repeat a lot with this administration. Vance will be marginally better/worse. Basically he won’t be absolutely unpredictable, but he’ll be competent.

I for one welcome our Finnish overlords.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go

I owe my soul to the company store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHYp0ZLVa9g

No no no… we want a very RAPID decline to minimize the damage. If he were on his own, it’d be different but this is a time I’d rather minimize the suffering for everyone.

I’m still down for the painful one at least.

When you hear a loud noise just think to yourself “Please be haunted and not something expensive…” it’s what I do.

Everyone forgets Jonesboro that happened a year earlier.

Y’all, I live in the US. Listen to this. We had the same shit conversation with Harris. How many people I had to tell this “A vote is not a valentine, you’re not professing your love for the candidate,. It’s a chess move for the world you want to live in.”

Yes, I’ll agree our Dems can suck, and I’d love someone else… but for the love to my neighbors up north, don’t do the same dumbass move the US did and go “Eh, they’re not good enough” and bring in someone who’s a terror.

And it’s a dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. Walmart loves running anyone else out of town by keeping price slow and the store as unprofitable until no competition is around. Then after that’s out they’ll raise prices because the fuck you gonna do about it?

Same company that has training for its workers on how to apply for food stamps.

So everyone bitches about taxes but think about the Republican campaign against it for years.

Any attempts to simplify taxes has been fought to keep companies like TurboTax and H&R Block profitable, while every chance the Republicans decry any taxes whatsoever so keeps the min wage people against taxes.

But the thing is IRS defunding typically goes after the sections of the IRS that investigates tax fraud from the billionaires and businesses that try to wiggle out after all the tax cuts they’ve worked through, they’ve managed to demonize a portion of the government that’s supposed to be funding the government and goes after the wealthy that don’t pay their fair share.

Not even WWII history, US history, again not Texas schoolbook approved.

Grew up in the South: “Remember the Alamo”, “It’s heritage, not hate!”, “War of Northern Aggression”, “States Rights”, “The South will rise again!”

All angrily yelled about a war 160 years ago, all angers that have been left to fester because a group has lied about them and was never dealt with. These are not statements of olden days. These are things you’ll see commonplace in the south today.

The Alamo: Fought because a bunch of slavers invaded a sovereign nation (Mexico) for the purposes of trying to peel it off and get it into the Union to have more slave owning states to control the government. Mexico was a non-slave nation.

War of Northern Aggression: The South shot first. And they’ll blame other situations, like federal control (that’ll be discussed in next point), or John Brown with bleeding Kansas… who John Brown did go on a merry murder spree, but against slavers specifically moving up to Kansas to… again… try to outnumber the non-slave states so they’d have control over the federal government.

States Rights: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America specifically prevents states from outlawing slavery… so no fucking states rights. And on southern aggression when it comes to states rights, the South kept putting bills pre-Civil War to force northern states to allow their bounty hunters in to chase fugitive slaves. There were non-fugitive blacks that were kidnapped and taken back to the south to be enslaved.

The South Will Rise Again: These statues that were all over that’s upsetting people getting knocked down weren’t put up post Civil War, they were put up by the Daughters of Confederacy which became a group in 1890, and got most of them put up between 1900-1910, all the way up to the 50s, the eras of Jim Crow segregation. They’re in 31 states. There were 11 states that seceded. The flag that most people call the Confederate flag is in fact the Virginia Battle Standard, the actual Confederate flag was determined to look too much like a flag of surrender ironically months before they surrendered. Virginia keeps asking/demanding Minnesota for their flag back, claiming heritage… thankfully Minnesota keeps telling them it’s their heritage that they took it.

Most of this is not known by people living in the country. The lies are repeated far more than the truths. If you visited the South and didn’t know anything about the US Civil War you’d be convinced the South won.

2025 at this point, I’m convinced they got their victory.

Greatest thing of moving out of its hometown is actually having choices.

I’ve been outcyring that Walmart has been the one of the major architects of the downfall of the working class my entire life.

But people who have choices just respond it’s cheaper…

That is the part that pisses me off so much about this. Yes. Target capitulated. Yes, Target needs to be told that’s not good.

BUT WALTONS FUND THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION!

This can’t be said enough, yet we can’t get a days boycott on them for fucks sake!

I mean… I lived close to Tulsa and learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre years later through NPR.

Oh, right, Trump’s trying to get rid of woke stuff like that.