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They used that part of the 13th that said “Well, except prisoners, those can be slaves.” Local law enforcement rounded up former slaves on trumped up charges and leased them back to the same plantation owners they were freed from. Only now if they escaped they were “escaped criminals” and they could count on even northern law enforcement returning them. The US is still a pro-slavery country and will be as long as that part of the 13th amendment stands.

His supporters will do it for him regardless, mark my words. We’re going to see instances of people being shot for being Democrats after the election regardless of who wins.

It’s called sociopathy mixed with dementia.

Best retort, “Then why is America pushing to reinstate child labor?”

he was charged with battery because police said Scott resisted arrest, including kicking and head-butting an officer

Granny has some spunk left in her!

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Okay, I cannot be the only person who saw a cat in the bag before realizing it was more bags?

Nah, Trumps amateur run campaign makes it look amateur.

Trump won Texas by only 6% against Biden. At 5% it means he’s slipping here. If the apathetic Texas Democrats can bother to get off their asses, they’d see this state flip. At the very least we can kick Fled Cruz to the curb. Hell, he’s polling with less of a lead than when he won in 2018, too. Texas is primed to flip and show the DNC that they can take it from the GOP.

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Gravity and Inertia are harsh mistresses.

Hey, they’ll even come with their own weapons, too!

Was that an autocorrection or are we calling him Elmo now? Because I’m down to start calling him that either way.

Yeah, but see that family that invited him there was “special” and the laws don’t apply to them or to Trump when they say they don’t. Typical fucking MAGAts.

Not just that, it shows his moral character to a T. It also shows the moral character of those families that thanked him.

America is not a meritocracy. It is big racist misogynist shithole with misogynist racists usually in charge of selection processes. “But we have legal protections against that!” you cry. Yeah, as long as you can prove it. If they don’t say something or leave a paper trail, you can’t prove shit. The system is still absolutely rigged against minorities and women and set up in a way that protections against any form of bigotry are so fucking vague as to be virtually unenforceable in all cases except the most extreme. Affirmative action is one of the ways to combat that. It, too, is not a perfect answer, but it is better than letting the bigots win. Indeed, the end game of Affirmative Action is to get enough women and minorities lifted up that the US can actually become a real meritocracy.

He’s an Uncle Ruckus for sure.

You have no idea how interconnected the world is, do you? How reliant the US is on its ports. Not just any place on a coastline is big enough to pull a cargo ship up to, as well as having the infrastructure to unload it and coordinate all that. All they have to do is hose every port capable of handling cargo ships and we are entirely fucked. The cherry on top would be nuking the oil refineries, completely wiping out our ability to move goods even if the ports were open. We will not have enough food to feed the country within a few days. Mass starvation starts a week or so afterwards. Two to three weeks later and at least a quarter or more of Americans will be dead from starvation. Then comes the massive waves of diseases due to all the unburied dead. Inside of two months at least half of America will be dead or dying. More likely to be closer to three-quarters.

All out nuclear is not something we survive.

Having made this sort of move several times in my youth with my parents, and a couple times as an adult, stick to the interstate as the others have said. Don’t worry about the mountains unless you’re doing it in winter, the moving van will be able to handle it if it has been properly maintained. 99% of the gas stations next to the interstate will be able to accommodate your situation, as well. If you can, break it into 3 days of driving 6 hours or so. Figure each stop will be about 30 minutes long with any food stops being up to an hour.

My wife has stage 4 colon cancer. One thing people who don’t know some who has had cancer don’t understand is that you can have it for a long time before it becomes so obvious that you have it. So while she has been far more susceptible to diseases before we figured it out, she found out because she went into the first stage of sepsis due to a necrotic tumor in her uterus that got infected. Sepsis isn’t a disease, it’s condition. Any infection can cause sepsis so it isn’t a symptom but something caused by the symptoms, an add on effect, if you will. If not treated in time, you die of septic shock. Again, septic shock isn’t a disease but a condition brought on by a disease. So no, dying from all diseases does not cover everything that you can die from that cancer or emphysema or COPD can have an effect on. In my wife’s case, had we waited 24 hours more, she would have likely died because her organs would have started failing due to acidosis. Again, not a disease, a condition. Even if they had been able to treat her in time, her cancer would have likely made their treatments less effective than as they would have been for someone without cancer.

Let me try to put it in better terms. A disease can create a condition which can have a negative effect on the body. This condition is not necessarily solely caused by that disease, so it isn’t a symptom. This condition, like acidosis of the blood, can then go on to create further problems, like organ failures, which you can die of. So in this example, the cause of death is organ failure, not acidosis, not the disease. and not the cancer. Without the cancer, the disease might not have spread as fast or happened at all. And thus, quitting smoking improves your chances of not dying from all causes, not just all diseases.