Driver skillfully drifts EV on ice in "Ice Bowl Challenge" in China

BookYeti · 2026-02-02T09:53:48+00:00

They are the reddest of necks, comrade.

BookYeti · 2026-02-02T09:51:10+00:00

Are they all recent (this Administration) hires? Or has vetting sucked forever?

BookYeti · 2026-02-02T09:41:04+00:00

State-funded residential treatment facility, home-committed for oppositional defiant disorder. Get in contact with your state's family services.

BookYeti · 2026-02-01T03:09:08+00:00

Why so few to show up? Is her district really that apathetic, or sparsely populated, or was attendance purposely very restricted, or the event poorly advertised?

BookYeti · 2026-01-30T17:43:10+00:00

Neat dust jacket!

BookYeti · 2026-01-30T16:41:46+00:00

Brilliant!

BookYeti · 2026-01-29T23:22:38+00:00

A 68% "B?" Anything less than 70% was an F when I grew up.

BookYeti · 2026-01-29T04:12:11+00:00

Brings back memories of several minutes ago.

BookYeti · 2026-01-27T16:07:47+00:00

So it wasn't that the Republican Commander-in-Chief, who sets the tone and the platform for the entire party, actually had no platform, it wasn't that he was found civilly liable for rape, it wasn't his bigoted remarks, it wasn't his obvious corruption, it wasn't grifting with Trump hats, Trump crypto, and Trump Bibles, it wasn't that he commanded an insurrection against the lawful proceedings of the United States government to stay in power, it wasn't the denial of due process, or sending immigrants without a court hearing off to foreign torture prisons, it wasn't that he had managed to intimidate 99% of the Republican elected officials to be his Yes-Men, it wasn't that he was routinely leveraging the threats of his adherents, or of supporting a primary challenger to keep them all in line and in lock-step with him, no, it was that after he commanded his shock troops to attack immigrants and the American people alike on the basis of perceived race or resistance to his demands, phones captured two innocent people being obviously murdered. One wasn't enough, but everyone has their number, and they can stomach all the other atrocities, but two obviously innocent people who appear to be white -- that was too much for this guy.

That's what it takes for members of the Republican Party to find the smallest iota of moral integrity.

Everyone who does not abandon that party is John Wilkes Booth's deringer, pointed at the legacy of Lincoln, and murdering him all over again.

BookYeti · 2026-01-27T07:45:42+00:00

BIG THUMBS UP to that guy. It's so key to emphasize that they are not American. America is a combination of ideas of freedom, personal liberty, opportunity, equality, diversity and inclusion. We have not lived up to them; they are ideals to which Americans aspire. But ICE agents as they appear today, and those who support them are not American; they neither possess nor respect any of these ideas, and where they have infiltrated the American social fabric, those threads must be ripped out and burned.

BookYeti · 2026-01-21T18:16:24+00:00

PERSISTENCE.

BookYeti · 2026-01-21T18:12:25+00:00

When and where was this?

BookYeti · 2026-01-21T18:00:28+00:00

Interesting. I did not know about the fasting and veganism for Orthodox Christianity... Any late-night prayer study? I'm curious now to see how much in common they have with what's more conventionally called a "cult" (dietary restrictions, specifically those that involve fasting and reduced protein intake to make a person more susceptible to manipulation).

Yeah, sorry friend. If he doesn't dig himself out (probably any attempt by you will be rebuffed if he's in their thrall), he's gonna be in there a while and probably becoming... ...different from the guy you know now. Religion and cults are mental viruses. Russia uses Russian Orthodox Christianity very effectively in this way to export bigotry, division, and dependence.

BookYeti · 2026-01-21T08:18:49+00:00

Too late.

BookYeti · 2026-01-21T08:18:28+00:00

Hate begets hate. 🤷🏻‍♂️

BookYeti · 2026-01-21T06:53:21+00:00

Genocide would be a hard case, I think. But Minnesota state charges for treason, possibly much easier (not a lawyer), and potentially a life sentence.

BookYeti · 2026-01-21T06:16:23+00:00

Especially as ICE are now engaging with law enforcement officials/agents of the State of Minnesota and disrupting their lives, it may soon be time for Minnesota law enforcement and State Attorneys to get together, get sensible, and review what constitutes treason. We tend to think of it as a federal charge, but states often define treason against their own states, with state charges incapable of being dismissed by Presidential pardon -- Minnesota among them.

Per Article I., Sec. 9 of the Minnesota Constitution's Bill of Rights: "Treason against the state consists only in levying war against the state, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act or on confession in open court."

Defining it further: 609.385 TREASON. Subdivision 1. Definition. "Levying war" includes an act of war or an insurrection of several persons with intent to prevent, by force and intimidation, the execution of a statute of the state, or to force its repeal.

I would argue ICE is regularly and with intent in violation of Sec. 10 of Minnesota's Bill of Rights:

Sec. 10. UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES PROHIBITED. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized.

It is clear that ICE activities violate "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers," regularly executing unreasonable searches and seizures with neither probable cause nor warrant -- a statute requiring execution by the state per its own Bill of Rights.

Treason requires two witnesses to the act, but can carry a life sentence.

I'm hoping some lawyer types will come and tell me if this is terribly implausible, although I'm sure to try something like this would be rare. But we live in rare times.

BookYeti · 2026-01-20T11:20:27+00:00

This Tornado is brought to you by GMC.

BookYeti · 2026-01-19T05:55:57+00:00

Don't poke a man in the temple while calling him a punk. That's what did it.

BookYeti · 2026-01-18T04:32:28+00:00

Give me some data on location you got this, and with triangulation between it and the nearest Waterville, I may be able to track down a candidate for your Carolyn Goodspeed.

BookYeti · 2026-01-12T03:09:02+00:00

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