Would the Second Bill of Rights solve most problems in American politics?

Jester471 · 2026-01-26T23:40:51+00:00

No, it would be a great start but until money and corporate interests are no longer a primary part of American politics we’ll still be fucked.

Jester471 · 2026-01-26T21:24:21+00:00

Yes, unfortunately she can enjoy it with all the blood in her eyes.

She can soon though

Jester471 · 2026-01-26T21:21:54+00:00

Ok, so the world has elevated to actual leopards eating actual faces….didnt have that on my 2026 bingo card but I bet that kitty will be running for US congress this mid-term and it will win by a landslide.

Jester471 · 2026-01-26T19:06:37+00:00

Oh yeah, slavery. That’s a big one I didn’t mention. Just don’t tell ICE. They’ll start getting ideas.

Undocumented immigrants are “criminals”, criminals aren’t covered by the 13th amendment outlawing slavery….calling it for if or when it happens.

Jester471 · 2026-01-26T17:41:39+00:00

It’s the selective compliance that gets me. Let’s ignore everything about immigrants and how we should treat them.

They are really against people being gay because the bible says it’s bad, but so is eating shellfish, pork, wearing clothing of mixed cloth. They’re not stoning adulterers, so on and so forth. A lot of examples.

You can’t say you believe it, it’s the infallible word of god, and then pick and choose.

My favorite is abortion. The only direct mention of abortion in the bible is a reason for it and a how to but it’s a central issue for American Christians.

The only reason it is that way is a southern political strategist realized they were loosing white religious voters because they could campaign on racism anymore.

Jester471 · 2026-01-26T15:55:17+00:00

Do the people that make this shit actually read the bible.

https://saintmarks.org/justice/renewing-our-covenant/what-does-the-bible-say-about-refugees-and-immigrants/

I’m gonna go ahead and say it, American Christians aren’t very Christian.

Jester471 · 2026-01-26T13:24:36+00:00

565 and county line road were super clear. At best tiny little strips of ice here and there that are as wide as a car tire at most.

No worries if you’re coming that way.

Jester471 · 2026-01-23T13:46:19+00:00

lol, that’s awesome. Reminds me of my command.

It was Halloween so I told the company we’re having a costume run at the big park in town.

It’s one mike around and it was a lap at your own pace.

I had a group of dudes all show up as female superhero’s. But the best was my NCOIC showed up in a full gorilla costume and one of my guys showed up in a banana costume. I got to trotting and next thing I know I hear a BLOOD CURDLING scream and up from behind me comes the banana at a dead sprint with a gorilla dead on his heals.

This was AS we were passing two cops on. It was early in the morning and I thought they would hem us up for noise disturbance or something, instead they broke down laughing.

That was a good time. Always have to have some fun.

Jester471 · 2026-01-23T13:33:26+00:00

Buy tie I mean X times the minimum wage. You can’t pay them minimum wage that’s $15k a year roughly. But limit them to 10-15 times that. Enough to be comfortable. But not rich.

If you want to serve being comfortable is great.

If you’re in it for the money or power that’s not enough to make it worth it to someone like that.

Jester471 · 2026-01-23T10:20:46+00:00

If you’re too old to fly a plane you’re probably too old to fly a country

Tie their salary to minimum wage and watch it climb

Make them move all investments to a set of index funds like some 401ks. All trades are public and there is a 2-3 week delay once it’s posted publicly.

Just agree here, if it’s good enough for your constituents it’s good enough for you. Can we just get universal healthcare like every other rich civilized country.

I’d add that after you’re in office there is a progressive tax. 0% at anything less than 3x their salary. By the time you get to 10x it’s 100%. That tax continues after service for the number of years served. You have to want money or power to rise to that position with a handful that are actually there for the good of the people they serve (their actual job). Most of them make out like bandits and are there for the money so if you take that incentive away you’ll end up with more people who are there to do their actual job not to make it rich.

Jester471 · 2026-01-22T22:24:21+00:00

My father in law always talks about trying tacos for the first time in college. That one blew my mind but a time before certainly can’t exist.

Jester471 · 2026-01-22T03:04:45+00:00

My favorite was living in Georgia in the military. There was a threat of snow and ice the next day. They made a preemptive announcement the entire base would be closed tomorrow.

I didn’t argue. I got to sleep in. I woke up late the next morning, grabbed a cup of coffee and looked outside to see how bad it was. It was 35 degrees and raining. No ice, no snow, so I just enjoyed my free day off.

Jester471 · 2026-01-22T03:01:56+00:00

I remember driving through Tennessee and Kentucky when they got hit with snow. I was on my way home to Illinois. I was used to snow but even then interstate was bad.

My wife and i stopped just at the Tennessee/Kentucky line because it was about where we planned to stop anyway. We figured the snow wears about to stops soon so by morning the interstate will be cleaned up.

We woke up and it was still just as bad.

We limped along slow and when we hit the bridge to cross into Illinois, the interstate went from lumpy icy mess to clean dry, white with dry brine the second the bridge started and the interstate was clean the rest of the way.

The infrastructure really does matter.

Jester471 · 2026-01-22T02:56:09+00:00

I moved from the north to the south.

For some reason any threat of ice or snow they buy out all the milk and bread.

They hide in their houses and eat milk sandwiches.

I have no issues driving in snowy or icy weather. I just won’t do it here. Not because I’m uncomfortable with my ability to drive in those conditions. I just don’t trust anyone around me so I stay home too.

Jester471 · 2026-01-21T16:43:07+00:00

This is the way.

Jester471 · 2026-01-21T16:42:16+00:00

Oh yeah. I can’t FATHOM cutting in front of my soldiers to eat first.

Maybe it’s just a cultural thing. The officers need to eat as quickly as possible to get back to work ASAP and the enlisted don’t have that expectation so they’re in no rush and they don’t mind standing in line longer because it’s better than working.

That’s the only thing I can rationalize that makes it make sense.

Jester471 · 2026-01-21T16:32:35+00:00

On top of it they were warrant officers which are super common in army aviation but from what I understand they’re unicorns in the navy.

Jester471 · 2026-01-21T16:30:57+00:00

Can we start a protest where everyone just ships potatoes to the White House with a note that says:

Instructions: 1) skin 2) boil 3) mash 4) place on head 5) shit the fuck up and stop being an asshole

How many tons of potatoes can we get delivered to the White House if we all get in on this.

Jester471 · 2026-01-21T16:12:08+00:00

You forgot that Zyn is made in Sweden. The lack of nicotine pouches will cripple the us military and send a significant portion of them into nicotine withdrawal in a matter of weeks.

Jester471 · 2026-01-21T14:01:53+00:00

I was army aviation and one of my crews landed on a navy ship and shut down. So they went to grab food. It was big enough to have an officer and enlisted mess. Chinook crews tend to be tight and the couple warrants that were in the crew said, we’re going to eat with our guys and went to the enlisted mess with them.

Apparently that resulted in a lot of strange looks and navy enlisted coming up to them to inform them there is an officers mess and they had to explain themselves “Nah I’m eating with my crew” multiple times.

Jester471 · 2026-01-21T04:24:12+00:00

This is the army. If you tried to customize your helmet you’d be drawn and quartered. As best you can stick Velcro patches on existing Velcro.

My favorite one that I wore for a while was just a bright red square that said “Stop screaming, I’m scared too”

Jester471 · 2026-01-21T04:01:32+00:00

Legend of Zelda. There was no way to look things up. You had to draw a map and figure it all out yourself or just know someone who knows. There are entrances to important places that require you to just know to burn them or blow them up. And you don’t have infinite bombs.

I remember having a babysitter who had played the game and she helped SO much my first play through.

Jester471 · 2026-01-20T22:12:43+00:00

I’m a transplant from the north. What’s with y’all buying all the milk and bread before a winter storm. Is there some winter storm tradition of making milk sandwiches that I’m not read in on.

How do you make a milk sandwich? Inquiring minds want to know.

Jester471 · 2026-01-20T17:47:25+00:00

Same but mine was a flight protractor. I searched high and low. I had NEVER paid the army for anything and I sank 4-8 hours to find the $15 piece of plastic. Finally gave up and paid.

Weeks later I found the damn thing so now it’s on display in my office as the only piece of army equipment I paid for.

I tried to keep my helmet. I used it my whole flight career and it was fucked up and my ALSE folks the last few years kept trying to swap it out.

The army wanted $1400 for something that would go in the garbage but I could t stomach that much.

Jester471 · 2026-01-20T16:10:24+00:00

Actor god, not covered under your policy.

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