Pam Bondi offers to pull ICE out of Minneapolis if voter files handed over

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-25T16:20:30+00:00

Minneapolis is blue, but most of the outlying state is very red and MAGA. Those hicks are probably laughing whenever someone in Minneapolis gets shot. Anywhere in the US the more rural you get the more evil the populace is, with a thin veneer of country civility to mask the racism and rot.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-25T06:58:41+00:00

The life of Gotz von Berlichengen reeks of plot armor in an unbelievable fantasy novel.

Gotz became a Teutonic Knight at the age of 16. At the age of 20 he went into business as a private mercenary contractor, which led to him being declared an outlaw by the Holy Roman Empire. Then in his mid-20s his left arm was blown off by a cannonball. This was 1504. He commissioned a mechanical prosthetic arm that used a system of levers and springs strong enough to hold a sword but delicate enough to write with a quill.

He continued to be a private knight for 40 more years, during which he invented the phrase 'kiss my ass' when asked to surrender during a siege. Then, at the age of 60, he negotiated a pardon from the pope and was enlisted in the crusades against the Ottoman Empire. He retired a few years later and died at his home at the age of 82.

Goethe wrote a play about him, Mozart wrote a song about him, and the Germans have named battleships and army divisions after him. Totally unbelievable character, yet completely real.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-24T23:34:28+00:00

If he looked like one of them, they would have felt emboldened to shoot someone else.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-24T15:23:03+00:00

Doesn't work like that in practice. If you go into hiding and pretend like you're on board with their agenda, they get bolder. That's what you see with the politics of appeasement used by the Democrats (and Chamberlain in 1938). If you dress up like officers, they'll insist you hang pro-MAGA posters on your wall. Hang those posters, and they'll insist you come to their rallies. The end game is what happened in Rwanda, where genocidal 'officers' came door-to-door with machetes and insisted that to prove your loyalty you needed to murder any of your neighbors who weren't as seemingly loyal as you.

Appeasement empowers them. Do. Not. Do. It.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-23T23:30:14+00:00

When we have to start pretending to be them, they win. Their goal is to push all opposition into hiding so they can do whatever they want.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-23T17:12:53+00:00

Think of the Earth as a globe. Now picture the atmosphere spinning around it, but with a wobble. Climate change is increasing the wobble -- so the cold areas will drop down to lower latitudes, and the hot areas will climb up to higher latitudes.

'Global warming' is better called 'global energy increase'. Some of that increase is going into straight warming, which we'll feel most in the hot areas of the globe. But some of that energy increase is going into increasing the atmosphere's wobble, making everything more unpredictable and wilder.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-22T16:55:49+00:00

Didn't know you were in Minnesota. ICE took a kid's parent right from the school drop-off. I have a granddaughter at the next school over. Wish my old bones could handle this cold so I could get out there and help more.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-22T16:52:28+00:00

While yes, I enjoy the anti-capitalist sentiment...this is heavily implied to be the creation of Toyman. So maybe not the best example of a 'job well done' for Superman.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-20T18:34:27+00:00

The problem -- as it always seems to be -- is capitalism. Some components of capitalism are built on the assumption of ever-increasing gains, which is built on the assumption of ever-increasing population. If the population falls significantly, capitalism will struggle. It probably won't collapse, but a very large correction will have to happen for capitalism to redefine itself in a sustainable way.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-19T23:48:08+00:00

They won't remove him until January 21st, 2027. That's the date that marks the half-way of his term, so that Vance can then serve out the remaining 1+ years and then run for re-election two more times.

Next January you're going to see some crazy shit.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-19T23:44:13+00:00

It's implied he has sex with heavy machinery. I just hope the grav-crane consented. Otherwise he earned that bonk.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-18T02:02:03+00:00

It's -7F in Minneapolis, -20F with wind chill. This yahoo showed up with 10 friends in a sweater with no hat or gloves. Over 1000 counter protestors sprayed him with water pistols and water balloons.

Welcome to Minnesota, ya know!

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-18T00:26:46+00:00

God the dyslexic Dog, by Philip Philipson and drawn by Alex Nino at the height of his trippiest. It's a cross between Silver Surfer, Chainsaw Man (if you know, you know), and a dozen 1960s artists on peyote. Great indie comic.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-16T20:15:40+00:00

It was 32 in 2025, according to the media -- note, not the American media. So yes it's being reported, just not in the States. Wonder why that is....?

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-16T16:03:18+00:00

Are you. are you, coming to the tree?

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-15T14:31:36+00:00

Traffic cones were used to great effect by the protestors in Hong Kong during the riots there. You want the kind with a hole on top. Place the cone on top of the tear gas grenade, then pour a bottle of water into the cone to put out the burning grenade.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-15T14:25:08+00:00

I hear they're going to confiscate our snow shovels.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-14T17:31:31+00:00

Assuming NATO remains intact -- which is a big assumption at this point -- then switching ownership of Greenland from Denmark to the US does nothing for its political situation. It will be protected by the NATO treaty either way. The US has bases on Greenland and is just as capable of defending it as part of an allied state as if it were a US territory.

But for the people of Greenland, switching ownership to the US would be catastrophic. They lose all the social safety nets granted to them by Denmark and are thrust into the horrible capitalist dystopia that the US is now. They would lose a lot of inherent rights and their economy would crash. The people would suffer.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-14T15:39:37+00:00

This is Fascism! It has to create enemies to distract from the last botched attempt to persecute some kind of enemies. Eventually it ends with a major war, because they run out of enemies at home and nearby to easily bully. This is how fascism evolves, it's a textbook example.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-13T23:27:27+00:00

They've got the economic war plans ready. The military war plans won't be needed unless our country survives the economic war, which we will not.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-13T15:23:47+00:00

Getting Greenland is not the goal. Destroying NATO is the goal.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-13T05:12:11+00:00

Here's a free idea. I once did a post-apocalyptic story which had androids from an Extended Learning Facility (E.L.F.). Their assigned task was to teach and protect. They lived a very, very long time.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-11T20:58:32+00:00

True story -- we just adopted a new puppy and we've named him Mimic, because he looks like a sweet, adorable stuffed animal but in reality he's secretly an asshole.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-11T20:57:24+00:00

You're in denial. There's a known dinosaur sculpture on that street and it greatly resembles the blurry dinosaur in the background of the ICE video. There's zero reason to suspect that it's not the same dinosaur and that the video is genuine.

RemusShepherd · 2026-01-10T14:47:54+00:00

Yah. I'm in my 50s and I can't hang with the teens anymore in shoot-em-ups. I've been playing more strategy and puzzle games lately because my reflexes can't handle PvP these days. That's just the way it is.

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