What the hell is that thing on his gun? It looks like something he found stuck to a shower wall.

EDITED TO ADD: Thanks for the clarification! I had no idea, I just saw the barrel pointed in that guy’s face.

https://archive.ph/ZKnBf

Well, the East Wing is as vacant as the President now, so they should have plenty of room.

Yes. Thank you.

Aw, you wrote it yourself. I’m proud of you. Yet still no credible defense of violent protest in your own words, just an ad hominem attack because you possess nothing else.

Indeed it is. Look at the comment to which I responded; that’s what I was saying.

Are you unable to articulate your own thoughts? It can’t be that compelling if you can’t even bring it yourself. Look at you so intellectually helpless you have to fling someone else’s social media at me, like the whole chunk, as though you can’t figure it out.

If you can, point to the place on the image that is your direct answer to my comment, otherwise it’s just regurge.

Be sure to include how Charlottesville (Trump’s favorite, where they killed Heather Heyer) was a grand success, and Minneapolis a few years ago (George Floyd) and Portland, etc. Give examples of recent violent protests in the US that have been grand examples of your premise, because we’ve had them, and they are simply not remembered except as the own-goals they are. Or maybe you’re a J-6 fan? Not sure, couldn’t tell from what you didn’t write, lol.

You’re just a secondhand larper using someone else’s words to provoke other people to fight.

Actually, yes.

I am completely against violent protests. Take a look at my post history; it’s real. Letting protests turn violent is a great way to give even more power to the fascists.

But jesus fucking christ, if they’re fool enough to take their goddamn goon show on the road and start banging on doors, whatever happens next is on them.

Or to put it another way, for fascists hell bent on racial purity that’s one unironic way to chlorinate the piss out of the gene pool, I suppose.

That’s his weak point. He has support in the military, but not enough to actually test it, and especially not enough to give the larger mass of servicepeople a taste for gunning down their own countrymen.

He had intended to be past this point by last spring, but he’s not there yet, and meanwhile what’s left of the courts is slowing his roll.

Without the military willing to take direct domestic action, in the end this coup WILL fail. I’m not saying it’s impossible he could actually do it, but I am saying it seems less and less likely every day.

In the meantime I am just hoping against hope his sorry demented ass doesn’t start WWIII, because that actually is a possibility.

They can charge him with both federal and state crimes that overlap, resulting in trials at both levels, but that’s not necessarily the winning strategy, and the interworkings of various agencies when it comes to dual state and federal charges is a complex subject.

But for myself, if this guy is charged at the state level I fully expect the DoJ to come in with federal action of some kind very quickly thereafter. Not to prosecute, but to sabotage the state level proceedings. They won’t have a choice: in order to continue recruiting for ICE and to keep the thugs they already have on the payroll from quitting, both of which are necessary to continue ramping up domestic unrest so as to impose martial law, they (DHS, DoJ, ICE) have to be seen to insulate their own hires from criminal repercussions.

EDITED to add link to the comment of someone who put it more cogently than I just did:
https://lemmynsfw.com/comment/15449662

The actual ruling, should anyone care to read it:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.586310/gov.uscourts.vaed.586310.16.0.pdf

TL;DR: the judge schools her like she’s a first year law student, lol

South Carolina has entered the chat

You can use the yt-dlp executable in the Youtube-DLG GUI interface. The interface is fine, the only thing wrong with it was that the executable behind it couldn’t keep up with YT fuckery. They may have fixed it since then, but once I started manually updating it with yt-dlp I never stopped, so I don’t even know anymore. And I’m sure there are better alternatives, I just got used to using this one.

So if you want the GUI front end, it’s profoundly easy. Download Youtube-DLG, rename yt-dlp.exe to youtube-dl.exe, and then put it into the appropriate folder (%appdata%/youtube-dl/ on Windows). Overwrite or just delete the existing youtube-dl.exe because it doesn’t work anyway.

If you are installing Youtube-DLG for the first time you may have to manually install ffmpeg as well, if memory serves.

The sole drawback is that, for obvious reasons, updates are now manual. Every so often YT breaks it again and I just go download yt-dlp again, rename it, and put the new one in the Youtube-DLG folder. Job done.

The much longer WSJ article that Rawstory is referencing:
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/as-signs-of-aging-emerge-trump-responds-with-defiance-769c5dcd

Archive link:
https://archive.ph/07uf0

Yeah, the NYT article is extensively written but essentially a puff piece, IMO. Its author got a bit schooled in the comments; almost all the top ones are about what was omitted (like her net worth before and after) as opposed to what was written. But everyone who’s been paying attention already knows all that, so if mainstream media finally helps someone come over from the dark side even in spite of themselves, that’s probably a win at this point. Good luck with your folks.

The much longer NYT article that The Guardian is pulling from:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/magazine/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-maga-split.html

Archive link:
https://archive.ph/zTlk0

This isn’t great, but it has more information than the above, with links to other sources:
https://old.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1pwvji3/did_wired_have_a_breach_on_122325/

Alternate link:
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1pwvji3/did_wired_have_a_breach_on_122325/

Buttery males too.

One wonders how and why a faked animation depicting a suicide attempt is in the government-held files to begin with. It’s not like just any fan can submit personal art to a set of state-held criminal and civil documentation, nor were any civilians involved anyway because he died in custody: everyone from the snoozy guards all the way to Bill Barr was employed by or representing the government at some level.

Keeping in mind that the DoJ/BoP already have (or don’t have, depending on the current narrative) whatever genuine film the jail cameras actually produced, and that this animation also diverges from the known facts of the death, it’s unlikely to be an investigative recreation:

While the video appeared to show the man trying to hang himself, it did not depict the manner in which Epstein was later found, as specified by a Bureau of Prisons report on the prison’s procedural failings that night, released in June 2023 after a lengthy internal investigation.

Considering the fairly limited group of non-civilians that can have their material end up in this tranche of government evidence, its presence there at all really begs the question of what purpose an “alternate scenario” animation of Epstein’s death serves, and who would have created it (or had it made for them) to be added to their files on his death in custody.

Never forget she was Florida AG from 2011 to 2019, with the power to take action against Epstein herself. She never did, though she held the proof. NY had to do it instead.