He grew up during a time where "marital rape" could not happen. It was not possible under the law at that time. A woman was property of the man. Period. Women's coverture laws finally died in the late 70's. Marital rape was finally outlawed in 1993 in the United States.

We vote and elect representatives and, ostensibly, the President. We need to know - and it doesn't matter if it's been adjudicated.

Is it that we should post EVERY crime story that was committed by someone who isn't white?

I think that's it.

The Republicans making excuses and denying that this is trump's signature is massive CRINGE! Oh my god it's painful watching them deny the obvious!

lol

They've repeatedly said he's a pedophile and a rapist but in their heart, they've never really believed it

Personally I am not convinced that Trump's illegally had sex with minors, but I have been completely convinced he's covering for some really important people. With these documents released, though, I'm starting to think he could very well be, in fact, a child predator.

"Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women! Sells fully depreciated' [name redacted] to Donald Trump for $22,500,"

I foolishly thought the drawing and the exchange would be a bit more tasteful. Turns out it was worse than I had imagined.

That's also his signature.

Pretty funny. Last night I watched Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC. He had a check from Trump that Trump donated to a charity that O'Donnell pushes (K.I.N.D. I think it was). Of course the check wasn't from Trump but from his "charity" that was shut down for operating illegally and not being a charity. I digress.

O'Donnell refused Trump's "donation" and Trump wrote a nice note back signing the note as "Donald____" just like the signature in the infamous drawing. It's a match.

Oops.

Kavanaugh showed how out of touch he is when he said that U.S. citizens and legal residents who are lawfully stopped and questioned "may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens".

That's utter bullshht. We know U.S. citizens have been detained for hours - some for days. We know that ICE has kept their identification even after releasing them from what we used to call illegal detainment.

So now if there's a chance you *might* be identified as "one of them" because you're speaking Spanish, have an accent, look "wrong" to one of the ICE goons - you better have your papers, and you better have a solution for getting those papers replaced QUICKLY because if you get detained twice and you don't have your papers? Good luck.

As a result, "(t)he construction of the electric vehicle battery plant has stopped, and LG Energy Solution has delayed its planned production start."

It's hilarious that Leavitt can lie so unabashedly when it is blatantly obvious this is 100% Trump's signature and "artwork."

Unless we are supposed to believe that someone cared enough about "The Donald" that many years ago to do an excellent forgery of his signature that, honestly, no one cared about at that time. It's also hilarious to me that the same morons that believed Obama's birth announcements in Hawaii papers were done so far in advance, planning for the day he'd become President.

We need to accept the fact that we're dealing with people that are tenuously, if at all, tethered to reality.

Accepted and appreciated, Bellringer.

Gay Republicans are cut from the same cloth as all Republicans.

How dare you say that! Bessant's suits are Vicuna!

Hard to imagine men like this holding down a thirteen year old girl and raping her.

Especially since Bessant is gay.

Buckle up Chicago.
This shhtstorm is heading your way.

This gives ICE and Trump a free card to abuse our Fourth Amendment rights. SCOTUS is beyond corrupt. They are now officially the court of fascism.

FTA:

One plaintiff, Jason Brian Gavidia, a U.S. citizen born in East Los Angeles, was stopped by a masked agent while he was working on his car outside a tow yard. The encounter was captured on video.

The agent asked whether Mr. Gavidia was American, and he said he was.

The agent then asked what hospital Mr. Gavidia had been born in, and he said he did not know. The agent and a colleague proceeded to slam Mr. Gavidia against a metal gate, twist his arm and seize his phone.

The lawsuit stated: "Fearing for his life, Gavidia offered to show the agents his ID,... The agents took the ID, and about 20 minutes later, returned Gavidia's phone and set him free. They never returned his ID."

^^^ THIS ^^^
When they scream about "liberal indoctrination" you know it's because they want to indoctrinate.
When they scream about detention camps, you know it's because they want to build and put people in detention camps.
When they scream about child-sex rings, you know it's because they are the ones that are involved in them.
When they scream about "cancel culture" you know that is exactly what they're going to do when they get control.
When they scream about "freedom" you know damn well they mean freedom to be scum, and freedom only for them.
When they scream about "2nd Amendment rights!" you know they're talking about only their "right" - not those others.

When they scream about anything, cover your ass, because that's what they're going to do when they are in power.

And now?
You can change all those "future tense" constructions above into past tense.

Or as Rand Paul stated: "JD "I don't give a ----" Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the "highest and best use of the military." Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation??"

That "good samaritan" twist is hilarious!

#49 - your emotional response does not change one thing in what TruthHurts factually stated.
You are, by your own illustration, driven by emotion.
You project it on others, reading all kinds of emotion into things are stated.
You have called me an emotional cooze stating I am hyperventilating for saying far less than you just did.
This is, of course, all projection on your part.

This is one more instance of your emotion overriding any rational thought. It is exactly why this fighting between Israel and Palestinians never ends.

The current admin apparently picked a soft target for theatrics, and to troll people into defending the activity of the cartels. It appears to be working.

And simpletons will buy into Trump's theatrics and trolling. They'll laugh. That's how we've lost this republic to fascism.
Not because good people "fall" for the trolling. It's because the trolling that involves killing people randomly is excused by moral reprobates that can't think past the end of their ignorant noses.

Why are we giving this POS "pResident" any power? Broadcasters should carry it live and let it play out. Fcck the USTA.

86 47!

So, what's your solution? Other than that, direct involvement, or doing nothing?

You have to address both supply and demand,.
It can't be emotionally driven. It has to be fact based and evidence based.
Get the religious/moralizing bullshht out of the way.
Public health has to be primary - not criminalization, not prison, for users.
We need drug courts, police need to get out of the "law enforcement" mindset and into the "policing" mindset. That means less prison and more programs for drug addition.

Enforcement needs to be specific and targeted at high level drug traffickers, not at the low-level, for criminal prosecution and interdiction. We've been at this a long time and it's pretty clear what doesn't work. There are things that do work better, and that's what I've listed above, IMHO.

Blowing up a boat of unknown people with shifting storied about what they were, refusing to give any evidence for the claim that they were "transporting drugs" (obvious lie), were drug traffickers (11 people all together on one boat and not enough room for drugs, and not even one name released? Another lie), human traffickers (huh? - that excuse didn't last long, so we can ignore that one), or refugees heading to the US (not the direction they were going) doesn't cut it. This was not about any actual drug dealing.

It was theater and those unknown people were used as props for Trump's delusions of grandeur. As it is, Trump's act is a crime.