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  • I accidentally went to a private Lee Brice concert once well over a decade ago.

    I had no idea who he was, but it was at one of those Coyote Ugly type bars a friend served/danced at so it was free and I knew going in I was literally the only guy there.

    Brice was wasted, didn’t use a mic and just sat at a table so all the women had to crowd around him to hear anything.

    It legitimately felt like a college party where some douche pulled out a guitar, but everyone was actually into it. Literally the worst “concert” I’ve ever been too, but still, the audience was me and like 50 very attractive women. So a pretty fun night at the bar except when he was trying to sing. Which he barely did.


  • It’s every expansive empire, but even biological life follows the square cube law.

    Once something gets so big, it can’t survive.

    For life it has to do with transporting oxygen throughout the body.

    For empires it’s being able to maintain and pacify the populace of conquered lands. If you expand too fast, you don’t have the populace on your side and have already moved troops forward. Then you end up with rebellion between your troops and your city. If your lucky it just causes a logistical nightmare when rebels stick to your own lands.

    If you’re unlucky they march in towards your capital forcing you to pull troops back and if your unconquered enemy capitalizes, your troops are eventually caught in the middle.

    But impatient rulers destroy empires.





  • What action are you expecting from him that he isn’t doing?

    Have the state police arrest ICE agents for the crimes they’re committing, and for obstruction of justice.

    Fucking Bovino was out running around, I know he’s hard to spot due to his size, but we could have snatched up that lil fascist leprechaun. Even if he beat the charges, “you can’t beat the ride” and this is one scenario the suspect actually deserves to get beat.

    Fuck it, beat his ass and charge him for resisting.

    We don’t have to like the system we have, but we’re fucking fighting fascists and they’re killing people on the streets.

    Use the tools we have, and the Governor controls the state police. Same for Frey and the City Police


  • Too many people still just look at the letter by a politician’s name

    Like, it really is commendable that he’s saying this early so others to plan to run. Streets ahead of Biden at least

    It’s just not enough, Minnesota needs help now, and Walz has shown and now admitted he wont do what’s actually necessary.

    So why the fuck is he running out the clock? If he wants to help, call a special election for his own seat and let the people of Minnesota get someone who will represent them.


  • Good.

    I’d argue that he should even announce intent to resign, but stay in office till a special election can seat a new governor.

    1. Lead

    2. Follow

    3. Get out of the way

    “Hang out and chill” not being an option was a lesson even President Not Sure had to learn…

    If he doesn’t have it in him to fight, I respect him getting out of the way. But announcing an intent to get out of the way later and preventing anyone else from leading is a bitch move




  • But that’s why going after his lieutenants works…

    They’ll defend trump no matter to keep their positions, but that loyalty is a one way street. If there’s a public outcry big enough and polls tank enough, he’ll throw anyone and everyone under the bus.

    Bovino is out, Noem has one foot out the door…

    It’s logical that we just start isolating important cabinet members in the media and just have the whole country hammering for trump to throw one person under the bus at a time.

    They’ll be replaced by someone shitty still, but they’ll try to change direction just to get attention, bare minimum it interperta plans and keeps them on the defensive.

    Noem’s half out, but Miller should be next. It’s not hard to get trump to turn on someone




  • Suozzi, a moderate who co-chairs the House Problem Solvers Caucus, initially said last week he opposed shutting down the government because ICE would nonetheless continue to function due to an infusion of billions of dollars to the agency from President Donald Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill. He also noted shutting down DHS would affect other agencies, like FEMA and the Coast Guard.

    He’s got a point, BBB gave ICE 75 billion they can spend however they like in the next decade. They can operate off that for years at current spending levels.

    And to Souzzi’s credit, he voted against the BBB.

    Not passing a budget isn’t enough, we need to claw that 75 billion back.





  • In fact, Pretti possessed a lawful permit to carry a concealed weapon, and widely-scrutinized video has shown that he was disarmed before federal agents fired 10 shots at him as he was restrained.

    If they knew he had a gun, they wouldn’t have escalated to beating him.

    Once they knew he had a gun, they all assumed he would use it at the first chance to defend himself with deadly force…

    I’ve been saying it for over a year now: a CCW doesn’t cut it at a protest, because it’s not a visual deterrent and the second it becomes one you just brandished it at a federal agent.

    A rifle is out and in your hands as normal carry, it’s not brandishing and especially when there’s more than one it is a visual deterrent that will prevent beatings, spraying, and other attacks.

    Nothing concealed about it, hands on the table.

    And in Minnesota if you have a handgun permit, you defacto have a rifle permit. In fact, it’s the only permit you can get, CCW/open pistol/rifle, all the same permit.