...lead poisoning would be cheaper...and more appropriate...
Think you'd need someone more along the lines of guy fawkes or uncle ted for something of this scale...
John Cornyn
A broke clock is right twice a day...
agreed, but you have to get around the mindset of congress that "we're here to make laws, not repeal them."
up front, props to bondi and Patel for shutting these bastards down. seriously good job there.
Now let me sidestep the people saying where are the epstein logs, etc. and talk about this from an economics perspective (full disclosure, i'm not an economist, i'm just a guy who understands supply and demand reasonably well).
If all we're doing is going after the people producing the content, pimping out the girls, kidnapping/trafficking them, then all we're doing is creating a hole in the market that some other disreputable group will inevitably fill, because as the supply goes down, the demand remains the same, and the price goes up. those people who will do this can charge an ever increasing premium on their disgusting services, so all we end up doing is playing whack-a-mole with the suppliers, while the abuse continues. We should absolutely still go after the suppliers, but they're only half of the problem.
If, on the other hand, we also target the consumers of this content, ie: the people paying for CSAM material, the Disgusting Johns who pay for the priviledge of abusing children, etc. then the demand goes down as well, and it becomes a less profitable business venture, and fewer and fewer groups will step up to ride the gravy train that comes with taking the legal and social risks that come with being associated with this filthy business.
to summarize, i do think it's important to go after the suppliers, but it's equally if not more important to go after the consumers as well.
part of it is probably stalling, part of it is theater. passing a bill on july 4th is great optics.
personally, i'd rather they just get the job done and stop playing games.
sort of. the experts who challenge the narrative are excluded from the conversation intentionally. this does tend to lead to more experts coming on board, but it's not exactly the event that causes the misleading of information.
never went to catholic school, but if you crack open the gospels at any point, you could figure this out...
yeah, but it paints the pharisees, etc as bloodthirsty zealots and corrupt officials who forced pilate's hand for their own ends.
it really wouldn't make sense for the church to bury this unless they tried to do it in the last ten or fifteen years to appeal to the wokies...
it doesn't even make sense... Jews i get, at least in theory, it paints them as bloodthirsty zealouts, but hell, the scripture even supports it, and wouldn't the church, which occasionally persecuted jews as I recall, have used something like this for propaganda purposes at the very least in the middle ages. I get it now, with the late pope being woke, sure, but for two thousand years? just saying it stretches believability awfully damn thin.
I mean, ffs, pilate literally does everything in his power not to crucify jesus, even the bible says his wife warned him not to harm him. why woudl the vatican try to hide something that's laid out pretty well in scripture!?!
...is the same nike that's been known to use child sweatshop labor for decades?
why would this be surprising again?
reminds me of an old governator film, eraser from back before we realized what a twat he really is.
no disagreement there, lol.
nothing, it's just the bunny is distracting and a little funny, lol.
...am I the only person who finds himself shocked and refreshed whenever he reads news that actually tries to be objective and neutral?
...also free of editorialization.
seethe and dilate thine false wífhád...
sarcasm doesn't travel well in text format, lol.
stop before I start liking the guy...
I mean no disrespect, and I'm not saying he's wrong, I just want to see receipts is all.
I understand you're familiar enough with him to trust him, but i'm not is all.
Nah, he's aged, he's just more derpy than he looks as opposed to the other way around, lol.
...if fucking Xi Jinping gave the us a jet during trade negotiations, trump would have to accept it.
it's called diplomacy, you disingenuous hacks!
of course it's going to have be gone over with a fine-tooth comb and retrofitted to become Airforce One, assuming it actually does become such, but you don't turn down the gift. it's an insult in parts of the world like this, and itll sour any trade talks in five minutes.