I enjoyed it. Not gonna lie. I was like a 5 year old when they played November rain.

I guess my issue is 57 people were shot and 9 killed in Chicago proper this weekend, and the shooting outside of the city is the one that gets national attention.  What happened at Highland Park occurs in Chicago nearly every weekend, but it's never talked about in the public sphere.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/04/us/w … -park.html

Akron police shot a man (60 times) after he fled and fired his handgun at police.  After he crashed and attempted to escape, not going down from the tazers, he was "executed" by the police.  There was a time where this story wouldn't have even made the news, but it was used to justify looting and rioting by the normal yahoos.  Luckily Akron wasn't interested in letting their city become Kenosha, so they tear gassed and arrested 50 or so rioters.  But it begs the question why are people outraged that a man who fled from police, fired at them, didn't comply with being tazered, and then turned to confront police was gunned down.  This wasn't a good man, this was a garbage human being that met every legal standard to be shot due to his demonstrated and continued risk to the community.  Yet he becomes a martyr for a crowd of people that remain absolutely mum when a child is shot feet from their doorstep, or a gang related "mass shooting" happens blocks from their home.

Every media report is calling him "unarmed" and hesistates to even mention there exists video evidence of him firing at police as he drove away, and the fact a glock with bullets still in the clip were found in the car he fled from.  You get the clueless who say "shoot him in the arm or leg" as if that is even a possible shot to make, or any less lethal.  Police, like soldiers, understand that group tactics are far more effective than one on one combatives.  They're also trained that their lives are just as important as the would be badguy they're chasing.  They didn't shoot him in the back, they tazed him in the back, he continued to flee, and then suddenly turned around and every cop did what they were trained to do and emptied their guns into him. 

The Akron man will be a martyr, and the Highland Park shooting will be the story, and they'll completely ignore the other 99.9% of people murdered or shot this weekend that don't fit the media narrative.  Then in the same breath demand more gun laws, completely ignoring that that no one involved in any of this weekend's shootings were following the plethora of existing laws.  I'm sure if congressional democrats somehow passed an assault weapon ban responsible for something like 0.1% of firearm homicides in the country, the gang bangers that account for 50%+ of all firearm homicides would turn in the handguns they own that collectively account for 90% of firearm homicides in the country.

This latest charade from the Select Committee just takes the cake.  Not only is their key witness not able to provide any evidence, but her claim that Trump grabbed the steering wheel of his vehicle is just outright impossible.  Feel free to lookup any image of the vehicles the Secret Service escorts the President in, and tell me how Trump could have somehow accessed anything in the driver's section, let alone the fucking wheel.  Media sites are running with it, and the people who see something they want to believe will accept it, but 10 seconds looking at a schematic tells you the claim is impossible to be true.

Another pretty woman saw her opportunity to get a book deal and do the night shows and is going for it.

I remember losing my shit when I saw that commercial. That was all pre-forum for me.

I read the entire opinion, and I think Roberts was right. Clearly “viability” is a bullshit standard that isn’t used in any other western nation and has no basis in the constitution. But the majority were wrong to strike down Roe.

I think a good compromise for congress would be the 15 week ban with support from Medicaid, and an upper limit of 22-23 weeks at state’s discretion in all instances but severe risk to the mother.  Both sides are giving up something, and we’re in line with most of Europe who has even stronger limitations than the one I described.

But Democrats care so much, they’ll never even consider this, and Republicans are too fucking stupid to realize the long term impacts of this on so many levels.

The majority’s opinion is sound and thorough, but as Roberts said, their job was to determine if Mississippi’s 15 week ban was unconstitutional. Only when they showed up in court did they argue Roe should be overturned.

The majority got this wrong.