I am, just saying a Luger is a better outcome than slowing dying after your teeth have been shattered and your skull cracked

Counterpoint: if you are staring down the barrel of a Luger, I would suggest NOT doing what they tell you to do.

The Nazis had a habit of forcing someone at gunpoint to do something worse than getting shot. Like telling you to bite the curb, or kill your friend, then they shoot you.

I mean, to be fair, the Nazis killed a lot of Nazis. They really just like killing people. Kind of what they were known for, and probably what they will keep doing.

It’s a rather unhealthy mindset these creatures have.

I don’t have the sources, but if I remember right, almost all recent presidents have had assassination attempts.

This is the only one that’s gotten as close as Reagan’s

Merci !

Bonjour ! Je suis actuellement en train d’apprendre le Français. Suis-je invité ?

And that’s a real freaking stretch for what I know. And apparently I can’t pronounce most of it correctly

Man. Don’t, just don’t. Don’t cheat, and don’t get cheat on. Not worth that pain. Get into a couples therapist, and let them guide you in the process of discovering if you can make it work or not. Spoiler: doesn’t often work.

If you have kids, don’t stay just for the kids. Believe it or not, both of you deserve happiness, and your kids won’t ever really be happy until you have what you need to do that.

God protected him?

Know who else claimed that? Hitler. And most who asserted the divine right of kings.

But we all know God didn’t step in to prevent the deaths of Jews, mentally disabled (and otherwise institutionalized), political opponents, former political party members who threatened power, LGBTQ+, Rowandans, Armenians, Palestinians, Uyghurs, etc.

That’s why I say if there is super natural intervention, it ain’t God. It’s the devil himself.

I like them just because they aren’t a baseball cap and a bit fancier way to hide my rat nest.

And there can’t be. It’s damn near a requirement for totalitarian power.

I’m pretty sure Stetson (the company) makes them, but I’m not sure if Im going to pony the cash up without checking out a hat first. I actually do want a straw one - my cattleman is black felt with a silver clasp, so it looks kind of silly without my frock coat (or at least white shirt and black pants, looks too formal).

Actually I was curious just now and it looks like they sell at a store in town (in Minnesota!) so I’ll have to check it out.

My dad also likes the pinch front, he always claimed it was easier on the crown.

Yes it did, you just don’t like how I avoided the answer you wanted to see.

TBF felt hats are stupid hot and with the heat we’ve had ain’t no one gonna wear a hat like that. If I could find a good star cattleman hat I’d be happy, but I haven’t had any luck myself

No one can replace him in the cult of personality. That’s kind of how it works. Now he’s a living martyr. The worst kind.

This is the one possible scenario that could make things even worse. They can’t replace the head of the snake, but they can sure as fuck pump that the head was shot and injured. They did the same with Hitler.

History is repeating itself far to close for this to be comfortable.

This is the worst possible scenario.

So. The good news, is that my next work machine is skipping 13 and 14.

The bad news is my next work machine is an Ultra Core processor, we get to be first adopters too! How glorious (/s)!

I mean if you don’t own a Stetson are you even from the states?

What do you wear riding your horse into the city to sign that paperwork for the new drill site?

Poverty is always a liability. In the healthcare system, poverty raises the costs for everyone else when they don’t get things treated or prevented.

What bothers me is that there is a whole bunch of financial types who seem to blissfully ignore liabilities. “Those are unrealized costs,” when it should be “those are ticking time bombs.” If you don’t mitigate liabilities like through well regulated utilities those ticking time bombs will always have bigger consequences when they ARE realized.

Suddenly, my giant ass raise earlier this year makes a lot more sense