XPost: alt.computer.workshop   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:32:23 -0500, FromTheRafters wrote:   
      
   > Brock McNuggets expressed precisely :   
   >> On Jan 14, 2026 at 7:16:44 AM MST, "FromTheRafters" wrote   
   >> <10k88gg$18gq$1@dont-email.me>:   
   >>   
   >>> It happens that Gremlin formulated :   
   >>>> FromTheRafters    
   >>>> news:10k5hvp$35li8$1@dont-email.me Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:40:05 GMT in   
   >>>> alt.computer.workshop, wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> If we can get him out of power, we can be good guys again, but it   
   >>>>> will be a while if ever that we are trustworthy again. Somebody said   
   >>>>> "Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets." We just lost many   
   >>>>> buckets of trust.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Jesus. I didn't know you were political? Trump doesn't have anything   
   >>>> to do with the individuals decision to get herself unalived by an ICE   
   >>>> agent (IE, Trump didn't order said ICE agent to go and shoot anyone)   
   >>>> She made that decision, freely, on her own. She should have complied   
   >>>> with the lawfully given order to stop and get out of the car. She'd   
   >>>> be alive today had she done so. She'd be alive today if she hadn't of   
   >>>> made the decision to drive there and intentionally interfere with the   
   >>>> ICE agents. She's not an innocent victim here, bro.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm not political, just observant.   
   >>   
   >> Right now having common sense, and caring about facts, makes you   
   >> "political"   
   >> -- and on the left.   
   >>   
   >> Utterly insane.   
   >   
   > If I were a leftist I might have pointed out how the officer, against   
   > training, intentionally placed himself in a position where he would have   
   > plausible justification for shooting. He had already walked around the   
   > car recording and it looks like he drew his gun before she even put the   
   > car in drive with the wheels aimed away from him - she had been   
   > reversing away from him.   
      
   A lie. Every video shows him putting his hand on the gun after she had   
   already been in drive and started to accelerate.   
      
   > If I were a rightist, I would likely point out that the officer was   
   > indeed limping a little after the 'strike' and her wife was overly   
   > antagonistic which doesn't help with de-escalation.   
      
   Accurate.   
      
   > However, my comment was about how the other countries of the world have   
   > lost trust in the USA because we might at any time stupidly elect some   
   > populist demagogue who ignores our congress and constitution. Democracy   
   > is a fragile thing.   
      
   Considering how useless the Congress is, doing little more than creating a   
   law and repealing it once the opposing party comes into power, I can   
   understand why a President would want to bypass them entirely to get   
   things done.   
      
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