He’s going to be in a position where he may actually be able to ban pasteurized milk, vaccines, and more.

This is the most dangerous political appointment in US history.

He’s about to have the authority to effectively ban vaccines.

I have advanced degrees in climatology and geographic modeling, so I feel like I’m allowed to say that yes, anthropogenic climate change is a well-researched and understood process AND that you don’t know shit about what expertise other people in this thread have.

Just because your opinion is uneducated doesn’t mean mine is.

He’s essentially promised to cancel sessions to allow for recess appointments, which don’t have to be confirmed by the Senate.

We have one my great-grandma got before WWI that we use several times a week.

Is the rabies vaccine still extremely painful and consisting of like 30 shots? Or is that outdated?

The squirrel was gonna die no matter what. It couldn’t be sent back to the idiot taking wild animals and running an unlicensed online zoo. And it couldn’t be returned to the wild. And it had already shown signs of aggression, so it probably wouldn’t be accepted by a zoo.

Black powder weapons aren’t legally firearms, yeah.

You know that, even in the US, you can’t just sell a gun online and ship it to their house, right?

In fact, someone without a federal firearms dealer’s license can’t transfer a handgun to ANYONE who lives in a different state at all.

It’s almost like a member of Trump’s cabinet was sentenced to prison for doing that exact thing between Trump’s 2016 election and taking office.

Trump is really bad at following through.

Other than the millions of deaths and the bad economy, which are weirdly short-term things, what did he actually accomplish first term aside from fucking up the judiciary? And even that was really more of a McConnel accomplishment from the Obama era.

They’re absolutely sending their best.

The problem is what they’re best at is being Maga assholes.

I remember my great-grandma talking about picking cotton in the field one day, and being scared out of her mind when an airplane flew over her head. She’d come to Texas from California on a covered wagon, had never lived in a home with electricity, and hadn’t heard about the flying machine being invented.

I helped her set up an email account about a year before she died.

The guy operating the drone is still allergic to bullets. So is the politician giving the orders.

Submarines, stealth fighters, etc are good for fighting militaries, not anonymous armed civilians.

Insurrections armed with small arms drove the US military out of Iraq and Iran, and that’s with none of the US military changing sides because they were being ordered to aguaranheir own people.

Shy of carpet-bombing cities and nuking the countryside, a tyrannical government can’t fully shield itself from an armed population. And when they start committing that level of atrocity, the military starts breaking into factions.

We got Breaking Bad though.

Pseudoephedrine can’t legally be sold in the aisles, and requires you to get out from the pharmacist’s counter and provide an ID.

That’s why they push the aid that doesn’t work. It can be sold at a gas station and after hours.

Him not following through on shit is all the hope I have left.

He already ate 3 full ones. This is the remnants of the 4th.

Well, to be fair, that graph only looks like that because the Dems always seem to inherit a dogshit economy that’s been destroyed by conservative policies, then the Republicans inherit a strong economy before destroying it.

People’s feelings about the economy is the number 1 indicator of whether a party will be voted out of office.

If Trump goes through with his insane tarrifs, inflation will skyrocket, people will be livid over the economy, and the Republicans in the Senate will be in real trouble.

For anything but super-precision shooting a PSA will work fine.

I’m also a huge fan of red-dot sights for people who don’t want to spend 5 grand on ammo perfecting their shot. If you have a trigger pull that consistently makes you miss low and left, you can just adjust the dot to compensate instead of training for a better trigger pull. It’s not what I’d recommend for someone to take up shooting as a hobby, but for quick results with less training and money (ammo adds up faster than the cost of the optic FAST), it’s a good shortcut.

But go with a quality red dot like an Aimpoint or Holosun that won’t require you to take 20 seconds getting the dot up and running if you need it. An aimpoint can run for a year+ turned on, so you just leave it on and change the battery on your birthday, whereas others like a holosun are motion-activated, so it automatically turns on when you pick up the gun and turns off after a few hours without movement. Same thing - change the battery once a year.

The cheaper bushnell, vortex, swampfox, etc optics are fun for the range, but you can easily leave them tuned on and have a dead battery in a week, or you may have to turn them on and set the brightness every time you pull the gun out, which takes time.

5.56 is plentiful and relatively cheap, though it does tend to be the first to disappear from shelves when there’s a scare. From 2020-2022 it was hard to buy. It’s also a little faster with higher penetrati9n than I’d like for indoor use. I like 300 blackout in a short-barreled rifle or AR pistol a lot for up close since it’s less likely to kill the neighbor, and all you really need is a different barrel for it to work in an AR - it even uses the same mags. It’s also amazing with a suppressor, as the cartidge was developed by a supressor company specifically to be supressed. But the ammo is also expensive and less-plentiful.