Grover Cleveland. Only non consecutive presidency, so far. That happened in the late 1800s, so neither radio nor TV had been invented yet, and TV definitely changes the campaign.

Gotcha, they didn’t exactly go into the manufacturing history in boot when they trained us on how to use the thing, and I have had exactly 0 reasons to touch a firearm since boot.

I was wondering about that. I’m in California, and there are basically no political signs this year. I figured it was because they thought we would forget whose signs were in their yards in 2016 and 2020

Well sure, but the reason I brought it up is that I’m not entirely certain that the AK or M-16 aren’t more owned in the US than the AR. AR has only been standard issue for the military since after I got out in 2004. I would wager there are far more AKs and M-16s in private hands than ARs

I believed the second pair of parentheses is messing up your hyperlink, however upon a test of copying and pasting the link directly, it seems that your link doesn’t work.

I’m not even sure the AR is the most popular. It may be the best seller in the US, but I’m pretty sure that the AK-47 is more popular globally, and there’s absolutely no way that they will outlaw the AK-47 in the US since we manufacture them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47

I saw some posts about it yesterday on Lemmy, but apparently upon further digging there is a 69 year old Thomas Crooks of Pittsburgh, but he didn’t make the donation. The donation was marked as coming from Pittsburgh which is close to Bethel Park. I’ve edited my post.

Side note, he didn’t make that donation. It would have been illegal as he was 17 at the time, and the donation came from a 60+ year old in Philadelphia with the name Thomas Crooks, not his town of Bethel Park.

Apparently that little bit of trivia doesn’t actually apply to the story, and the shooter did make the donation.

I can only imagine there was an incident with an abnormal amount of golden retrievers, and a single tennis ball. The retrievers accidentally crushed three emo teens that got caught in the stampede, on their way to Hot Topic.

Because Warren Buffet wasn’t joking when he said:

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

He also wasn’t attempting to raise awareness of the issue as evidenced by his disowning his granddaughter when she did try to raise awareness of the issue by being interviewed for the documentary The 1% by one of the Johnson kids.

They won’t allow us to regulate them, and have each killed hundreds of millions of us so far. I believe the phrase is believe someone when they tell you who they are, these people are unrepentant murderers, thieves, and environmental terrorists at an unprecedented level. They woke up and chose violence, we can only choose self defense at this point.

You have that 180° backwards. The establishment is sucking Bibi’s genocidal dick. AOC stands with Bernie in opposition to the genocide.

Ironically that reality show is one of, if not the only business he started that turned a profit.

Section 1983 of the federal code as written and passed by Congress implicitly says that neither have immunity for official acts that violate the rights of citizens. Someone illegally “amended” the law in 1874 when it was copied from the Congressional Record, to the Federal Register.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-court.html

Seriously. I’m pretty sure my housemate hasn’t noticed the difference between Mint and Windows. At least they haven’t asked me to help them with anything in over a month, and they would have, if they needed help.

Reagan’s first term was infinitely better and worse than Trump. Second term Reagan is what we are looking at. Second term Reagan had me, a six year old in July of 1987, asking my parents why the most important man in the universe/ world was unable to complete a sentence, and why would we allow someone that clearly wasn’t in touch with reality to have access to the nuclear launch codes.

Biden is showing all of the mentally unstable issues Reagan did in 1984…

All that said, Live Biden > Dead Biden > Dead Trump > A Literal Steaming Pile of Cow Dung > Live Trump

Oh right, forgot about Kennedy. The way it was phrased I thought they were going backwards in time, not forwards

I said what I had to say, succinctly. It’s not my fault you lack the historical knowledge, and grasp of nuance to know what I was talking about.

You seem rather angry, might wanna cut back on the stimulants or social media.

I didn’t. I corrected you and pointed out that it happened after we were done with expansionism.

Not exactly. I can see why you’d say that, but Americans weren’t gun nuts until around the 1910s to 1920s. At that point the right wing decided they needed a better red herring than the Mexican Border, and started pushing the 2nd amendment bullshit they’ve been on ever since.

Teddy wasn’t assassinated, he specifically made a point of mocking the attempted assassin and finishing his speech before accepting medical attention.