The report is especially scathing in its critique of agents who’ve stood in front of moving vehicles, recommending that they “get out of the way…as opposed to intentionally assuming a position in front of such vehicles.” The authors add:

It should be recognized that a half-ounce (200-grain) bullet is unlikely to stop a 4,000-pound moving vehicle, and if the driver…is disabled by a bullet, the vehicle will become a totally unguided threat… Obviously, shooting at a moving vehicle can pose a risk to bystanders including other agents.

That’s the extra stupidness of this who “self-defense” claim. Even if the guy was actually in danger, even if it had actually been her intent to mow him down… the response was not defensive in the slightest. The danger was a moving vehicle that might be intended to hit him His response was to ensure that vehicle kept moving, and to now do so completely aimlessly and make it an even bigger threat, while making sure that at minimum one person died in the process. And that’s beside the fact that he voluntarily walked right into the only path her vehicle could have taken before shooting her. What a masterful defensive strategist you are.

“Well I thought the guy was gonna shoot me with his revolver, so I shot him in the face first, then I took his revolver, gave the cylinder a spin, put the barrel to my temple and pulled the trigger. When that chamber proved to be unloaded, I started flipping the gun wildly and pulling the trigger more in random directions to make sure the rest of the chambers were cleared. Thank god for my quick thinking. Defense.”

Moody wasn’t trying to kill him. He’d been kidnapped and replaced by a Death Eater in order to infiltrate the school. At the end of book 4, the deception is revealed and the death eater is arrested by the Aurors.

The real Moody returns in book 5 and serves as a loyal companion and mentor through the end of the series.

Yes, I know all that. The guy he knew as Moody originally, the only one he’d met at that point, the one he was admiring that inspired him to be an Auror, was the imposter. That’s what I was talking about.

Voldemort is just the latest in a long line of evil wizards. They’re stubbornly common place.

Not really. I mean there are evil people who are wizards, sure. But not to the level that had Dumbledore felt the need to be involved anyway.

Grindelwald fell in 1945, and it wasn’t until 1970 that Voldemort debuted himself to the world as the Dark Lord. He attempted to kill Harry 11 years later and lost his body in the process, comes fully back 13 years after that, and then is killed 3 years after coming back. We hear about no other person even attempting to rival the role that Grindelwald and Voldemort filled in that time. So from 1945 to 1997, 52 years, the only evil wizard that required a coordinated effort beyond the typical efforts of the Ministry that we ever hear of is Voldemort.

Ha. I actually enrolled in the wrong major when I went to college. Meant to do computer graphics, ended up in computer science (don’t ask, I was just an idiot). My academic advisor told me that I would have to wait a semester to change majors, that it didnt really hurt much because most of the first semester classes were humanities that count for both anyway, but to go ahead and give my intro programming classes a try in the meantime, and see what I thought. And I fell in love with it and decided to keep the major. So yea… I guess that was even more dumb than Harry’s situation.

Jesus fuck. Guys. This is the real reason. Yes, he wants the oil. Yes he wants to depose a leader that mocks him and wants to put in one that will kiss his ass. Yes it will make his political and big oil backers happy… But for real… I think this is what the motive for the entire Venezuela thing was actually about. Trump wants leverage to take the Novel Prize that he thinks should be his. That’s it. The rest is just icing on the cake. He’d have wanted to do it even without any other reason. I just… this is the worst kind of fiction. Let me the fuck off this ride.

What the actual fuck is wrong with these ass kissing, brown nosing sycophants that just do everything possible to play into and boost Trump’s ego. For the love of god, just suck his fucking dick already. You look hungry as hell. Gobble some Trump nuts and stop pretending like everyone else is weird for not craving the taste.

I just generally disagree with “Fred and George were better contributors to the resistance than the Trio,”

Oh, that wasn’t my argument at all. Definitely agree.

Well yeah, sure. But only because they didnt have the information to act on that the trio did. Had they been looped in, they’d have been right there. I’m not saying that they didnt primarily act as support. I’m saying that had they been offered the opportunity to be on the front lines with an actual mission like Harry, Hermione and Ron had, they wouldnt have hesitated. I think that would have been to the detriment of the overall cause in the end though, given the role they did take up was pretty damn useful and about as vital a role as they could have served under the circumstances.

Obviously none of that is to detract from the accomplishments and heroism of the Trio either.

TBF, Harry was on a secret recon mission for the majority of Book 7, which the twins more or less knew about and supported as best they could. They provided intelligence which is absolutely crucial to any resistance effort, and answered the call to fight as soon as they were needed.

His becoming an Auror made no sense. McGonagall pressured him to think about what he wanted to do in the future in his 4th year to plan out the rest of his education. Auror was his very first idea, and he wasnt really even super into the idea then. It seemed to be mostly out of a sense of admiration for Mad-Eye Moody specifically. And then, despite finding out that Moody was in fact a Death Eater trying to kill him the whole time, somehow that didn’t taint his opinion on the Auror thing at all.

Even though it was just the first thing to pop into his head, he never gives it any sort of critical thought or even comes up with any alternatives. He doesn’t even have an understanding of the greater wizarding world at that point to even know what kind of work exists outside of Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. He just shrugs and goes with his first idea anyway. But then he’s not even committed to that idea really. He is not even bummed when his grades would apparently prevent him from taking Advanced Potions, a required class to become an Auror. When he learns that Slugorn had less strict requirements and he can take the class after all, he’s just kind of like, oh okay… “guess I will keep following this path. I have no other ideas.”

I agree with the Carlin Brothers that his career after Hogwarts should have been at Hogwarts. Whatever admiration he had for the fake Moody, the real Moody, or both, his truest admiration was for Dumbledore. And Hogwarts was his first real home. He excelled at Defense Against the Dark Arts from the beginning, and by his 5th year was even already teaching his classmates (including older students) skills that he had. And he was an incredibly effective teacher too, with his students using the skills he taught in the fight at the department of mysteries and the battle of hogwarts. He had more experience by then end of the 7th book fighting Dark Wizards than most Aurors at the ministry would have. That job would have been boring as hell after Voldemort and the Death Eaters were defeated. But he could use his experiences to enrich the next generations of witches and wizards, teach them to protect themselves, and be there to make sure Hogwarts remained the haven that is had been for him. It makes WAY more sense for him to have become the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor (especially since he broke the curse on the job with Voldemort’s defeat). But then count on JK to do some stupid shit.

Dont forget that they voluntarily participated in the Battle of the Seven Potters, and George lost an ear in the battle.

And they also established and operated a pirate radio station that undermined the wizard-nazi propaganda by delivering the truth to the masses, and brought levity and unity to those involved in the resistance.

The twins were real ones.

This is obstruction of justice. They are preventing state level prosecution. My prediction is that they will most likely find that the officer’s conduct was legal and he’ll get off. Or if they attempt to actually pretend they give a shit about the rule of law in the face of public backlash, they’ll charge him knowing Trump will just pardon him. They are stopping the state from getting the evidence necessary to bring their own charges specifically so that they maintain control and the ability to pardon this guy if needed. They have no intention of holding him to account, or letting the state of Minnesota do so, no matter what they find.

A Dane invading and pillaging… I’ve heard this one before.

Do it. Embrace your Viking ancestry.

And so some of the biggest real estate corporations in America pay him personally to make this go away. Just the same protection racket bullshit he did to Law firms and big tech companies. In the meantime, we get to watch conservatives suddenly start explaining why corporate landlords and Laissez-faire capitalism (but specifically for single family homes) are bad, without a single ounce of irony, until Trump gets his bribe money and they they can stop pretending they give a shit again. So that’ll be a thing.

He called him Vanilla Ice Cube. I dont think this guy even knows who he is.

Hopefully right after the elections but before January. That way he’ll live long enough to get to watch the GOP lose congress and several state legislatures/governorships (because of his uncountable failures, terrible policies, attempted treasonous autocratic takeover, and just being a fucking vile excuse for a human being) but not long enough to make JD president for less than half a term because that means he could only ever serve one more. Assuming that JD himself isn’t impeached and convicted and removed from office.

Next tell her that that text we were waiting on was made with only numbers on our phones. Her brain my come out her nose.

Cool features… wild name.

I… wh… sniffies?

Oh I’m sorry, is a ship’s head medical officer with decades of experience treating a dozen or more species of crewmen and guests not a good enough source for you? Don’t let those pointy eared bastards fool you. They’re devious.

It’s the Vulcans. They actually respirate at 1000x the rate of humans. It’s how they remain emotionless. They are too focused on breathing to get angry. The massive compression necessary to breathe that much is actually how they are constantly so full of hot air. They don’t actually need to breathe that much to survive, but they are just too proud to give it up even in an emergency situation. It’s all a weird power play. 🖖