Trump is notorious for his “filing system”: when he is finished with a
piece of paper, he tears it into tiny pieces and throws it away, which
is fine if you’re a CEO (maybe), but is radioactively illegal under the
Presidential Records Act, because the President works for the public,
and is required by law to archive their official papers and save them
for public scrutiny.
White House staffers gave up on trying to explain this to Trump, who
just kept on tearing up everything, from official letters from Senators
to letters from constituents to notes and other paperwork.
The staffers – paid nearly $70,000 year – ended up with full-time jobs
retrieving scraps of paper from Trump’s trash-can and piecing them back
together with clear tape so they can be filed in the National Archives.
Some of these staffers were eventually fired; they’ve spoken to
Politico about their year in the Trump administration as paper-tapers.
We shall start with the normal 40k universe . As it goes on you name one small thing to change about it . ( no game breaking stuff like Horus not being corrupted or stuff like that . ) and we shall see what the universe looks like at the end .
Magnus lost his left eye rather than his right.
Saying the Pharos couldn’t teleport would be cheating, wouldn’t it?
Leman’s name was Lamen
“Maybe if I had my axes renamed…Blood and Fury?“
“I landed on a different Asian-themed planet and had to be typecasted differently. Samurai or something.”
“Holy shit, Jag. That would actually be cool to see.“
“Khorne and Tzeentch have switched roles, but not aesthetics.”
There was an extra century before the Horus Heresy
just so we could see more of the cool pre-heresy stuff in 40k
“I’m a perpetual..”
“Wait.”
Mun: The emperor liked pink aquilas on his underwear?
Kyete: “The imperial palace had at least one fish tank with crocodiles in it.”
Everyone who had a top knot had a super cool Afro instead.
And Orks came in multiple colors.
The Tau are melee based but all their tech and weapons look the same.
So I paint 40k minis for fun. I started about a year ago and I’m getting better at it with each one; it’s a new skill for me to learn. I bought the Forgebane box set that I’m working through, and here is the first Warglaive painted. I went for a more worn and dirty look than the box art shows.
I’ve discovered that photographing these damn things is even harder than painting them….
You notice how Trump demolished the food safety laws and now, in the past month, we haven’t been able to eat lettuce, eggs, Tyson chicken, and watermelon because there are huge bacteria outbreaks?
The Supreme Court just issues a ruling allowing Ohio and other states to purge voters from their election registration rolls due to their failure to cast a ballot in previous elections.
This is a major victory for the Trump administration and the GOP, and a direct consequence of the Supreme Court being stacked with more conservative judges (the votes were 5-4). This is also a huge part of what Trump/the GOP were counting on to save them in the 2018 midterm elections, which is where Democrats have been hoping to take back a majority in the House, giving them more power to combat Trump’s abuses of power and Republican legislation.
What this means is YOU CAN NOT ASSUME THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED for the 2018 elections, just because you SHOULD be. Thanks to this decision, red states can purge voters’ registration based on their not having cast a ballot in even just previous federal elections, NOT just the national Presidential elections. Effectively, if you haven’t voted in previous senate races or for congressional representatives in the past few years, that’s all they need now to say you’re no longer registered and need to register again.
They’re deliberately counting on people assuming they’re still registered and so not checking until after registration deadlines have passed, or showing up to vote this November and only then finding out they’re no longer registered, when its too late to do a damn thing about it.
And this is absolutely targeted at marginalized communities, low income voters, disabled voters, and basically anyone who simply can’t always AFFORD to keep on top of every federal election and show up to vote in every senate race, etc. Which not so coincidentally happen to be all the communities and voters who have the most to gain from Democratic victories in the 2018 midterms and are the least likely to cast votes for GOP candidates at this point.
This was absolutely a calculated effort aimed specifically at keeping the GOP in power with a majority control of the government come November, and unfortunately, it has a DAMN good chance of accomplishing just that if it goes by unacknowledged. I’m not looking to alarm or panic anyone, simply to say:
If you are a registered voter in a red state at this point, please please please do not take your registered status as assumed. Check on your registration status, look up all relevant voter registration deadlines for your state and district, CIRCLE THAT SHIT ON YOUR CALENDAR, and check your registration status AGAIN right before those deadlines pass, so you can be sure of it before its too late to do anything about it til the next voting cycle.
Aliquid de Magis 