It would lose an election for any politician saying it, but sometimes the child's rights supersede a parents right to do whatever they want with their kids.

You shouldn't be able to do things like refuse to feed your child, refuse to give your child medical care, or refuse to educate your child.

It's a fair point, but not really the example they want to make. 99.8% of missing children are safely recovered per the FBI.

It's a nitpick, but once again Trump thinks he has the power to order what state and private institutions do with their flags. He does not.

So have I, but that was playing D&D.

I can't tell which is the mother and which is the son.

"I'm here to save my family!"

Buttholes have capsaicin receptors, so that's a tough thing to figure out.

Someone needs to sue asap because this definitely qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.

Dollar General might be a tough fight for Waffle House just because they have nothing left to lose.

Apparently 90% of missing children are runaways. Maybe that is more common in the US or maybe it's just differences in counting (for example some countries might count 16 or 17 year olds as adults for these purposes).

I would argue children have limited agency depending on their level of development. For example, child custody courts take the wishes of the child into consideration when determining custody of the child is old enough to express their preferences.

It gets a little trickier when you start talking about things like teaching evolution and sex ed, or not allowing minors to be indoctrinated by religions.

One of my favorite examples of the difficulty in idiot-proofing things comes from a national park ranger talking about the difficulty of designing a bear-proof garbage can. He said "There is considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans."

If Trump loses the 2024 election because Texas temporarily secedes, taking its 38 Republican electoral votes with it, I might die from the schadenfreude.

Even if you don't think it was murder, it's repulsive that he is trying to make a career out of killing two people.

Cut the both-sides shit. Trump is a convicted sex criminal and fraud who wants to end democracy. There is objectively a better choice between the two.

Cats are obligate carnivores. It is 100% animal abuse.

Let's just build a big congressional dorm with furnished studio apartments and make them all live there when Congress is in session. It would save the government a fortune in cost of living reimbursements and security costs.

Enjoy the self-satisfaction of having taken the high road while the concentration camps get built.

Lock him up for contempt of court until he testifies.