Additionally, with the firepower at just the US’ disposal, we could level almost every major pop center in Russia. Waves of Tomahawks, ICBMs and bombers could do it without the US putting boots on the ground. We nearly did this with Baghdad back in 02.
Yup, this is a pretty well-known tactic, sadly. It’s effectively just paper terrorism - instead of doing the harder work of getting people incited to ACTUALLY kill people or do violence, you get them to do minor shit instead; bomb threats, assaults, etc, and use that as a smokescreen for the people who were already planning to do violence to go do violence effectively unchallenged.
I think this is what they’re hoping for: Trump holds on until the election, then kicks the bucket a month into office so Vance, a far more naked and coherent authoritarian, can take his place and start signing whatever he wants, with little to no fanfare or recognition because he’s happy to just have power.
Basically this. There’s a lot of racists who assume that since they’re not burning a cross or lynching every Black person they meet, they’re JUST NOT RACISTS.
To paraphrase the 10th Doctor, don’t you think he looks tired?
Amphetamine abuse does that, and it’s been pretty well documented the man eats Adderall like candy.
And is suspiciously dodgy when asked “are you planning to use military force to do so”.
No, there’s no one like that because they figure they’ve shifted the window so much that they won’t lose actual committed voters even if they start, say, spouting Neonazi talking points.
Yup. The trans community has been doing this with HRT meds for YEARS because it was either straight up illegal, or almost impossible to obtain access because of the dozens of hoops you had to jump through.
To put a finer point on it, Kushner was stealing SO MUCH PPE from hospitals and state health depts that they had to have shipments fly in at the dead of night, to small local airports and rural airfields, because otherwise Kushner’s Department of Health might show up and “commandeer” all of it to be resold at a markup.
Yeah, it seems more the IDF is just shooting literally anything human-shaped. Aid workers, friendlies, journalists, civilians, in addition to the odd actual “guy actually shooting at us”.
The current GOP and their voters really doesn’t like that the death penalty is off the table for most things. Drug dealers, LGBT people, illegal immigrants, I’ve even heard people whining that you can’t execute SHOPLIFTERS.
This is exactly what I hoped Biden’s admin would do when they were challenged. “Oh no I made it an Executive Order anyway, it’s happening so deal with it”.
They are, remember? Trump said only suckers and losers go to war.
Exactly this. We already have enough empty dwellings between homes, apartments, condos, etc to house our unhoused population. The issue is affordability, not amount.
Right? I was taught to not start fights, but if someone wants to attack me and mine, to make sure that I finish that fight. I get wanting to be the bigger person, so to speak, but at least defend yourself.
Nah, Trump is incredibly useful as a mouthpiece even if he loses, he’s got MILLIONS of people who hang on his every word, globally now. They’ll do him like they did Assange and simply trot him out whenever they need to justify something, have him rant and rave about “the decadent liberal west”, and when he’s no longer useful, they’ll find a nice pool for him to drown in or something.
This is also just an attempt to shore up demographics after losing THOUSANDS of men against Ukraine, and a good chunk of Russian nationals simply fleeing the country to avoid conscription. So you don’t get a nice apartment in Moscow or St Petersburg, you get a little hovel out in Siberia and all the farmland you could want.
Nah, the Trump campaign is rapidly running out of places they can do rallies, because a lot of cities are requiring them to pay up front. This is normally unusual, but Trump stiffed SO MANY PLACES that he still owes $500kish from his last two campaigns.
Normal businesses are easier to keep away legally than cities.
Oh hey, I liked him as Captain Saru. /s