Justice

Blair absolutely can't be accepted

He needs the Abe treatment

They'll have USAF ATC come in if required. Like during the strike in 80s when Reagan took the union out back and gave it the ol' "think about the rabbits" treatment.

Remember when people used to claim cellphones would cause a rise in brain cancer? It used to be repeated constantly in the early 2000s on "real" news channels.

Remember when "4G LTE" was going to spike cancer rates? Same for 5G.

Total clown shit. In many ways I don't blame average hogs for believing insane shit like vaccines are bad or don't do anything. They've been lied to so many times about everything else. Now we have a professionally bad liar as the health guy and Congress (democrats obviously) were last seen spinning in their chairs going "Uh, what can we do? Guess we'll do nothing!"

I guess there will be no attempts at third parties either for mid terms or even probably for next presidential election. Everyone is just lying down in the highway and waiting for the inevitable.

Using that example, is "the war happened because Bush was there." Popular demand did not matter.

The question then is what happens when popular demand changes and voting habits change as a result? What happens if a fairly earnest anti-imperialist is elected? Trump ran on being against wars (twice, hilariously). He correctly called Hillary a warmonger; he just sort of left out the "and I will be too." Without a political record to hold against him it was harder, before his first term, to say "he's definitely lying!"

My point in bringing up Trump (or Sanders putting aside his actual policies and stances and focusing on his "imagined rhetoric" ie how people regard him which is anti-imperialist) is there is clearly a not always subtle, though rarely directly addressed, undercurrent of anti-war from the American populace. Whatever their reasoning people kind of tend to not like wars if they can't see a justification for them (that's kind of key though obviously).

The logical next step is if people are truly against unjustifiable (to them) wars, and they elect a real anti-imperialist, and let's say the CIA doesn't day one just sort of make their head do a weird thing. Then the US has an anti-imperialist president. Or majority in congress. That president/congress, being actually earnestly anti-war, actually abide by the will of the people to avoid conflicts.

One could argue that hypothetical person will never be elected or they'll get CIA/FBI popped day one, etc. The fact is though... that could happen. That person could be elected. That's what Israel and the military industrial complex and all those who suckle on its innumerable teats fear most. They don't care about opinion right now. They're gonna do what they want popular opinion be damned. They care about in 5, 10, 25, 50 years down the line. All it theoretically takes is one election to quite literally vaporize Israel.

I enjoy holding the most petty of conspiratorial opinions

That sounds plausible as well. Basically anything besides "a bullet getting so close that it juuuuust barely scraped his skin." That is possible, I just don't believe it. He has every incentive to lie and zero to say "the doctors pulled a shard of glass out of my ear."

Small factual correction: No proof was ever provided or produced that be was "shot" in the ear. A secret service agent told the press after the attempted shooting he had been struck in the ear by shrapnel. Potentially glass from the podium or whatever.

I just feel the need to always mention this because had someone, anyone, been shot in the ear there would be physical evidence once the wound recovered. Is his ear missing a chunk? Does it have a hole? Is he seriously trying to claim a bullet only grazed him? The far more likely outcome is what the secret service guy said at the time. I'll be maintaining this opinion until I die. Not sure what evidence could change my mind at this point because obviously any medical or whatever reports will be influenced aka fake to support his narrative.

If AOC was the right wing of the democrats things would definitely be better. I'm not a New Yorker but if she replaced Schumer that would be a good thing for sure. Schumer has quite literally done nothing positive in his position for however long that's been. I want to say 8-12 years. I used to wonder what that piece of shit was even doing in politics. Now I get it. He just loves Israel.

I won't be surprised to see one of these shutdowns result in a bipartisan bill to fund arms shipments forever. None of the money is real, obviously, so the funding doesn't ultimately matter. As long as someone eventually gets their digital dollary-doos in the form of number go up in some account then it keeps churning.

Instead of writing bills to permanently fund all existing federal programs (or whatever legal wording) until/unless that program is repealed by Congress which is how I think every other nation on earth generally operates. They'll just continue on with the "Oh, boy! Food stamps isn't funded! Ohhhh boy!" Every year forever.

As annoying as Torres is, Jeffries is the far more important one to boot out immediately. Schumer has to be forcefully evicted as well.

I'll be honest though. If the proposed replacements aren't solidly hardline anti-Israel, anti-imperialist, anti-ICE (abolition AND MORE IMPORTANTLY prosecution of every single person connected even tangentially to it), etc. then... why bother? Getting a less assholish asshole is still getting an asshole. Lesser evil stuff repeated. I find it infinitely hard to believe anyone with (D) in their title will be even close to my personal criteria above despite that stuff polling well. Especially explicitly anti-Israel. It's got like 96% democrat voter support. You'd probably get elected just saying you'll propose a bill yearly to carpet bomb Tel Aviv. Like that Roman senator who used to always say "Oh, just one more thing. We must destroy Carthage" or whatever. Nerds know who I mean. The famous asshole. This time for good.

Many of those listed things have been explicitly adjudicated as "free speech" by SCOTUS.

But good luck to him on arresting 70-80% of the population, I guess.

Is that the Air Force academy? Or the space nerds? I could believe junior officers in training huffing those delusions. Don't think I've seen/heard of but a handful of the Hegseth phenotype. The drunken wife beating Crusader