Don’t forget “is getting their own airline operating 24/7 specifically for deportations and transporting people to international blacksites”.

Remember that Greenland is still a Danish protectorate, so we’d be getting into a shooting match with the entire EU, more than likely.

I have bad news for you, which is that he posted a statement and a photo with Elaine in his hospital room. It sounds like he had a mini stroke or something - he fell, they’ve done a “battery” of tests “trying to find out what caused the fall”, and then caught a “mild” case of pneumonia due to hospitalization.

Even at 84, you don’t take up a hospital bed for three and a half weeks just from a fall and pneumonia.

Yeah don’t do that with snappers. I used to carry a shovel in my work van specifically to shove snapping turtles off the road or out of my worksites.

I was about to say, anyone who examined him beyond Hillbilly Elegy figured out the guy has no beliefs beyond “I deserve power”. He’ll say and do whatever you tell him to if you tell him that it will make him more powerful over people’s lives.

To be entirely fair, Papal infallibility was only really defined in 1870.

Now, Papal supremacy (the idea that the Pope is the ruling agent over the entire Church, and that their decisions must be unhindered) is ancient.

It already is. Trump’s lackeys already went waving paper to Congress to get them to figure out legal wording to bypass the 14th without another Amendment. I expect we’ll see that sometime around November or December.

Neither would Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz IIRC.

Yes. The terrible “doctor” has ingratiated himself with the administration for a while, actually having his fucking film crew accompanying ICE raids in Chicago which then aired on his show.

Elon, the guy who sent multiple incredibly sad emails all but begging “please let me come over and party on your child sex island Mr Epstein I promise I’m cool”? That Elon?

No no, there will be proof. They just need time to find good videos of those people so they can ask Grok or whatever to make a video of them cutting the thing.

So, interesting points. However, consider that just in the last few years:

• A Trump ally bought Dominion, the largest producer of electronic ballot boxes and the ones used by a LOT of states. Several studies have shown that via a hardware-side injection, it would be quite easy for anyone with physical access to the…power strip, I think, could manipulate the ballot recording without leaving a significant trace.
• DHS has asked for voter rolls from all states, and ICE/CBP have conducted raids on prominent voter activism groups.
• The FBI has also normalized raiding election offices and has seized ballots from at least the 2020 election, and at least one sheriff’s offices has also attempted to do the same in very similar fashion in California, with very similar warrants, looking for very similar “fraud”, and have also attempted to seize ballots.

The big problem with fucking with a midterm isn’t ease, it’s just scale. When you have cops, the federal and a lot of state and even local DOJs, the President’s personal goon squad (which has now been significantly inflated and equipped), and the FBI willing to harass, intimidate, or arrest voters, steal ballots, and challenge every single race, everywhere, all the time, all backed by think tanks and funding orgs that are backed by some of the richest people in the entire world, it suddenly becomes a lot easier to stop up the gears of democratic elections.

Sure, your locals can challenge the results. They can make noise. But at the end of the day, “move fast and break things” works surprisingly well as a governance tactic if your desired end result is maintaining power, because by the time people have untangled the knots you’ve woven, you’re already ten steps ahead and "well it’d be REALLY HARD AND EXPENSIVE to run a special election (if your locality even has a legal way to do that - most don’t).

We effectively had our Hannibal moment getting locked into a stalemate with Iran.

remove and destroy

Nah, we only wanted to remove it. Trump and Hegseth have both been public that we should start building another huge wave of nuclear weapons, and you need uranium to do it. Far easier to try and mug someone else for theirs (and their oil and whatever else you think you can get) than it is to actually buy it and refine it yourself.

“I found an island paradise that’s also full of old Soviet bunkers and we’re pretty sure that’s gonna be nice to have when the next American civil/world war kicks off, we just need to make it palatable for our billionaire friends who can’t stand looking at nature”.

A lot of people don’t realize that South Korea was a dictatorship until the 80s.

We have a functioning court system, it just has the entire federal government’s collective fist up its ass.

I’m more interested in how many of these people are winding up working for ICE.

The son of Ferdinand Marcos, who literally robbed the Philippines blind, is currently the President of the Philippines. There’s a Mussolini in charge of Italy. The US right, during Trump’s first term, was “joking” about electing either Eric Trump or Don Jr after Trump’s second term, and then electing the other one, and Barron Trump after that. Hell, Bolsonaro was literally openly praising the military dictatorship of Brazil.

Most agencies do have some form of enforcement arm. The ones that don’t get stuff to do that often do not fuck around.