Getting to the point where someone might need to invade and liberate the United States.

Come on, guys! We’ve got oil and everything!

People advocating for Biden to go on a crime spree are assuming that the Supreme Court is aiming to be consistent, and apply this ruling fairly to both parties.

The SCOTUS doesn’t have a DOJ or an FBI to arrest and prosecute anyone with. That’s the big catch in all this arguing.

If Biden seriously wanted to be a sassy bitch, he’d have Trump extraordinarily renditioned to a prison in Iraq and tried for bombing the Iraqi airfield that hosted the Iranian ambassadors.

The SCOTUS gets to pound sand, Americans can heal a gapping foreign policy wound between the US and Iran, and Trump gets a taste of living as an illegal.

But he’s not going to do that. He’s not going to impound Trump’s assets or freeze his accounts. He’s not going to treat Trump in any way like an asset of an enemy power.

Because he’s terrified of violating the Norms that dictate presidents can, in fact, do whatever the hell they want.

Country devastated by natural disasters and civil wars.

Country devastated by civil war and foreign occupation.

Country devastated by civil war and foreign occupation.

Country devastated by civil war and natural disaster.

Where do you think Americans learn about non-European countries in World History? History started with the founding of England and ended with WW2. I think we dropped a nuclear bomb on some East Asian country where all the anime comes from. But other than that, who gives a shit about Asia?

Um… its called checks and balances, sweetie.

The King selects the priests and the High Priest coronates the wealthiest member of the royal court to be the next king. We live in the fairest, freest, and most godly country in the world, because we adhere to the ancient edicts of our Holy Forefathers. And if you don’t like that, you’ve probably been brainwashed by the unholy barbaric savages from across the ocean.

Their Authoritarian Surveillance State

Our Robust National Security System

Posting how much I hate authoritarian surveillance states on all my favorite NSA-infested social media accounts.

The moment a politician talks about raising taxes, that’s it, they lose votes.

That’s never actually been true. School bonds tied to tax increases pass all the time

Can’t understand why he’s not more popular with a track record like that.

Maybe he’s just running in the wrong party.

the media dosnt cover 90% of the shit he does

He is in the media spotlight constantly. If the President shits, we get news on it. And we have a plethora of friendly venues happy to report all the nice things Biden says he’s doing (until he gives up halfway through, because the Fifth Circuit court or a senior aid or a Senate Parliamentarian tells him to stop).

But it’s not selling, because peoples’ material conditions aren’t improving. The Inflation Reduction Act didn’t improve the cost of living. The college loan forgiveness benefited less than 1% of student borrowers. The exhorbitant sums sent to Ukraine haven’t ended the war or even clawed back any territory. The climate isn’t getting any cooler.

all teh coverage of the debate was “BIDEN OLD, MUST QUIT” and almost nothing about trumps lies

The coverage could have been “Biden Slams Trump on His Many Lies”. But Biden didn’t do that because he’s a senile old coot.

Oh gee! Why isn’t Rachel Maddow singing Joe Biden’s praises right now? Must be because she’s a Russian Bot who hates Democrats and America.

Donald Trump will claim he’s protecting Americans from White Genocide and Baby Genocide. The conservatives will glibbly assert they are the “Anti-Genocide” party. And Joe Biden will mumble about illegal immigrants killing American children, while he sinks another five points in the polls.

Then we’re going to get told that Tankies cost Democrats the White House (but, strangely, not the legislature). This will give Hakeem and Chuck the excuse to cave to every Republican demand, because it’s what the People Want.

Calmly explaining to my stupid tankie friends why public schools and postal services and public wifi at public libraries and Amtrak and Medicare and the Hoover Dam are wildly unpopular. What people really want are more cops, more wars, and more credit card debts.

the nearest town, Cape Canaveral, over ten miles away

The Falcon 9 that made an uncontrolled reentry in March of 2021 spread debris from Washington to Oregon.

Chinese Long March rocket failures have dropped parts into Indian states of Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Ten miles isn’t far for a vehicle moving 17,500 mph during the 12 minutes or so necessary to break Earth’s gravity well.

Cape Canaveral is directly east of Orlando, with a bunch of vacation resort spots hugging the shore. The Florida coastline isn’t exactly lightly developed.

the end of the fall will be imminent

We’ve got so much farther left to go. Go check out how Argentina is handling its Trump-style President, and even they’ve got a ways to go. Check out the Philippines under Duterte and Marcos. They’re getting closer, but still plunging.

Now Haiti? Libya? Ukraine? Sudan? That’s your rock bottom.

Getting all my aerospace technology on Temu.

I’m not saying that the persecution against Falung Gong is fake, actually I believe is true, violence against minorities is another Wednesday for the CCP

The Falun Gong was originally an ally of the CCP as recently as 1993. They had a falling out when some of their chief leadership got caught in a string of financial scandals and abuse allegations. Attempts by the state to begin prosecuting church leaders triggered an outcry from the membership, which prompted more arrests and more efforts hide the organizations money, and finally a wholesale exodus from the country by its most devoted members.

Falun Gong leadership arrived in the US and immediately began churning out anti-China spin, with the help of the Epoch Times - an originally Chinese-only paper primarily distributed in Chinese ex-pat communities by church refugees. If you get into the history of the Epoch Times, you should very quickly discover that it is not a reliable source of information.

Which isn’t to say China’s been great wrt religious freedom or free association. But the modern incarnation of Falun Gong has more in common with Scientology than, say, Mormonism or Baháʼí. You’re going to fall down some really QAnon-themed rabbit holes if you take everything their community is saying at face value.

These projects tend to bring a bunch of economic development along with it. Would be like Floridians rejecting Cape Canaveral or Texans trying to shut down SpaceX. Locals might not be thrilled, but developers and business leaders are ready for the rest of you to take the risk.

If you want to get a bit more cynical, you could very easily describe the deaths of Fred Hampton and the Freedom Summer murders as presidential assassinations. If you want to take the extra step down the rabbit hole, there’s very real reason to suspect MLK was assassinated by the FBI.

bombing countries they’re not at war with

Fun fact. We haven’t officially declared war since 1941.

Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and now Ukraine? All NATO led military interventions or AUMF policing actions. No articles of war required.

trafficking drugs to enrich the war machine

One of the craziest “America just be like that” stories I’ve ever heard was the time Bush Sr set up a drug buy right outside the White House, by having the DEA extort a teenager picked up for selling crack on the opposite side of town to show up on Pennsylvania Avenue the night of a State of the Union Address and do a straw sale to another agent, just so he could talk about it on national TV an hour later like it happened organically.

Bush dangling a bag of crack on national TV and saying in his Father-Knows-Best voice that we need to go full-on Phoenix Program across every major American city, because of his little kabuki crack sale, is one of those “burned into my conscience” factoids that really changed how I saw our country operating.