Eh, I think it’s simpler than that. He’s just brazenly lying, and his only actual intention is to shuffle some people around to confuse and/or give (naive) people a semblance of hope, then will continue escalating.

Lmfao I’m quite confident he can’t even spell “de-escalate”. Not to mention, de-escalation is completely counter to what his and the regime’s goals are, at large.

If there’s no punishment, Congress is de facto saying that they do not consider it a crime - nor, implicitly, do they consider the events that the to-be-delivered documents detail to be crimes either.

Surely not a public one, but it’s probably squirreled away in a safety deposit box somewhere - this is her exerting leverage on orangeboi in an attempt to get a pardon.

come back with a warrant or level 4 plate

Lmfao holy shit. Do you have a direct link to the post?

Also: frankly I don’t have any sympathy whatsoever for Usha. She, a non-white person, chose to marry and then stay with a psychopathic white supremacist. She chose to support him in becoming part of a regime whose goals were nakedly apparent. The fact that she quietly put up with all of that is effectively a tacit endorsement of the whole shebang. She knew what she was doing. And the white supremacists aren’t gonna give her a pass because she’s (currently) married to Vance. This falls squarely in leopards eating faces territory.

Yeah, my mind went to similar scenarios tbh

What a year this month has been

Holy fuck, if I want to pay $15 for a burger, I have a number of places around my city I can get a great one, and none of them are a fast food joint.

I simply don’t think there’s a way out of this without some level of violence - primarily because I don’t believe anyone in the regime is going to allow a fair election to occur again - let alone a peaceful transition of power if they lose. If by some miracle they DO hold an election, and it’s fair, and it’s unadulterated, and they lose, the shit they’ll surely pull will make J6 look like a fucking kindergarten play date.

I am absolutely certain that the tens of thousands of attendees will record anything that they try to pull from tens of thousands of angles.

Is it going to have a guest appearance by Vance, who will then openly grab her ass and make out on stage in front of Vance’s wife, too? Because that would be both hilariously gross and peak comedy.

The fact that they’re doing this, combined with orangeboi skipping the game, makes me think they’re planning something for the game. As in, it will probably escalate to a mass casualty event, with ICE fuckheads firing into crowds, inciting a riot, causing a stampede, or something of that nature.

Well, yes and no. The people who are appointing the leadership at the CDC and other health agencies in the US are doing it for the votes/memes/whatever. But the people who are appointed are absolutely kool-aid-chugging ivermectin (et al) enthusiasts, and it would be genuinely difficult to overstate their idiocy and anti-intellectualism.

Also, aside from the absolute, categorical failure of French strategic planning and leadership at the start of the Second World War, the Free French forces significantly contributed to a ton of campaigns during the war. Not to mention: WW2 was a divergence from the norm for France. Before, and since, they have been and still are a strategic military powerhouse, are able to punch far above their weight, and have pointedly maintained a serious domestic defense industry - which, nowadays, is showing very clear and obvious benefits.

I get that they’re taking advantage of people coming from developing countries… but seriously, at what point will everyone start to be like “hmmmm maybe I should rule out that Russian job offer because they’re just gonna shanghai me into military service”?

Ah yes, let’s apply punishment to the symptom instead of looking for and addressing any root cause issues that are causing this shit.

Side note: if any Swedes here want to share some insight and nuance into what’s going on up there and how it got to this point, I’d be very interested to hear.

No - issuing a court order for ICE to depart the state of Minnesota immediately, and that any agents remaining in the state have no jurisdiction or legal standing as far as the state is concerned, and that they can and must be arrested by local and state authorities for breaking those orders would be “something”. Frankly, given that order, it would be completely warranted if cities in Minnesota started responding to ICE reports by dispatching SWAT teams. And hey - that’s actually a way that might significantly improve the public perception of their police forces: actually using their authority to protect citizens from an agency that’s clearly decided laws do not matter to them whatsoever.

Also, yes, that would 100% be a “constitutional crisis” in terms of states challenging the power of the federal government… but…

Really, I’ve lost count. I have no idea where the constitutional crisis count is at this point.