I love the militant far-right’s obsession with disabling the power grid. Like yeah, if you took out my town’s power for months, ground my job to a halt, and put the vulnerable in danger, I would take up arms…against you.

He and his circle already made millions on puts and invested the winnings back into a dipping market, now it’s time to ease off the gas to drive the value back up. Repeat every week or two.

I just want to find mushrooms in a forest

Well you’ll still be wanting to do that when the supply chain breaks down and you don’t know where your next meal will come from.

Its always guys that look like they extract peyote in their kitchen.

American “commitment” to anything is worthless now more than ever. Like giving cash loans to a bombed out drug addict you can only expect pain by penning deals with us.

It is also about the theater, and the normalization of having the military physically putting their hands on immigrants. They want the National Guard of red states doorkicking for immigrants eventually, P2025 lays that out plainly.

To him it doesn’t matter how foolish it is, how much money it would cost, or how many lives, Mexican or American, it would grind up. If it’s a viable vehicle for him to consolidate emergency powers, rile up a fervent base, and become an American Emperor, he will take it.

It may start out relatively focused as a counterterror/counterinsurgency op…but once he pisses off the Mexicans enough for them to fight back, he’ll have his casus belli (to his base) for open war. The unrestrained conservative order of battle will make the invasion of Iraq look positively pleasant. It was very common for war hawks back then to pine for the day we could just wipe Iraqi cities off the map and “let god sort them out”. It’ll be less Fallujah, more Gaza.

If he can get away with launching a Special Military Operation against the cartels and then Mexico as a whole, then Greenland and Panama are next. Then Canada. Then god knows who else. Maybe our war chest will bottom out by then, but that chest runs very deep.

Trump just moved an entire Stryker brigade, vehicles and all, to the Mexican border.

I think the clearest way to declare himself President for Life, or at least grab a third term, is to invade Iraq Mexico for WMDs fentanyl, provoke a war, and bend everything in his favor in a system he’s already fixed.

Sell themselves as doctors and browbeat expecting mothers into not getting abortions. Practice anti-vax and woo.

The things a midwife from the 1800s might do, generally.

We Americans need to come to terms with the fact that this is how the rest of the world sees each and every one of us now. Either as an orcish, violent animals, or as selfish, cowardly quislings and bystanders. It doesn’t matter who you voted for, or who you sent $20 to here and there. We are giving our consent every single day we are not physically fighting back against this insanity. And that stench takes a generation to wash off.

Fun WWII parallel: after the war, reprisal murders against the German diaspora were a problem in Europe. I’ve seen it claimed that half a million Germans were killed this way, but nobody really knows because the public sentiment was so against Germany after the atrocities they committed. People kept quiet, police shrugged their shoulders and moved on.

Ignorance is not an excuse. Cowardice is not an excuse. It may not be your fault, but it is your responsibility to do something.

Prison commissary type beat

I mean didn’t this just pave the way for Rome to be ruled by one unaccountable autocrat or another for the next several hundred years?

We’re an angry drunk running down the street with a shotgun trying to pick fights. Dangerous and repulsive, but all reasonable people can do is try to get out of the way until police arrive. Except there is no police in this geopolitical metaphor.

“We have always been at war with Eastasia a despicable mafioso-state.”

I take it the Russian disinfo factories got a hefty raise after their recent resounding success, so I’m gonna expect more of these demoralization pieces with no intrinsic value.

Targeting or even murdering random Americans will only accelerate the breakdown of civility and accomplish nothing. Recognize your words as an emotional outburst and channel your anger into something more constructive.

I think the more pressing problem would be that SS would arrest Zelensky on the spot, if not put a 9mm hole in his head.

Also, they won’t be buying anything if they become festive decorations on fences and lampposts across the country.

Republicans need indebted professional murderers for later phases of their coup.

Notifying others requires you to think of other people and value them. The US, under the leadership of a pathological narcissist, will do neither of these things.

I am not anyone’s fiduciary and this is not financial advice, but any inverse-leveraged broad market ETF seems like a simple and sure bet right now.