They’re already gearing up for a ground invasion of Mexico. I’m personally super excited for Mexican-American War 2. /s

Never mind Cuomo’s weird threat of “elect me or Trump will invade the city”, like he was already gonna do that either way my dude.

I was about to say, they’re only doing it this way because you can’t just have them killed openly.

Cuomo has the support of the guy who, less than a full day after the attack, was in an interview gloating about how he was so happy that he had the tallest building in Manhattan now.

This exactly. And moreover, with SCOTUS saying it’s totally OK to detain people in foreign prisons before their case (which is done online to further minimize the ability of the defense to actually do their job), they can just ship you to the country that has a hit on you, and weird, you wind up dead or beaten halfway there so you look nice and dirty for a judge who’s already likely decided to throw you wherever (but now you look like “one of them” so there’s an extra layer of justification).

Sabotaging from within is a romantic notion, but one that often doesn’t work out.

Especially when, even if you’re not found guilty of actually breaking the law, you can still be brought to your medical board over these laws. They’re MEANT to be vague, meant to be open to a million interpretations, just like old poll tests, just like Jim Crow laws, just like a hundred other things.

That being said, South America in general has contended with CIA interference for decades. It’s not unreasonable to think they’ve grown wise to their playbook.

He’s a narcissist. Letting go of ANY shred of power is unimaginable, because he deserves EVERYTHING. Any scrap of power he has relinquished has been at legal gunpoint.

Not to mention expanding the bunker at the WH. Dude knows he’s absolutely going to try to stay President no matter what happens. Expect full Franco.

Hate also just ages a person. Stress makes you age seriously fast.

Weirdly enough, that “privately funded” ballroom they’re building is almost $230m. You know, the one Trump said he’d build and pay for himself?

We have, actually.

Because deep down, a lot of these fundies WISH they could transgress those norms. A lot of them WISH they could do half the shit he does. He’s their fantasy where they get a shitload of money and can now violate every single thing they’ve been told is sacred.

A lot of it is also just gonna boil down to racism. A LOT of Evangelicalism, especially in America, is deeply racist. White supremacists also realized they could hijack religious messaging and spread their hate a lot farther than just going “white power” - couching your hate in religious context makes it a lot more palatable for a lot more people. The religious right, and a scary portion of the center, hate nonwhites. They’ll be nice enough in public, they’ll make the noises about how they’re welcome at their churches and there’s a place for them in heaven, but at the end of the day? They really REALLY would prefer if they were “with their own kind”.

Won’t be for long.

Call it what it is: an intimidation tactic.

Technically it’s a cipher, BUT it’s also perfectly constructed to work as a language (by making the cipher easier - vowels only get replaced with vowels, consonants with consonants).

It’s a real language, it’s just German spoken by a person with a head injury /s

This is also an administration that I do not think would have a problem arranging the deaths of any serviceman who decides not to follow orders, legal or extralegal.

I honestly don’t disagree with people who point out that we need to get massive protests. General strikes, campaigns to grind entire cities to a halt. Take a look at France, at Italy, even at the modern conservative movements in the US - we could and arguably should shut down the entire country until things get WAY better. Days without a government might not matter to a lot of people, a day without work might not impact much, but when you even get 5% of the population just not doing their jobs, not contributing to the economy, or out in the streets actively making it harder for OTHER PEOPLE to do their jobs, suddenly the impact magnifies immensely.