No no Guardian, don’t play their game. Ethnic cleansing was literally not a term until the 90s. The Clinton admin made it up out of nothing to justify why the US didn’t have to intervene in Rwanda, and everyone else went with it because it was convenient for them, because everyone else was trying to figure out how they didn’t have to intervene as well. “Ethnic cleansing” is just genocide in a wrapper.

Yeah, this sounds like an end run to “justify” blue states not being counted.

They’ve been trying to spin literally any protests or even just token resistance as criminal, and rural voters, by and large, absolutely believe that cities are hives of crime and iniquity.

Blanks require you to buy them, in a lot of these places you already have a pile of spare Soviet or local ammo at home.

Yup, “move fast and break things”, legal system style. Turns out if you throw someone on a plane and into a foreign prison before the court date even arrives, it’s actually really hard to get them back out, because now “it’s a state department issue”.

No, it’s arguably human trafficking because we’re paying the other country to keep him there.

Never mind that this won’t even make a ripple. Estimated yearly from all this is $1.35B, which is 3% of 1% of 1% of the national debt.

Chemotherapy drip?

Actually, Vance is next in line, and considering Vance is as much of a spineless worm as Mike Johnson…

Ahh, but we’ve never really had such top-to-bottom corruption like this. A president who thinks himself a king, and everyone from congresspeople to governors to state secretaries to city officials who want him to stay that way. Sure, Bush might not have suspended elections, or Obama, but I can definitely see Trump trying.

“Police action”, because even with the current climate, it might be hard to get Congress to declare an actual war.

Don’t breathe too big a sigh of relief, they’ve already made noises like they want to find ways to strip naturalization for a LOT more people than they already have.

No no, this is not a distraction. This is something he is SUPER pissed that he hasn’t been able to end. He just didn’t think he had the clout for it until now. Not everything is a distraction, and mail-in voting specifically has been a bugaboo for the GOP almost as long as it’s been around. Physical polling locations are easier to suppress, and even easier to post armed guards near to “secure” (intimidate) people into voting the correct way.

Pretty much this. Even if your eyes are bad-bad, generally you can find a task you can do, even if it’s “go spread fertilizer on the crop beds over here” or “hold this metal down at this end while I hammer the other end into shape.” People with bad eyesight have historically survived in conditions nearly identical to what a commune of survivors would be facing if the T-virus decided to escape tomorrow or whatever, it’s not magic. Depending on the community you wind up with, you will have SOMETHING that you can do to meaningfully contribute even without eyeglasses.

What’s worse is that this is coming from the Communications Director. A spokesperson shouldn’t be using language like this, ever, especially if we’re still pretending at the whole “government as a business” thing.

Of course, this is how Trump runs all his businesses, so.

Yeah, this is another tendril of American exceptionalism, that we MUST somehow have a link to the biblical era (although some are happy linking the Bible to whiteness somewhere instead). This is where you get Joseph Smith claiming that the Native Americans are the lost 12th tribe, or the Templars burying the treasures of Jerusalem in Canada, or “the British people are the Twelfth Tribe” or whatever.

They’ll cave. Silicon Valley, by and large, is all in on fascism or even total collapse of the state - they’re happy with it as long as they think they’ll get a slice of whatever pie is left over. Microsoft and Apple and Google would all be TOTALLY OK with this because now they have an excuse to monitor (and thus monetize) every single computer in the US (and likely every computer they ship to foreign nations). If they don’t play ball, they’ll just get nationalized and then told to do it anyway.

Anyone into ballistae? Trebuchets are cool, but have you put a small tree into someone’s living room?

Honestly have to agree. Do it anyway. Make them stop you. Then ignore their court order. Make the police stop you.

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