matlag

No, he won’t try to “cancel” the elections. First he’s trying to rig them through gerrymandering and voters suppression.
If that’s not enough, he’ll make crazy claims of frauds at different places, and will try to reverse some results.

But I can guarantee you that if none of that work, you’ll have a showdown. He knows well what awaits him would the GOP lose and he’s getting impeached. He won’t accept the results.

Just note that he’s currently using the war to kick out generals he deems not loyal enough.

To win elections, you need a candidate who brings voters from their side. Trump brought the MAGA, an inconsistent alliance of all kind of deplorables. But they were all enthusiastic about him. Neither Clinton nor Harris had that, neither did Biden by the way. Their main platform was to be not Trump, and the rest was the status quo.

At some point, the Dems need a candidate that voters actually support rather than pick as the least bad choice. So what will it be this time? Yet another meh-candidate backed by the “good” oligarchs or a candidate people actually want in power?

Maybe less traffic so with comparable reserves, you last longer?

In one word: neoliberalism. It inevitably and inexorably leads to this.

Decades of defunding education, maximizing corporate profit at the expense of the workers at the bottom, making life worse and worse for commoners.

You end up with a large group of poorly educated, humiliated angry voters. And they’ll get fooled easy by the most populist guy who “say it like it is” and offe simplistic solutions and scapegoats.

That’s why it’s happening. And US is not a single case. They just have a much higher power of nuisance.

The core will praise him for being tough and say it like what it is!

And if a few on his side hesitate, he’ll just let them in on the next insider’s move and they’ll fall back in line.

You better yield! I’m counting to 3!! One! Two! … Two and half! Two and three quarters…

In US universities, a lot of the student protesters against the genocide in Gaza were jews, they were called anti-semitic terrorists anyway. We’ve seen the same thing in France, where jews students protested but were still called anti-semitic, pro-Hamas, etc.

Going with the confusion is very exactly what Netanyahu and his accomplices want: people mad about what Israel is doing taking on jews, so that Israel supporters can label them all anti-semitic and immediately discard whatever they will say.

Look, how many young attractive women would agree to follow and prop Trump everywhere without feeling (legitimately) in danger?

Only an AI would!

Anyone claiming atheists have no moral value because they have no God should be kept under close monitoring. They’re saying out loud they have urges to kill, rape and rampage and only God prevents them from doing those!

I am not so sure about this. At the top, fundamentalist have convinced themselves that God can choose champions who are above all of his rules. They are chosen, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Rest of the people, of course, needs to abide to “God’s rules”.
At the bottom, it’s kept simple: anything and anyone they dislike is anti-christian (that can be stretched to no end).

Yeah but you also assume reason on the other side. That’s not granted. The joke now would be for the US to just walk away and Iran to re-open the strait EXCEPT for ships with a US interest (and probably Israel’s). “Retribution for the damages.”

So wait, now Israel leaders are saying that bombing children is bad when it’s to “defend yourself”?

This is so well played!

Now Iran can attempt an attack almost openly on the US soil and many will believe it was an inside job. Well, that’s what happens when you have 0 credibility at home due to your compulsive need to say BS all the time.

Why would Powell do that since the war is very close to the end?

I’m saying they could, and could have had these for a while, they may have a few ones that they were sending just to check if the US would detect them, they may have some on the go as a permanent operation, just like a patrol. I would say that’s unlikely, because the risk of getting caught was probably perceived as bigger than the benefit of having a strike opportunity. But as several others said before: sea traffic is barely checked.

And another option is they already have some drones hidden on US soils and dormant agents ready to launch them.

When you say it can’t happen, you understand that Russia does it in Europe regularly, right? Once in a while, they will even send drones flying above cities, airports, military bases, etc. just to see if they trigger any kind of response.

Some Russian drones fly over Europe from time to time, to test the defences and/or gather intel. They launch from vessels that look civilians, sail under a third party flag, and transport legit goods to further confuse investigations.

Ukraine did a remarkable strike deep inside Russia by having their attack drones carried in a truck driven by a Russian driver who had no clue what he was carrying.

So the drones may have been dispatched some time ago and could very well be on US soil waiting to be activated, or they could be transported on any vessel around.

And even then, can’t the US military detect them and blow them up? Or have cheap drones patrolling ahead of ships to trigger them?

No. Not that he wouldn’t want to, but he would have fucked it up already.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, a lot of Russians bought the “special operation to de-nazify Ukraine” narrative. Some still do today.

When the US invaded Iraq, a lot of Americans thought it was to free Iraqis and destroy WMD.

It took the end of WWII for a lot of Germans to realize what was happening in the concentration camps.

Israel is not a special place with people fundamentally different from the rest of the world. People are pretty much the same everywhere, and propaganda works everywhere.