BeautifulMind

On the one hand, I really really want it to be a world-changing breakthrough for real this time. I've been losing my dad to Alzheimer's for several years now and even if it's too late for him I would just hope that nobody else has to go through that in the future. On the other hand, knowing that it's someone's business model to jerk at my hope and heart-strings for ad engagement has me more or less ready to fire futurism into the fucking sun

Because ICE has federal authority, anything local authority does will create a conflict that ICE and Trump will use to justify martial law.

In other words, the states shouldn't exercise their own authority or else the feds will keep escalating the things they're already doing? At this point I don't see any reason to believe that Trump won't declare martial law regardless of what Minnesota does. The question isn't whether or not he will escalate, it's whether or not there will be resistance.

At this point I think it's pretty safe to conclude that when the right-wing 2A guys argue that 2A is inviolable/shall not be infringed, they mean it only in the context of service to right-wing politics, not that it's a right that applies to anyone else. In other words, they support the notion of privilege, not rights.

Well, yeah. The feds can't block state criminal charges, so obvs they need to obstruct state investigation of crimes committed by feds

It's maddening to see the predictable full-throated lying about how she was a terrorist coming from the administration and its enabling news networks, knowing that their intended audience will nod and say 'seems legit'

Anybody even the littlest bit surprised that he would say this sort of thing hasn't been paying attention. Not a stunner at all.

To be clear, he essentially claimed that the US has the capability to forcibly do that- which isn't so much an assertion that the US has any right to do a thing, it is that laws and rights are meaningless in his view. He's framing a potential invasion or coup not supported by law or rights as if it's legitimized by either, while fundamentally subverting the notion that anyone but the powerful have rights the US is bound to respect.

Have to admit its a smart play from the orks

Rhetorically it's clever, sure, but effectively it amounts to demanding unconditional surrender or else they'll continue to lose until demands are met

I'm old enough to remember when the term 'homeland security' was too fashy-sounding to be taken seriously. We were fine without ICE, and weirdly enough, creating it hasn't solved anything- if anything, the lies they tell to justify doing it more and harder have gotten more and more absurd.

Probably capsaicin

They don't have to. They just interfere in our politics

Not only do we not respect it, we hate it with the heat of a thousand suns