It's not directly a con. It's actual returns, and god damn they get a lot. Whether it's worth it to try and get a net profit of anything is another thing. It can happen, but it's probably low.
Rhaedas
"Table salt?"
"No." Drops dead of poisoning.
The ones that followed his order? Apparently not.
Look, it's the job of these talking heads to push the headline, not to get deep in the details. Go too far in, and you get beaten by the competition with the next hot sound bite.
Nobody knew war was so complicated. Nobody!
Is this one of those things Lucas had put in the script but someone wiser changed and didn't tell him?
One of my favorite Red Letter Media quotes referring to the opening of Star Wars:
"We know everything we need to know just by the visuals. Rebels. Empire. We got a sense of how small and ill-equipped the rebels are and how large and powerful the Empire is. The low angle implies dominance, and the length of the Star Destroyer implies the Long Reach of the Empire. This shot says everything we need to know without saying one word. In fact, this is so genius, I have a feeling that George Lucas had nothing to do with it and probably fought against putting it in the movie."
Fired because of stuff she's been doing, or stuff she hasn't been doing?
Noem repeatedly suggested the president was aware of the campaign and signed off on it.
Oh, that makes sense. Fired for a petty reason by the hurt snowflake in charge.
I love how people fight over what's the better editor. I just use whatever makes sense for the time, and it's not always the same one. But if you're happy with just one of them and can make it work for you in any situation, then you do you. That's the point of Linux, or so I thought.
"Hundreds will die!"
"Thousands."
I don't see how it implies that, as that empire or any others never stopped and said, "yep, that's good enough".
He personally actually wants the old Russian Empire back.
Joining the conservative Republican party that has been there for a while.