No no, you’re thinking of Charles Guiteau.

Yup. The few I met at Yellowstone were approaching small eagle size.

Yup, I have about 2k hours on Destiny because I’d leave the launcher open while it was updating or offline.

Famous gamer John Wilkes Booth.

That doesn’t sound very shareholder-minded of you. /s

FORMER print guy. Office Depot fired him before this.

They don’t care. The end goal for a lot of these Christian Nationalists who literally are writing laws now is effectively the Handmaid’s Tale or worse - all those incels who spent the Obama years memeing about “government mandated girlfriends” might actually make arranged government marriages, or severe economic or political consequences for single women over a certain age, an actual thing.

If they teach riot pigs to use it, we might as well learn to do it too.

He’s treating shit like Civ V. He thinks that by doing this, he can get Venezuela to attack back, and this will provide him the perfect pretext to wage a ground war.

This would be Hel, which is sort of like “you weren’t terrible but you weren’t awesome”, although you also have Náströnd, which is a place within Hel reserved for murderers, adulterers, and those who break oaths.

“We want your money and we want your knowledge, but we don’t want you.”

Precisely this. Any inkling, any glimmer of potential resistance, is too much. Even unenthusiastic acceptance isn’t allowed. You have to stamp out the people who MIGHT POSSIBLY dissent, might possibly not WANT what’s happening, to the eventual point that anything other than full-throated praise of what the regime is doing is disallowed.

With the quota they have, they kinda HAVE to get literally everyone they think they can. Legal or no, nations don’t matter, nothing matters. Combine that with ICE already being known to be filled with far-right racists and them hiring MORE, it’s more surprising they haven’t just gunned down more immigrants for being “uppity”.

A black man? Being lynched in Mississippi? Nah.

Especially with how fast Trump is declining mentally and physically. I’m wondering if he’s going to last through next year. They’re trying to cement what power they can because Trump is an effective bully at home, and Vance has all the charisma of dryer lint to back himself up once he’s in the chair.

Sounds like it was a metal towing cable, like from a winch? I could definitely see that taking a head off easier than a sturdy rope.

Don’t forget Mountain Meadows, or the time they (probably) had the governor of Missouri assassinated, or the time they were ABSOLUTELY PLANNING to throw down with the Grand Army of the Republic before someone realized the Army had more men and materiel to prosecute a war with.

Of course, we all know that he also has invented time travel solely to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand to ignite WWI.

Pretty much, yes, complete with Judges - except they get to make up the laws, and summarily execute anyone they like because it’s a lot harder to interrogate a corpse.

I mean, Russia’s certainly looking like they want to try at Finland again with those troop buildups, and they’re propping up a lot of armed agitators in Moldova, as well as a lot of sabotage across Central Europe (and now a drone incursion accidentally-maybe-not into Poland). Sure looks to me like if Russia isn’t an aggressor nation towards Europe, they’re doing a damn fine job imitating one.

Do they have the troops, morale, equipment, money, or veterancy to effectively prosecute a war against a nation that hasn’t undergone serious regime change recently? My money is personally on no success, but I’m definitely willing to say that Putin will give it a try. He has leashed his entire wagon to the horse named “expansionism”, and he NEEDS some sort of victory to keep any semblance of public support, no matter how jaded his populace might be - otherwise his dictator friends might get ideas on seizing Russian lands.