Assad is a Russian puppet, if they're saying he's there I tend to believe them only because from a propaganda standpoint it would make more sense to claim he was still in charge in Syria.Falsely claiming he was in Russia would only serve to undermine their own interests in the region.
How safe from hacking would these robotic body guards be?Assuming they'll be connected to the internet at least sometimes, there would always be software vulnerabilities that could be exploited to change the programming and turn them into robot assassins instead.
Why would he?The Supreme Court legalized anything he does as an official act.If he issued an executive order that all federal employees must use his hotel chain when travelling he can't be investigated for Emoluments clause violations, Misappropriation of funds, Federal Procurement Violations, etc as it was an official act which he receives absolute immunity for.
Most of my family are diehard MAGA and I've tried to explain to them that the bigger the pool of paying customers the cheaper the insurance rates, and if you made the pool everyone in the entire country and took profit out of the equation they would pay far less for health insurance.Most of the time they're response is that they don't care that it would be cheaper, they just don't want their taxes paying for someone else's healthcare.They seem to miss the point that their insurance premium is also paying for someone else's healthcare but in the end it just boils down to selfishness and bigotry.Boomers try to say that Millennials and Gen Z are selfish compared to them, but the boomers invited "fuck you, got mine".
And we had the capability to be training more troops this whole time?
Unfortunately winning the war wasn't profitable enough to defense contractors (the ones who make the weapons for the government, not mercenaries because that's what we like to call them too) so the goal was to keep it going as long as possible before winning.
How long do we expect that to last under Trump?
Minutes at most, Putin helped him get elected and he'll be expecting Trump to pull support forthwith and I expect Trump will gladly comply.
The military should be making all of their weapons in house, and Congress people shouldn't be allowed to own stock in anything at all, but especially not companies that make money off the government.
Mike Johnson makes me wish God were real. He's an Evangelical Christian and he's helping the literal antichrist come to power. If God were real I'd love to see the look on Mike's face when he's sent straight to superhell for the harm he's caused on earth.
Do you want to see the people who killed Osama Bin Laden prosecuted?Because the United Heath CEO killed far more people, including many more children, than Bin Laden did on 9/11.
The next biggest economy would likely fill the power vacuum, which at the moment would be China.European countries would likely band together but still align their policies closer to Russian polices because they're a more imminent threat than China.There would probably be several small brush wars as countries try to to consolidate power amongst regional areas like North America and the Middle East.Fragile ceasefires backed by American influence would pretty quickly dissolve like between North and South Korea.And in a few decades everything will settle into a new "normal" just like it did when other great empires have lost their influence.
I fully believe it's because of Trump.The US has billed itself as THE example of freedom and peaceful transfer of power for 200 years, and really started shoving it down the rest of the world's throat after the end of WWII.But, all Trump had to do was come along and say "no, fuck you" to every safeguard we had against it and we did absolutely fucking nothing to stop him.So, if it works here, why wouldn't it work everywhere else?Now we're going to see every right wing world leader doing the same thing, and they know because Trump got elected again he won't be giving them a healthy dose of freedom for trying that shit.
Getting upset over this is so draining, especially because there’s nothing we can do to stop him in the short term.
For me personally, I think the most draining part of the whole thing is that nothing was done to stop him in the 4 years he was out of power.1,461 days, all of them spent listening to people talk about how horrible it would be if he got back into power, and yet absolutely fucking nothing was done in that time to prevent the horrible things we were warned about from happening.
Assad is a Russian puppet, if they're saying he's there I tend to believe them only because from a propaganda standpoint it would make more sense to claim he was still in charge in Syria.Falsely claiming he was in Russia would only serve to undermine their own interests in the region.