There might not have been OPENLY, but I highly doubt a group that literally refers to detained illegal migrants as "tonks" for the sound a flashlight makes hitting a human skullin its official documentation, mind you was not already happy to recruit open white supremacists.
Russia nukes Kyiv, China nukes Taiwan, North Korea (assuming delivery capabilities) nukes Seoul, India probably drops nukes on China and Pakistan, etc. It's the actual Domino Theory people were talking about during the Cold War, they just thought the domino was communism. Once the bandaid gets ripped off and nuclear weapons are an accepted and normalized tool of conventional war, they're now EVERYONE'S first resort.
The issue is that we've been looking at these people as misguided idiots rather than the thugs that ICE/CBP always were. They're acting exactly as we should expect, except now they've got an admin backing them to the hilt on literally anything and everything they do.
When you have a structure that's been BUILT out of rotted wood, you can't just replace the most obvious rot and call it good.
Nah, if we're comparing them to feudal failsons, these are the sorts of kids that nobles would send off to become monks. They wouldn't be any good at ruling effectively or really doing much, but they'd be in a monastery and out of the way.
You would be extremely surprised. Car maintenance is expensive, and lack of inspection very often leads to people driving vehicles that should have been off the road years ago simply because a lot of states that axe it, axe inspections because they're expensive for the driver (a lot of these states are in the former Steel Belt). In better-off areas or places where people have more time/money/equipment/space to wrench on cars, then yes, but here in my city, I definitely have seen cars where the entire frame is basically being held together by Bondo and prayer, cars where they're running on 4 spares, cars where enormous sections of the body paneling are just gone. I've nearly been hit by people who clearly relied on yearly inspections to tell them "hey your brakes are failing" because they drive on autopilot and just adjust how they drive to accommodate failing/failed brakes.
In fact, I suspect maintenance costs are HIGHER in areas without inspection, because shops could rely on that regular-ish influx of cash even if it was only like $50-$100 a vehicle, AND you have the customer in the shop, so it's easier to go "hey you really need brakes, it'll cost you an extra $200 and take an extra hour or two".
No, MAGA doesn't have the "embrace of death" ideology that much. I feel they're trying to "score points" with Jesus by simply killing as many "undesirables" as they can get their hands on, and some MIGHT kill themselves when they realize He ain't coming back.
And listen to your kid if they say it's not what it looks like. My troop looked totally fine if you asked the Scoutmaster. It turns out it was just his kid and his kid's best friends who were all assholes. I got beaten up at least once, and eventually got kicked out because I pulled my knife on the Scoutmaster's kid, because he had pulled his knife first, and literally backed me up against a cliff with it. Dude was a psycho and eventually joined the Army during the big 2009 push (what a shock).
Mom insisted I go every week, it's not that bad, etc, and then literally had the stones to tell me "you should've said something" when I got thrown out.
This is part of the issue. It's systemic. We NEEDED to start stamping this out 20 years ago, but boiling the frog is effective at making well reasoned extrapolation sound like insanity.
The issue is the precedent. It means my state can do it. Nevada can do it. Texas can do it.
Never mind that the CIA's role doesn't only include surveillance. What's to stop another governor or lawmaker from deciding the Florida Intelligence Services need assassination protocols, to start killing off anti-Florida assets? What's to stop them deciding they need sabotage capabilities to destroy infrastructure that is detrimental to the Florida way of life?
What, of any of these, are we fighting for in Iran, half a world away from the US? The DoD can't even articulate what objectives the administration intends to achieve, and neither can the State Dept, apparently.
I was about to say, isn't this the same thing that closed down Gawker? Even if it's accurate, Thiel can flood the courts with paperwork and effectively commit paper terrorism on the company to draw proceedings out and eventually bankrupt them on legal fees alone.
Nah, Trump hates the WH. Wants to be as far from DC as he can, because he's insulated from actual people at Mar-A-Lago. It's his Versailles, truly - he loves that he only has to hear sycophancy there, and basically forcing his Cabinet to relocate there for months while he governs from there is probably a huge power trip for him.
Not necessarily. Drones can level a position or terrorize civilians, but you can't securely hold that position or occupy territory with them. For now, there is no replacement in that job - your infantry and armor are still doing that work.
There might not have been OPENLY, but I highly doubt a group that literally refers to detained illegal migrants as "tonks" for the sound a flashlight makes hitting a human skull in its official documentation, mind you was not already happy to recruit open white supremacists.