...Because the metals are likely melted down for scrap value and the jewels are probably popped out and sold to gray-market connections. Unless you happen to run into a jeweler who REALLY KNOWS THEIR SHIT, there's really not a good way to trace a gem back to the piece it came from unless that jewel is incredibly identifiable, not worked further after its theft, and of a known provenance.
It's not "oh there's a shadowy dude who ordered them to be stolen away so they could be cashed in", it's because jewelry theft is a highly practiced art and anyone smart enough to put a heist together like this and simply vanish is also smart enough to make sure the evidence is gone within days. Puts real reasonable doubt into a jury or judge when your prosecutor has to say "well, we don't HAVE THE JEWELRY, and we can't GET IT BACK, but I swear this is the dude".
More likely a good excuse to move operations down to Mar-A-Lago. He can hold court there and be far away from anyone who might protest against him, rather than the WH where he can see protestors and people he doesn't like if he looks out any window.
This is almost certainly part of the idea. "It's too loud and noisy here, I'm doing president stuff from Mar A Lago now", so now the USSS and everyone else has to ship out there and rent from HIS properties and his cabinet is either making daily flights there, moving there, or simply discontinuing daily briefings because there's simply things you can't say or talk about on a Teams call.
Because it's way easier to convert cops to what amounts to a federalized police force than to recruit random civies and vet them. You can just assume any cop that applies is going to be onboard with everything.
I really suggest you read up on the weaponization of psychology. It wasn't that long ago that being anticapitalist could land you in a mental facility. Being a suffragette or anything vaguely feminist got a LOT of women lobotomized. Being gay got a lot of people committed, and it was officially a mental disorder in MANY places up until shockingly recently (and still is in some places), same with being transgender or nonbinary or genderfluid.
This is HIGHLY untrue. A lot of these kids get pushed into football by culture, by economics. They get thrown in by HS coaches who tell them it's the only way they'll afford college. NFL has also done a FANTASTIC job of walling up research on CTE and TBI as a result of regular play - it's literally only been in the last decade or so that shit's started to come out, and even then, nobody focuses on it because it doesn't print papers.
A lot of these players see it as the only way to escape the poverty trap, and comments like this are disgusting. Sure "they think they're better", why not, when LITERALLY THE ENTIRE BUBBLE AROUND THEM TELLS THEM TO. They do it for "fame and fortune", yeah, because if you were young and usually poor to middle class at best and saw a way into the upper echelons of society by playing a game you're good at, YOU WOULD DO IT TOO.
It does when you have a populace whose whereabouts are largely known, in easily covered terrain. Half the reason Vietnam and Afghanistan wound up the way they did was the fact that tons of people simply lived off the grid in ways that made them invisible, and lived in places that were very very hard to access in most any way.
Got it in one, and literally what I was saying since this plan was announced. This is military parades all over again - "see this shit? It can literally be in your front yard if you keep up".
Because deep down, a lot of these fundies WISH they could transgress those norms. A lot of them WISH they could do half the shit he does. He's their fantasy where they get a shitload of money and can now violate every single thing they've been told is sacred.
A lot of it is also just gonna boil down to racism. A LOT of Evangelicalism, especially in America, is deeply racist. White supremacists also realized they could hijack religious messaging and spread their hate a lot farther than just going "white power" - couching your hate in religious context makes it a lot more palatable for a lot more people. The religious right, and a scary portion of the center, hate nonwhites. They'll be nice enough in public, they'll make the noises about how they're welcome at their churches and there's a place for them in heaven, but at the end of the day? They really REALLY would prefer if they were "with their own kind".
I've also dealt with this! Clients loved asking me to lie to the EPA directly. Now that I'm doing medical R&D testing, every so often we'll have to remind an engineer that "no, we can't just do more testing and average the results."
I think we all learned from Seto Kaiba that every problem can be solved with Blue Eyes. If it doesn't get solved by one, you just haven't used enough Blue Eyes.
Nah, they're gonna find someone who's not skittish about just ordering the deaths of civilians without needing pep rallies and getting rid of oversight.
He's also wanting to use the construction as a smokescreen to expand the
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