I mean, this is the same guy who said we’d be living on Mars in 2025.

However you want to phrase it, they’re very different problems with different solutions.

“Someone picked the lock on my door and got into my house” is meaningfully distinct from “Someone stole my keys”.

Knee-capping the Postal Service is a feature, not a bug.

You can keep your nasty chips

You can argue it’s a classic ID-10T error in your workflow.

But nobody has discovered a security vulnerability within the system architecture. This is the system operating as designed, abet with the wrong person standing in front of the terminal.

And yes, there will be another vote.

6-3 SCOTUS says the election didn’t mean what you thought it meant.

Bush v Gore was a lethal blow for American democracy.

I’m torn, because I’ve seen plenty to suggest the democratic process is still chugging along in the states. Let me know when the NJ/VA gubernatorial races are overturned.

At the same time, I’ve seen “Welcomefest” and the liberal doubling down on Palestinian genocide. I’m seeing liberals in Congress line up to support Trump in his Iran War. Liberals are bought into crypto. They’re bought in on school privatization. They’re bought in on defunding Medicaid and SS. They bought in on the deportations and the lawless arrests and the police violence

Too many liberals are supporting Trump in deed, while complaining in name only. How does an election fix that?

If the gas price skyrockets they will demand Donald’s head

Maybe. Or maybe they’ll just keep blaming Palestine protesters and other Woke Leftists for doing a domestic terrorism by talking shit about the president.

It took a long long while for the median Americans to come around to Bush being a POS. Conservatives only really turned on him after he left office.

I can easily see our domestic media egging on our paramilitary DHS to do more fascism against the immigrants responsible for inflation. And I can easily imagine a lot of Americans convinced they’re who are to blame.

$10 gasoline here we come.

Don’t be a Jihadi?

There it is. Everyone’s guilty once you’ve flung shrapnel through their chest.

But you still can’t imagine why the French-aligned government got ousted in a coup on these terms.

The French are arrogant, no doubt, but that’s different from wanting to rule the area or wishing it ill.

Explain it to the 2700+ dead that the French are responsible for.

There a) was no occupation

The French Defense Minister Florence Parly announced in February 2020 that France would send an additional 600 troops to the Sahel region, bolstering Operation Barkhanes’ force to 5,100 troops.

b) not even the Putschists were in “full revolt”.

More and more voices are being raised against the presence of the French soldiers of Operation Barkhane, despite the lack of alternatives.

You’re either deeply misinformed or deliberately lying.

Can’t raise prices if nobody has any money

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Because last I checked when the Sahel states wanted them gone they packed up and left.

Check again.

Operation Barkhane dragged on for eight years. It sparked domestic protests within the first two years. By the end, the Sahel states were in full revolt against French occupation.

France never shied away from throwing down with them, where they were reluctant is stomping Tuaregs, instead opting for endless negotiations and mediating.

The problem is with your language. You seem to think dropping 200 lb bombs on a city to wipe whole neighborhoods off the map constitutes “throwing down”, like its a bar room brawl everyone will walk away from in the morning. You don’t seem to want to acknowledge that they killed thousands of civilians. A 9/11s worth of people, to put it in a parlance you might appreciate.

And much like in Israel and the US occupation of Iraq/Afghanistan, the response from French allies was always “those civilians had it coming”.

That is what spurred widespread opposition to Françafrique policy.

I don’t know how we got from exploding pagers to space lasers.

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Good luck getting it through six inches of kevlar.

I feel bad for them because they’re supposed father says there’s no difference between them and sperm donations

I think you’re conflating distribution of family wealth with the duties of fatherhood. And I’m not sure what this guy is doing to be an actual father figure for anyone. If he’s just doing a math exercise, with the expectation that distributing $13M to each of his children improves their collective survival rates and propagates his genes most efficiently into the future, this has nothing to do with the actual job of child rearing. It really is just a narcissistic obsession over his magic sperm.

I would feel bad for anyone who has to count him as a father, as he’s clearly a patriarchal pos.

Plenty of people ready and willing to challenge it. But they’re having a bit of trouble getting through the line of armed and armored police here to keep things civil.

Or is there a possibility they’re moving towards something more nefarious?

The Khashoggi killing had roots in a cutthroat Saudi family feud

The cutthroat scheming within the House of Saud over the following years matches anything in the fantasy series “Game of Thrones.” The fallout extended to the United States, China, Switzerland and other countries, as the two most powerful clans of the royal family jockeyed for power. As the tension increased, the royal court around Mohammed bin Salman, the new king’s favorite son, even dared to try to kidnap a member of the Abdullah faction in Beijing in a brazen operation in August 2016 that reads like a chapter in a spy thriller.

MBS, as Salman’s son is known, became increasingly anxious and aggressive toward those he considered enemies. Starting in the spring of 2017, a team of Saudi intelligence operatives, under the control of the royal court, began organizing kidnappings of dissidents abroad and at home, according to U.S. and Saudi experts. Detainees were held at covert sites. The Saudis used harsh enhanced interrogation techniques, a euphemism for torture, to make the captives talk. They were forced to sign oaths that if they disclosed any of what happened, they would pay a severe price.

This real-life drama was described to me in a series of interviews by prominent Saudis and U.S. and European experts, in the United States and abroad, in the weeks since Khashoggi’s death. These sources had firsthand knowledge of events but asked not to be identified because they involve sensitive international matters. The information was checked with knowledgeable U.S. sources to confirm its accuracy. It helps explain the vortex of rage and lawlessness that ultimately sucked in Khashoggi, a Post Global Opinions columnist, when he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.

Here’s the bottom line, for U.S. and Saudi experts who have reviewed the intelligence findings: Khashoggi was murdered by a team sent from the royal court in Riyadh, which was part of the rapid-action capability that had been organized 18 months before. Khashoggi’s provocative journalism and his ties to Qatar and Turkey had offended the increasingly autocratic crown prince, who issued a “bring him back” order in July 2018, one that wasn’t understood by U.S. intelligence until three months later, after Khashoggi’s disappearance in Istanbul.