The big issue is giving Russia the territory it conquered. This is “if you give a mouse a cookie” in geopolitics - Russia will see this as a pause to let them rebuild, then they’ll take over a little more, and a little more, until they own everything. This is how Israel keeps expanding its borders, and it will signal to every other country out there, if accepted, that invasions are totally fine, you just have to make the conflict public enough that the West forces capitulation.

Not a comic, an AI-generated video that was shared by the fucking White House.

Yeah, they keep redefining it every few years so they can say “oh it’s race realism” or identifying trends or whatever rather than “I’m one step shy of my grandpappy who canvassed for George Lincoln Rockwell”.

Bingo. Daddy Miller is saying they have to hit 3000 deportations a day or something. Means that you gotta redefine a lot of people as unacceptable - Polish, Italians, Irish, Slavs, Spaniards, Catholics…

No reason to think it’s going to stop with Venezuela. Colombia is on the list, along with Brazil, and probably Mexico. Anyone they can’t bribe into being helpful, they’re going to invade, because assassination is boring and looks weak compared to sending the entire might of your army to kill one dude.

Won’t be for long.

No no, the nuclear-armed Gundam doesn’t come until after the war with Zeon.

Soup kitchens and food banks are not usually looking for more food, but they’re ALWAYS short on hands. Food Not Bombs is also a good one if there’s a local chapter in your area. There are often tenant’s rights orgs out there that can use time, money, or expertise in legal matters (sometimes also just handyman skills).

Oh this was set up well before all that. UFC and Trump inked this deal back in, like, April as I remember.

This is their Blutfahne, their Blood Flag. It’s mythmaking - you just have to get people outraged enough and they’ll believe pretty much anything they’re presented with. I truly believe they had all this in the tank for when Trump keeled over (actually I think they were drawing this up before he nearly bought it in Butler PA), but martyrdom is a POWERFUL force, especially in a critical mass of people who are primed for martyr culture in the way the largely-white-supremacist-flavored American Evangelical communities are. The GOP is pissed that nobody successfully took a shot at Reagan, either Bush, or Trump I, so now they’re latching on in an attempt to get SOME gas on the fire before it burns out.

This is just wealth transfer to keep another AI company afloat. Most of them live and die on investor cash, and never turn a profit.

Blanks require you to buy them, in a lot of these places you already have a pile of spare Soviet or local ammo at home.

Ahh, but we’ve never really had such top-to-bottom corruption like this. A president who thinks himself a king, and everyone from congresspeople to governors to state secretaries to city officials who want him to stay that way. Sure, Bush might not have suspended elections, or Obama, but I can definitely see Trump trying.

“Police action”, because even with the current climate, it might be hard to get Congress to declare an actual war.

Don’t breathe too big a sigh of relief, they’ve already made noises like they want to find ways to strip naturalization for a LOT more people than they already have.

I’ll also throw in Iron Sky.

They’re hoping celebrity endorsement will drive numbers up. ICE has, predictably, been having serious trouble recruiting - why else would they be offering enormous salaries and benefits packages to match?

No no, this is a hybrid. Suicide drone attacks from the Ukrainian war and nail-bombs to depopulate areas from their former neighbor Bashar al-Assad.

It already basically IS the next Versailles. Versailles was built as a huge, ostentatious show of wealth and power over the aristocracy, so Louis XIV could show that he held all the power. By making all these fancy nobles drag their asses out to the middle of nowhere (at the time - the city effectively grew up to support the palace) and stay there for weeks or months at a time, often without proper accommodations (quite literally you would set up camp in the gardens or wherever you thought you could get away with it - if you stayed in the palace proper, you were quite high in status), you flexed serious power over them, especially when they felt they NEEDED to attend all these balls and galas and symposiums and concerts that were constantly happening there so you could stay in the King’s favor.

Any of this sounding familiar?

Shortest was actually James Madison. 5’4".