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Yeah, but I may hate doing drywall even more

Why would you assume that? Rollover it with a wallpaper scoring tool, steam the hell out of it, and peel.

Ask hundreds and you’ll often find consensus, but you’ll also often find a handful of outliers who feel differently. Those individuals are referred to as unrepresentative.

Agreed, and even if the courts perhaps decided he wasn’t legally allowed a 3rd term they lack any enforcement mechanisms of their own and he’d just ignore them, have the judeges impeached, and likely sent to prison labor camps in Venezuela. This is a failure of imagination on your part

Nobody’s talking about the citizens he’s disappearing, and how even ones they admit were sent to Venezuelan prisons in error are still there and being ignored.

They also give him more direct control over the economy, specifically in the ability he will now have to grant exceptions for friends and folks who bend the knee.

No

Please don’t tempt the fates

You misspelled “…the historically accurate evidence based conclusion that they won’t be…” It’s just another bad faith argument. Of course it’s acceptable to use Signal in government even at the highest levels, but only to take sandwich orders and schedule bowling nights, not to notify the inner echelons of power about where we’re about to put our troops in harms way. Doesn't matter. Trump only cares about security when it suits him.

Followed by the Big Crunch… of Doritos.

I recall seeing numbers around 16M deaths

You’ve sort of hit the nail on the head here regarding why use of faith to accept something as true is so terribly and childishly misguided

I call it unconvincing.

Faith is the ONLY thing people have for belief in god(s) and is perhaps the single worst reason to accept something as valid.

Agreed. In this particular case, despite intentional misdirection being a nonzero possibility, it’s almost certainly best to conclude this quoted bit is the most correct. From my perspective, you absolutely are. There’s an old saying I learned an eternity ago when studying statistics that I feel likely applies here: When you hear whinnying and the sound of hooves out in the street, it’s generally better to think horses rather than zebra. 🦓

The phrases “internment” and “disappear someone” come to mind

Step 1: Define god in a falsifiable way and in a manner which enjoys shared consensus so the test becomes valid. Go ahead. I’ll wait. <finds cozy spot for a centuries long nap> Have you considered perhaps making better arguments in a more logical, structured, articulate and coherent way? Not perfect, but certainly not impossible. Give it a try sometime! If only someone would invent something like a “search engine” or “library” to help illuminate the dark corners of our ignorance. https://www.idioms.online/jump-the-shark/ Have a happy day, Fonz.

I find myself feeling extra safe and protected knowing folks like these are at the helm of our national security in this chaotic world everyday displaying such numerous threat landscapes: https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/ This was AFTER the story in The Atlantic under discussion here. Laugh. Cry. Rage. I don’t even know anymore.

Optics, specifically with internal polling and politics directly inside the US. From what I can tell, he was primarily concerned that their MAGA base wouldn’t support the action (any action) in a foreign country and that it would divide an otherwise compliant and unified group of zombie sycophants. He was mostly proposing a delay of a month to whip support and deploy a narrative across the right wing media ecosystem that would get his voters on board THEN launch.

It was in his article, too. When NSA chief Mike Waltz initiated the thread with the other Principals, he asked for each of them to reply with the name a primary point of contact from their offices to help with coordination during the operation. They all named their primary point person, including (among others like the VP and DNI and SecDef) also John Radcliffe who is the current head of the CIA under Trump and he named this particular covert operative as his point of contact in response. Doesn’t make it better and not defending it just adding context.

Of course they do. They also look at and borrow from the playbooks of Viktor Orban, and KJU, and Recep Erdogan, and Nayib Bukele, and Jair Bolsonaro, and Javier Milei and others still, such as those used by tin pot dictators across Africa for decades. https://afrikanza.com/blogs/culture-history/worst-african-dictators

Technically, it’s a mind virus