Kansas? Is my guess
Oh Virginia per kreative’s post
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What in the actual name of all that is fucking holy
The only thing I can think of about that photo is that ESPN posted some picture about how today was the day in 1985 Rocky knocked out Drago. Though I’m not sure why Trump is proud of that given his Russian stance?
Not sure why “hypersonic” is in scare quotes there. Hypersonic flight is definitely a real thing that Russia/USA are working on. I sorta doubt they’d be able to keep them secret for 40 years if they already had hypersonic missiles.
It’s just a random troll. Him or one of his staffers saw it floating around the derposphere and saw how much his supporters loved it so they posted it.
Let me introduce you to Bait Car, a reality TV show premised on tempting poor people into committing crimes and busting them for it. They would leave nice cars in poor neighborhoods unlocked with the engines running and wait for some poor kid to come along and take it, then send them to prison: Bait Car (TV series) - Wikipedia
They do this all the time AFAIK. There’s a sign where I go hiking and at the malls in AZ that says “Warning active police bait cars are in this parking lot.”
Jesus Christ.
I kind of agree with microbet earlier when he said that we shouldn’t be amazed any more, but one of the features of recent-ish politics for me is continually still being amazed by this or that, and then almost immediately feeling like a naive moron.
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President Trump involved himself in the case almost from the start. Before the trial began, in March, I received two calls from the president asking me to lift Gallagher’s confinement in a Navy brig; I pushed back twice, because the presiding judge, acting on information about the accused’s conduct, had decided that confinement was important. Eventually, the president ordered me to have him transferred to the equivalent of an enlisted barracks. I came to believe that Trump’s interest in the case stemmed partly from the way the defendant’s lawyers and others had worked to keep it front and center in the media.
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On Nov. 14, partly because the president had already contacted me twice, I sent him a note asking him not to get involved in these questions. The next day, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone called me and said the president would remain involved. Shortly thereafter, I received a second call from Cipollone who said the president would order me to restore Gallagher to the rank of chief.
This was a shocking and unprecedented intervention in a low-level review. It was also a reminder that the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.
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They actually said the Democrats are in trouble because they didn’t fully litigate all the BS privilege claims before the senate trial. They live in an alternative universe.
That’s still nowhere near as bad as some of the anti-terrorism stuff. Let me find something…just taking about 15 seconds
“The target, the motive, the ideology and the plot were all led by the FBI,” said Karen Greenberg, a law professor at Fordham University in New York, who specialises in studying the new FBI tactics.
Burim Duka, whose three brothers were jailed for life for their part in the scheme, insists they did not know they were part of a terror plot and were just buying guns for shooting holidays in a deal arranged by a friend. The “friend” was an informant who had persuaded another man of a desire to attack Fort Dix.
But things may not be that easy. At issue is the word “entrapment”, which has two definitions. There is the common usage, where a citizen might see FBI operations as deliberate traps manipulating unwary people who otherwise were unlikely to become terrorists. Then there is the legal definition of entrapment, where the prosecution merely has to show a subject was predisposed to carry out the actions they later are accused of.
Theoretically, a simple expression, like support for jihad, might suffice, and in post-9/11 America neither judges nor juries tend to be nuanced in terror trials. “Legally, you have to use the word entrapment very carefully. It is a very strict legal term,” said Greenberg.
But in its commonly understood usage, FBI entrapment is a widespread tactic. Within days of the 9/11 terror attacks, FBI director Robert Mueller issued a memo on a new policy of “forward leaning – preventative – prosecutions”.
Our Hero!!!
In southern California, FBI informant Craig Monteilh trawled mosques posing as a Muslim and tried to act as a magnet for potential radicals.
Monteilh, who bugged scores of people, is a convicted felon with serious drug charges to his name. His operation turned up nothing. But Monteilh’s professed terrorist sympathy so unnerved his Muslim targets that they got a restraining order against him and alerted the FBI, not realising Monteilh was actually working on the bureau’s behalf.
Nice policing there, police.
Ok, you probably didn’t make it down to here, but if you did, how about this criminal mastermind…
He functions at the level of an 8-year-old child. He’s never lived on his own, has never had a job, and can’t tie his own shoes. He lacks motor coordination and cannot button a shirt or put on a belt.
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There’s a film out recently about terrorist related entrapment by Chris Morris, a bona fide satirical genius. Haven’t seen it yet as it hasn’t had a release where I am, but it’s out in the US and UK.
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Less full-fledged member, more Rump State.
