There’s also the Gilboa DBR AR15.

Especially now that they’ve had to start selling off their gold reserves, which is going to crater the ruble even further.

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.

That being said, South America in general has contended with CIA interference for decades. It’s not unreasonable to think they’ve grown wise to their playbook.

Won’t be for long.

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

If you watch something like the Charlie Kirk service, sometimes he can’t even string a complete sentence together without losing his train of thought, or at least forgetting the words he wants to use. He sounds like my granddad before he died - he’ll talk coherently for a minute or two, but if he has to talk for more than 2 or 3 minutes at a stretch, he starts falling apart and can’t string words or concepts together.

He’s treating shit like Civ V. He thinks that by doing this, he can get Venezuela to attack back, and this will provide him the perfect pretext to wage a ground war.

Sounds like it was a metal towing cable, like from a winch? I could definitely see that taking a head off easier than a sturdy rope.

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.

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.

He also stole a shitload of art from the ambassador’s office in France in his first term. You’ll also recall that he wants (dunno if he got) the Declaration of Independence moved into the office as well.

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?

They don’t need to invent law and Roberts et al know it. See, the thing about being on the Supreme Court is that aside from Congress impeaching you, there is no other recourse. Your entire decision could be written as “lol no” and unless Congress decides to impeach you, there’s nothing anyone can do about the decision.

I’ll also throw in November Kelly’s No Gods No Mayors, and occasional guests Failure To Launch (space disasters) and Beyond The Breakers (shipwrecks).