Yep. They understand it’s about getting their people to vote while making sure the other group doesn’t

Then you’ve had good churches. But don’t discount something just because you’ve been lucky.

If we had installed a tribal council with a few elected positions to counterbalance it; not let the DEA burn cash crops, (buy it and give it to the pharma companies); and installed basic corruption controls, (including among our own reporting lines); the Taliban would never have been allowed back into the country. They were the best alternative in 1991 and remain so in the people’s eyes. They have been ripped apart by fighting since the late 1970’s, they’re tired and want the peace more than they want rights. They would have taken both if we had been even halfway competent and not hellbent on creating USA II: The Middle Eastening.

There was a lot wrong in Afghanistan but it wasn’t the use of force. The people there absolutely wanted a chance to get out from under the Taliban. Bush fucked it from the beginning though, trying to give them the world’s most corrupt western style government, lying about reports of the Taliban resurging, and letting the DEA loose on their cash crops. You could easily see just how badly the country wanted the Taliban back with the massive waves of people fleeing them. We failed them badly, but not in the way you guys think.

As long as they are doing it the right way, by encouraging voting but not voting for a particular candidate

Yeah that’s not what’s happening. They get a sermon every Sunday about horrible immigrants and the woke agenda. Then at this event they get told to make sure they vote Christian. It’s specifically the evangelical churches and mega churches doing this.

You think they bother to read it if it doesn’t fit in their system?

But the web browser won’t feed a stack of a thousand into a system that ranks them based on key words.

Sorry I can only count in full bananas. Reddit really got my brain.

I laughed but I also figured some people probably don’t know the general conversion is that easy. I’m not sure who’s so salty they down voted you.

The government and our laws really aren’t that put together. If he were to defect there would be no visible reaction to us. And the stuff we couldn’t see would be purely defensive, waiting to see what he could actually compromise and then trying to stay ahead of that. That’s what we have systems and procedures for and that’s what the government runs on.

Yes but that would -

Involve effort

Not get them some actually pretty tasty meat. (sorry vegans it’s true, they’re tasty.)

Not give them an excuse to cause suffering among the natives, whose land they were farming on anyways.

There’s a massive difference between watching someone commit arson and watching a document get delivered that turns everything into a RICO case. You’d never know unless you knew the business details.

he has to set all this in motion before a guilty verdict is delivered.

Well that ship sailed.

They aren’t assassins. They’ve spent up to a quarter of their career keeping this guy alive, they aren’t going to turn around and shoot him. In the highly unlikely case Trump let it be known that he actually had a photographic memory and wanted to write it all down for Putin the secret service would simply be recalled. And his plane would fall apart mid-air, as they tend to do when the CIA or FIS (Russian flavor) gets involved.

Most likely scenario is we all remember Trump didn’t even read his intel folders and we wave a fond bon voyage while offering free tickets to Russia for any die hard MAGA fans who want to go with him.

No. Just no. It’s to prevent someone from un-aliving them for stuff they did as President.

Yes, but extradition back when the court issues a bench warrant would also be extremely easy. If there’s already an order keeping him from traveling they’d have to enforce it. Which is part of why that New York judge getting scared was bad, the system is poorly designed for rich defendants. Usually it handles it by getting their passport and restricting them from traveling.

People keep making the mistake of thinking the super rich have loyalty to a country.

Yeah but when you know what they’re messaging on you can absolutely prepare for the worst ones like After Birth Abortion and Immigrants eating pets. Which were the two big fact checks.

Those were some of the best moments though! When the Linsey Davis (moderator) deadpan said, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born." I fell off my couch laughing at Trump. He didn’t know what to do, he was like a fish out of water.

I guess the GOP made it a deal breaker for the VP debate.

But the British did it too is a woefully bad argument.