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Reading the article he also said that parents should be able to cast votes on behalf of their minor children, which is much more alarming to me.

"Other Emergencies" is a euphemism for liberal/non-white protests. The idea of their home town being overrun by "leftist" mob violence occupies both the nightmares and the fever dreams of the kinds of gun owners who would respond to this call-up.

DeSantis reactivated the Florida State Guard on similar grounds of "disaster relief" then started training them like soldiers. Now he has a force of 1500 or so that reports directly to him and cannot be federalized. He even sent a few of them to the Texas border to test the waters.

Expect to see more of these yokels try to muster up armed thugs in the coming months. I fear the worst no matter the outcome of the election.

He got fucking dragged by Trumpworld after he resigned over Trump's stance on Afghanistan (or was it the Kurds?), it was probably one of the most severe about-faces I've ever seen from conservatives about one man. Went from a Marine's Marine, a warrior-scholar, to a complete disgrace to the Corps as far as they're concerned.

Really cemented my view of Trump as a cult of personality when I saw that narrative, and the base eating it up, in real time.

Mmm fecal microparticles

Doing everything possible to dismantle it as an organization short of Tim McVeighing the headquarters?

I was under the impression that basically every commercial weather station just copied the NWS's homework, which is a decidedly Republican arrangement: have the taxpayer foot the bill for the actual work while private interest reaps the benefits.

If the NWS goes away, they'll have to do their own meteorology. Maybe there's some way to spin some profit from that situation that I'm not degenerate enough to see yet, but it seems like it's against their own interests.

The angry mob wanted to kill him, not the orchestrators that would have pull with the USSS. Do you think they were going to drive him out into the mob to the world's shittiest gallows?

If it ever came out that people in the Trump administration actively participated in a well-defined plot to kill Pence, they would fry. That's why they sicced the mob on the capital to commit spontaneous violence. Difficult if not impossible to prove conspiracy, and the people getting jail time would be the red hat morons, not the people in charge. Again, they (the orchestrators) were half-hearted cowards that were more concerned with saving themselves if it failed than doing anything to make sure it succeeded, and for this moment in time we should be thankful for that.

I don't think they were going to kill him. I think their play was to bring him off-site "for his safety" so he couldn't certify the election, at most a kidnapping.

The whole thing was too noncommittal by the big players in case things went to shit, which it did. They didn't have the balls to plan out an assassination of the VP.

It might have worked if they had the balls to do that, and other things.

You might get off easier than the colored or mixed person in the equation, but you certainly wouldn't be okay as a race-traitor.

No way would USSS be able to get his fat ass to wear a vest consistently, let alone the plates needed to stop a rifle round. In this heat?

Though I'm sure now he may reconsider, or be forced to.

The DNC is controlled opposition for the owner class. They exist to attract and squash any substantial change to our current system, and to give you hope that such change is still possible so long as you stay civil and play by the rules.

What would you be doing right now if every single person in government behaved like Republicans?

They ain't called "a gas station masquerading as a country" for nothing. The world switching to renewables, either proactively now or out of desperation later, would be a massive hit to them.

Other than that maybe climate refugees? But they likely intend to conquer the places these people come from anyway, and don't have many qualms about "dealing with" unwanted populations.