Has there been any official WH note on the need for this war, yet? Or objectives?
This war is not a war. Not a.war war. Just a "war". No war has been declared.
We already won. Are you tired of winning yet?
Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
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#102Crazy how effective at making everything worse this admin has been.
Trump is but a symptom of an underlying sickness. Things won't magically go back to normal after he dies.
America has neglected working class people for decades. The economy has shifted from supporting earning income to make a decent living, to protecting assets (bail outs etc.) Trump tapped into this and tricked these people into electing him, bringing along right wing or whatever they are.. and they got hold of power. Don't think numbers are there for this culture war crowd to stay in power unless they hitch a ride with someone.
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#104The U.S. government shutdown has halted pay to the TSA, but not ICE, so ICE is taking over from the TSA in airports[1]. If you fly to the U.S., starting Monday apparently, the first think you're likely to see is masked gunmen giving you the eye. No thankyou. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cede0qyvqz3o
I feel like "form your own private paramilitary organisation with minimal oversight, then expand their reach by having them take over the operations of other government departments" has been done before somewhere, as part of a larger plan.
They dont have all the skills to do anything super complex in a sustainable way. Already proved in the first term. What their existence demonstrates is winning election is not super complex if you can find enough groups to precisely target and pander/capture attention. Social media has been a force multiplier for such behavior and the people that have emerged dont have any other skill other than attention capture. But thats short term win like full focus on marketing while product and operations have no hope of catching up. Every "large plan" will fail. Large plans in complex ever changing environments always need massive cooperation of very different skills. Never happens sustainably with just one skill dominating all.
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#106My first thought: You don't say?
Right? What kind of person does not follow the news but subscribes to the State Department notifications?
All the people who decided to stay in the Middle East even when the second carrier group was en route, and then thought they were news worth enough to get on camera and comment about there being no commercial flights out of there.
Re: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
#107The U.S. government shutdown has halted pay to the TSA, but not ICE, so ICE is taking over from the TSA in airports[1]. If you fly to the U.S., starting Monday apparently, the first think you're likely to see is masked gunmen giving you the eye. No thankyou. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cede0qyvqz3o
Enter the country and you interact with CBP and that hasn't changed. CBP agents are the ones who murdered the legal observers in Minneapolis so there's that.
TSA checks bags for commercial airlines which is a service that should never have been nationalized.
Re: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution
#108The U.S. government shutdown has halted pay to the TSA, but not ICE, so ICE is taking over from the TSA in airports[1]. If you fly to the U.S., starting Monday apparently, the first think you're likely to see is masked gunmen giving you the eye. No thankyou. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cede0qyvqz3o
It will be so much fun to watch the World Cup from outside the US...
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#109What the fuck was even the intended purpose of starting this war in Iran? Like in their mind, what was the best case scenario?
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#110Crazy how effective at making everything worse this admin has been.
That's the strategy of Project 2025, make all the nice things we have much worse and broken so there's no choice but to scrap and start over. While they're in charge, of course.
Project 2025 and the Trump administration is the most success ant-growth movements have ever had.