That was a joke—was trying to make fun of hegseth, he’s been talking in that vein lately, and apparently military have been told across branches that they’re fighting for Jesus and Armageddon, which must be coming directly from him.

Casualty numbers are woke virtue signalling—true Christian Armageddon soldiers don’t notice they are wounded, because they are filled with ecstasy at the coming righteous apocalypse!

I find this particularly interesting—he’s got a blind spot on Iran, and I suspect he hasn’t shed received wisdom during his heyday, that Iran = axis of evil. I wonder if he thinks amendinejad is still president? So much about this whole thing seems like a dying fever dream of people who were last in their prime in the 90s…

Yeah this is kinda insane. 2, 3 done, 25? You’re crazy.

It does sorta feel like a logical conclusion to the west’s long-running obsession with the self.

Him and Keith richards

Yeah would be nice not to have ww3/civil war2

Oh for sure. Besides they can just run it back up to the Supreme Court and most likely get what they want.

Ostensibly yes, but I feel like the way the ruling was built—virtually anything they did, from taking a shit to ordering the hit on their grade school bully would fall under their “official duties” and you also weren’t allowed to use any communications from any of their staffers, etc. I just remember that it was basically a blanket immunity, once you factored in the burden of arguing the case.

That said, of course they will apply a different standard/ignore whatever they want. I’m still thinking it won’t go farther than performative statements and social media, but they’re so whacky that it’s almost impossible to make proper predictions about anything.

Would be crazy funny to send bush and Obama to Guantanamo to hang with the 5 mentally ill dudes left from their GWOT years plus a bunch of Venezuelans and Haitians and such. I think they’d have a great time. Obama could teach them about playlist making and bush could start a new painting series…

Well I mean they can arrest him. But presumably they’ll still have to have a trial and his lawyers will point to the ruling. But who knows, maybe they will denaturalize him as a national security threat and deport him to Guantanamo as an enemy combatant and avoid due process altogether.

True.

Does the Supreme Court ruling last year that presidents cannot commit crime while presidenting just mean this is ultimately a non-starter?

For sure.

Wow they’re burning like an entire pack of the cards they had up their sleeves on this one.

Ah dammit autocorrect. Yes, exactly, her hamburger outfit from a while back.

Yeah same—it was so weird because I expected him to be posh and clean shaven, not scraggly curmudgeon wearing a scratchy looking sweater. Good turn for him. Test of the cast is all excellent as well.

At least for me, the show stays strong and delivers. I enjoyed being immersed in the Scottish environs as well. Enjoyed Matthew Goode in a scruffier and messier character as well.

Alternate thought: he just really digs Melanie’s style.

Bro saw the good, the bad and the ugly and has never looked back.

Sidebet: he’s read some pickup artist literature at some point during his formative years where he learned that all you need to be successful is to adopt a cris angel adjacent aesthetic and disparage women’s physical features to their face.

I’d give him points for fully committing, and not worrying how other people perceive him, but there’s no way he’s affecting this look because he’s emotionally resilient and enlightened; more likely he’s full send on some bullshit method, or just wants a unique vibe to hang over his grift.