He’s also wanting Venezuela to declare war first.

And a president who wants to shoot those protestors, and a federal police, answerable to no one, who can definitely do it. I’m giving it a year before we see at least one protest met with overwhelming lethal force.

Blueprints aren’t needed if the project is going to be a boondoggle to swindle more cash out of investors. Just keep adding stuff, just keep claiming you NEED to add more stuff, and eventually you wind up with The Big Dig.

He’s also wanting to use the construction as a smokescreen to expand the Fuhrerbunker Presidential bunker.

…Because the metals are likely melted down for scrap value and the jewels are probably popped out and sold to gray-market connections. Unless you happen to run into a jeweler who REALLY KNOWS THEIR SHIT, there’s really not a good way to trace a gem back to the piece it came from unless that jewel is incredibly identifiable, not worked further after its theft, and of a known provenance.

It’s not “oh there’s a shadowy dude who ordered them to be stolen away so they could be cashed in”, it’s because jewelry theft is a highly practiced art and anyone smart enough to put a heist together like this and simply vanish is also smart enough to make sure the evidence is gone within days. Puts real reasonable doubt into a jury or judge when your prosecutor has to say “well, we don’t HAVE THE JEWELRY, and we can’t GET IT BACK, but I swear this is the dude”.

It’s like having your car stolen and chopped.

This is HIGHLY untrue. A lot of these kids get pushed into football by culture, by economics. They get thrown in by HS coaches who tell them it’s the only way they’ll afford college. NFL has also done a FANTASTIC job of walling up research on CTE and TBI as a result of regular play - it’s literally only been in the last decade or so that shit’s started to come out, and even then, nobody focuses on it because it doesn’t print papers.

A lot of these players see it as the only way to escape the poverty trap, and comments like this are disgusting. Sure “they think they’re better”, why not, when LITERALLY THE ENTIRE BUBBLE AROUND THEM TELLS THEM TO. They do it for “fame and fortune”, yeah, because if you were young and usually poor to middle class at best and saw a way into the upper echelons of society by playing a game you’re good at, YOU WOULD DO IT TOO.

Fuck off with this victim blaming nonsense.

Cue boondoggle contract bidding, as per usual.

We already started a war in Guatemala in the 50s that’s still going on sort of.

This. It’s not “journalistic integrity”, the way Hegseth has worded things, this prevents outlets from spinning or telling half the story. It’s literally back to WWII press - here is the story from the War Department, you may print this and nothing else, with no editorializing.

I’ve seen comparisons to the Black Tom incident in WWI, where the Germans sabotaged an explosives factory in the US that was making shells for the English war effort. Interested to see if Russian sabotage jumped from just Europe.

Our company orders a lot of stuff from overseas manufacturers because it’s highly specialized precision equipment. One department is currently locked in a nightmare with customs wanting not just manufacturing sources for each component of this equipment, but they want raw-material sources for each component as well. So not just “where was this manufactured”, but “where was the steel for this poured”.

It’s been a month of chasing down these things for every single component, down to individual screws, bolts, and pins.

You forgot Existing While Poor or Leftist as well.

He SO WANTS to be Eliot Ness in The Untouchables with that.

Incredibly recently. The Civil Rights movement included advocacy for political violence, and arguably one of the only reasons it worked was Malcolm X and the Black Panthers saying “hey here’s our alternative if our nonviolent fight doesn’t work, we’re all strapped and willing to hand out more guns if shit requires it”.

Specifically, he’s mad he hasn’t been able to get popular support for gunning down protestors. Quite literally this man wants every protest in America, over anything vaguely left or center, to be met with a hail of .50cal, tanks, everything.

The trick is that urbanized guerilla warfare rarely works for long without a heavily sympathetic populace who are largely willing to shield you. I don’t think the US has that, not in numbers enough to matter.

Definitely a meeting where you’d want to sit close to the exit.

I do think there’s a part of Trump that’s buying the religious rhetoric in his inner circle. Tell a narcissist enough times that they’re not just special, but the incarnation of Christ Himself, and thus can do whatever he damn well pleases, and they’ll latch onto it as an excuse if nothing else.