renames Department of Defense back to Department of War

declines to actually declare war

What is even the point, then? Ignoring the whole “only Congress can declare war” part, of course, but it’s not like that’s going to be a particular difficult hurdle for the regime.

That was when the only people supposed to be at risk were brown people. Now it’s her family on the chopping block. Totally different!

You can’t say that! You’ll hurt poor John Roberts’ precious feefees.

He’s saying that she’s not a person because cops don’t deserve to be considered people.

Clearly, this woman is Hamas. /s

More seriously though, Hamas not mistreating her beyond the initial act of kidnapping makes sense. The entire purpose of taking hostages is to use the threat of harm as leverage. So there’s incentive to keep them in relatively good condition, because as soon as anything happens to them that leverage is lost. Of course, people don’t always remember that, and the whole thing relies on all parties involved at least pretending to act in good faith.