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This is why it's not hard to rag on the Times/Post and other outlets. They simply pull their punches, particularly in headlines (which is what most people actually read) It was pretty clear what he was implying with his comments (at least for anyone who has ever seen Goodfellas anyway), but there's this pathological need to pretend that this is all "business as usual".

Grampa apparently can't remember what country he's obsessing over lol

We're at the "Emporer Has No Clothes" stage, and at this point, the only ones who don't seem to see it (aside from the MAGA base) are American elites

The fact that he is way more dangerous than the guy on the bus doesn't make him not a loon. This press conference he's now giving is a really good example of how two things can be true at once. And that acknowledging malignant narcissism (especially in his old age) isn't a downplaying of the danger he presents.

As is Donald Trump.

This is the part I'll never understand... every time he does stupid **** like this, there's this almost impulsive need among both his supporters and the mainstream media to backfill some sort of logic to it to make it seems like business as usual. With Greenland, like many other cases, it isn't. There isn't any strategic genius here, he's just a malignant narcissist who sees how big it looks on a map and salivates in the same way that a German Shepherd would salivate over a New York Strip. It gets exhausting hearing many (media, supporters *and* some of his foes) apply some sort of sophisticated logic to any of this when there clearly is none.

It's not the most important thing, but his comments to the Norwegian PM (note: not his award to give in the first place) kinda demonstrates that he quite obviously is not committed to peace and doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as a Nobel prize. Truly unhinged stuff... We have a 25th Amendment for times like these

Ladies and gentlemen... The President of the United States. Embarrassing

I don't think the passage of time is going to help them

He doesn't have the manpower to do it at scale.

Populism is really good at identifying and railing against problems. It's terrible at actually doing constructive things to deal with said problems. A tale as old as time

And with respect to Sue's post: I am a man, certainly I do not understand every aspect of how women are experiencing this moment. But I have a family and am married to a woman who is not all that separated in age to Ms. Good. One of my initial reactions, once learning the details, is that this could have been any mom who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. That's what makes this moment so scary and why it's pissing off so many people. If they would do it to Renee Good, they'd do it to anyone else too

Kurtzleben (who is an NPR person fwiw) has some additional points below which honestly make sense. Particularly when you consider how much we heard during and post 2024 about male concerns and neglect of those concerns (think of all the discussions of Rogan and Theo Von and other podcasters for instance) Whether there was a grain of truth to it or not, it objectively looks to me that women are the scapegoats of the moment.

To Sue's point, this is how Fox News is choosing to cover things:

Behold... One of the dumbest answers ever offered in this history of the Sunday shows.

Is the position here that a platform should be able to create and disseminate AI child porn without any sort of consequences?

Nothing screams capitalism like *checks notes* the state seizing the means of production

Definitely not the point I'm trying to make fwiw.

At the risk of being told that I'm whistling past the graveyard, we're talking about an agency of 20k officers in a country of 340 million. And an agency that has had significant issues recruiting new people despite added appropriations from the OBBB (ie. all the ads and signing bonuses), probably because unless you are a complete sociopath, it is demoralizing work. What they are doing in the Twin Cities is awful, it's certainly what they spent a lot of time down here doing during the fall months. But the reason they are surging resources up there, in all likelihood, is because they do not have the ability to do what they want to at scale. It's basically a large traveling roadshow at time point... This month its the cities, next month it could be another metro area. And they'll continue to do so until something breaks this cycle. (Whatever that thing is, I hope it happens sooner rather than later) As far as my neighbors are concerned, having sympathy for what the administration is doing and actually going out and signing up and putting skin in the game are two different things. Hence the aforementioned recruiting issues. The reality is that people want to go along to get along for the most part. They aren't disrupting their lives for this ****

Just a random observation, but while ICE's ostensible charge is centered around enforcing immigration law, it's noticable how little "immigration" factors in to this operation. Or that they aren't even bothering with the pretense that this operation is about "immigration"... It's purely about harassing a large metropolitan area because they can. If they keep this up, they are going to end up turning "abolish ICE" into something the median voter actually agrees with.

Nothing against the people of Iran and their struggle for freedom, but when people can't drive around the suburbs of Minneapolis St Paul without a nonzero chance of being accosted by our own government, it's a little hard to divide one's attention And it's certainly hard for me to take our own government's commitment to "democracy" and "freedom" seriously. Particularly as events in the Cities unfold and as they have endorsed the rump of Nicolas Maduro's government to stay in power after his ouster.

Imagine touting an aggregator that shows your guy being disliked by the majority of Americans as some sort of achievement.

I guess I'm unclear as to what part of that video is exculpatory of the state here.... if anything, it's only going to make things worse to their case, at least in terms of how the general public views what happened.

Also funny coming from the guy that is constantly posting Twitter links from said right wing grifters caught grifting lol