MFr looks like a live action dr seuss villain and plays the part.

Trump voters hating him? I think I might take you up on that bet.

I think that the health insurance industry is profoundly immoral.

When it comes to strategy, however, morality doesn’t even factor in.

Since the US is headed for 4 years of a made-for-tv style society, I guess this slots right in.

This smells like the second amendment argument about defending against a tyrannical government. Please, take inventory of materiel and finances before you go down that road.

I would argue there’s another deep hypocrisy lying with people who insist such figureheads should be killed, but the only action they take is blathering about it on public forums.

Be the change you seek, go set an example if you think you know what’s right.

But pitting us against the ruling class in this way isn’t going to be a winning proposition. The best you’ll get is a massive and severe security clampdown.

Interesting, are you recruiting me to do something specific with you? Or should we just keep discussing how it’s immoral not to do violence on an extremely public forum?

I don’t know if it’s morals, I just don’t have the stomach for violence. That’s kind of a weird thing to say to a person anyway.

It should go without saying that such violence is not good and not supportable.

I am not celebrating. It’s a tragedy, even if a predictable one. We’ll all do better with a little more cooperation and a lot less greed.

I don’t like it when people die, or get maimed.

If I say that I can understand how something like this happens, it’s not out of sympathy for the murderer. It’s just an accounting of facts amidst the fact that billions of people exist so obviously someone is going to be willing to kill for their perceived injustices. Especially when injustices are a lot more concrete than abstract.

It should go without saying that such violence is not good and not supportable.

That said, I also think those who make monopolistic fortunes off the sick while also dictating refusal of care to the sick are categorically not civilians. It is what it is.

Oh I don’t know, the Budweiser stock hit endured pretty lengthy after being advertised by a non-redneck.

COVID “lockdown skeptic” sounds extremely quaint at this point.

And that answers OPs question.

I don’t think a military invasion is really necessary. An infiltration of our power structures is going to be the way to achieve their own national objectives. And, I hope I’m being dramatic, but I think Trump is paving the way for it.

I think most of who you’re hearing are Americans. I might hate Putin with all my heart, but he leads a different country. There isn’t “chain of command” between me and him.

Edit/more blathering:

I try to avoid the virulent speech (not always successfully I admit) about Americans’ choice in leadership. And to a large degree, at home, even that is outside my “sphere of influence”, but I at least have an opportunity to be heard by other parts of the electorate here.

And by the way, I think supporting Trump is supporting Putin. I hope I’m wrong, but I do believe that.

We can piss and moan about Putin (and we do, I’m not sure what you’re missing TBH), but investing time and emotional energy, it makes sense to start at home, where we at least should have some influence on self-determination.

Obviously the military will take a side.

But, this isn’t the 1800s.

We will be pounced upon, infiltrated, and ultimately subjugated by what will formerly have been near-peers.

Weird that the person who ran for president as a legal defense and offense strategy wants to put his personal lawyers everywhere in the justice dept.

Every minute is a death and a rebirth.

He’s bargaining with public opinion. Making a preposterous offer before making the one he thinks will land for him.

He’s going to be on bed rest after his next eyebrow raise.

You play the hand you have.

Depending on your personal attachment to that car, your personal interest in a different car, your financial capacity, the ability to extend your lease is just another card you can play.

What is a “good deal” anyway? What are you seeking? Something pragmatic like equivalent reliability to your current car but for equal or less cost of ownership?