Pretty much

CECOT, mentioned in this article, is a horrifying dystopian nightmare.

It’s probably an insurance fire.

This crying is all theater. There will be an angle to it for Musk and the other oligarchs.

This. Feels like people are just rising to the bait.

Adolf Hitler said he had solutions to all these problems. Screaming his threats and boasts, he could seem insane to outsiders, but he was saying what his audiences wanted to hear. He promised jobs, better living conditions, restored power and pride for Germany, and suppression of communism and other political trouble-makers. He also attacked Germany’s Jews, saying they were responsible for Germany’s defeat in the war.

Despite his growing support, some had a hard time taking him seriously. Hitler’s boasts that Germany would regain power sounded so fantastic, it kept the world laughing for a few more years.

Source: How Did Hitler Succeed

No need. Just lock him in a tesla long enough.

This meme ha a terminal case of Poe’s Law.

Sounds like the original authors were thinking about honourable men with tuberculosis rather than dishonourable men with dementia.

This is probably a naive comment but it seems a pity the Amendments weren’t kept up to date with the times so that their spirit could be enforced by practical applications.

Your dog: 1. e4 e5. 2. Ke2

Amphetamines.

During the last election he went on a big ramble about how Biden is probably on amphetamines for stamina. Sounded like he was telling on himself.

Musk is already occupying that position.

Thank you for clarifying. In that case the rebuttal to kreskin above should be that the 25th amendment does not apply to crimes, rather than that many presidents commit crimes.

Btw, as an outsider I’m pressing X to doubt that anyone will ever be able to successfully invoke the 25th amendment. It will be even harder than impeaching. None of the people involved are willing to relinquish power and independent access to determine their puppet’s dementia would be impossible.

This is even worse, I’m just pointing out that in legal terms the US has been heating this particular frog for quite a while now.

So you want to forcefully exploit people in other nations for your own benefit too, just in a different way to Trump.

The point is whether the 25th amendment should have been invoked.

If the conditions were met, then other past presidents doing the same thing just means the 25th amendment should have been invoked in those situations as well.

I think the seeds for this were sown in the post 9/11 secret court system, in which the US govt authorized itself to break national and international law.

(explicitly, anyway)

The US wasn’t doing anything to Laos explicitly. The carpet bombing was covert.

I think perhaps you are forgetting that the CIA didn’t recruit every single Hmong person in Laos and somehow keep them safe from its illegal bombing campaign. There were still plenty of non aligned civilians, women and children etc.

Take a look at a map of “Operation Barrel Roll” etc you will see at a glance that most of the 250 million cluster bombs were deployed in the same highland part of Laos where the Hmong predominantly lived. The target was Vietnamese fighters sure but it recklessly affected everyone. Unexploded ordinance is a problem there even to this day.

This is true. The full horror of the Killing Fields and the Cambodian Genocide was reported in 1989.

For the next 14 years the US insisted that the genocidal Khmer Rouge and their allies were the “legitimate” rulers of Cambodia and the rest of the world had to witness the actual Cambodian government shut out of the United Nations while the Khmer Rouge occupied their seat there. This went on until 1993.

Pol Pot was never held to account for his crimes against humanity and died a free man.

It’s hard to put into words how angry all this made everyone I knew. Newspapers were running photos of piles of skulls and talking about the tree they used to kill babies in S21. And the perps were attending the UN, bolstered by US support.

Instead he got given a Nobel Peace Prize and went on to help more people commit genocides in other countries. An incredibly evil person.

The fact that Bourdain died young and Kissinger lived to be 100 proves that the world is not a just place.

We are aware. America has been breaking international human rights law for decades.

Everyone I know who is my age knows about it. If you have heard of “Manufacturing Consent” that’s one of the things Noam Chomsky writes about in that book.

The carpet bombing of Laos and covert support of Pol Pot is also one of the many reasons we all celebrated when Henry Kissinger died.

I think Americans probably know less about it than people outside the US. The US does a lot of awful stuff. We do care, it’s just the US is so powerful there’s nothing the rest of us can do about any of it.