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The simple explanation is that the DHS, as an unpleasant arm of the current administration, are talking shit as usual. Pay it no heed.

Kudos to them for this final act of resistance, at least those with day 4 tickets may well see a decent chunk of play.

Would be a bit of a farce if it did end up with England having to come back tomorrow needing two to win or something... hopefully they can take these last two wickets quickly.

Also Cox hasn't put a foot wrong as WK today.

This could still well be done tonight tbh - still another 15(ish) overs of play and England will only need 2-3 maximum to chase whatever nominal target is set.

Pakistan at least putting up something more of a fight this morning, then.

Absolutely no disagreement there.

Perhaps, but that didn't drag the rest of the world into it in an obviously direct fashion. On that score, from what I can tell the front lines are pretty static over there now. It has however taught us that the era of fast manoeuvre warfare with combined arms (tanks, APCs supported by artillery) is over once again, thanks to the advent of ubiquitous drone tech. At least, until someone figures a way to level that particular playing field.

On that score IMO the only way the midterms will change the landscape is if somehow the Dems get enough in the Senate to convict following an impeachment in the House. That doesn't seem likely. Of course, a simple majority would be enough to render him a lame duck and then (hopefully) look for criminal proceedings after January 2029.

That's the critical point for me - the total lack of point of it beginning and continuing.

Back then it certainly was viewed differently. I think it's a good thing today though that people at large have a different view towards romanticising death and horrific suffering no matter the cause. FWIW my take is that often the "donkeys" were not "donkeys" either, they were hyenas. They often weren't incompetent, they knew full well what their decisions meant, but they did them anyway because they often viewed the lives of those men as expendable in the service of a "greater cause" (which, funnily enough, often benefited them directly in the form of material gain and "honouring").

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-pledges-that-if-voters-defeat-socialism-in-november-they-will-each-get-an-equal-redistribution-of-wealth-from-the-government Sometimes the Bee really does hit the nail on the head.

And the most tragic thing for me about that is that in the case of WWI, those brave, poor young airmen were dying for a reason that had absolutely zero material benefit to them. Ditto a lot of the brave young men on the ground. Such an incredibly pointless waste of a near-generation of men.

It's been mentioned, yes. Personally I think it's very on brand for the man. And anyone who thought he couldn't or wouldn't plumb these depths really wasn't paying attention.

This is astute, especially coming from someone in a very similar age group to me. The only thing I'll add is that while the events of September 11th and a fair few things thereafter have dealt crippling blows to that idealism you mention, it cannot - must not - be abandoned by those who still think it can happen. Because, IMO, to give up on the ideas you mention here is to give up on the only human future that isn't nasty, brutish and, invariably, short. Do what we can until we really, truly, cannot.

Yeah, that kind of thing is exactly what I mean. Which is why making sure that man does, at some point, face very public and very comprehensive justice, is going to be bloody difficult, but also absolutely necessary.

Of course it's illicit. The problem is, as it has been for some time, gaining enough traction and support among the corruption to actually gain a meaningful conviction. It's patently obvious that the man has committed a list of felonies that measures into the lightyear range. It's also patently obvious that there are a great many people with varying degrees of power who will do their utmost to stop him seeing any kind of justice for those many crimes, because they know he facilitates the direct persecution of people they get off on hurting and oppressing. It's proving quite difficult to make progress against that inertia of bigotry.

Yeah. Robinson is an utter menace right now.

Yeah, this will be done around this time tomorrow, probably.

I wonder what his other policy stances are?

And the really terrible thing is how much innocent blood has been spilled because of it in the 25 years since.

If those beholden to MAGA didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.

Damn it, Harry, your batting average would be at least 10 higher if your IQ didn't match it. Still, job pretty much done for this Test anyway.

The thing is that it's pretty obvious that if things go bad, that terrible future will consume them as well. The idea that the "elite" will be able to survive in the way they choose in a much less populated world, for whatever reason, is fanciful.

Because unfortunately the "Denethor gazes into the Palantir so much he loses all hope" psyop (known as doomscrolling these days) has been very successful. If people don't really believe things can change, they won't try. And that just makes what they fear inevitable, rather than merely possible/probable.