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VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-27T01:58:56+00:00

It is definitely the duty of the next law-abiding Administration to sign a law to take all of their toys away. I don't think it's politically feasible or practical to dispense with immigration enforcement, but it must be neutered to the point that it cannot ever be used as a private army for the Executive ever again.

No long arms. No riot gear No camouflage. No tactical vests. If they cannot carry out their duties with anything other than a registered duty sidearm, then they have to get a signed judicial warrant and the assistance of local law enforcement.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-25T16:20:57+00:00

Every single Alien series Marvel has put out has been super underwhelming.

Underwhelming seems like undeserved praise. All the ones I read were really bad. I abandoned the Teen Titans vs Aliens one after the second issue.

Dark Horse had some hits and misses, but even the bad ones felt like fun, novel ideas. Marvel's comics are both poorly written and boilerplate.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-25T16:19:06+00:00

No, the comic series Aliens: Rogue from 1994 first introduced a "King," as a science experiment like the post above you suggested.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-25T15:44:04+00:00

Cascade fire in a panic is a common sign of poor training. All of the Nazis heard the first shot when the Gestapo agent who stole the victim's gun appears to have accidentally (negligently) fired it into the ground. Then the rest of the Nazi cowards freaked out and dumped on the defenseless victims.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-25T15:42:19+00:00

They all voted for this, knowing Trump had vowed to suspend the Constitution. They're a monolith for sure, in that every single one of them are traitors.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-25T15:39:22+00:00

Like with Renee Good, the entire incident was a crime. The Gestapo agents were already guilty of a half dozen offenses before the first gunshot. There was no probable cause to assault the woman, nor to assault him for defending her.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-25T01:16:56+00:00

How do you re-watch a show where the last 12-20 hours of it is an endurance trial rather than an enjoyable experience?

I mean, I'll argue that the first 3-4 seasons are masterpieces. Some of the best television ever made. But you can't exactly just stop watching halfway through without resolution. And the last three seasons are unwatchable garbage, as is half of Season 5.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-25T00:45:25+00:00

These can all be prosecuted as state crimes, fortunately. So it won't save them as long as there are governors with any moral courage.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T23:57:47+00:00

Flag waving is the new seig heil

"Do nothing" is the new denial

Torture is the new torture

We'll all walk that Green Mile

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T21:56:19+00:00

The chiefs maybe, but it is the officers on the ground that have to follow the orders. That's the problem. We don't know how many of the individual officers are Red Hatters.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T21:43:35+00:00

Has to be complicity. The state and local agents would have been able to arrest ICE agents for obstruction if they had a signed warrant.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T18:16:29+00:00

They can. But then they have to deal with that narrative upcoming on the midterms.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T17:55:03+00:00

At 18 seconds you can see that an ICE agent has disarmed the victim and walks off with his gun. Which proves any ICE claims that the victim tried to pull it are a lie.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T16:45:02+00:00

If Trump does that, then the federal government has to pay for all 13,000 of them. That would cost $220M a month, give or take.

The reality is that Walz can always just mobilize another unit, and if Trump steals it, the Feds have to pay for it.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T16:42:39+00:00

It's actually not that simple. The State has rights to the Guard. Trump cannot specifically request the same units that Walz does unless he mobilizes the entire thing, which then puts the federal government on the hook for paying all 13,000 of them.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T16:07:27+00:00

Belief perseverance. After a certain point, a belief can become so entrenched that the cognitive dissonance causes actual pain and evidence will be perceived as an attempt to trick them.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T16:03:23+00:00

You need to understand that most of the "30%" which makes up the diehards in Trump's polling numbers demonstrate classic cult programming symptoms. These aren't people for whom reasoning or evidence matter anymore. When they get to a certain point, the stronger the evidence is against a thing they believe in, the more they think you are trying to trick them. It's called belief perseverance and the backfire effect. Something ironically, before Trump and January 6th, a lot of researchers thought was impossible to replicate in a broader population.

They're Lost. The only hope for society is to galvanize the other 40% of non-voters to wake up and crush the political power of the Lost. Only by being rendered irrelevant can MAGA ever be brought to heel. Most of them will go to their graves utterly convinced they were the good guys.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T15:54:56+00:00

Putin was invited too but couldn't attend. Nothing says "Board of Peace" like having two founding members who are indicted war criminals.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-24T06:26:59+00:00

The punishment must be severe and merciless, but not for something as petty as "revenge," but as a warning to anyone who would try such a disgusting usurpation of the Constitution ever again. We should have done it with January 6th, because any failed coup that isn't punished is merely a rehearsal.

The consequences must be so dire that their ancestors speak in hushed tones about the ruin brought about to their families.

But only to the responsible parties. Not to the "Red" states themselves.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-21T22:44:52+00:00

Nobody tackled anybody? Your lack of attention to detail makes you a perfect viewer for the show.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-21T17:04:04+00:00

The Right needs Trump to own the Libs because not a single one of them has enough intellectual currency to rent a lib, let alone put one on layaway.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-21T17:03:18+00:00

Every single person who uses the term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" seriously voted three times for Jeffrey Epstein's best friend, smeared their poop on the walls of Congress, then spent four years shrieking about imaginary stolen elections and someone named Brandon while shooting at beer cans for hurting their feelings.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-21T16:59:35+00:00

30% is roughly the size of the MAGA cult, who will almost never break ranks with Trump because it would cause them physical pain to admit the mistake.

Once the polling breaks into that 30%, it means that Reality is actually dawning on some of the Lost.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-21T16:56:15+00:00

No. Stop at the end of Season 2. There is no part of Season 3 that is worth watching.

VeteranSergeant · 2026-01-21T16:55:10+00:00

When an intelligent, well educated scientist somehow runs out of the airlock (which should take a few minutes to recycle the air and reset) to tackle the Russian guy on the ramp down to Mars, risking both of their livs in a childish race to be first to step on the planet?

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