Increasingly surreal stuff just seems to happen.
But I note that some high-profile Republicans have a spine - despite Elon Musk’s promise to beat anyone who diobeys Trump with his wallet (in primaries).
Subsequently, Trump was requested to be more truthful by: Mike Pence, Don Bacon, Lindsey Graham, Mike Rounds, John Kennedy, Thom Tillis, John Thune - and probably others who I haven’t even heard of, who didn’t make the news.
Tox is nice. My favourite flavour is qTox.
The typical pattern over here: if someone uses Signal, you guess they’re some military type (wants things to be secure, doesn’t care much about anonymity, wants things to work one way and simply).
If someone uses Tox, you guess they’re some hacker / anarchist type (wants things to be secure, but also anonymizable, wants things to be flexible, even if it can backfire).
To my understanding, you cannot pardon someone whom a court fines or detains to force their compliance with their ruling in another case.
(It would be better if a lawyer answered that.)
If everyone is fine, it’s fine to mind one’s own business only.
But if my neigbour’s house is burning and I he has a big bottle of propane waiting to go thermobaric, then his problem is my problem.
If my neigbour’s neighbour is aiming a multiple rocket launcher at my neighbour, or has other ideas for wiping out the block, then a shared problem with high priority does kind of exist.
A president has immunity, but people implementing everyday life tend to follow court orders if they contradict presidential decrees.
If they consult a lawyer, nearly every lawyer will advise to follow court orders. If they don’t, a court can order other authorities to enforce its decision with force, fines or jail time. Lay people don’t have diplomatic immunity.
Now if cops won’t enforce court orders, then yes… then I hope you’re all stocked up on batteries, brushless motors and flight controller stacks. But I hope that won’t happen.
Impressive. :)
I’m tempted, but won’t try to guess how operation endurances will progress - it would be an poorly informed guess by a rando. Better to wait what they write about it in journals.
Came here to post the Reuters article “US prosecutors formally ask judge to drop case against NY mayor Eric Adams”, but saw that it’s already posted.
I’ll just quote a part from the other article and add some comments about it:
“The pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams’ ability to devote full attention and resources to … illegal immigration and violent crime,” Bove, Trump’s former personal lawyer and a political appointee, wrote in the memo seen by Reuters.
Essentially, they are sending a letter to a court of law saying “we’re playing politics, don’t distract us with your laws”. I think that should be named “political corruption” and “obstruction of justice”.
Fortunately not everyone was spineless:
“I am confident that Adams has committed the crimes with which he is charged,” Sassoon wrote on Wednesday in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi seen by Reuters. “I cannot agree to seek a dismissal driven by improper considerations.”
My viewpoint:
One absolutely doesn’t prepare such a large operation at such a short notice.
For an intelligence analyst, signs of an invasion are typically detectable 3 months ahead. If one performs a maritime invasion at a notice of weeks, failure is likely. (For reference, the D-Day needed years of planning and months of moving resources to work.)
Also, I trust that Taiwan has infiltrated China just as deeply as China has infiltrated Taiwan - they likely cannot keep massive secrets from each other.