My understanding is that the guys who end up in those kinds of gangs don’t really hold with the kind of scrubby cry-baby this guy is. 

“We don’t actually dispute that all this is true, but we’re going to characterize the problem as ‘leaking.’”

Yeah, that’s super dangerous, people knowing their rights, and verbally chastising people for coming to snatch up their neighbors by spending hours running Constitutionally-iffy checkpoints and detentions. Somebody might get told they’re an instrument of terror and oppression and suffer the harm of realizing that they…

That actually would be a solid move. The Favored Enemy is too hard to predict, too, unless your DM will just say “We’re gonna show/fight a lot of X, Y, and Z.”

There’s also her implication that people who aren’t “in line with the founders of America” or whatever can’t possibly people with whom we share values. It paints them as essentially destructive to our moral well-being, and anyone who doesn’t have a problem with them as being in opposition to “moral Americans.” Either…

Odds are 30-40% of them won’t deserve it, but they’ll suffer for the untempered foolishness of the rest.

They spent decades going after her (starting in the 80s!) because she’s a competent, intelligent, and ambitious woman.

#2 is really something. They’re already failing to give people will intellectual and developmental disabilities services. The state runs a managed care model that had a minor scandal a couple of years ago when it came out that almost a billion dollars were being held in reserve as services were being cut. #3 is also…

Hey, there’s no way we could know what he meant by that! He might might the “S” in BDSM. Although I don’t know that they’re necessarily seeking control...

Nothing says “Everything’s going great” like a ruthless internal purge over bad news.

He really took that bad advice he got after being bullied as a child to heart, and ran with it for a very long time.

They think they can knock Iran on its ass without too much risk. NK has mostly-functional ballistic missiles that can reach several allies (at least - probably parts of the U.S., too), a handful of operational nuclear weapons, a relatively massive conventional army that can also threaten an ally, and China to back…

Successful military operations in the books are often a fast track to electoral success. If nothing else, if they commit some soldiers, they probably think they can demand to know why people aren’t supporting the troops, like Republicans did ca. 2004.

So, this is clearly just a harebrained plan to launch some low-risk air strikes for the “rah-rah” factor here to help with the next round of campaigning and maybe get some more of those sweet, sweet War Powers, and maybe kick off a regional proxy war, right?

A lot of them clearly remember the last time this happened very well, and aren’t trying to go marching to war on the word of a proven liar and a bunch of the same people who set up the last one of these we had. Which is good, but I’m not really sure how we (the U.S.) are going to get these chickenhawks to give up…

I’m sure if it had been someone other than his wife, he’d have realized that casually expecting someone to self-destruct for his benefit was foolish. But I bet he thought she’d do it “for the family” or something, because he’s a sexist dumbass.

“For when you want a taste of class, but your taste is all in your mouth.”

That’s always been my problem - your Parm sandwich has a seam, because it’s a split roll. Obviously a sandwich. Your every-cured-meat deli grinder probably has a seam. I’ve seen White Castles with a seam - are they not hamburgers at that point? Is a hamburger sometimes a sandwich and sometimes not, based on the whim…

I don’t know, does Mammon answer prayers these days?

That seems extremely unlikely, and like something that should be obviously unlikely to literally anyone who knows anything.