The podcast Weird Little Guys just concluded a long series of episodes about the weird bullshit leading up to this.

I’m not running for a third term, I’ll just have a third term.

The guy who lies all the time says something? Probably lying.

I’m not a lawyer or barrister, but there are already laws against fraud, which is what you are describing. There’s a huge difference between deliberately over claiming and making a mistake, and what the article is describing is at worst honest mistakes.

Reading this is like reading anti-drug propaganda from the 90’s. Like, sure there are concerns about young people, especially boys, getting radicalized online. But the coverage is so lurid and skewed that it loses credibility.

It’s not even that. Unused land has been taken by the government under eminent domain, and white supremacists have claimed that these actions have “stolen” land from white farmers. In reality, white landowners have been subject to eminent domain seizures at no higher a rate than black landowners.

The NSC responding there was no threat is absurd. The threat is the presence of a non-approved person in the thread. The fact it turned out he was a reporter who didn’t want to interfere with anything is just luck.

Which has been happening. (Approvals from the embassy but then being detained by ICE)

Real hardball would be going after major stockholders in CC and GEO Group.

Oooooh, that explains why System of a Down didn’t show up in Armenia.