Helicopters, too. But helos, APCs, and MGs weren't enough to contend with the Viet Cong, as Leftists in America will happily tell you.
The point you make is not nothing, especially after seeing how the police here in PDX behaved in the past few years, but I really think the assumption that it would be a Fascist walkover is oversold a lot.
]]>I don't think that's as true as a lot of people are led to believe, at least on the willing part. The militant Left is active in the United States in ways it hasn't been in generations. I think disparities between the extreme right and left would even out quickly in the event of general civil unrest.
]]>Oh & STFU about "the royal family", huh? Not even wrong.
Eat my shit. Half the time I learn something weird about the UK it's because of the unnatural affinity for inbreeding that so many of you still hold in high regard. Once you have a family that has its own Navy, you don't get to complain about sensible people wondering if they're involved in everything else that's a bit funny about the UK as well. Instead of whining that modern countries have noticed how backwards and incoherent your government is, how about you take a seat and join the 21st century instead.
]]>Peter Pan is an exception. As far as I know, the exception. It's got a perpetual copyright under British Law, with all royalties being supplied to Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Wait, hang on.
What the FUCK?
You can DO that?!
Is this just some goddamn "oh they say so because royal family blah blah" bullshit or is that seriously an option that just only one person took?
]]>Trump is attacking Mitt Romney for gently chiding him; he's calling for Romney to be impeached, although that is not a thing for Senators. He's clearly trying to keep the rest of them in line, but it's unclear how long he will be able to command their loyalty if a vote to remove him were to land before them as if by providence.
So there's actually a real chance that there's a vote to remove Trump, and that it passes, and what would be really delicious is if it was 50-50 and required Justice John Roberts to cast the tie-breaking vote (as I believe he would be called on to do for an impeachment vote; the VP doesn't get to vote on his boss' performance) and thus suck SCOTUS ever-deeper into the morass.
Alternatively Mitch keeps the grumbling down, and there either is no vote, or the vote fails. Then Trump will, somehow, find something even worse to do to the country in "retaliation" for what's been done to him. I don't know what form the reprisals would come in, but they'll be sure to be disgusting, featuring brand new lows.
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, some of the protesters have declared a provisional government. So the moment of truth for human rights in the western Pacific has come, and where is America in this? Completely absent, consumed by our own mad king pageant. Whatever happens in Hong Kong, good or bad, we'll be merely bystanders, incapable of even credibly mustering a sanctions threat (because someone already hit the trade war button). I fear what that means for the measures Beijing may use to "restore order" to the city.
In steadier times, perhaps the UK could have stepped up to the plate as an international leader hoping to mediate relations between China and the former British colony; whoops! the UK is also dealing with a leadership crisis of the sort that's gonna get its own section in the history curriculum.
I have no idea what the world is going to look like in 2 years. No idea whatsoever. Honestly, I'm not even too sure what things will look like by the end of the month. If we even have an election next year, I think I'll write in for Vermin Supreme.
Ladies, Gentlemen, and other Assembled Friends: now is the time for wild speculation.
]]>That's self-selection at work. As a dyed in the wool urbanite I can tell you we're not driving conservatives out, so much as they throw shrieking hissy fits and run for the hills every time they're asked to extend their empathy just a little bit further.
]]>Every day I see a headline that looks like it was tailor made to be shown against ominous music in a history documentary 20 years from now.
The way Boris is treating Parliament in the UK makes me think that even if Brexit is achieved, the UK will not survive as it is currently constituted: Scotland will bolt for the door, NI only a whisker ahead.
Meanwhile, the United States is going to be in denial about our civil war. I think it's coming. I don't see us getting off this path soon. I think that it will start during the next Democratic administration, and that the Democrats will deny that it is happening for as long as possible.
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