If the President is a Republican, the most likely thing, from recent history, is virtually all GOP reps and senators backing him 100%, and making sure that he stays in office.
Remember that Trump tried to kill Congress last year. The Senate Majority Leader adjourned the Senate to delay a trial, and the GOP Senate acquitted him.
]]>No, I'm not seeing it. They regard the EU as a strong enemy, but not simultaneously a weak one."
Well, I see it - the EU is a totalitarian state, but Brits can face it down. Unless the Brits are bullied (tears).
That's one which fits in 100%, IMHO.
]]>Considering that the US and the UK clearly have fascist parties who are dropping the mask more and more, no.
]]>No petrol, no milk, grocery stores empty, fruit rotting in the field, and natgas prices climbing 40% in one day."
Brexit, of course.
Or, for Tories, the Savage Attack of the EU Dictatorship on All that is Good and Glorious in this World.
]]>He could also mean 'we keep the truly undesirable stuff pushed into the fringe and fail to see the allegedly undesirable stuff we support'.
Remember that in the end DHS is a right-wing police organization, so that they'll tend to support/fail to suppress right-wing radical politics.
]]>I wonder what they'd have done after several airplanes disappeared.
]]>And after the nuking of Washington, DC, the Cheney government would have gone ahead, killed some people on US airliners, and told the world to shove it. They'd already killed millions and made sure the world knew it.
And considering Cheney's judgement after 9/11, I shudder to think what he would have done after 7/16.
]]>Why? It would have gotten some people, which would have given DHS some information (trace the contacts of the suddenly missing passengers).
Eventually, it would have failed, once word was circulating, or if the worldwalkers had great reflexes.
However, it would have killed some people whom the US government hated and feared, and the word circulating might have taken a long time if the survivors were a scattered group, rather than a collected group.
]]>Charlie: I can't remember. (You're asking me about a thought process I didn't document back in 2003.)
That leads back into what happened to Mike Fleming. I can't remember in which book in the first trilogy that it happened, but Mike was listening to surveillance audio of senior Clan members. They were discussing a major contact, currently in charge of a major (among other things) logistics megacorp, who had been in politics, and had unexpectedly gotten back in.
This is a description of Dick Cheney, and Mike clearly thought that him having heard it was extremely dangerous.
]]>The world-walking refugees probably all lost relatives and friends, and are painfully aware of that. Miram and her crew are painfully aware of that, and worry about it happening again.
Col. Smith is only worried because some of those corpses crawled out of their graves, and have nukes.
The rest of the US leadership probably figures it was self-defense.
]]>The way that I heard it was that the FBI and CIA were really distrustful of dirty filthy hippies who learned other people's languages and thought of them as people people who had traveled a broad a lot, but Mormon missionaries were trusted.
On top of that century or so of work, it will take a long time before space colonies can withstand an attack from Earth.
]]>I would expect far, far higher burnout rates from what I've been hearing in the USA. Also a far, far higher initial quit rate.
]]>In the USA, we are clearly in wave 4 and with a new variant. We are far closer to 'a new pandemic' than we should be.
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