It’s extremely telling what this officer appears to believe Operation Gothic Serpent was intended to do (technically it was an effort to capture a faction leader to end the Somali Civil War but it went pretty much straight to hell)
Once again, police unions prove to be bad.
There is a tendency within my particular industry to react to the reaction to events.
For example, a police officer commits murder/steals thousands of dollars/shoots dogs/etc, someone says “defund the police,” people write lengthy reactions to “defund the police.”
This permits the avoidance of big questions and the creation of More Takes, because the Thing That Happened is hard to handle but Reactions to the Thing That Happened are generally way easier to wrangle.
Anyway, this was, and is, the Thing.
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I remain somewhat perplexed at some conservatives arguing against mail in voting, which helped Republican candidates win multiple races this cycle, but at the same time, I am not entirely perplexed.
The Republican Party, is not, in fact, an entity in service to one person, but it is financially optimal to apparently pretend otherwise.
“These Republican candidates won in tough races that leaned on early voting, but Trump lost, so we gotta get rid of early voting”
There is a scene on The West Wing where CJ lip syncs to a song called “The Jackal” and everyone ... loves it? It’s a whole thing?
Like, people discuss it as if it is an exciting and memorable thing to which one looks forward?
For reasons best left unexplored I have watched virtually the entire first season of this show in the last five days and much of it is like Acceptable Television During Which You Can Do Other Things Because Whatever but man, I don’t know about ... that whole thing.