The difference is, Trump doesn’t want an invasion, he just doesn’t want to look “weak”. The war in Iran is more likely to unfold like the Vietnam war- a colonial power bites off more than it can chew so the US steps in to help them, slowly at first, and then after a few years it and a gulf of tonkin later the US is fully committed and kids are out on the street burning their draft cards.

The good news is, it means that there will be a lag between the time the war kicks of and the time America is prepared to fight it effectively. A lot can happen in that time, and the public support for invading Iran is already WAY smaller than the support for invading Iraq, and Americans haven’t even started dying yet. This feels like the tsar picking a fight with Japan. It will radicalize a lot of people

Most of these are pre-presidency

You go and talk to people to find people who might join your org, make connections between orgs, etc. But on the whole, these protests are absolutely not productive

Two thoughts on this

“What’s wrong with being sexy?”

“There’s such a fine line between clever and stupid”

I almost wonder if the spinal tap homage is intentional

I’m tired boss

It makes sense if you’re deliberately escalating the situation. Trump wants chaos

-ai at the end works much better

(Just going off of memory because I can’t find the source right now) There’s some evidence that, despite being worked on in a lab in Wuhan, the virus actually matches the profile of gain of function research from the University of North Carolina, contracting with the Wuhan institute. I think I heard it on a podcast with Ryan Grimm

Daniel Craig’s little speech at the end of Glass Onion describes the current era better than anything else I’ve seen

Too bad leftist organizers of any stripe are also definitely on his list of people to prosecute, otherwise I’d actually be looking forward to this