Hotspur

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[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That was a joke—was trying to make fun of hegseth, he’s been talking in that vein lately, and apparently military have been told across branches that they’re fighting for Jesus and Armageddon, which must be coming directly from him.

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Casualty numbers are woke virtue signalling—true Christian Armageddon soldiers don’t notice they are wounded, because they are filled with ecstasy at the coming righteous apocalypse!

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago

I find this particularly interesting—he’s got a blind spot on Iran, and I suspect he hasn’t shed received wisdom during his heyday, that Iran = axis of evil. I wonder if he thinks amendinejad is still president? So much about this whole thing seems like a dying fever dream of people who were last in their prime in the 90s…

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah this is kinda insane. 2, 3 done, 25? You’re crazy.

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 59 points 11 months ago

It does sorta feel like a logical conclusion to the west’s long-running obsession with the self.

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago

Him and Keith richards

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah would be nice not to have ww3/civil war2

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Oh for sure. Besides they can just run it back up to the Supreme Court and most likely get what they want.

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

Ostensibly yes, but I feel like the way the ruling was built—virtually anything they did, from taking a shit to ordering the hit on their grade school bully would fall under their “official duties” and you also weren’t allowed to use any communications from any of their staffers, etc. I just remember that it was basically a blanket immunity, once you factored in the burden of arguing the case.

That said, of course they will apply a different standard/ignore whatever they want. I’m still thinking it won’t go farther than performative statements and social media, but they’re so whacky that it’s almost impossible to make proper predictions about anything.

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Would be crazy funny to send bush and Obama to Guantanamo to hang with the 5 mentally ill dudes left from their GWOT years plus a bunch of Venezuelans and Haitians and such. I think they’d have a great time. Obama could teach them about playlist making and bush could start a new painting series…

[–] Hotspur@lemmy.ml 28 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Well I mean they can arrest him. But presumably they’ll still have to have a trial and his lawyers will point to the ruling. But who knows, maybe they will denaturalize him as a national security threat and deport him to Guantanamo as an enemy combatant and avoid due process altogether.

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