It's really easy to convince people that "different" is worse, it seems.

I'd support a threat of secession.

Too?

That scares me more, honestly. The police riding around in a malfunctioning APC....

Good thing we spent the last 25 years giving the police surplus military equipment.

I'm not blaming it on cabin fever or anything like that. I think people are just angry.

Some don't care, and some don't have the energy to. This is by design.

"Longstanding policy" = what we did the last time this fucker was elected. There is no precedent for this, and the entire judicial branch shrugged and said "What are you going to do?".

The Democrats impeached him twice but there was no way he was ever going to be convicted with the Senate in its then-state. Meanwhile, his lawyers and Judge Cannon have been doing nothing but delaying until checks watch now! Unless you have an idea for speeding up the American judicial system? If there was enough support from any state to straight up not let him run, then they would have done so. But as we've seen, 40% of the American voting populace have the intelligence of a kindergartner and just votes for "the other party" when the economy isn't doing well.

That's just because they live in the 21st century.

Do they? Most of their military supplies come straight from us in the form of donations. I don't believe they've ever really spent that much money that we didn't hand them to give back to the MIC, like a parent giving their kid a dollar to buy an ice cream cone.

I've certainly seen an uptick in anti-social behavior since Covid. Whether or not it's because of the economic situation or being cooped up inside, it really seems to have done a number on some people.