Ben

Man, I know it's a business but this is brutal

The Caps traded Carlson!?!

This is insane culture war mad libs. Is he trying to claim that *cartels* are communist??

I mean I think it's as simple as Trump told him he wanted him as DHS so his choice was to be DHS or to stop having a career as a member of the Republican party

Had beef stroganoff for dinner last night but we ate all the noodles. So for lunch I'm throwing in over the leftover curly fries from Tuesday's dinner, adding some cheese curds, and having some poor man's poutine

I dunno seems not good

What??

This is your best work

We are just absolutely speed running mission creep

Also if we're excluding main stream Protestant denominations for the liable candidate field I have bad news for you about the demographics of the country

People losing their minds over Talarico being religious...he's Presbyterian.

As someone who grew up Presbyterian, the main tenets of their faith are don't sit in the front pew and the service must not last longer than 59 minutes

War has a moral component? Perish the thought

Petraus still mentoring, just indirectly

I hear you're getting some cool documents starting this week too...

Also like not that this improves the *morality* of it but that was at least in a conflict expressly authorized by Congress

I didn't put them on twitter though

Touche.

Well. Yes. I suppose any warship not in drydock is theoretically in position to harass shipping.

I guess I just struggle to see what real power this frigate was realistically projecting.

Publishing the periscope video the same day doesn't help my evaluation of the motive here either...

Coincidentally 1945 was the last time we torpedoed anyone

Right I'm not saying it's a LOAC violation, my comment is we are behaving as if we are at war while domestically denying that for political reasons

So...not a war crime, but inarguably an act of war, which the administration has gone to great lengths to claim we are not in (since they've completely cut Congress out)

To put this another way, from a comment about the Iran strikes in general I can't remember who made...this probably isn't an illegal order to follow, it's probably an illegal order to give

I mean...it's not a war crime...but it's probably an act of war right? Which we are supposedly not at?

Like it's probably not *illegal* under international law but it also makes it pretty hard to claim domestically/politically that we are not "at war" in a way that constitutionally requires Congressional involvement?

I mean that does seem like a pretty important element right?