David

No, you'll need that for processing the entire ICE/CBP strength.

Miller is such a rich vein of Insultable Bad, along with Deep Evil, that you should never run out of legit things to dump on him about.

Even without that, not sure that P2025 et al are keen on e.g. women as fire chiefs.

But it's 202X so use it as rolling paper for an enormous spliff.

Bonus if there's something Iranian-flagged doing rescue work in the image.

Also, pull the USSS from bodyguard work. Stand up a security unit in the Capitol Police to replace it. Want to do crimes, Mr President? You either ditch your detail or know they'll be reporting back to a joint committee the next day.

Totally Westminster bias, but bin the three equals thing: let Legislative and Judicial arm wrestle, but put the Executive in a deeply subordinate role. "Apply the legislated bidding of Congress, subject to the rulings of the judiciary, in real time."

Not sure where things stand now, but give those committees total access* to the department's business. Also, give committees the ability to fire uncooperative secretaries.

*subject to reasonable arrangements around classified doings to prevent accidental or treacherous release.

That is weird. Blockades mean blockade runners, disruption for the usual ecosystem of smugglers, sneaks, spies, & whatnot, drama with the legit traffic, rippling disruptions down the spacelanes, chaos & deprivation groundside, & negotiations. All eminently filmable. Good excuse for exposition, too.

"Quick insertion rapid payload delivery and rapid exfiltration" sounds like ad copy for a .mil neighbourhood's weed* guy.

*"And if the green doesn't hit right tonight, let me show you what else I've got..."

Really hoping, post the idiot to the south, that the NDP is able to reconstitute. Would love to see a situation where it's Liberals and NDP playing off each other, with a much stronger green component.

Wonder how long it would take for a mined Strait of Hormuz to be cleared to a level acceptable to insurers. Months?

Would a hypothetical Congress willing to use impeachment of the president (and I assume it applies to Cabinet posts, too?) as a reflexive tool to subordinate the executive be a means to bodge that onto the current system?

Incredible. Watch until the end to see one goat (young? sick?) being cradled on a saddle on horseback.

Smith and her gaggle of bargain-bin MAGA knockoff followers can't get kicked out of office soon enough. Hope whoever's next finds a way to not just fix Smith's damage but ruin RW influence in the province.

And the remaining people doing old-school (pick your cutoff for "old") farming are either hobbyists or preservationists (go them!) or already have an economic niche (small-batch farm-to-table, e.g.).

(Or they're Trads™, in which case fuuuuuck them and ruin their lives)

It's easy to execute, at least, and especially compared to the rest. Whether or not the bag is fumbled, dropped, trampled on, and then left to rot in committee is a whole other issue.

Can't see anything but enthusiastic cooperation in the future!

Seemed odd that the answer wasn't "all y'all answer or copy your take to the DCI."

ICE/CBP. Binning those agencies and prosecuting their personnel are reasonably straightforward. Biggest issue other than political will is the logistics of cranking tens of thousands of prosecutions through the court system.

At least there's one easy win in that pile of awful!

You make a very compelling point.

Fuck, does this mean they'll start drifting north as things warm?

What do you even gain, after the nuisance of the kid in/out routine x 4, parking, and whatever?

Absolute tosser.

From waaaay outside, feels like it's a multi-layered fractal sort of thing?

I'm sure they exist, but don't think I've ever heard of chuds doing a (probably increasingly confused and bewildered) Pilgrimage to the True Nordic Realms or whatever. Which, like you say, is weird.

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Also, here's a link to an article confirming the screenshot.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Bonus points if there's also/instead a bunch of larval, smaller states (Kurds, e.g.) just trying to set themselves up in their own territories as well as/instead of less geographically defined movements.

Wonder how many 155s and larger Iran might be willing to trade for a tanker, and to subsequently constrain manoeuvre?

Wasn't sure if naval systems were set up for that problem. Thanks!

Wonder how much nuisance Iran could cause with your smiley-face float or more subtle false positives, on top of mines and so on?

That drone carrier seems like the weirdest resource sink, especially for a non-expeditionary fleet.

Would be shocked if Iran hasn't been paying attention to the narco semisubmersibles and Ukr Sea Babies, as well as all the flying stuff.