I like seeing empire mask off. The PR of decades past has allowed the word to forgive American crimes, it’s harder to do when we see it laid bare.

"Rich Reagan"? More like Narcissist Reagan.

Reagan Classic was way more senile than Senile Reagan

I think the point is the Democratic party should not take their recent victory and go back to Obama era Democratic politics. They have the opportunity be be better than the party in the meme and they ought to take it.

It's it important, legal concept of imminence. It's self-defense if somebody points a gun at you, and you kill them in response. It's murder if you go to somebody's house, find them, and kill them because they hang out with bad dudes.

The al-Awlaki case was more like the latter example. He was accused of being a propagandist for al-Qaeda. He had not taken up arms, he had not engaged in violence, and any threat he posed was not imminent.

Moreover, the Obama administration recognized this, and argued that the President's assessment constituted due process of law, without the courts. Practically speaking, it means that the President can charge, try, and carry out the sentence of death, and there's no responsibility on anyone's part to prove that it was justified.

The upshot is that, for example, the President can now say that you're an "antifa terrorist," and execute you, even if all you did was post a meme mocking Hegseth, and you have no recourse.

I always find it interesting that using drone strikes on an objectively evil group (in this case Al Qaeda) gets so many panties get knotted…

I'm so glad that we'll always be able to trust the president to unilaterally decide which groups are evil and to use his power in the interests of the people.

I mean, can you imagine what would've happened if some bad actor got in and used those sorts of things for precedent? Like, what if a Republican president had got in and decided to, I don't know, accuse random Venezuelan fishing boats of being "narco-terrorists," and used the exact same power to kill them for sport? Just spitballing here.

But I mean, what are the odds of that, right? Surely we can trust the United States president with the power to be judge, jury, and executioner for the entire globe. This is a very sane and reasonable position, and I just can't understand why anyone would get their panties in a knot over it.

Democrats aren't perfect so stop discouraging people from voting third party and using their influence to put pressure on the Democrat establishment. They've gotten this bold and useless because they know that no matter how shitty or ineffective they are theres a horde of 'vote blue no matter who' voters who will just bend over and take it. Because it's always 'the most important election ever' and 'not the time'. But if people hadnt started believing that shit decades ago, you wouldn't be in this position now. Sunken cost fallacy is real and is being exploited against you. Break the pattern.

Democrats aren't perfect, so hold them accountable. It's not zero sum.