They failed to stop him in 2016 and 2020, so I see no reason to think they'll succeed in stopping him this time.
Out of curiosity, where are you getting this idea? Are there any reputable experts you can point to? I sure haven't seen anyone arguing anything like this apart from you.
The term you are looking for is mens rea and from what we already know from the January 6th committee, Jack Smith has Trump dead to rights in that respect.
He also almost certainly has additional evidence that the committee didn't get and that we don't know about yet.
It's not looking good for Trump which is exactly why he's desperate to delay the trial until after the election in hopes that he wins and can make it all go away.
I'm surprised I even have to say this as I thought it was common knowledge regardless of one's political persuasion.
Good. I appreciate the lack of condescension. I still think you are wrongheaded in your analysis, but I am happy to cordially disagree with you while not infantilizing your arguments.
As for China, I think what's notable is that it was able to use command capitalism to achieve its admittedly phenomenal economic success specifically on the back of capitalism.
But now China is facing demographic collapse together with a collapse of its real estate market.
It's in the rest of the world's interest to mitigate China's coming economic difficulties as much as we can, but there's only so much we can do for an economy built on a house of cards.
Mark my words; China is in deep shit economically, and it will be a huge deal in the coming years.
I think Iraq is a fair point. The rest are weak sauce as fuck for a variety of reasons that I'll not trouble myself to enumerate.
That said, I myself was never onboard with the US invasion of Iraq or our long time presence in Afghanistan. They were both bullshit and never would have happened had it been up to me.
Unpopular opinion time; the US already uses metric/Celsius where it matters; in science, engineering and the military. Where it doesn't matter, we use a weird hybrid system that makes intuitive sense to us and is accordingly perfectly functional and doesn't need to be changed.
That's fair. The far left certainly can be violent, as it was in the late 60s and early 70s --my parents were actually friends with SLA members in SF in the late 60s, though they themselves had nothing to do with it-- but it's just a fact that far right violent extremists happen to be far more active in our current era.
Various IC organizations have been saying this for at least the last 6 or 7 years, and events have proven them correct; while the far left is certainly guilty of violence against property, the far right has accrued a much higher body-count.
Wages have gone up much more under Biden who after all, inherited a badly crippled economy in the 1st place. Trump talks a lot, makes big promises, tells lots of lies, but meanwhile his only legislative accomplishment was to sign a giant tax cut for the rich that was completely written by congressional Republicans rather than his own administration.
And that's not even mentioning all his foreign policy blunders and the fact that he was an international laughing stock among all our major allies.
They failed to stop him in 2016 and 2020, so I see no reason to think they'll succeed in stopping him this time.
Out of curiosity, where are you getting this idea? Are there any reputable experts you can point to? I sure haven't seen anyone arguing anything like this apart from you.
Not trying to be a dick, just asking.