Sorry, but my answer to this post will be a bit different based on your gender and orientation. There is a huge difference between advising a young professional guy who has a few beers with upper management now and then and a young professional woman who finds the CEO "enjoys my company" but there is a "power dynamic", if you get what I mean.
First, there was the Iran Hostage Crisis, where Iranians stormed the US embassy and took a bunch of hostages in 1979. While I have no doubt there was Republican fuckery going on, Carter really didn't do himself any favors with his handling of that. The hostages were finally released, after more than a year, the day Reagan was inaugurated
Iran-Contra was a scandal where the Reagan administration sold arms to Iran (who was fighting Iraq, then an American ally), circumventing Congress. They then gave the money to the Contras, a group of rebels in Nicaragua, again circumventing Congress:
Remember he still thinks he is negotiating some sort of agreement with Iran. This is classic Trump, from even before he was President: apply external pressure to people he is negotiating with to get what he wants. And everything is a negotiation.
We knew this when he ran for President the first time, his business were famous for not paying contractors and vendors over oversights (real and imagined), leaving the vendors in the lurch. They could always sue, but that costs money, and Trump's lack of payment leaves them with less money. If they do sue, Trump's lawyers (the ones he pays, at least) use every procedural trick in the book to stall the lawsuit until the vendor goes under.
He's basically trying to do the same thing here, except he wants to use the threat of nukes to get a "deal".
A bet isnt a bet until there are multiple opposing sides matched together. If there is no bookie managing it, then it's up to the individual participants to do it. If someone says "5 bucks on the big strong guy" it's not an actual bet until someone comes along and puts money down opposite it.
When the supporting character comes along and says "100 bucks on the other guy whose win moves the plot along", it's like he's saying " I will match all the announced bets on the big guy so far, and everyone else's up to a total of $100".
They could take the time to show that person taking out a wad of 5's and physically matching the bets already thrown down, but it's more expedient to just do the shouting and then cut to the end of it.
As Task & Purpose notes, the men will get to skip the usual process of taking a Direct Commissioning Course at Fort Benning, Georgia, and they won’t need to complete the Army Fitness Test.
Isn't one of the stated reasons behind restricting trans people and women in certain roles that they would have to change the fitness standards (even though that's a lie)?
Americans believe that a key requirement to be President is to have a penis, but they are self aware enough to know that they can't say that out loud. So they will cite any other excuse, but the real reason is that they didnt trust her uterus to not bomb random countries once a month.
Technically, they didn't arrest him because he was a Democrat. They arrested him be cause he was standing between them and a migrant they wanted to kidnap.
“They put us in chains, so I had a chain from my hands under my belly that went all the way to my legs,” she added. “Every now and then, I would fix my hands because I felt like I would be putting too much pressure because the chain went under my belly.”
López was released after complaining of stomach pain and went straight to a hospital where she started having contractions, which she believes were caused by the stress of what she had gone through.
The "Pro-Life" party, everyone. (And if this is what they do to citizens who are brown, imagine how they treat the actual non-citizens....)
Mike's district is Rockland and Putnam counties, technically "upstate" by my definition (as most of it is north of the Tappan Zee) but still very much influenced by NYC. He managed to hold on to this district by a few percentage points even while it just barely went for Harris in the last Presidential Election.
He knows he has a problem whatever he does; there aren't enough MAGAs there to justify going full MAGA yet if he pulls toward the center, he knows there are an army of J6ers and others out there who are armed, know his home address, and know this President has their back. He also knows that every single DNC list to take back the House has this seat near the top of vulnerable seats.
So it's good to see at least one Republican talk about LBGTQ+ as if they are people and not monsters. Let's see if his votes match his talk.
I don't agree. Take the same political stances and ethos, but have it come from Keith Harris (or even Kailash or Kenan Harris) instead, and he is seen as decisive and likeable.
Sorry, but my answer to this post will be a bit different based on your gender and orientation. There is a huge difference between advising a young professional guy who has a few beers with upper management now and then and a young professional woman who finds the CEO "enjoys my company" but there is a "power dynamic", if you get what I mean.