But his accounts of other episodes are bolstered by his contemporaneous notes, video footage and text messages exchanged by members of the unit and reviewed by The Times.

He is confirmed reliable witness for other episodes, so there is good reason to believe him here too.

I’m not interested in being polite to people who want to take away rights, promote discrimination, and try to overthrow elections.

The idea sounds great in theory, but seems like a bad idea with the massive rise in fascism.

The president can’t be charged for any crimes they commit when on duty, just like cops and CEOs.

You do know that is a problem, right?

Glad to know I’m getting downvoted because I don’t support becoming the very thing we’re supposedly fighting against.

“Don’t fight back, just lay back and take it!”

Wartime spending is temporary and will lead to massive layoffs and a recession when Putin’s failed attempt to start WWIII finally ends.

It isn’t like the US post WWII where there is a world waiting to buy the excess US manufacturing output to rebuild. Our decline in manufacturing is a combination of less need and the eventual shipping overseas as rebuilt nations started to crank up their lwn industries and US companies decided they would make more short term profits by outsourcing.

Russia on the other hand has made bedfellows with China and North Korea, neither of which is likely to have any interest in Russian manufacturing in the short term, if at all. If China keeps leaning into renewables, Russia’s fossil fuel industry will also collapse.

Putin doesn’t have only his ego to worry about when it comes to admitting defeat in Ukraine.

He also likes to say he is in favor and against things, often in the same sentence, so his followers can latch onto whichever meaning suits them.

Is it even veiled at all?

People are downvoting because the topic is survival rate and while rape by military stsff is a huge problem, it isn’t something that is clearly linked to these particular soldiers.

Even if every employee was equally competent, decision making needs to be consolidated enough that it can be decisive and shared throughout large companies. Complex systems that need to change rapidly gain no benefit from having too many people wanting to make decisions, you only need most of them to be competent enough to complete the work based on the decisions of a small group or the work will end up getting too convoluted and unmaintainable.

There really isn’t a benefit to have everyone understand all of the parts of a large and complex system, if they only have time to work on a portion or to facilitate decisions that take into account the knowledge of the people in the different parts.

The Dems could also get rid of the filibuster right now. Getting rid of it completely only requires a majority and Republicans already proved they will drop it the moment it isn’t useful to them to obstruct Dems like they did with judicial nominations.

Willful ignorance is even better since she is defensive about her stupidity and refuses to learn or accept new things.

Unquestionable pardons all around!

Sounds like your grandpa might have been conservative as in slow to change.

Nowadays, conservative in politics means deepthroating fascism.

Delay, delay, delay.

Yeah he was convicted, but when it comes to actual punishment it is just more delays.

Oh really? Obama’s one negative was being on board with overuse of drone strikes that killed civillians…

Someone get Obama on the phone!

King Former President!

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,

Lol, the angry orange wants to punish the turtle man who covered for him. You pick the best allies there turtle boy!

How was something he did before he was president an offical act?

Why not Kagan and Jackson?

I like you optimism that it wiuld take that long instead of the more likely scenario of the next Republican president.

The GOP has been working up to this point for four decades, they aren’t going to wait now that they have the powers set up. They also don’t need to fear the Dems abusing the power because the Dems proved they can’t even get rid of the filibuster the GOP undermined to stack the courts.

It will be the next Republican president, not just the angry orange.