In 1998 specifically, both. Operation Desert Fox and Operation Infinite Reach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations

Exactly. Fuck private equity takeovers, but at the same time successful companies rarely get taken over by private equity.

Western North Carolina…

They did some commercials with people in hamster costumes driving the car.

You have no idea how terrified conservatives are of Chicago. Seriously, it’s the fuckin Boogeyman to them. I’m not kidding, not exaggerating, not hyperbole. Multiple conservatives in my life have looked at me like I’m insane for taking my family there on vacations.

There’s such a simple, logical, reasonable explanation for a bruise like this: he had blood drawn recently and the phlebotomist had to draw from a vein on top of the hand. If TFG had any sense of humor he could joke about it. If he had any sense of relatability he would know that this happens all the time. But instead…he’d rather do this. Because he’s fuckin weird.

Perhaps some aide’s concealer she had on her in the moment.

Tots and pears!

I went to YouTube to find a montage I’d seen recently of the clown saying “in two weeks” about all kinds of things, but there’s so many I couldn’t pick one. Some are from 8 years ago.

This isn’t even the qualifying incident; he helped promote this antivax shit in American Samoa and at least 79 people died there. Most of those were children.

The fact that the Senate confirmed this freak is insane. The fact that Mitch McConnell was the lone Republican against reaffirms the stereotype that Republicans only care about something when it affects them - Mitch is a polio survivor and therefore pro vaccinations…

Uh the officer’s life was at risk.

Are you implying the cop should have let the guy grab his gun?

Guy was a J6 rioter. By definition, stupid and crazy. Prone to making bad decisions, including a vocal declaration of suicidal intent to a police officer. What stops the guy from putting the gun to his head, then thinking “hey wait, I’m on Team Trump! Surely he’ll pardon me for this too!” And then shooting the cop instead?

Should the cop have run away? Now you’ve got a J6 rioter with a gun in a stolen police cruiser.

Please run us through the scenario in which it’s a good idea to let the mentally unstable rioter grab his gun.

And I’m not cheering the cop, either. I’m betting the cop is a fellow Republican, because…cop… but also because he foolishly trusted the J6 rioter to act reasonably and rationally. When the information presented by his computer stated this individual has a rap sheet and this situation was going to become an arrest, cop could have properly and immediately performed the arrest by standing between guy and car door then cuffing guy, thus not allowing guy the opportunity to make another stupid decision.

Cop treated this 70 in a 55 like it was a normal boring 70 in a 55 by a normal boring citizen, and this is what happened.