Oh, I wasn't meaning to suggest you were wrong. I've actually feel that Falken's statement there makes perfect sense. Falken only goes wrong when he refuses to act to stop WW III on the assumption that since it's going to happen eventually, why not now?

I imagine that the hold up was trying to find out who his friends are and what they were preparing for.

The neighbor reported that Mr. Spafford had told him that he and his friends were “preparing for something” that he “would not be able to do alone,” the court papers said.

My suspicion is that he and his friends were planning on taking out Harris (and maybe others) if she won the election. Since Trump won, they are moving now before he and his friends can dispose of evidence.

You sound a lot like Dr. Falken from Wargames.

I've planned ahead. We're just three miles from a primary target. A millisecond of brilliant light and we're vaporized. Much more fortunate than millions who wander sightless through the smoldering aftermath.

Oops... apparently I just pasted the text from the link twice. I should really learn to proofread.

Has anyone pointed out to them lately that Musk was also an illegal immigrant?

[Musk] has said in the past that after leaving Penn he had planned to pursue graduate studies at Stanford, but dropped out to work on founding his first company.

That’s significant, experts say, because there are strict rules about the kind of work allowed when someone is in the US on a student visa, and work authorizations tied to student visas generally require someone to be actively studying or for the sponsoring institution to allow the student to get academic or practical training after graduation.

Immigration attorney Greg Siskind, who’s co-authored multiple editions of a guide to J-1 visas, says transitioning from a J-1 visa to an H-1B visa is a possible path. But he says a J-1 visa wouldn’t provide work authorization to someone who dropped out of a degree program. The moment Musk dropped out, he would have lost his status and been unauthorized to work, Siskind says.

Edit to add link (again).

Well... I'll be damned. You've changed my mind. Thanks.

Oh great, now the Democratic pols are going to step down to "set a good example" while their doddering GOP counterparts will lurch around until their 90s with, staffers following them around with portable defibrillators so if they die in hallway somewhere they can be revived before the next vote.

Agreed, but I'm not sure if those civil rulings would stop the DoJ from filing criminal charges if Trump pushes them into it.

It ain't over 'til that fat fuck squeals. His new plan, apparently, is to sic the DoJ on her once he's in office.

On his Truth Social platform, Trump reposted a photo of E. Jean Carroll with large letters that read: “Should a woman go to jail for falsely accusing a man of rape? Retruth if you want justice for Trump.”

It's a great way to keep the UFO nuts contained. Let them scurry around the surrounding area as much as they want. Occasionally arrest one who gets too insistent and the others will take that as confirmation that something big is hidden there.

Some barely secret aircraft, a whole lot of accounting and clerical staff, and a tremendous amount of security to make it seem like there are major secrets being protected there. That is what I would put at the world's most well known secret base, anyway.

Right about the :42 mark, the old man pretty much taps the cop in the chest with the back of his fingers. You can also see it in the body cam footage. It was a very slight tap and I very much doubt the cop even felt it through his body armor. This was a massive over reaction from the cop. He should have been charged and the AG is dead wrong here. Frankly, old people do not heal well from falls and breaks. I won't be surprised if he ends up dying as a result of these injuries.

Never talk to the cops unless you absolutely have to, but if you do, keep your hands completely to yourself, particularly if you are a minority. Use lots of pleases and thank yous and yes, sirs. Otherwise, the cop may just decide to kick your ass and they will get away with it.