An unexpected number of people are seeing this, so here is a gift link to the actual article: www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/s...

Yes, thanks! I thought I was just replying in an individual thread that would be seen by basically zero people.

This is also one of my favorite things! Along with the subject getting caught in a clear lie and the journalist demonstrating this by calmly printing the contradictions one after the other.

I just read this whole brief because I was very furrowed-brow about exactly that question. And that's how it reads for, like, 28 of the 30 pages. But he turns it around at the end. I think his point is that if the president is prohibited from sending the military, he can't just send in the Guard.

Oh no! I'm so sorry.

Right?? And trying to excuse it because a "junior staffer" posted it by accident before it had gone through legal review? Man, the fact that somebody in that office thought it should be created at ALL is disgusting.

I swear, if anyone says that to me in this day and age, I think I'll lose my mind.

I actually saw one of these the other day and thought it was cute, but I had no idea it was $430! What on earth?

Congratulations!!