The Revelation is upon us when the Old Testament is treated as Apocrypha Now.

The Beringia Cookbook recipe for Unleavened Horseradished Horsesteak Unleavened Wraps slaps though.

Not quite the formula, but The Fast and the Furious on Lost Highway. You think that's something? Wait till it really pushes with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift on Mulholland Drive.

I read this as three stages morale panics, and honestly thought this was about to be some out of left field comparative study of little utilized mechanics where fights need not be to the last hp. Clearly, 🥁, my eyes need better focus to check this out.

and just like the street car burglary practice BIPs break things for little to no actual gain.

It does the whole Orwell corpus. Syria, and Al-Qaeda being in some shifting interzone between Eastasia and Eurasia, in that world's Forever Wars prefiguration.

nexus on these operations.]

dismantling drug distribution netowrks, reducing violent crime, or preventing terrorism ... you know, the stuff we used to associate with law and order. [Fun fact, post 9/11 Border Patrol academy indoc puts anti terrorism first and foremost in its mission priorities. Would love to see the terror 3/

to have been shot for the purpose of jackboot fetishists jacking off are presented with that distinction and then go through a slide deck of those cooks, and daycare workers, and landscapers and construction workers, health care workers etc, and ask how any one of those removals have had a role 2/

on the bullshit side of the calculus (and Homeland Security theater mission more broadly as well, outside of some grant programs instrumental in modernizing public safety in less resourced communities). I would love a hearing where the folks with camera reels of jackbooted attire that seems only 1/

There's an informal distinction in law enforcement between "righteous" and "bullshit" [arrests, charges, seizures, warrants, etc.]. Aside from more sophisticated cases where HSI tied immigration violations to title 18 and 21 offenses, ICE work had often been held by the rest of the feds to be 1/

And to repost a evergreen thread since the indiscriminate show of force campaigns started, now we even have a Border Patrol sector chief wearing some bizarro field marshal coat that pretty sure isn't agency standard
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"Worst of the worst" is definitely on the top ten most abused phrases in the Public Information Officer style guide. 1/

I ain't gonna be a Wordler no more, I'm gonna be a Pips Boy.

But I suppose having the Director of tactical practical cosplay and security theater in charge of the FBI makes fictions like these more credibly amusing.

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Petty 🧵 I wrote a few weeks back about Patel's ghosting of protocols to posture I guess some hard driving hands on persona he wants to put out when it's just clear he doesn't understand his own job description or agencies actual mission.

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