I don't like the post-legal phase of the country idea...

[PirateRo]

Let’s see, this is a litigious, trading country. That means we rely EXCLUSIVELY on a founding document and a body of laws that help us live. It also means that when we go to war, we treat the “enemy” as a correcting action, meaning we do not just kill everybody. The US military relies on decimation, that is, a 10% loss. Why? Because it is a trading country - they acknowledge that a military mission is automatically a failed mission. They want the war over so they can get back to selling you cheap goods from China.

So, in a country like this a “post-legal” phase would look like two people jousting on motorcycles over a gallon of gasoline while wearing jackets made of human skin.

I’m not over-anxious for post-legal anything. I enjoy air conditioning in summer and heating in winter and working from home and ordering dinner delivered hot, or at least warm. I enjoy going to school online and looking for funny cat graphics and porn.

Sorry, if you want to go invade someone, pick another country - oh, wait! The Latin American countries won’t let you do that any more. Hmmm, Asia’s out, Europe’s out...where, oh where can we invade to satisfy your bullshit? Maybe the FBI can just invade you and lock you up! Yeah! That fixes the “post-legal phase” of the country!

And the rest of us get on with living a busy, fulfilling life based on internet kitten shorts!

[niyad]

1. Who, specifically, is using that term?

[PirateRo]

2. It was part of one of the impeachment reports

I was in a meeting I while it flashed by. Can you believe they actually wanted me to work today?

Here you go - near the last paragraph. Link below.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-trial-02-10-2021/h_d4b9b0eee37ecde363e4580ae33dbd0e


59 min ago
House manager claims Trump knew rioters were planning the Capitol attack online months in advance
House impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett claimed former President Trump and his social media team were aware of people planning the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol on social media sites and online forums, adding that the administration ignored warnings from the FBI that the violent threats were credible.

"They posted exact blueprints of the attack openly, loudly, proudly – and they did this all over public forums," Plaskett said during her remarks. "These were not just hidden posts and dark websites that Trump would not have seen. Quite the opposite. We know President Trump monitored these websites. We know this because his advisers confirm it," she said.

Plaskett claimed that Trump's team "actively monitored" these sites and that they "would have seen a clear road map of exactly what happened."

She showed several posts on these sites, including one that said, "the Capitol is our goal. Everything else is a distraction. Every corrupt member of Congress locked in one room and surrounded by real Americans is an opportunity that will never present itself again."

"They said it out loud on sites that the Trump administration was actively monitoring," she said. "There it is in black and white," she added.
Another post detailed how to carry guns and other weapons into the Capitol that said "yes, it's illegal, but this is war, and we're clearly in a post-legal phase of our society."

Plaskett said on these online forums, people talked through other details like which tunnels to use and how to get to the Senate chamber. Some even posting specific floor plans and the layout of the Capitol building, she said.

[niyad]

3. Thank you for that.

[PirateRo]

4. Welkies :)