Watching the GOP, I'm often reminded of the Last Battle by CS Lewis. Bannon and Trump genuinely seem like the ape and the ass to me.
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Watching the GOP, I'm often reminded of the Last Battle by CS Lewis. Bannon and Trump genuinely seem like the ape and the ass to me.
It was radically irresponsible of the Senate to confirm Pete Hegseth. There need to be consequences at the ballot box.
Surely you agree that we would be (checking notes) "greeted as liberators?"
Are you suggesting that a legacy political leader with few real skills would, as a part of his justification for war, that the other side, say, tried to kill his dad... wait, nope, I heard it.
GOP: Our closed-loop propaganda ecosystem is impenetrable! Our voters will never be faced with the corruption and incompetence of our party.
Trump: Hold my Diet Coke.
I'm sorry, but the GOP has consistently assured me that they're (checks notes) fiscally responsible and serious. And just imagine how we'd be doing if the president were (checks notes) senile, weak, and asleep at the wheel as unelected advisors made all the decisions around him?
Not well understood in the US is that the Kurds are a family of peoples in the greater Persian group. Dialects aren't all mutually intelligible. I had Iranian, Iraqi, and Syrian Kurds in an office who could only communicate in Arabic or English.
And, of course, they're politically very diverse.
Has anyone considered the possibility that the guy who went to the Nissan place with a gun wasn't looking to free the kids? MAGA history makes me suspect he felt left out.
Huh. You're either unhinged or a troll. Either way... Blocked.
"A child of the [X] is a very common idiom.
I mean... yes? I don't see why understanding his insane motivations for illegally launching a war unilaterally is sugarcoating it. And he came up at a point in time, which informs which illegal actions he takes.
I've assumed a fifth option was the cause- bring sanctioned states back onto the market, increasing supply to drive down prices and further undercut OPEC. Trump hates green energy, which is becoming more competitive, and he's a child of the 70s and 80s, so sees OPEC as a threat.
War of Stepping On Your Own Dick
Iranian here. The loudest voices in the room do not represent all of our voices. You can be against the regime AND not want a war.
Wait, is Champ actually a giant mink? That makes so much sense...
But the GOP is so strong on defense and good on the economy! They tell us so all the time!
There was a time when the President would spend weeks, months lying to Congress and the American people to reduce opposition to unilaterally starting a war in the Middle East.
Today is the day George W Bush truly became presidential.
Don't paint New England with tgat brush. NH is a weird libertarian mess, but most of NE is very reasonable. I'm from VT, even the hippies appreciate peer reviewed health studies.
Asimov created the race Solarians as villains. Humans that extended their lives, became asexual, ruled their world in expansive domains, relied on robots, and didn't interact with one another. Insular, hateful selfish.
Another dystopian sci fi set piece tech bros mistook for utopian lit.
If in 2003 you asked any random person, between Epstein and Trump, which one would be president and which would be a convicted pedophile who hanged himself in jail, nobody would have guessed right.
I asked a Mainer living in SoCal what she thought of Platner. She hadn't heard of him, so I said "vet, fisherman," she stopped me and said he'd win. Told her about the tattoos and the media cover-up. She said it wouldn't be damning in Maine.
I want the Senate to flip and Collins gone, so...
This is true *in the US*. In countries without our manufactured homelessness crisis, where there are decent services for the mentally ill and fewer severely mentally ill because of fewer stressors, public transit doesn't smell like piss.
It's not native to transit, it's just our system.
I don't want to own. I don't want the sunk cost, the responsibility for repairs and upkeep. I don't want moving to be an expensive undertaking requiring high-value sales and purchases.
I like apartments. There are better structural fixes than banning them.
"The liberal order’s constraints may have shackled Russia’s imperial ambitions, but they were also protecting it from the full implications of its own decay."
Russia is the drunk uncle who'd be running this town if it weren't for the man.
No one ever entered a debate expecting the person behind the other podium to say, "you know what? You convinced me."
When I see people on here post that regulation would end social media such as this platform, I just think, "is that a bad thing?"
In 2021 I quipped that under an originalist interpretation, Trump won. He got white property-owning men.
They don't want to block others from voting because they know they'll lose. They want to disenfranchise everyone else because they sincerely believe that they have the sole right to rule.
Mike Lee isn't an idiot. He knows exactly what his bad faith argument is.
