I feel bad for these people because their country is being destroyed, but since I'm not going to infantilize them - you are morons who should have known that Trump was not going to help you.
That's what you want, not what the electorate wants, or we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
He wants the US to resume nuclear testing. If he thought they'd fix his problems he wouldn't hesitate.
if you don't blow up the budget with treats to buy off voters, the other guys will, so you might as well take it while you can
sure, but one thing that is true about the federal government that isn't true about the new brunswick bus department is that the budget doesn't have to balance even a little bit when you're the feds
it's in fact true that women can't get elected without men, just as men can't get elected without women, as nobody can win an election if you lose 50% of the vote out of the gate
Netanyahu is doing fine. The modern Israeli citizen already believes in the apocalyptic narrative where the whole world hates Jews and Israel both, which is also something Netanyahu encouraged, because it's useful for the fascist project of eternal war.
A lot of government idiosyncrasies could be ironed out if we could just buy the relevant stakeholders out, but the voters would have you murdered, so we can't.
okay but if they wanted what they paid in assuming it had been invested 50-50 in stocks / treasuries they would probably be doing a lot better
I think the disconnect for me on macro stats is that, if I say "inflation is down" then I think some people who see high local inflation (or just high prices generally) think I'm saying "your problems aren't real." And on some deep level I just don't understand this.
yeah i think just cancelling the taxes is dumb for that reason
it has to be something that you have to explicitly acknowledge in the process of getting, like a check, or, i dunno, let people deduct their rent and say "democrats did that"
i think it's democrats' way of trying to grapple with the fact "trump checks" and other slopulist moves manage to move uncanny proportions of the electorate and if free money gets people to vote for you you should do it
we should deploy hegseth to do pushups at them
win-win situation for everyone
The Russian Orthodox Church is not a civilian institution. It has declared the invasion of Ukraine a holy war and is a cobelligerent in that war.
A lot of people who hate abundance both here and on the other place simply do not give a shit about policy. It's just vibes all the way down.
like, in new york city, or in america
And is that international coalition in the room with us now?
it really is unfortunately this simple - we elected the stupidest narcissists absolutely convinced that they could just go and "assert warfighter dominance" or whatever, those pussy liberals didn't wanna FIGHT!!!, and are just now shocked that the enemy gets a vote too
organization of white people endorses white candidate in whitest state in america and calls it "racial justice"
That would make the price of oil go even higher, and right now Donald Trump cares more about preserving his popularity than anything that could be termed strategic.
I think they are aware that things are different than they were under the JPCOA. The problem is that as the Europeans are learning, when it comes to national security, you have to treat a US that has a 50% chance of being psychotic the same as a US that is always psychotic.
ducks at park not free
Trump as a phenomenon is simply remarkable. In a world of politics where belief creates reality, the ability to create belief creates reality.
He is essentially an Ork.
It's actually a solved problem, it just requires time, money, resources, personnel and commitment that we don't have and aren't in the region. These are not hard targets to shoot down, we just haven't hired people and bought guns with which to shoot them in nearly the required quantities.
"we kill random people because it's fun!" is one of those go-to statements you can use to make it crystal clear that we are, in fact, the baddies. our enemies do not talk like this. only we talk like this
The Ukrainians are using everything from random guns on pickup trucks (including 115 year old Maxim machine guns) to cold war Gepards, modern Skyranger/Skynex, and interceptor drones
they speak through history with one voice
I thought the Omanis were generally nice to Iran, like, as far as the gulf states go.
In this really perverse way they've inverted the relation of means and ends. War consists of doing evil acts, maybe for good reasons. But Hegseth in particular just worships violence: the point of war is to provide an occasion for killing
Like an extremely unflattering portrait of Ares
