i think jamelle bouie is where i got this point from (though its obviously not unique to him): trump doesnt escape consequences so much as the institutions designed to impose consequences refuse to penalize him. this is absolutely not the same thing. hes not magic, people are just lazy and stupid.
Imagine being the Lloyd’s underwriter who has to explain maritime insurance to a Trump appointee
This is why I will never be in favor of compulsory voting, allowing voting to be optional does keep some of the worst actors away from influencing society. Its a release valve for the state in a sense. Keeps the lazy, evil morons away.
We should make it easily accessible to vote for any community but as a party discourage anybody who isnt voting Dem to ever leave their home
I dont see the issue, if you arent going to vote Dem not voting is perfectly fine to me
Sure. Each non-voting former Republican counts as half of a Democratic vote. Could be worse.
This is actually good. I don't think we could get low-info MAGA to convert to Dem and I don't particularly want them to anyway. Just getting them to fucking stop participating politically counts as success.
Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com
Gibraltar and Bosphorus are the most aesthetically pleasing straits out of this group imo, especially Gibraltar
damn i wish i gave a shit about the millionaire podcaster’s fake buyer’s remorse
We just need to make this opportunity count and can't let past accomplishments or sentimentality spare the old guard that has failed us throughout the Trump era.
Schumer and Jeffries (or whoever else is in leadership) are set up for failure here and are not likely to satisfy anyone after a blowout win. That does not have to be a bad thing.
Perfect conditions to create an insurgency in 2028 driven by a disatisfied base, honestly.
if you let Donald Trump of all people fuck with The Money you don’t get to complain when anyone else does, those are the rules
these guys are gonna pop back up when a dem is president and like nothing happened opine that some policy or other is "bad for the economy." they must be mercilessly struck about the snout with rolled up newspapers and ordered to lie down.
one upside of all of this is the revelation that the swinging dick bankers and big rah rah capital execs and billionaires are actually meek little scared dogs and president AOC or whoever (god willing) should walk them on a leash and make them drink out of a bowl
Oman is evacuating ships from key oil terminal amid Iranian attacks.
Back in the triple digies, exactly. exactly.
The dialectic of like
Trump: simply go through the strait, we will get you insurance
Shipping companies: no no, we actually don't want our ships getting blown up???
Also, again, Iran doesn’t have to interdict every ship. They just have to prove that you could be one of today’s unlucky few for nobody to want to cross the strait
In the last 24 hours, Iran has:
- Struck three ships trying to cross the Strait of Hormuz, disabling a Thai cargo ship
- Blown up a large oil storage facility in Oman
- Struck two oil tankers at harbor in Iraq, setting both ablaze.
- Blown up oil storage tanks next to Bahrain’s main airport
It's an ingrained habit just from painful experience but it seems like geopolitical gravity is indeed real.
Sixth attack or attempted attack on a ship today, by my count.
these people do not seem to grasp, like, commodities are a physical thing and not just floating abstractions trapped in spreadsheets or lines in graphs.
Though even if he is completely incapable of love, I don't see the rationale for doing anything but as much damage as possible for the simple reason U.S. guarantees aren't reliable. We ripped up the JCPOA and then bombed them during negotiations. The best deal in the world on paper is worthless.
We aren't going to fully understand the Iraq component to this conflict for 10-15 years I fear. Tons of hints of bizarre shit going on and no cohesive whole
This is why, for all that we mock Bari Weiss for being incompetent, she's still incredibly dangerous.
Israel-hawks eventually finding their way to the "So much for the tolerant left" grievance actually makes complete sense when you think about it.
The hardline pro-Israel wing of the Democratic Party has been experiencing the biggest dog catches car moment ever over the last couple of years and they're still mad
