frozen, thawed, and pressed tom (not at gdc)

Trump to Invoke Emergency Law for Offshore Oil Producer Sable President Donald Trump is preparing to invoke Cold War-era powers to pave the way for renewed oil production off the southern California coast, a long-shot bid to help ease the global crude supply cru...

There it is.

Figured there had to be some way of turning a prolonged conflict into more graft.

You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.

If someone killed 175 kids in a school, openly bragged about it, said they plan to do it more, and all that happened to them as a consequence was they got fired from their job, what kind of example does that set for our future leaders?

I'm not much of a chess guy myself but that doesn't sound like how chess works unless you are a pigeon.

they have like all the money and they couldn't get the big guy a bigger chair

and also the "if i've made it someone else's problem, it's not my problem anymore" ethos of many americans

Younger people: you cannot imagine how hopeful parts of the 1990s felt. The peaceful end of apartheid. Peace in N. Ireland. Wars that had been going on forever suddenly and apparently miraculously resolved. Also, computers!

And yet there were crazy people in Congress shooting at pumpkins, waiting.

can't have the enemy seeing the defense secretary looking a little unflattering. might put the troops at risk. sorry, "warfighters" <lol>

oh yeah i think i read this book:

war is peace
2 + 2 = 5
big brother is watching you
we have always been at war with middle asia

doubleplusgood!

You do understand that a supermajority of elected congresspersons would need to agree with each other for more than a few minutes for this to not be considered an unconstitutional act of tyranny by the administration?

my ankles are bleeding from just looking at this

I thought we were going to liberate them and they’d be thanking us? Now we’re just threatening terrorism directly on the citizens?

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.

But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?

They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

If you want to beat them, figure out how to organize a bloc of economic actors whose material interests are served by the transition. Organize a bloc with *more power* and then *defeat* them. That's how this works. You're not going to fucking seduce them with your clever verbiage!

first of all thats a white russian not a martini second no

Mario lines up his opening drive on a crisp, clear day for golf with some friends // Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour for Nintendo Gamecube, photography on CRT TV

Swing you arms, from side to side, come on, it's time to go! Do the Mario!

🍄happy MAR10🍄

I don't understand why we are trying to "compete with China" on these things.

We absolutely do not need to be "catching up" to China's authoritarianism.

I don't know who needs to hear this but these games all run on last-gen hardware that you can buy used for like $50-$100.

trump is going to find that war suits him poorly, because his little word games and deflections and constant stream of bullshit does not satisfy anyone when there are missiles with trails that lead directly back to him

i could swore we had laws about this kind of thing, but what do i know?

the pattern we saw today was also how it went during Covid and the Liberation Day crashes. The market crashes, Trump says exactly what the market wants to hear and the market rallies back, it's then revealed that what Trump was saying is bullshit, but the market stays up instead of crashing

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.

Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

Kolanovic.

it's funny how, in less destructive circumstances, we refer to the friction between a group of empowered and well-financed egomaniacs as "creative process" but here it's just kinda 🙃

life, finds a way.

he sure takes a long time to say nothing at all

manipulation of security prices

They are freaking out, don’t let people tell u otherwise

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