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Kwame is a criminal. They flock together.

The Robert DeNiro commercial that Biden had playing during the Tiger game was fire.

Free trade, the rule of law and collective security ensures peace or helps create stability and the conditions for peace. Trade based on insider deals and tariffs among a crooked oligarch class who seek to break down international collective security so as to empower authoritarian and totalitarian regimes as part of an effort to enrich themselves creates the conditions for war and tyranny.

Learn from it kid.

This gets back to Kamil Nanjiani standup bit about the Koran saying that women shouldn't drive. If in his estimation it actually did say that. He knows two things: Women shouldn't drive and everyone would be in the mosque right now. The document written in the distant past does not take into account the advances of the future. If there had been an amendment saying: "A prosperous and happy life is made by the internal combustion engine; therefore the right to own and drive a car shall not be infringed." People would lose their ever-loving minds if you introduced EVs because it went against the Constitutional right to drive an ICE. They would lose their minds if you made them have car insurance. They would lose their minds if you had to wear a seat belt because it would infringe on that right. We definitely need personal liability insurance for firearms ownership. Store your weapons in secure, safe condition. Know how to operate the thing safely and responsibly. And for God's sake, lets take them away from nutters and people on schedule 3 and higher drugs.

I really wonder what is up with both sharks and hannibal lecter references.

We should expect a lot of crazy to happen between now and Monday with the court winding down for this session. This link presents a very interesting set of headlines. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court

another idiotic thing

this should be easier to defeat Rampant corruption.

I think this is going to go well

surprised and pleased.

I have no problem with barriers to firearms ownership based on your mental state and stability. The least thing we need is to have firearms ownership defined down even further than it already is. Personal liability Insurance requirements seem like a really sane thing to enact.

Give us 3 years and we pay for a Masters.

Maggie Haberman being a house organ for Trump corporation doesn't help.

Don Jr. might want to think about his own ownership of firearms if he's going to show up on podcasts with white powder all over him.

I have no spin for this. It sucks for Hunter and Joe and their families. He was an addict. I've called the police on my own siblings who were out of control users who were a danger to themselves and others.

We could also incentivize kids to show up to their MEPS in shape with a stipend.

probably. So for the first 6 months these conscripts would be enjoying radical body modification (lipo, cool sculpting, semiglutide shots, hard dietary changes, and solid fitness activity) in order to get them where they could serve as well as learning combat skills.

Trump learned how to be a better sadist in military school. He was already learning that from Fred Trump. We don't need that sick weirdo being commander in chief again.

the average age of the Ukrainian army is 43 I read the other day. Can you imagine? We no longer have an agrarian population or one where large families are common so there are no "surplus" teenagers like there used to be. We also have a conflict environment where technical acumen is required to be effective. What we do have are immigrants who come in and do the work. Orwell said it well.

Having watched German conscripts tear up the fields of bavaria with their tanks because "who cares, we are just conscripts" I can imagine it won't yield the results we want. Finding a better way to incentivize smart suburban kids to take a chunk out of their lives to serve voluntarily would be good. I don't know how to do that except create bleak economic conditions for them and I don't want to do that.

2 years minimum. No matter what kind of service. Training for combat arms takes at least 6 months.

IF we were at war. Heck yes. And I mean a national mobilization war against China. But, whatever the f Trump and his oligarchs want do to the Constitution with our kids, no way.