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He's been conspicuously absent lately....

It honestly could be a geographical thing too... Midwest flocks have been hit pretty hard by bird flu, NE may have access to better poultry markets for imports, etc.

That's pretty good.... those New England chickens must have strong immune systems!

What a bunch of weak, insecure little babies...

8.99 at Jewel this morning... Over $12 for an 18 count. Aldi's has them below $7, but barely

Yup, and government workers, when they are off the job, use their salaries to eat at restaurants, drink at bars, go to the movies, buy cars, etc. All of which is economic activity that reflects in GDP. Just monumentally stupid stuff from our Tech Overlord

This has to be one of the dumbest arguments I've ever seen

In general, way too many people underestimate how much pride is a motivator for other countries. And overestimate how much Trump's bullying tactics would cause others to merely fold and bend to his will.

I keep saying it, but we have up to this point been the most powerful country in the world in large part because of our roles internationally. And these guys all just want to slink away and pull back from all of that. They are making us a poorer and weaker country over the long term, and will eventually make us a pariah state if they keep it up.

"We'll be respected again," he said lol

Even by this standard, it's not clear to me the degree to which other countries even fear him. Outside of Colombia (and even that is debatable), everyone who has ended up crossways with him thus far has ignored him or told his administration to pound sand.

The Australian, Daily Mail and Daily Express have picked up the Haltbakk Bunkers story. Not sure why other larger publications haven't picked it up and, with the way that the mainstream media in this country have covered this administration, not clear that they'd make it an issue anyway

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fuel-supplier-refuses-u-s-warships-over-ukraine/

I'm a bit biased since he's my Governor, but the parallels between the origins of FDR and JB Pritzker (Govs of large states, technocratic in governance, uber wealthy yet class traitors) I find interesting. I don't know that he has the juice for it, and obviously is not the most photogenic option (compared to a Wes Moore), but he's for sure in the mix.

More evidence of how much more "respected" we have become under the new President /s

I genuinely hope he's met with protest for the remainder of his term... He deserves it

I think it's worth a revisit to Kamala's answer to Trump in their only debate on the Ukraine subject.... she was right, and like today, he looked petty, weak and childish.

Boom boss man got involved... So respected around the world...

What gets me is that we are the most powerful country in the world, and yet we are choosing to be a supplicant to a country with a GDP that is 14 times lower than ours (and lower than "51st state" Canada) And throwing the EU and Britain (who combined have a GDP 12 times larger) to the wolves. It's not just stupid, it's insane.

It'd be a lot easier to take the journalism industry seriously if they didn't respond to this obvious horse**** by calling it out as horse****

The horse has been flogged to death, but I really do think she played an incredibly ****ty hand about as well as she could have. Argued with Holic and 1776 at length about that - but just pointing to the loss and calling it a failure ignores how terrible of shape Biden's candidacy was in when he dropped out. Had he stayed in? He would have lost states like New Mexico and New Jersey.... a state like Illinois would have been a 50/50 proposition. Biden wasn't as bad a President as his detractors felt.... legislative, he got a lot of **** done with no margins in Congress. I'd certainly take him right now over what we currently have (probably would take him hooked up to an iron lung even lol). But his decision not to get out until July 2024 was a historic mistake. Pretty sure I said it at the time, but he really needed to pull the plug around Sept.-Oct 2023. Harris would have still likely been the nominee, not even sure it would have been a real primary (just think that Dem base voters would have naturally went to her, tbh), but it would have given her more of a chance to establish distance and be her own candidate.

Wow, we are so much more respected by the rest of the world.... lol

I'll say this: the outright dismissal and derision of the "Russia Hoax" by a lot of mainstream media members looks awfully stupid right now.