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How The Population of North America Fits Into Europe

This is how close we were to losing all of Europe.

Wow, did not know this: In a way, this could be advanced to support an argument that the Horoshima and Nagasaki bombings had an unusual upside for Japan in the aftermath of the war.

What the world would have looked like If the Vikings’ assumptions about world geography were accurate

It might be a MAGA-famous TV anchor the rest of us have heard of only in passing.

Fair enough.

They're happy only when they think we're unhappy. Happiness is zero sum to them.

Imprisoning people with mental illness. Yeah, that tracks.

Polls also show overwhelming support for gun control and opposition to immigrant kidnappings, but polls don’t matter for those, do they?

I acknowledge that the key to winning any argument is to first train yourself to believe your position, even if you didn’t going in, but man, so can’t have convinced herself of this one, can she? Can she really be that empty a vessel? She’s young enough to survive to experience the truth-and-reconciliation phase, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see her defense would be she was cast under some spell so didn’t know what she was doing or saying. There’s a whole swath of people to conditioned to believe that’s an actual thing.

Oh **** that’s a genius move if they get away with it so much for democracy

Humphrey was charging toward the lead at the end and probably would have won were it not for the Chennault affair.

Nahh, can't be high schoolers ...

Fun fact: many Americans in the late 30s and early 40s had HDS.

They have to sell the idea to the red hats of Dems being wackjob disciples of Clinton, so they don't think of themselves as being such wackjobs for being disciples of Trump, which, the MAGA elite don't have to sell that one so hard to the red hats, anyway.

By ignoring these lies entirely and whatabouting something something Biden Clinton Obama Soros Feinstein.

Regarding the three friends abandoning Trump (I assume you mean), are these people you are shocked they abandoned him because they were so all in on him? Or are they people you were like, yeah, I can see them leaving Trump, they weren't such nutjobs about him?

While I respect your position on GB Jr., there's only so much alarmism we can allocate at any given time, and we can't afford to divert any of the 100% of the alarmism budget we should by necessity devote to Trump today to muster up outrage over the guy who's been gone from the scene almost 20 years now. There will be time for Junior later in the historical truth and reconciliation stage, but for now, first things first. It's not like we don't care at all about what you're saying him and the objectively awful things he did, but priorities matter here.

I believe this is ground zero to understanding the state of the world today. For eighty years, the United States had the world by the tail. We may have gone hard in places we shouldn't have, but for the most part we used soft power and economic might to bring the rest of the first world, and most of the attendant satellites, into our orbit. They went along with our agenda willingly, for the most part, because they entrusted us to ensure and protect the peace and prosperity of their countries. That's no good for Trump. He doesn't want the world by the tail, leading it by admiration and respect. He wants the world by the balls, leading it by fear and pain. He doesn't want other countries to regard themselves as willing partners, because willing partners want to have a say in how things operate. He wants other countries to be nothing more than toadies and supplicants, doing only what they're told while begging for our mercy and/or our discretionary largesse. Trump wants all others to feel the full weight of his power always and forever, because instilling fear and pain in others to make them do things they don't want to do is the yardstick by which he measures his self-worth. He gets his jollies by shaking down those who agree to be shaken down, ruthlessly punishing those who dare to delay being shaken down, and obliterating those who refuse to be shaken down at all. Not even the best gangsters brutally debase their most loyal subjects for kicks, as a matter of course, in this manner. It's the worst gangsters who do so, repeatedly and gleefully. The best gangsters meet their end with a peaceful death enveloped in the bosom of their families. The worst gangsters meet their bloody end in alleys, barber chairs, and the back seats of limos. This is what we're facing, and god help the world once this guy achieves his apparent goal of a North Korea-style hermit terrorstate supported by an amoral military, militias, secret police, and civilian snitches.

I think it would be a fine line between obvious and oblique for Obama to engage in criticism of Trump. He can't make it so obvious that he sounds like Trump himself, and he can't make it so oblique that he sounds like George Bush Jr. He has to find the line where the criticism is clear, but also clearly doesn't look as though it is coming from the gutter like Trump's broadsides do. If Obama starts using the language of Trump to slam Trump, he loses in the court of public opinion, meaning the public not in the cult.

Mark Cuban is more Cuban than Marco.

Fetterman is over states' rights when it comes to voting administration.

If Metro is a big source of corruption for Wayne County, then it was a genius move to make it a kickass airport, considered one of the best in the country, in order to divert attention from the corruption.

casimir is clearly an idiot. I'm not sugar-coating it. Good on me, too? 😁

Some years ago, maybe twenty or so, I happened to be in front of him in a line to go through TSA. I noticed him, he noticed me noticing him, I smiled and said hi, I know you, and he politely smiled wanly, humphed, and went back to looking at whatever he was looking at in line. That's the closest I ever got to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.