I used to live in CT. There is a ton of open corruption in New England Dem parties. The combination of corruption, high taxes, high cost of living, and shit canditates born of machine politics makes it plausible Repubs might win even in the face of Trump's unpopularity.

Fucking did a chef's kiss at that one. The number of outright dunces occupying positions and wealth are staggering. I'm looking at you Bill Ackman.

Brother you are one of the great thinkers and writers of my generation.

I love how this type of logic always rests on don't worry about pissing off or not motivating your base, and instead focus on that mythical conservative voter that's waiting for a reason to finally stop hating liberals. Yes let's appease the arsonist with more gasoline.

This court will make it clear that those types of powers only belong to a president they approve of.

I think the SC is hell bent on giving the presidency dictatorial powers. I think he has a good chance of winning.

I hate to say it but em Mel Gibson is talented.

Great way to start the day.

The speed with which the political and legal systems here are converging towards the Nigerian one is terrifying. Same with the income inequality and its attendant corruption.

I was so incensed by how this went down. It's very depressing that Islamophobia is so casually accepted in the US.

I hope you are right. But I wonder if the size and influence of the far right parties have gotten to such a scale that you couldn't build a coalition of any kind without their participation.

Around two-thirds of the public think that when planning military operations, Israel should not take into account, or should only take into account to a small extent, the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza.

en.idi.org.il/articles/59568

People keep acting like Netanyahu is the only problem. Whatever comes after him will be just as bad or worse for Palestinians. If there is one thing Israelis have a general consesus on, it is, the more dead Palestinians, the better, and absolutely no 2 state solution.

He was literally a prisoner of war.

They are all friends and all insider trade.

So kind of them

This assumes that business leaders will make long term supply chain investments based on tariffs through executive orders that can be withdrawn over night. This whole nightmare is stupid.

None of these stupidly implemented tarrifs work. US manufacture will be inferior because tariffs will make bringing in highly quality inputs too expensive. We will end up building cheap shit only a captive consumer base will be forced to buy, since these products won't be competitive abroad.

China's economy took off by them bending over backwards for such investments. As their economy grew, similar to America they are shedding low margin manufacturing to cheaper countries. It will be incredibly stupid for China next year to be like "hey, remember when we used to make all the t-shirts"