Ronald Reagan in General Electric Theatre and Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose videos did a number on economic literacy in this country

I’m convinced cats think our hands and arms are giant tongues.

Are the Euros getting organized on military spending in that each nation isn’t duplicating all the needed gear? Like let the Swedes and the French make the fighter jets for everybody, and let the Germans make the artillery for everybody, while all participate in design and cross training?

Can they do it in a cooperative way such that each nation isn’t trying to make all their own gear?

Might be a good time to connect UAE weapons sales to the NBA emirates cup to raise awareness

I looked up CHOAM to discover it was the largest corporation ever written about

It’s a rule of law fight. Without some kind of consequences for illegally failing to spend appropriations and redirecting appropriations for illegal uses, what’s the point?

The rule of law is the central issue.

Later, in the locker room, they’ll probably take a quick sniff of each others assholes

I like how Zelensky said, if Trump gives us Tomahawks I’ll advocate for him getting prize

Kissing ass seems quaint, old fashioned…I like to think of them as sucking his shit

My subscriptions now are NYT, TPM, American Prospect, Bloomberg, Pro Publica, and Sinica on Substack.

Ischemic

2023 38% turnout 694k vs 627k
2019 44% turnout 709k vs 704k
2024 58% turnout 1300k vs 704k
Beshear has only been successful in Kentucky because of name recognition (daddy was gov before him) and off year elections.

Firing is an option, one possible outcome though is what the soldiers in Saddam’s army got into after Bush fired them…maybe give these ICE guys shit jobs so they quit