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  1. I am pretty much aligned with Tim Snyder on this. I would add that Russia absolutely will try to also extract concessions on NATO force posture in the Baltics and Central Europe.
  2. China is absolutely eating the world’s lunch on electric vehicles. And they’ve done so through state subsidies for their industry and extractive agreements with Western companies looking to build/sell in China. Same pattern with solar energy. This is actually the arena where the U.S. should be looking to impose punishing tariffs along with other advanced countries. Trump’s tariff tantrums absolutely send the world running to China.
  3. I think a discounted possibility is a second Azerbaijan-Armenia war perhaps with a goal of completely collapsing the Armenian state, with Turkish tacit backing and Russia simply bargaining to keep their military infrastructure there. Another place to watch is Belarus and a transition of power because Lukashenka is really sick.
  4. There was a time when this would have been a solidly conservative poem, but it is absolutely on point for Trumpian populism. As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind, So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind. We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace, Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place, But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome. With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch, They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch; They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings; So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things. When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.” On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life (Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife) Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.” In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.” Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more. As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
  5. Meemaw can just turn on 2FA or drive to the service center. We at DOGE are normal people who have relationships with elderly members of our family.
  6. Even if he’s not in DC this guy is a real dumbass. Guess what, if you’re in the Michelin star restaurant and artisan bakery business, your clientele and MAGA have little overlap. Anyway, FAFO and I hope he has to go sling MAGA dogs to boomers somewhere.
  7. Looks like per Austin police Jamie White interrupted burglars and got shot. Can you imagine working for someone, getting real-life murdered, and the next day your boss is babbling on Twitter about Ukrainian-NATO-Starmer death squads out to get HIM? I know Alex can’t break kayfabe or it all collapses but he could easily have put off that particular storyline for a while. What a trashcan human. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/infowars-reporter-shot-dead-apartment-after-possibly-interrupting/story?id=119677965
  8. Today Putin put on fatigues and went to Kursk where he promised to do war crimes against Ukrainians there. Let’s tap the brakes a bit on Trump getting an amazing ceasefire.
  9. Is it government efficiency when you fly migrants to GITMO and back on MILAIR for no real reason?
  10. I have a 100 percent trade deficit with my supermarket, and not only that shopping there has cost my family jobs as field hands. If I can shift all food production to my house, all profits, revenues, and jobs will stay in my house.
  11. He went on Ozempic.
  12. They’re gonna make it so the olds can’t use a phone to resolve stuff with their SS. (This is a WaPo reporter, legit source).
  13. Alex Jones heard from Mike Flynn that Ukraine and “NATO” has a highly trained team of assassins out for him. Naturally, he announced this in a video filmed from his car, and clearly announces he is traveling the route he takes home from the gym. OpSec.
  14. Likewise. Recently flew SWA home for Christmas and checked bags were the only reason, wanted to have a few gifts for the kids to open. Ski gear, sports equipment, or just consolidating all the family shit into one or two bags rather than hauling fucking rollers all over the airport. All the things that set SWA apart now are negative— no business class, no lounges, no long-haul or international routes, no global partners.
  15. The goal is to completely fuck up the National Parks then hand them over to private industry to “manage.”
  16. Not the current group.
  17. “I like what he’s doing but not how he’s doing it” is some weapons grade cope.
  18. The nominee for Ambassador to the EU is (of course) a wife-beater and sexual harasser. And (of course) couldn’t get through confirmation in the first DJT admin but will now. https://19thnews.org/2025/01/andrew-puzder-trump-eu-ambassador-pick-abuse-allegations/
  19. It got an “activist investor.” At this point it’s been stripped of any positive difference to its rivals and is left with only negative: no lounges, no long-haul, no partner airlines, etc.
  20. 956 Worldwide

    LBGTQ

    Keith Self is a real piece of shit. It’s really depressing to watch how asshole rhetoric has become normalized all the way to being an asshole to your own colleagues. (He calls his trans colleague from Delaware “Mr.”).
  21. Yes. It is a goal to isolate the American people from friends, colleagues, family, and anyone else who they know outside of America. Page from the Putin playbook. They want you to believe the outside world is hostile and unfriendly and so they will make it so. That’s what’s behind the deportation of people like the German thru hiker.
  22. Southwest may have already been (depending on perspective) shitty. But it just got super enshittened today.
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