Thank goodness. Rumor has it the moon was going to try something.

We’re watching you, moon.

Man, just outright tell everyone your intelligence services are inept for what we pay them. Time for budget cuts?

You’re not wrong, but having a job you hate is a horrible way to spend half or more of your waking hours. If you have to do that, find some productive and healthy outlet that sparks joy in the balance of your day. No telling when the bubble will burst, hope for sooner, but plan for later.

Wrong about KC as well. And people will trust this shit. So dystopian.

Another article I read discussed that the case is basically arguing preemptively that voters for DJSjr may have actually intended to vote for the incumbent DSS. Alaska’s supreme court already weighed in and said DJSjr would not have the ‘Republican’ label on the ballot to minimize confusion.

So, if the Democrat wins, they’d have to make the case that they can somehow discern voter intent. Reminds me of the Florida debacle in 2000 with dimpled chads and hanging chads and arguing intent from errant marks on ballots. In that case US supreme court ultimately ordered all recounting to cease and declared GWB president. Buckle up for the same outcome here. Question is, would they get away with it again?

So true. They did the same with W.

I hate to imagine how bad the next will be that makes Trump looks good by comparison, but the Dems sure as shit will do what you said, just like they did last time.

Too big to fail is going to hurt like shit, like it always does. BOHICA!

They’ve been doing it for months with Mitch. Definitely at least a week.

Can’t just admit you lost, can you, Trump? I guess this is Biden’s fault too? Such a waste of every life lost to this dumb game.

https://web.archive.org/web/20191028041753/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm

The history is a little more complex than giving weapons, but US-owned companies manufactured equipment for the Nazis. “The business of America is business” rings true.

“American managers of both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to military production at a time when U.S. government documents show they were still resisting calls by the Roosevelt administration to step up military production in their plants at home.”

During the war, US bombing plans avoided American-owned factories. When they couldn’t, they compensated the companies for the losses inflicted.

Again, it’s complex, and fascinating in many regards, but the business interests that drive the US government were also building the Nazi war machine.

Not exactly sure your perspective from your comment, but what would you advocate in the current situation in Ukraine?

I can lay my perspective out, just to be transparent. It sure as hell will be down-voted and isn’t popular in these parts. Near as I can tell, and from the very beginning, just pure numbers-wise Ukraine will eventually lose, unless they convince Europe that this involves them too, and damn, they’ve been trying. Thick propaganda recently. Neo-cons and Libs really want this shit for their MIC donors, but there’s no benefit to anyone else in the USA for this carnage. Actually engaging NATO countries in combat in Ukraine means nukes before too long and everyone on Earth loses, which is primarily why it’s all been supplies, money and training thus far.

For me, whatever gets this thing to end quickly, the better. Fewer lives will be lost for nothing. The already lost land is lost. Sorry Ukraine, you got sold a bill of goods from McCain and Graham, et al. News flash: they never gave a shit about you. Zelensky was and is a CIA cutout that is finding fewer and fewer tributes to fund his losing battle. He’s getting desperate. Big smoke clouds look impressive, but don’t change the raw numbers. Zelensky will ultimately abscond to his house in Miami unless he is assassinated first.

Trump is clearly doing the diesel ‘deal’ in some strange hope to undo the effects of another dumb war he started and quickly lost control of. First on the chopping block (after obvious ‘allies’ in SW Asia) is Ukraine, which has no resources to offer, and everything to lose when they get abandoned to somehow save face. It’s tragically unfortunate for all the loves lost to this carnage, but that’s the cost of trusting the USA to have your back.

Maybe that decision should be up to the people of Ukraine. They hold elections for that office, don’t they?

I learned from The Monkey Wrench Gang that some well placed karo syrup tends to make diesel engines not run so well.