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The thing is that it was totally novel and in Japanese news on international affairs especially unprecedented, virtually everything was sanewashed in the past, so it’s not surprising that media and diplomatic officials in Japan were shocked and taken aback in the first couple years.
“While there is a high public interest in seeing trafficking and exporting charges prosecuted, the behaviour of the DEA in this case is so shocking and flagrant that the justice system must distance itself from it. To allow the proceedings to continue would be to condone it.”
To hear judges’ writings in filings with proper reasoning and sense that seems to be absent in many American court filings I’ve read, is very refreshing.
Since 2015 Japanese translators have had so much trouble figuring out what he’s saying. In the first presidency, his boisterous rhetoric filled with exaggerations was hard to put in words that would sound befitting to a leader, and not be mistaken as the translators making fun of him. In more recent years, it’s his frequent repetition, primitive words and even more frequent derailing into word salad tangents that he can barely finish a coherent thought that is the challenge for translators.
For years they’ve pretty much given up and cut it to a 2 sentence summary each time at best. Recent example article in Japanese Recent example video
Multi-millionaires, billionaires and corporations got their many $5k cheques in the mail already through tax breaks. You missed out, average American? How come you aren’t richer?
It already has more views than the average weekly TV performance ratings for this show of around 1.5M views.
Apparently a new legal policy in Australia that mandates app stores there to verify age somehow to access mature content took effect (end of grace period) a couple days ago on Sep 9 2026.
The thing is that many people are looking too short-sightedly for the internal (non-revolution-like) reform path. The goal for change is 2028, but change in 2028 can’t get off the ground running, if a 2026 sweep doesn’t. (I wish you had a Westminster system with no-confidence votes, but alas).
What Congress can do is to compel Trump administration officials to get their asses into the chamber. They can put articles and lawsuits with appropriate standing to:
Congress under leadership of feckless Republicans and sometimes Democrats haven’t asserted the power of the purse. For budgetary matters, votes can be held without permanently removing the cloture rule. And if Trump refuses to sign a bill voted on D-party lines to fund the government while implementing changes, the government will shut down once again and the bill will await him on the desk until he signs it. He will try to shift blame as he always does, but the government has shutdown led by Republicans or Democrats, the common thread is his incompetent ass in charge for most of the time since 2016.
Thunderstruck!
The world must begin an educational campaign that teaches people, that “you losing” is not necessarily a required condition for “me winning”. If we can pull that off, the movement of right-wing populist fascism will deflate so fast.
I mean in technical terms, the US can afford another trillion in debt because Warsh can print money forever. It can afford a Universal Basic Income, Medicare 4 All, etc., and in fact may save money in the long run.
But this is yet another one of the false promises leaving Trump’s sphincters.
And there will be flying bicycles, not cars, but bicycles by 2029.
If you are a billionaire tech CEO, US newsmedia will uncritically quote this verbatim.
You think the Biden administration fought for it all the way to the Supreme(-ly Corrupt) Court, hoping it would be struck down? Really, you think this was the intended plan?
Anytime Biden tried to do anything good for people like cancel student loans, he’s been blocked by Republicans at every turn.
(With Paradox, expect endless DLC additions for the next decade 😅)
To me it’s the fighter jet equivalent of getting a Fairphone vs. iPhone. We won’t be beholden to John Ternus and other US administration bootlickers, and in addition we’d have the ability to leverage Canadian expertise to make the Gripen better for all members. Like an iPhone, the F35 probably is a well put-together package, but we pretty much get it as-is with little control over operation and maintenance.
I’ve been to Luzern Verhkershaus, has a lot of cool stuff to do with trains planes automobiles and ships. This would be a great addition.
A few years ago in North York, Daliran Electric did a quick and decent job with a light fixture re-wiring that I couldn’t do-it-myself because of a junction box issue.
It doesn’t necessarily say they do communication wiring, but you can call and ask, they should be able to handle it if it’s one cable. Their rates weren’t bottom-dollar but I don’t recall them being unreasonable given they were able to call out quickly. You can ask for a quote.
Trump is living in Sloplandia with Nanny Natalie, and the AI-slop image generator is this toddler’s crib mobile to look and giggle at.
Sanders being the left-wing mirror world reflection of Goldwater, with someone like AOC being the future anti-Reagan, is quite a hopeful vision. Since I feed on optimism, I can get behind that.
It’s still a long shot, but I always think what if? What if 2028 will mark the end of the era of socialism for the rich, and capitalism for the poor?
The anti-Reagan doesn’t have to be AOC necessarily, it could be El-Sayed or even Hasan Piker for all I care. But Sanders’ Fight Oligarchy tour with AOC is something akin to a preparation for him to pass the torch.
I agree. It’s also important to remember that that is not the destination, but the first milepost on the way to course correcting the entire system, even when following the incrementalist way to change one piece at a time.