The GoP needed a cultural political weapon. So they picked the weakest minority, gays and trans people. To use as a distractions, while they rob the public and destroy the country.

They’re looting on the way out. America is already cooked, this is the wealthy squeezing the last drops of wealth out.

Just the one…well some, OK a lot…

Look it’s not all of us damnit!

I don’t know, every time I drink that much I forget.

A beard is the cheapest low effort option. Just trim it once in a while and you’re done.

Overall petroleum demand in the EU is falling, but their own production is dropping far faster. They’re most likely going to lean into OPEC countries while continuing to increase green energy for their own independence.

Federally elected officials should just have all financial assets placed in a blind trust until they leave office.

Announcing a run for an elected office should automatically void all private NDAs as well.

So every big budget movie then? Is the plan to end Hollywood entirely?

On the bright side, if he’s wasting the entire budget trying to reopen Alcatraz, he won’t be building massive prisons anywhere else.

It’s the same playbook used against minorities. They complain about a real problem, the response is an event or holiday or other platitude, but never actually addressing the problem.

That’s what terrified the right about the Floyd protests when they started getting violent. It wasn’t the violence, they don’t give a shit about that. It was that actual policy changes were gaining ground, and that shit they absolutely could not have. Which is why as soon as protests became civil, every policy change was stopped, and they went back to holidays and other platitude bullshit.

If I read the mineral deal right, and I could easily be wrong, it sounds like the less military aid Ukraine gets from the US, the less the deal costs Ukraine. So I suspect they’re going to lean on EU deals as much as possible.

And while a peace deal might stop open warfare, I expect Kyiv will have a strong motivation to over arm themselves, probably with the assistance and collaboration with Poland, until Putin is dead. After that will depend on his successor.

Pretty sure Poland is just angry they can’t go kick some Rusky ass right now.

Fortunately when Trump isn’t lying, he’s always wrong.

Trump fucked up so hard we need China to fight back.

Tariffs always raise prices. Sometimes they do protect local industry, by raising prices so that local industries can compete against foreign competitors. At least for a time. Usually it leads to the eventual failure of the industry due to making less competitive products.

The actors involved could be very authoritarian, but the crime of betraying the existing authority, is still anti-authoritarian.

It’s anti-authoritarian, so anywhere on the far bottom edge.

Lol China gonna sit back and watch Trump twist in the breeze while they put Putin further into debt.

Chat bots posing as like minded people opposing the regime is what happens next. The old FBI terrorist entrapment scheme is going AI and domestic.

Last I checked, Trump wasn’t an ICE agent. His immunity isn’t transferable to anyone in the administration.