This is very similar to what I was thinking.

Tariffs reduce some trade. They do not turn all trade down to 0, and turning a reduction in trade into a war actually would make the number go negative, as now you’re spending money (and blood) on the other country, instead of getting money from them. Has to be an extreme situation to turn a (legal) business deal into a shootout.

I feel like this is giving the GOP too much credit. The “old Republican party” never wanted trans in the military, and given how small the percentage of trans people in the US, I don’t know that it will majorly impact readiness. But even if it would have, would have been an acceptable sacrifice to any time period of republicans. To pretend like the Rs of the past wouldn’t have celebrated this at any time is looking back at the past with opaque rose glasses. It is hallucinating a time that never was.

I don’t know about the numbers you present, but absolutely agree that some industries are just worth supporting, from a government perspective. Cannot be reliant on a geopolitical enemy for goods that allow your country to continue to function.

I think Trump losing us allies is a travesty, but there’s no guarantee during a global conflict you can get items from said allies.

A bullshit argument “Hen Mazzig” has. That land is owned by the Palestinians. They don’t want to leave, it is Israel forcibly removing people from their land, and then whining that the Palestinian’s friends won’t let them crash on the couch. They want to live in the land that they either bought or inherited from their family.

That’s not enough butter. I would have been put down young for rioting about criminally low amounts of butter.

Where do you live? Can’t imagine all the effort it would take to catch all the brown anoles in Orlando.

Was this in St. Augustine? That coquina stone is everywhere there.

And it’s so rare to see a green anole anymore, I see maybe 1/10,000 living here. Last I knew, Hawaii still has the green ones though.

Its better to not vote at all, that will solve it! You’re a fucking child, asshole.

See i can use personal attacks too, and they do fuck all for moving things forward, you idiot. I’m sure there will be loads of people swayed by our eloquent words…

Maybe, but third party presidential, when there is no legislators is never going to happen, never going to be elected, and never get any bills passed. Aiming for the white house as the first stop is just silly.

GUARDS! Bring me the forms i need to fill out to have this man taken away!

Well you go ahead and find those treaties for me, since I’ve never gotten a result back from a search. And I’d like to believe but have no proof of that.

Well the reason is that there are state laws against outside observers, and no treaty giving any foreign government the ability to monitor. So they’re just enforcing the laws, as they’re supposed to.

Mind you I’m not saying the UN or any other nation is going to interfere, but seems really important to follow laws around voting to make sure the attitude of enforcement isn’t lax.

And I thought my cat’s purr was loud. Is quiet by comparison.

If you push everybody into a class action, it will be cheaper. Have you ever gotten more than a cent on the dollar from a class action settlement(unless you’re the class representative)? Sure the seem like the settlements are a lot of money, but if you can get the class action settled with very few claimants, no one will be able to sue over that particular issue again, so it puts it behind the company. Instead of being dogged by individuals for however long.

My family also ended up with a clipped ear cat. She came up to us one night, and was friendly, then for the next two weeks she showed up everyday we got home from work. So, now she’s our inside cat, and we all love her, she is so friendly to everyone. Even followed an AC tech around the house trying to get love from him too. One of the best cats I’ve ever had.

I’m just glad my kids will never have to talk to Gaetz, sounds horrifying.

It’s nobody’s business but the Turks!

I think you’ll find that Kennedy is the one that really ramped up the Vietnam war/conflict. He even knew the intervention would fail, but committed more troops anyway. Many southern democrats did indeed try to stop democracy also, during reconstruction. I realize that both of these things are decades or more old, but this goes back to the overconfidence in our group that the article was just describing.

Probably could, if there were better computers to parse the images. But due to the fact that there’s not a computer as good as the brain is at moving physical body through space, you need to use other tools at the moment.

It was self defense.