The golden dome is supposed to be a missile “shield” that will protect the entire contiguous US from ballistic missiles. (The name is based on the Israeli iron dome). I promise you that a $1.2 trillion budget is just the start, and it will never work.
He watches fox and a few other right wing propaganda farms.
Only when somebody tells him. Most of the time they keep him oblivious.
This guy could be in his 30s and I’d still vote for Vance. The country won’t survive another Democrat this tied to Wall Street.
Let’s not start sounding like MAGA. We should need more to question election integrity than some software updates and shit-for-brains getting elected again.
It does raise the question of why we are getting our voting machines from the private sector without open standards and open source code. Even if it’s perfectly legit, it invites a lot of really good questions.
I never said anything about a treaty. Security assurances are typically something more concrete. At one time two kings might trade children for security assurances. Ukraine wants security assurances before they will even consider any kind of cease fire. In their case, it might be joining NATO, or European troops on the border.
I have no idea what might work for Iran. Chinese military bases in Iran maybe? In any case, communication from Iran has been consistent. They are fighting this war until they know they won’t have to fight it again. The US leaving won’t end it. The US is caught in an escalation trap, and Iran wants to keep it that way for now.
Quantum entanglement hasn’t been disproven, but the idea that it can be used for faster than light communication has.
Before the US attacked, Iran would have faced insurmountable international resistance if they tried to tax traffic through the strait. Now that the US attacked, that has completely changed the political situation. If the US leaves, Iran will continue, at a minimum, to tax all those ships. That will be a disaster for Trump’s strong-man personae.
Also, Iran does not want this to happen again. As they have stated several times, only security guarantees against future aggression by the US and Israel will being an end to the conflict.
It’s not a binary question though. There is nothing wrong with the government interceding in a dysfunctional market, but the first step should be understanding what broke down and why.
Should the government intervene on the production side or the consumption side? Do we need more windmills and nuclear to compensate for Solar’s instability, or just more storage?
Spain did an incredible job converting over to renewals. Then they had an extended outage because they hadn’t properly considered reactive power difference between generators and solar/wind generation. Then, of course, the fossil fuel industry turned that into propaganda. Studies matter.
And you don’t think some kind of economic analysis is necessary before deciding if the private sector can “handle it” or exactly how the government can beat interveine?
You’re not exactly wrong about anything, but understanding exactly how the economics break down is important, regardless of how we break down responsibility between the public and private sectors.
Of course this is all academic when the country elects Republicans and the Democrats keep nominating neoliberals. At least with a private marketplace solution it wouldn’t get shredded the moment Republicans win power.
It doesn’t even have to be stored in a way that can be turned back into electricity. Electrical heaters are damn near 100% efficient except for transmission losses, and there are tons of industrial processes that can store and use that heat.
You are missing the point. Why have you, RamenJunkie not personally set up enough solar panels to provide everyone with all the energy they need? You can’t afford it? Well, surely there must be a bank somewhere that would loan you the money. All that electricity would be really valuable. Oh, the bank doesn’t think the economics make sense.
One way or another the economic problems need to be addressed and, in order to do that, they must first be acknowledged and understood. That’s what the article was trying to do. You can’t just sweep it under the rug and figure some sucker will pay for it for the rest of us.
That may well be, but I’m talking about solo interviews and other press events. No amount of competent coaching could get Trump to a place where he could be that coherent.
Neither is Trump though. He sends out random panic threats on social media but, outside that, he is just being manipulated by his advisors and Netanyahu.
I remember GWB as a complete idiot but, going back and watching his news conferences and interviews, he looks like a genius compared to anyone in this administration.
No, people are dumber than ever. What changed is that in previous wars the lies were at least coherent. This time, every statement from every executive official contradicts every other statement, including those previously made by that same official.
Why would legal eagle report on cases where Ice complies? That would make some pretty boring content.
The numbers I can find for compliance failures are between 4k and 5k. That is a lot, but not in the context of the 3m+ deportations that Trump’s ICE has done.
I’m not trying to defend ICE here. Anything less than 100% compliance should result in prosecutions. I just don’t want to promote the false notion that legal action is useless.
Most of the time, ICE does comply with court orders. There is a definite survivorship bias at play where stories of compliance don’t make the media, but stories of non-compliance do. The courts have been, and continue to be, a major thorn in the Trump administration’s side.
It’s only lucky if they take out Vance and Mike Johnson too. Could they maybe be persuaded to wait until the Democrats have the House? Of course that would make Jeffries the President which honestly wouldn’t be much of an improvement.
Yeah, but he knows Democrats will never dare to cut a dime of military spending.