CSPAN is going to have to hire an interpreter so they can broadcast his speeches in English. Dude sounds like a drunk Foghorn Leghorn.

Symbols are for the symbol minded. I care about fascist policy, not iconography. He could stand in front of a bust of Hitler for all I care just so long as he stops murdering fisherman, Iranian kids, and heroic drug smugglers.

The only qualification a voter needs is to be subject to the authority of the State. Any other calls to “qualify” voters is voter suppression. It’s VoterID, Poll taxes, and Literacy tests.

If a voter decides on a candidate because Mars is in retrograde, that’s just as legitimate as the vote of the head of the political science department. low information voter = anti-democracy. If you can exclude them because their stupid, then you can exclude them for being black or a woman too. You can whittle it down until you get the utopia of the superior, or fascism as it’s commonly known.

If your system requires improved and enlightened humanity, then your system is tyrannical and sucks.

Students are citizens with rights. But rules about profanity are reasonable measures for good discipline.

If a student wore a You Can’t Lick Our Dick button to class, what teacher do?

rest more comfortably knowing that if there’s a hell

The problem with hell is it undermines all that Christian rot about forgiveness, pacifism, and kindness. Jesus isn’t just a God of redemption, he’s a God of infinite punishment and never-ending vengeance. And Hastert can absolutely accept Jesus and get a ticket to ride. The Holocaust Jews on the other hand, not so lucky. When I realized that all those Jews went straight from Hitler’s oven into Jesus’ oven, it permanently damaged my faith.

That’s a weird way to say he caught it. The first sentence of the article says he picked it up. He doesn’t have to be a perfect victim to deserve sympathy or hold the pigs to account.

You’d think in a conflict where both sides are operating the same equipment, they’d invest in some robust IFF. Just one more example of Russia’s competence problem.

Louisiana has the highest GDP per capita. This is usually a surprise because the State seems so poor. The reason is that the legislature can wave property tax for industry. What that means is that all that money flows into the pockets of big oil while their schools, roads, and hospitals suffer.

I’d also consider the wisdom of gouging your main industry at a time when tourism is already on the decline. Fuck Canada is a pretty weird hospitality messaging.

Be careful what you wish for Florida.

If Iran shot down any stealth fighter you wouldn’t have to look it up, it’d be huge news. The Yugoslavs got an F117 in 1999 and the tankies still won’t shut up about it.

I think it’s time we stopped teaching the Nazis as great villains and start portraying them for what they were: loosers who somehow took power in a major country and proceeded to fuck up the entire world.

“Nazis are evil” doesn’t dissuade enough people and it attracts some. I think we should try Nazis are incompetent fools who never ever get pussy. Let Matt Walsh and Tucker Carlson try to rehabilitate that.

Did you know Einstein predicted Stimulated Emission?

It wasn’t an experiment, more like an aside in a paper about something else. He just figured that if a photon could cause an absorption, then it stood to reason that a photon could cause an emission. Then he just worked out the math. Again, not as a discrete discovery or prediction, just as a method to make a point about something else.

I hope those aren’t on 24/7. You’re going to be unwelcome at sporting events and theaters. You’ll get your ass kicked at an airshow.

It’s so frustrating because commodities are the narrow category of things that actually obey the principals of Econ101. It’s also the one area where conservatives and backward-thinkers are not trying to apply the principals of Econ101.

Terrorism doesn’t have a definition: it’s a slur. It’s not an action that you do, it an identity that your are. An identity that means you don’t deserve human dignity or respect. it’s not even associated with violence since being born in Gaza qualifies you, or wearing a “free Palestine” T-shirt.

There can be no coherent definition of terrorism that wouldn’t include every military force that ever existed. (and the police too). The true definition of a terrorist is someone who annoys the powerful.

Because prediction markets gambling companies have a marketing strategy where they sponsor news outlets in exchange for reporting the predictions to feign legitimacy. CNN is probably the worst, but it’s everywhere.

This is the silver lining of competing with conservatives. Their ideas are bad and don’t work.

What would happen if a Republican realized that racism is identity politics?

Age limits in Congress are popular among Americans

Well, who’s reelecting him then, Canadians? Do Americans believe that incumbents have an advantage because voters are too stupid to choose? Maybe the problem here isn’t the voters but the systems that have been built by the political machine? Why is it popular for American voters to want to limit their own power?

For every complex problem there is a solution that’s simple, elegant, easy to understand and wrong. Age/ Term limits make perfect sense, unless you think about them.

What does the EU plan to do about the occupation forces in Belfast and Derry?