Unfortunately, back in the Bush years, a little while before the second gulf war, they passed a bill to invade the Hague if Americans got tried there. Folks will have to seek justice through other channels.

It’s a per curiam decision, we don’t get to know.

We do get to know that Coney Barrett recused herself, which is what allowed an even split (and by extension the upholding of the lower court’s decision).

The owls are not what they seem. Sometimes they’re bears.

If David Brooks and William Kristol can bring themselves to say “Abolish ICE” then it’s time for the centrist Dems to take that stance and the left end of the party to debate in favor of RICOing that entity.

Once Kennedy was in at HHS, the lobotomies were sure to follow.

And likes/is liked by his spouse.

We’re gonna have a great leap forward, folks. “The Greatest Leap Forward”, people are calling it. Now that I’ve liberated our economy we’re gonna make everything here at home, some of you literally making things at home. Backyard steel mills, backyard chip fabricators.

We’re gonna get rid of the pests, too. We’re getting ahead of this bird flu, Bobby Kennedy, RFK, he tells me he’s gonna Smash the Sparrows. We’re not gonna have another flu like we did under Sleepy Joe.

If there’s not room for center-right former Republicans in today’s Democratic Party…

My man, there was room for hard-right current Republicans Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney. You know what their support brought to the ticket last November? Two votes in Wyoming.

The VC guys who radicalized themselves in group chats with Humpty Dumpty, Peter Thiel, and Curtis Yarvin have come to like him.

But it’s because over the last decade or so their libertarianism curdled into fascism.

VP is required to be eligible to become president, so he’d have to become VP two years and one day into a later president’s term. Assuming that we’re letting constitutionality get in his way.

Human trafficking is probably the more promising direction.

That’s not Booker. Also the house doesn’t do filibusters, it operates on straight majorities.

Probably intending to mean intellectual property (Customs is their middle name, after all), but considering the shit they get up to as an institution, yikes.

Dog whistle? Or fog horn?

…those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

She first got elected in 2018. How many senators got there within three election cycles of their first office? Just because Obama went from Illinois State Senate to US Senate to President in a four year span doesn’t make such a climb normal.

When a group of his AI company’s investors sue to block the AI company’s purchase of Twitter (because in what world did they agree to that?), the Saudi solution goes back on the table.

Mercator Projection

Or

He’s surrounded by a bunch of people who play HoI for the wrong reasons.

‘After [current guy], our turn’, while a nice sentiment to avoid giving up entirely, does not have enough historical evidence to support it as a strategy.

But we’ve made every payment on that debt since we started borrowing. If lenders can’t count on those debt payments, they lose some faith in the currency that undergirds the world economy.

This is quite bad, regardless of where you live.

Future borrowing, both public and private, becomes more expensive (higher risk demands higher returns). This is bad if you live in the US.

People involved in international trade start questioning if the USD is really what they want as the reserve currency (the Dollar is the go between for all other currencies, so if you’re in Europe trading with Japan, you exchange euros for dollars for yen, which while a bit cumbersome, is wonderfully predictable) and what they might want to use instead (euros? renminbi? rubles? The chaotic world of direct exchanges of currencies?). This is bad if the country you live in imports goods that you need or exports goods that other people need.