What’s your A1C on that?
What’s an “A1C”?
FWIW, I’d bet money that the House will flip, and I’m sure that the Senate will win ≥48, probably more. It’ll slow, but not stop, Trump, who might be his own worse enemy. The next Democrat President will be a relative dark horse, as was Obama in 2006, Clinton in 1990, or Carter in 1974; and the next Republican President will be about as bad as Dubya Bush or Trump.
(This posted 10:14 UTC (6:14 AM EDT), 28 October 2026.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro#Post-presidency_(2023–present)
On 30 December 2022, one day before the end of his term, Bolsonaro arrived in the US state of Florida and resided in Kissimmee for several months.[188][189] On 8 January 2023, his supporters attacked the buildings of the Supreme Court of Brazil, the National Congress, and the Planalto Presidential Palace to instigate a military coup d’état and reinstate Bolsonaro as president.[190]
The mid-terms are a week away.
I can’t think of anything that Saudi Arabia has in common with Russia …
The prosperity of both seem to have a lot to do with oil exports.
Coveting the world’s resources is the driving force in American foreign policy.
I won’t argue with you on that; but that’s probably true, at least to an extent, with many countries.
In addition, all pipelines lead to Europe.
Yeah I’m sure there are some pipelines going to Europe, but they’re probably also other pipelines going to other places too.
Arctic thaw is opening up vast troves of previously untouched natural resources.
I’d say it’s making ship transport easier. One still has to drill and dig for mineral resources.
The Northwest Passage is about to be a reality.
more a year round.
This is why Trump wants Canada and Greenland.
With him I think it’s more ego. Resources that Americans want they’re already buying from Canada, though tariffs are getting in the way. Greenland hasn’t refused military bases, indeed, IIUC, the US had a diminished presence in Greenland until Trump came along.
It’s kind of like Putin: there was probably more intelligent, easier, more diplomatic, less costly, and more peaceful ways for Russia to deal with what it considered problems to it, in or from Ukraine, but Putin, like Trump, is an irredentist: IIUC, he essentially told Tucker Carlson that there is no Ukrainian nation, that it’s actually Russia.
The Rand Corporation wrote a whitepaper that basically translates to “how to fuck up Russia and take all their shit”
IIUC Zbigniew Brzezinski thought that by luring the former USSR to invade Afghanistan, he could bleed them, and in less than 14 years after the USSR invaded Afghanistan, it broke up—and to this day Afghanistan remains a basket case.
Some historians wonder what would happen if Hitler stopped with Sudetenland, he might have lived well past 56 years of age, like Franco did.
Putin wasn’t looking too bad until 2008, and even then many cut him some slack until 2014.
Thanks to him, Russia is suffering, Ukraine is suffering more, Ukrainian nationalism is greater, NATO has gotten bigger, the US military-industrial-complex is probably richer, and Putin is even more entrenched. Next year, he will have outlived Stalin.
Giving missiles to Nazis is just a start.
So you’re saying those who resist Russia’s invasion and occupation of Ukraine are Nazis?
The leading countries for these reserves included Australia, Brazil, China, India, and the United States
and from the same article:
He talked about Lady Barack Obama and “Gus rules”.
I think the cover-up of Biden’s decline was more of a factor.
Had he resigned in very early 2024 (maybe become a President-emeritus-of-sorts), she acts as President for a few months and shows her stuff, and have real primaries (which she probably would have won if she was half-competent as acting President), she wouldn’t have gotten 1.5% of the popular vote less than Trump, but probably more.
Also maybe go on Joe Rogan, and maybe be more aggressive in the debate. “Donald Trump, you are such a liar! Please stop lying! You can’t stop lying! Stop lying!” Maybe not even bother debating him.
Things I think helped Trump in 2016, and to an extent 2020:
IIUC, Caracas is 50% farther from Brasilia than it is from Miami.
What does the image have to do with your reply?
All opposition parties have been banned.
All?
I don’t like it either, but Ukraine is being invaded.
Stalin was probably even more dictatorial when his former ally, Hitler, invaded the USSR.
“Great Patriotic War”: 1941-1945
WWII: 1939-1945
They can’t vote.
Could they vote in Britain during WWII?
Men can’t even leave to escape this fascist death cult. You’re fucking deluded.
Those over 60 can, as well as boys 17 and under.
Btw, doesn’t Russia and Brazil have conscription?
and has never let go since their 2014 coup.
Wasn’t Yanukovych kicked out by the Ukrainian parliament after repressing people?
We thought this was over when Zelensky campaigned and won on peace through the Minsk Agreement, but he had no control from day one.
I think the Budapest Memorandum is more important than the Minsk Agreement.
Zelensky is now a kapo stooge who will never outlive his usefulness to these “minority of idiots”.
Meanwhile supposed anti-fascist Putin is bombing Ukraine and trafficking in Ukrainian children—teach them to hate Ukraine and maybe kill Ukrainians.
At least he wasn’t as pro-Dubya Bush as were Parker and Stone.
FWIW,
a previous post of mine:
What would happen if 400k 2-liter bottles of tainted vodka—with warnings of such on the labels—where dropped on or near Russian military bases, over Russia-occupied Ukraine? (click for more details)
maybe lower the voting age to 14.
Dershowitz argued that public opinion could shift if federal investigators are able to prove she provided false information on her citizenship application or that someone else submitted false information on her behalf.
According to Wikipedia, she became a US citizen when she was 17, and if the latter was the case, presumably another, not her, would be culpable.
Is Dershowitz becoming kind of like a birther?
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In 2008, responding to the use of Metallica’s music to torture Iraqi prisoners, Hetfield was unoffended and replied, “If the Iraqis aren’t used to freedom, then I’m glad to be part of their exposure.”[47] British band Chumbawamba subsequently released a song called “Torturing James Hetfield” in response.[48] In a 2017 interview, Hetfield reaffirmed his previous stance, saying, “I’m honored my country is using something to help us stay safe, if they are. But then again, once the music is out, I don’t have control over that. Just like how someone’s giving it away online. They’re using it to do what they do.”[49]
I think my points are relevant.
Okay.
It was wrong for the US to invade Iraq, Afghanistan, fight in Vietnam, or bomb Iran, but none of these were democracies. Ukraine was more a democracy in 2014 than they were or are; and like the US, Russia exploited weakness.
I suppose Rome was pretty bad too, but was Byzantine or the Dark Ages in the West much better? I’m not saying you have to choose between one or the other, but maybe being a bit more nuanced could help.
The first half of the 20th century was pretty bloody, but with the US emerging from 1945 as a world power, and for a while the USSR too, things seem relatively more peaceful.
Yep. 2026 changed a lot of minds about the US: that’s Trump for you, I suppose.
Apparently the Islamic empire had/has quite a hold there.
Also, if a supposed 3rd world country like Afghanistan can humiliate the US, as Iran seems to be, or at a smaller level, Al Qaeda, it seems the US isn’t all that threatening—paper tiger and all of that.
When do you think the US will collapse? Will it be before 2050—23 years, 2 months from now?
For better or worse, I think it’s going to be around for a while.
I suppose, after all, there’s been a “Cool War” going on with Russia since Putin took over, and it’s increased with his invasion of Ukraine, which is a European country; and the Arab Spring and the resulting brutal repression by the Assad gang and arguably the resultant Islamic State hasn’t been all that good for the free flow of goods (in this case petroleum and natural gas).
Isn’t all nationalism fascistic?
Who’d say that Putin, Xi, and the Kim gang in North Korea aren’t nationalist? Are they thus fascists?
Why would they have a Jew as their President? You call him a kapo, but why a kapo when you could have the real deal?
and Chamberlain thought he’d guaranteed “Peace for our time” in 1938. Presumably that man did not want a repeat of WWI.
Did he literally say that, or something very similar, and if so it wasn’t taken out of context?
Unfortunately, when one shells insurgents, there’s a probable risk of civilian casualties. This is true with the Gaza and Assad barrel-bombing Syria.
There’s a fair amount of Ukrainian civilian blood on Putin’s hands.
and the Banderites, Nazis, far right, and Wolfsangel wavers will never outlive their usefulness to Putin.
They are as useful to Putin as Hamas was/is to Netanyahu.