It’s a parliamentary system. He won in his constituency. His party lost vote share and Knesset seats, but remains large, just not large enough to form a government without coalition partners. So now there will be horse trading.

The opposition could do a lot better if they didn’t refuse to form a coalition that includes the Palestinian parties. But they’d rather maintain apartheid and possibly lose their chance at government.

There’s strong evidence that Trump is so fucked up by his narcissism that he believes that, if he wills something, it will inevitably happen.

His mind is on vacation but his mouth is working overtime. --Mose Allison

since Willard is a traditional Celtic name

It’s Germanic, as are most names ending with -ard or -hard (Richard, Bernhard, Eberhard). It appears in old English as Wilheard.

Wilms can also be a form of Willems, which is Dutch. I don’t know if it occurs in Allemanic-speaking regions such as Baden. It might. I’ve been there, but only once or twice long ago. But I know the Low Countries well and have seen the surname used both in the Netherlands and Flanders.

Wilmsome, even.

back then he was perfectly coherent

People with ADHD can speak perfectly coherently. ADHD is an issue with attention and focus, not with language.

and could stay on track for hours

How could you possibly know that? Were you physically there with him at the time, critically assessing his performance? I thought you were dead, Epstein.

People with ADHD cannot do that.

You have no idea what you’re talking about. They very much can.

doesn’t mean he has ADHD it means he has dementia

Anyone who can’t distinguish those two conditions is more than a few marbles short. They’re nothing alike.

Yeah, there may be two blocs, but one thing they both have in common is hatred of the Palestinians.

the majority Arab parties

"Arab"in this context is Israeli apartheid framing to deny that there’s such a thing as Palestinians.

Sounds like Musk has promised to rug-pull the Ukrainians again.

“Influencer”?

Ratfucker. Luckily he’s such a raving asshole that he’ll piss someone off in prison.

There are never consequences, until there are.

About a third of Repulican senators and all the Democrats would need to vote to remove him. That doesn’t seem likely.

Thanks, Zelenskiy.

I wonder if Melanoma has hired an astrologer to advise him yet.

Just like Trump, the only way he can win is by cheating and depriving people of their votes.

Well, they’re not entirely worthless after all.

I’m more anti-emetic. I don’t like vomiting.

It’s the same horseshit that comes out of Trump’s blubbery mouth.

And yet they increased their parties’ number of Knesset seats significantly.

the proof will be in the pudding as the saying goes

That’s not how the saying goes. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”

Just a reminder that Hayek and his mob were opposed to the application of the scientific method to economics, and also that the only place any of them had any experience of actual governance was in the proto-fascist pre-Anschluss government of Austria, where their proposed policies failed.