Thats the great thing about science, you don’t have to ‘believe’ it.

That’s been the takeaway from Star Wars since A New Hope.

And most of all, a gargantuan ego that refuses to believe anything bad can happen to them.

Its fine - the loss will be covered by the millions pushed into Victorian levels of poverty via his recent welfare cuts. After all, those billionaires really deserve another private jet.

There’s a difference between being a populist and actually representing your constituents, which is after all the job they’re paid to do.

1. Stop giving a shit about fake internet points, they literally mean nothing.

2. “Its dead in here” says person who never contributes anything except to complain how dead it is.

I might actually loathe him more than Musk.

Built in, pre-launch enshittification. Novel.

“strange track records”

They’re obvious Russian assets…

“problem on the intelligence front”

…who will pass on the names of all our spies and assignments to Putin…

Intelligence sharing would continue “even if at the top level there might be things we might wish to be circumspect about”.

…so we’re going to bullshit them and not tell them the important stuff.

Techbro led gvmt - move fast, break stuff. Chaos leads to opportunity to profit, by which I mean him and his class to profit.

The MMR vaccine never contained thimerosal. There were two separate claims by antivaxxers. The first was Wakefield’s money making scheme to invent an alternative MMR vaccine by claiming the existing MMR vaccine caused autism.

The second, entirely separate, claim was that thimerosal in other vaccines was also causing autism.

The two claims then got conflated into a general ‘vaccines == bad’ by idiots like Kennedy, Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy and a whole quack industry of autism ‘cures’ such as chelation, HBOT etc.

I don’t think any of them give two shits about pushback. Unless that pushback takes the form of forcible removal from power, they wont care in any way.

The trouble is that the problem is not confined to just Trump. If he dies, Vance becomes president. If they both die, Mike Johnson does. This is not a coup by a single person, this is an entire philosophy - neo-fascism - thats now in charge of the US. Its goose-stepping turtles all the way down.

I’m more and more convinced the Trump administration is not negotiating in good faith. I don’t believe the minerals thing was anything other than something Trump thought Zelenskyy would never be able to say ‘yes’ to. Trump doesn’t want to support Ukraine, but he also needs to find enough of an excuse to save some semblance of face. So when Zelenskyy indicated the minerals deal could be done, with modifications, Trump/Vance cooked up that cowardly shitshow to try and paint Zelenskyy as unreasonable in order to give them enough of an excuse to walk away.

I understand why Zelenskyy is desperate for US support but I’m pretty much certain at this point it won;t be forthcoming. Even if Starmer/Macron et al persuade the two of them to re-meet it’ll just be something else next time.

The US, as a political force supporting stability and peace is no more. Its time the rest of the world accepted that and moved on because its not outside the realm of possibility that a US/Russian political/military alliance might exist relatively soon and we might need to be ready for that.

I’m not convinced Trump ever really wanted those minerals. He floated the idea knowing Zelensky would never say ‘yes’ to the deal as originally presented. But then, when Zelensky seemed prepared to make compromises, Trump had to find another excuse to get the US out of being involved and went with the pathetic, shameful, cowardly performance we just witnessed.

Wonder if there’s a Ukrainian restaurant in that town.

Article: weird sympathy for Musk throughout

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Yep, it’s not a perfect result (that would’ve been AfD polling 0%) but its one that will definitely exclude the far-right and I suspect lead to a Europe united in their defence of Ukraine.

“My initial reaction to this, because our president is a lot of talk, was like ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’ … and today I saw it on my new passport,” Schafer said."

The disconnect between what American’s thought Trump would do and what he and his team repeatedly and unambiguously said he was going to do is genuinely dismaying.

I’m not sure this is quite at a face-eating leopard level of denial of the obvious, but its approaching it.

So, Patreon then.