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Re: Saint Ronnie- watch him in “Storm Warning,” where he plays the good guy v KKK. Re: the Trojan horse that is the internet, the first “Invasion of...

V salon OT: come for the intelligent perspectives, stay for the laughs 👍 Greg

the grifter cicada

It'll be specified with an orange paint option, a combover cockpit, YUGE numbers identifying the aircraft, the capability to land/takeoff on Jeffrey...

More like Battlestar Galactica, the USAF is building Cylons, those worked really well, didn't need any humans. For our European friends, think...

My understanding is the F-47 is like the node of the hub which flies with a hive of support drones as autonomous wingmen. Eventually...

It already smells like shit, too.

So like its namesake, will the F-47 be overweight, have terrible performance, and be very noisy? Greg

The cursed corpse of Spiro Agnew has mixed feelings — actual sacks of cash passing over the Resolute Desk should be the goal

It pains me to say this as a PNW lifer but that is the most appropriate airplane manufacturer + politician pairing I can think of at this point in...

"President Trump announced that Boeing has won the contract for the next-generation fighter, which he said would be called the F-47 — a number...

Under-employment is going to be a problem until the working class who benefited from the post-WWII industrial dream economy all die. The factories...

There are some people on the right who correctly identify what all the rage is about, Oren Cass among them. In a nutshell, one male income used to...

I'm not sure if this is tounge-in-cheek, but the internet is a solution to zero of our political problems.

14yo me came home one day from the Red White and Blue Thrift Store wearing a green Army jacket (Viet Nam era) ala John Lennon, complete with corporal...

I remember as a kid that the local Army-Navy Surplus store had WWII and Korean era stuff in abundance. Childhood memories of musty smelling green...

An interesting read: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/10/abundance-ezra-klein-derek-thompson-book-review

This silly Harry Potter party is interesting. Do they have a candidate running in an election near me?

an independent candidate can win a rare race in isolation (see Gov Ventura), but by and large they only play spoiler given that we declare election...

Well, the cynicism is really for the coordinated duopoly. Since Ross Perot scared the duopoly, they have continued to make it harder and harder for...

Pay to play, baby. I thought that stuff was illegal. Like anybody would prosecute.

The fact that people who proclaim themselves as Christians then go and support a POS like Trump is beyond me. However, I remember having a discussion...

It's not just hypocrisy, it's pathetic. From the link I posted: "The firm, the White House claimed, also acknowledged the wrongdoing of...

The US doesn't have a president, we have a Grifter in Chief. The hypocrisy of the GOP is mind-boggling.

Disgrace. Crook. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/trump-rescinds-executive-order-paul-weiss

I'd have agreed with you a year ago. But the political climate may be ripening for a coalition built on progressive, kitchen table issues like...

and suddenly out of thin air jill stein shows up every four years

Your last paragraph sums up the left leaning voters to a tee. As for the GOP coalitions, two main questions to ask for each group: a) what do...

We are, but now we refer to them as data centers for the cloud or chip fabs. Haven't you been to Arizona or Tennessee?

I think it harkens to one of the fundamental problems facing the democrats (and by proxy, liberals). Since the US uses First Past the Post to...

Out of curiosity (and asking solely seeking to understand), what would such a project look like today, and how much larger would it need to be...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3xBaXKCaoRrCEeAsTHX4P9?si=ghqhcwcLSS-ws3ZuPsLLsQ This is a great listen, and entirely relevant to this morning’s...

Still walking the dog while wearing surplus fingerless gloves purchased there for $5 many years ago.

Edmund Morris's biography of Reagan covers this well. While the book has been criticized for its fictionalized narration, it does illuminate Reagan's...

Thereby absolving everyone, rather than viewing it as elemental to our nation as a country built on slavery and inequity and this is just the current...

I think this is a more accurate framing: The results of decades of DP and GOP behavior & policies have caused enough harm and cultural heartburn to...

A couple years ago I was riding a bus through Rome with a priest. He pointed to the 1930s-era flats lining both sides of the road. On one side, he...

Democrats made Republicans rape your country. Nice. The mind-trust behind Reagan grew out of a group of people who rejected the concept that all...

Todd: 1) No offense here; I get it. 2) I started a response but it would take me forever and it would still be inadequate. Suspectdevice is...

Todd, The disparaging comments from Democratic candidates were the icing on the Let Them Eat Cake ideology that the Democrats have been pushing...

Half the comments since my last comment are discussing how to blame the Democrats for this mess. How are we going to get out of this if we don;t hold...

Interesting Scientific American article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-gen-z-men-voted-for-trump/

Coffee

My guess is that's coming April 2 on "Liberation Day."

same thing that stops Trump from disregarding court decisions. Whoops! He's doing that now.

In order: Always a possibility but over a month we got to know each other pretty well, and got along swimmingly. No surprise. Adults act like...

What stops him from declaring martial law?

I always understood the original sin of 2016 for the democrats as the super-delegates. Superdelegates were influential members of the party deemed...

Suspectdevice, I respect your efforts. If Bernie could run the place, I'd be much happier than now. I do not think that the Democrats overall are...

I changed my residence from Massachusetts to South Carolina in fall 2015 to vote for Sanders in the SC primary, and I spent 6 weeks volunteering for...

Even his notorious thin skin extends to government generally. What happened to freedom of speech? ...

He's also good at talking about himself and bullshitting (usually the same thing).

Trump didn't win because he's from the right. He won because he's good at demagoguery. Both Clintons and Obama knew how to appeal to mid-America on...

So why do the Dems need to move their GC candidates to the center, but the R's can continue running people further and further to the right? This...

Out of left field is a sure sign of failure. This is what the party fails to realize. To win an election it's necessary to appeal to Independents and...

I liked Bernie more than Hillary just like I liked McCain more than GW Bush. But seriously… Do we actually believe that the valid takeaway from...

Isn't this just cutting one's nose off to spite one's face? They'd rather have voted for Bernie twice and yet voted for Trump because they couldn't...