Krypto Patel, Private Dick.

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I like the optimism!

Russians should be so lucky.

"Staff working in Putin's immediate vicinity have reportedly been banned from using mobile phones or other internet-connected devices or using public transport. They have also had security systems installed inside their homes.

Even wristwatches have reportedly entered the blacklist, with officials ordered to take them off in Putin's presence since around mid-April, according to a source speaking to the Telegram channel Mozhem Obyasnit.

FSO service has proved a springboard to the Kremlin elite. It serves as a trusted pool of loyalists for roles in regional governance and other senior positions."

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So... no Trump watches for the Putin Protection Team?

AI Overview

The United States is considered a capitalist country, not a democratic socialist one. Its economy is primarily driven by free markets and private property ownership, though the government utilizes certain social programs like Medicare and Social Security, making it a mixed-market economy.

"The Separation of Church and State

No surprises: Religious Liberty Commission draft report advances Christian Nationalism"

1 min (or less) on 'selective literalism' with Rev Ed:

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1Nutfucius say: "Real knowledge is to NEVER know the extent of one's ignorance".

Cool... we are going to gift the Evil Regime that most Iranians hate Billions for the same or worse state of affairs in the Strait as before we attacked them.

Brilliant!

- "... the sophisticated malware that is J Divan Vance's political career."

Blessed sentence ;-)

WELL.... I see from the thread that the Epstein Files is truly dead, even here.

Who'd a thunk it?

"Holy Mother of God, JD Vance Really Thinks He Knows Better Than Pope Leo XIV

Holy Mother of God, JD Vance Really Thinks He Knows Better Than Pope Leo XIV

Hey, Mr. Vice President, try to learn your job before you presume to teach the pope his.

(quotes Vance's earlier comments in April)

"The stunning arrogance present in these words is perfectly consonant with the worldview of the techno-bro elite that produced the sophisticated malware that is J Divan Vance's political career.

Inexpertise is valued as "common sense" in our democracy these days.

That's a huge problem. Its mirror image is the idea that expertise in one field means expertise in all of them. George W. Bush was an example of the former. Peter Thiel"and Vance"are examples of the other.

(My opinion on the millennia's worth of bloody mischief derived from "Just War" theology is for another day.)

The pope has "to be careful when he talks about matters of theology"? Who in the hell are you when you're at home, Sparky?

Oh, and the last time you "spoke about public policy," it involved a bizarre analogy about your wife and skydiving " or, as you put it, "jumping out of an airplane," a feeling that must come over your wife every time the two of you go wheels up.

Try to learn your job before you presume to teach the pope his."