How is the weather over there in Novosibirsk?

"The source told CBS News that leadership asked for "large, beefy" agents"

I hope they told Moe that they don't have a hoe.

Well, no duh?

"Release the Epstein files."

The Epstein Files have become the new Mueller Report, it seems.

Bari Weiss is a centrist, and so is her wife.

If Democrats were smart, they'd use this to condemn him for Defunding the Police every day until the midterms. Unfortunately, they're not very smart.

"sensitive military plans discussed so openly"

The specific chat medium and the specific military plans aren't really relevant here. Focusing on those things buries the lead. It illustrates how incompetent the opposition to Trump is, assuming it's even being done in earnest.

Interestingly, Van Jones made a similar argument last night that Democrats shouldn't have let the government shut down, but his reasoning was that allowing Republicans to take away health care subsidies for lower income people would help Dems in the mid-terms, because of the pain it would cause. That's easy for someone like Van Jones to say, who wouldn't feel that pain. And if they let the core of the ACA get canceled, it's probably not coming back any time soon, certainly not under the current administration.

" controversial economic bailout of Argentina"

>America First!

Well, technically Argentina is in America ...

"That isn't an untrue statement.
COVID is the disease, not the virus."

Technically, it was an untrue statement. Vaccinated people still got the disease, although usually a milder version of it. It was a gaffe by Biden, but it wasn't a statement made in bad faith as the faux outragers suggest.

"You never would have heard of Hanson if they sang Monkeybop, ba duba dop ba. It's just not catchy."

But... Monkeymonkeymonkeybop is.

She was great on Saturday Night Live.

"only one path to salvation which is acknowledging Christ as the Son of God who died for our sins."

If someone believes we're all God's offspring, does that count?

"The alternative was Hillary winning and letting her select the nominees."

If you read my posts, you'll know I was very much against Hillary; of course, that doesn't mean I'd ever do something as dumb as vote for Trump. Anyway, even if she had won, any nominees would have had to have gone through a Republican Senate, which likely would have stayed Republican in 2018. So, your fears were overblown at best.

Hmm. Nobody here except me cares about science, it seems.

"Trump believes companies use H-1B visas to cut costs, but the reality is there aren't enough qualified American tech workers to fill all roles, according to Gold."

This is a bunch of bunk, just like they're only doing jobs Americans don't want to do.

"These problems led to the growth of 'Boko Haram' (meaning 'the West is sinful') and the MEND: Link One /// Link Two

In the Sahel, the Tuaregs are similarly fighting against Western imperialism..."

Thank you for those links with additional information. However, you're either arguing against a straw man that religion is the only cause of these conflicts (which no one has claimed), or you're promoting a false premise that religion plays little or no role at all. 'Boko Haram', which literally means 'Education is sinful', is an extremist Islamic sect. Of course, groups like that always conflate secular grievances with their cause to gain sympathy for their activities.

By parroting the anti-western narrative, you're playing right into the hand of the local xenophobes and bigots, as well as outsiders like the Russians and Chinese who've been stoking that so they can exploit African countries themselves.

Y'all need to stop pretending you care about Taiwan unless you're willing to call it by its official name. Taiwan IS part of China, just not the PRC.

If he can do this with all drug companies, then he deserves credit for this. Right now, it just looks like talk and bluster about proposed "measures" which may or may not materialize. Of course, the other part of the problem is the prices will still be marked up outrageously by middlemen and service providers.

When you argue with a fool, you prove there are two.

"America is a nation"

*sigh*

Didn't they ever teach in you in school that Africa is not a country?
It's a continent.

Likewise, America isn't a country; it's TWO continents.

Likewise, Russia isn't a country; it's a different planet.

John Rogers Searle; July 31, 1932 " September 17, 2025) was an American philosopher widely noted for contributions to the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy.

#3, don't give them ideas. I could see that actually happening.

"The Islamic terrorists seem to be more targeted, but they aren't above killing their own."

So were the Germans.

This thread exemplifies the Dumb and Dumberer trope of political ideologies