So this agreement give the US a foothold in the Arctic area.

Maybe our foothold on the North Pole wasn't close enough to the Arctic for Grandmaster Geographer and Maximum Leader Trump.

Land reform policies known for "eliminating the oligarchy as a social, economic, and political class."

The most celebrated definition [of a state] comes from sociologist Max Weber, who defined it as a "human community that (successfully) lays claim to the monopoly of legitimate physical violence within a particular territory."

8. No, you're a troll -- and a pi$$-poor one at that.

Trump is a Russian asset. Little more evidence is needed than what's on the table.

You can't tell me what's going to happen in the future.

I respected many Republicans, especially before 2000. But not as many as I did before 1980. Or before 1960.

It's been a long downhill slide that you don't know s#!t about.

Miles David. What moron wrote that?

Miles Davis. Not to start an argument, but not one of my faves. He was better in the 40s, but he could sure put together a band after that.

Good college radio music:

Charlie Parker, "The Bird." W/ Thelonious Monk, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles David, and Red Rodney:

The country can only change when Republicans do.

If there are any "moderate" (i.e., non-Trumpian) Republicans, the time is ripe -- if not for now, at least to grab some cred for down the road.

Personally I think croaking the Republican brand is the best long-term solution for those supposed moderates, but that's too hopeful.

A three-party system would add interest. As would a four-party system.

The ability to establish additional US military installations.

In Denmark and Greenland.

While we move drones to South America.

As a lifelong American citizen, I don't feel any safer. Quite the opposite.

Quiet campaign?

Anyone who was even thinking she might or should run again is out of their minds.

Frankly I knew little about her until the 2020 VP acceptance speech, or whatever it was. She had been heralded as a powerful speaker. Damn, I was unimpressed.

I can't think of a demographic these days that wants retreads.

The nonprofits' international rankings for US democracy and general thuggery should be interesting for 2025-present.

We could be sending drones to countries with better democracy and adherence-to-international-law rankings than we have.

Nice look. The US might recover one day.

World's to-be most hated regimes: N Korea, Israel, Russia, United States.

Maybe things haven't changed much. Just the order.

Absolutely zero surprise.

One wonders if the 40-somethings on the Supreme Court will ever wake up to the name they'll forever be associated with.

Have they posted his image at Walmart yet? We need crowdsourcing.

Link is to the Independent, so no crap about the Daily Mail.

More FTA:

Since President Donald Trump was reelected in 2024, America, historically the No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gases, has stopped participating in climate diplomacy and has even been hostile to such efforts by other countries. Trump has called climate change a "con job," characterized green energy transition as the "Green Scam" and rolled back U.S. government subsidies for green energies while directing investment in fossil fuels, including the revamping of coal plants that had been shuttered.

Robinson, a self-described leftist and environmentalist, says he believes the administration's actions on climate amount to a "death cult response."

And OJ is still dead.

No one worth a damn wants to perform there with Trump in office anyway.

Looks like maybe he went in for a little nip and tuck, since chin chiseling and ripped abs are out of the question.

18. Pin it on the companies developing and marketing orbital weapons and the regimes that want to buy them. Or vice versa.

Anything we claim the others have, we already have but the US government would rather folks not know about it.

or,

How often do we have to read headlines before we realize that regimes and governments all around the world often seem a lot smarter than we are?

or,

Do we have to kill the 24-hour news cycle to eliminate one reason the United States only plans for the next two- or four-year Election Day, with the inevitable results?

I remembered a quote recently I'd read from a book written in 1934:

"Is it a wonder people can live at all in light of what they're taught to believe?"

Trump didn't use the word "probably," so BillJ knows Trump is certain of what he is saying, so much so that Trump doesn't need anyone questioning his command of the situation.

30. I think many are counting for themselves on the immunity Trump enjoys, and they can engage in their own nefarious crap using him as cover (for a while), and somehow they believe, probably too correctly, that they have plausible deniability.

But it's plausible only because of the ignorance or arrogance of his remaining supporters.

Now that's 33 percent. In 10 years, very few will admit it.

I>Stage 4 lung cancer, failed kidneys and liver, run over by bus, multiple internal injuries. Cause of death from measles/COVID.

#21 | Posted by visitor_ at

Seems like she was alive with all the comorbidities and injuries except the last. Huh.

"He got it by a car. Three times. It could happen to anybody. -- "The Untouchables"

21.

Used to be common decency and respect for the law among a plurality of US citizens and people in government working for a common good or goal.

Didn't need intentional famines to cull the herd.

Most of that decency and respect is out the window.

And not yet has eliminating vast numbers of enemies at one time come out into the open. Start small.

First they came for Nancy Guthrie...

"The wedding payments came from an IBA-affiliated entity in Dubai that the boxing association uses for financial transactions."

Billionaires never need to spend their own money.

Let's see: Who won that cold war again?

I'm also talking about the *possibility* of systemic fraud at the state level, including collusion among state officials or others involved in the election process.
*Personally, I believe there is enough reason for concern* that this *may already be occurring*.
I don't think *the possibility should simply be dismissed* because it doesn't fit the traditional idea of what voter fraud looks like.
#52 | Posted by BillJohnson

Got enough qualifiers in there, Bill, for us to have at least four more reasons you're little more than an awesome troll?