Trump has had close business and personal ties with Russia since the 1980s. He very clearly admires dictators in general but Putin in particular, and has praised him on numerous occasions. In Trump’s infamous public call for election interference, it was “Russia, if you’re listening.” Not China, not some other country, Russia.

If you can’t see the obvious signs of causation – not just correlation – you’re the one who needs some coke-bottle specs!

I’m not saying Putin won’t benefit, just pointing out how limiting it is to view Trump through a singular lens.

It’s the explanation – and the only one, to boot – that fits all the pieces. It may be a “singular lens,” bit it is singularly useful!

Everything Trump does – everything – suddenly makes sense when viewed through the lens of “how does Putin benefit?”

The federal funding comes mostly from income tax. States don’t send it; individual or their employers do.

Link, please?

[Assault rifles] are fine when you are fighting 1000 of something, but… I’d recommend just about anything else for self defense, actually.

(Pointedly) Yeah, we know.

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This is essentially a resurgence of the Black Panther movement, which worked quite well doing the exact same thing.

Well, up until it got COINTELPRO’d and the cops assassinated Fred Hampton, at least.

It doesn’t really matter if you hate it or not; it’s how the world works. If the implicit threat isn’t credible, they’re going to ignore you.

He’s also going to have an increasingly difficult time getting the insurance to pay the sales price of the car when it won’t sell.

He’s also going to have much more expensive insurance premiums when the insurer catches on that Cybertrucks are statistically so much more likely to be damaged by vandalism.

I was surprised when I found that out, too. It’s apparently the only fictional movie he’s made; everything else has been documentaries.

I guess they’ll have to update the Wiki page when it comes true anyway, LOL.

There have been some successful non-violent revolutions in history

I’m pretty sure that if you dig into the details of a lot of those, you’ll find that the purported success of the non-violent movement strongly correlated with the existence of a not-so-non-violent movement as the alternative.

For example, your article lists the Salt Satyagraha and the Quit India Movement as being non-violent revolutions responsible for the decolonization of lndia. But if you look at what actually ended up happening, such as the partition of India and establishment of Pakistan, it’s pretty clear that the not-non-violent All-India Muslim League had a pretty big influence in achieving that result.

Folks like Gandhi and MLK may tend to end up getting the credit for these sorts of societal changes, mainly because The Powers That Be have a vested interest in “the absence of tension” and thus engage in a bit of revisionist history, but it’s the presence of folks like AMIL and Malcolm X sitting in the background threateningly waving a stick that enabled them to be effective.

(That said, the collapse and liberalization of the Warsaw Pact are probably legitimate examples where the presence of a violent radical flank really wasn’t much of a factor… but I’m pretty sure that’s because Gorbachev’s heart wasn’t really in stopping them to begin with.)

I’m betting he wants to charge fees for ships traversing the northwest passage, and he wants that revenue to go to the US, not Canada or Greenland/Denmark.

Remember that whole “Constitution-free zone” thing the ACLU has been harping on about for a decade or so now? The shit happening right now is why we should’ve heeded the ACLU’s warnings.

Holy shit, a deka-post! That’s a new record, I think!

How is a “labor shortage” a bad thing? You can ask for more pay

Asked and answered.

What the oligarchs want is slaves, not empowered workers who know their worth.

On one hand, yeah. On the other hand, do you really want to make it easier for people like Steven Miller to get things done without Trump’s chaos interfering?

Great, now study how it affects humans.

I’m particularly interested in what sort of double-whammy compounding effect it might have on Boomers who are already brain-damaged from lead poisoning.

No offense, but that’s kind of to be expected since right-wing Cubans would’ve been disproportionately likely to flee communism.

Thank you! It’s ridiculous how much even people opposed to Trump have allowed him to frame the debate.

Fucker should’ve been impeached and removed on Inauguration Day – 2017, let alone 2025 – for Emoluments Clause violations alone.

Everybody hates it when people feign sympathy.

The thing I’m still trying to figure out about MAGAs is, do they hate it when leaders show genuine sympathy or disbelieve that it’s possible at all?