Drusas

How different things would be if he had been our president.

He’s such a loser trying to look like a tough guy.

I became afraid of the phone because of medical debt collectors. (Not Gen Z)

Well, don’t announce it in advance, ffs.

Naturally, the article is much less doom and gloom than the title is. The Czech government is actively preparing to help Ukrainian war veterans integrate into society where their families have fled to.

When I was studying Japanese in Japan, almost all of my fellow students were from China. It was discreetly explained to me at one point that they cannot talk about the government or politics for fear of being brought back to China or something happening to their families, something I had not previously understood at the time (I was a young American). I had naively wanted to discuss these things and all they would ever really say when around other Chinese people was how Mao was the greatest Chinese person in history.

It’s real and it’s been going on for decades.

She’s not dead.

Why would people even want to hunt doves? They’re tiny–not exactly much of a food source. And their plumage is unremarkable.

What the fuck did they expect?

He doesn’t care. He’s rich and he’s old. He just wants to grift his last few years away. He’ll be shielded from the worst of the impacts.

Putin said the world should not take Trump’s comments lightly and claimed Moscow would be ready to protect its interests in the Arctic if NATO nations expand their territory in the region.

Greenland is already a part of NATO. The US owning it would not expand NATO territory.

His first impeachment was for trying to extort Ukraine. Anybody who hasn’t been paying attention hasn’t been paying attention for a very long time.

Wherein “neutral” means “without any defense partners so that we can come back later”.

Port inspection documents show the Solong failed steering-related safety checks in Dublin, Ireland, in July, with the vessel’s “emergency steering position communications/compass reading” unreadable. Inspectors found a total of 10 deficiencies, including “inadequate” alarms, survival craft “not properly maintained” and fire doors “not as required.”

An inspection in Scotland in October found two other deficiencies. The ship wasn’t detained after either inspection.

So, probably gross negligence rather than a deliberate act. Probably.

I wonder if the name Donald will have a sharp decline in popularity (not that it has ever been a popular name) as a result of his brutish authoritarianism the way that the name Adolf did after World War II.

65 isn’t really “elderly”. She just had bad luck, contracting a rare disease.

The vast majority of Americans are not interested in attacking, annexing, or tariffing Canada. So no. A minority elected an extremist who is anti-West and now we’re all stuck here.

That’s the point. Then he and his buddies can buy up all your stocks.

I don’t want the depression, but I wouldn’t mind seeing bankers and stock traders jumping from skyscrapers.

It’s okay. We still love you.