WatDabney

Economics is a classic form of divination, like astrology or tarot, and its purpose is the same - to provide oracles who will serve the monarch and tell him that the things he wants will happen and the things he doesn't will not.

The mental gymnasics part is the claim that Bluesky is decentralized.

The Israeli mass slaughter of Palestinian men, women and children has made me wish, more than anything else in 50+ years on this Earth, that the Old Testament God actually existed.

Imagine the fire and brimstone He'd rain down on those patently evil motherfuckers.

And bonus points if He kvetched while he did it - "Here I went ahead and made you My chosen people and this is how you repay Me? If I'd known this was what you were going to do with your lives, I would've left you in the desert."

Or better yet, use your own brain.

It appears at odds wirh a claimed priority of the Trump administration, but that's easily explained by the fact that Trump is easily the most overtly corrupt piece of shit to hold the office in modern history and a compulsive liar.

The bludgeoningly obvious reality is that he's dismantling that and every other agency that might stand in the way of his corruption and duplicity because he's a greedy, questing, self-serving piece of shit with no morals, no integrity, no principles and no honor, and any noise he might make about fighting corruption is 100% lies.

That Stormy Daniels was paid with funds embezzled from the Trump campaign and hidden behind false financial reports.

I presume Schumer is upset by the accusations that he's spineless and wants to demonstrate that he does in fact possess a spine. That's made of pudding. And that he only breaks out when the stakes are low.

It strikes me that this in a way illustrates how delusional Trump is.

He's an egomaniac and a pathological narcissist, and he's demonstrated repeatedly that he's obsessed with how other people see him - he's desperate to be respected and admired.

And I have no doubt that he sees this gift as a mark of respect and admiration.

And it very much is not - it's the complete opposite in fact. It's the Qatari royal family pretty clearly saying that while strengrhening ties with the US under another president would require a great deal of detailed discussion and negotiation, with Trump all it requires is giving him something bright and shiny.

I grow more convinced every day that the explicit goal of the Republicans as a whole is to destroy the US - economically, politically and socially - so that they and their cronies and patrons can (so they hope) buy up pretty much everything of value, completely jettison any notion of liberty, justice and democracy and build a theocratic, feudalistic autocracy essentially from the ground up.

They aren't undermining foreign relations, destroying the economy and destabilizing the country as some sort of side effect of their agenda - undermining foreign relations, destroying the economy and destabilizing the country is the agenda.

I'm about 99% sure that she is "Grima Wormtongue-ing her way into his mind," and she's doing it by way of his pants.

And I don't think she's acting entirely on her own behalf - she's essentially a messenger.

I'd never thought of it in these specific terms before, but the essentially educational and fear-ameliorating nature of your post led me to realize that it's likely that a lot of what Nintendo's doing with all of this legal barnstorming is essentially PR, and that's all it's meant to be.

They have little hope of actually winning cases or of doing anything more than cutting off one head of the hydra if they do, and all of their safeguards can be and will be worked around, repeatedly if necessary, so from a practical standpoint, they're fighting a losing battle. But all of their noise and aggressive posturing likely serves to scare a lot of less-informed gamers into not emulating in the first place, so it furthers their goals anyway.

80 years of greed, hatred and lies has created a nation of psychopaths