Cool, now get McGinley, Flynn, and Reyes.

Why would you ever not need air support? Better question, was Marshall the “This looks like a job for Aquaman” character?

Natural gas can be greener than alternatives like oil and coal, but the people making fuck tons of money want to treat it like the destination rather than a step on the path of a much longer journey.

Bullshit. Governing is compromise, but politics is bullshit. I mean that in the literal sense. To get what you want politically, you have to push the overton window so that you can govern towards the middle. But the middle between reasonable and fascism is not a great place for governing anyone.

I’m with you completely, I’m just feeling grumpy today.

I mean, that’s a really low bar. I like Pete, and I would certainly vote for him instead of just about anyone in any position of government. But I do think our standards have been lowered to the point where “not a nazi shitbag” is going to put him in the upper echelon.

Just what my relaxing escapist hobby needed, debt.

I understand why he’s a threat to them, I just don’t understand their battle strategy. Everything they do to attack him elevates his profile and makes actual Democrats suspicious of the oligarchs.

Sure, but again, he’s the mayor. He can’t set financial policy for the banks of the world. NYC has a huge administrative budget, but it ends at the five boroughs. He can’t be like “All UN delegates have to end all wars.” He has authority over city administrative issues, and it looks like Trump is going to go after him personally.

Important things happen in his city, and that makes him the most powerful mayor in the country. But that’s like being the tallest elementary school student. And the job is a career killer. The last NYC mayor to be elected to higher office was in 1869.

So some airlines gave Trump enough money to get special treatment.

So much god-damned attention on a fucking mayoral race. Sure, it’s NYC, but he’s still just the mayor. Like they could have just ignored him and sapped the energy from his win, and then primaried him when his term was up.

It’s just further evidence that the Democratic leadership is entirely inept.

Very interesting history lesson there. The Communist Party of Greece had been banned in 1936, but these revolutionaries played a significant role in the Greek resistance to Nazi occupation. The guerillas stymied the invasion forces, and it’s a source of civic pride among Greeks that even though Athens fell to invasion, Greece contributed to the Allied victory by making it a pyrrhic victory.

However, immediately after the war, the same guerillas were prosecuted as criminals, leading (among other things) to a Greek civil war which ended in victory for the monarchy. The same heroes were demonized by the government they helped restore to power.

Of course, there’s way more to the story, and there are far more shades of gray than I’ve described here. But photos like this should serve as a reminder that history is truly written by the survivors, and then edited by the victors.

Me, looking backwards at the gates to the entrance to an age of unreason, which seems like a very long time ago.

Alternative theory, the people pulling the strings are already in control, and Trump is the useful idiot who can be the bully/lightning rod for international ire.

I never understood people who hate on the RAW. Like, it’s an open concept. Make it your own. Any changes can be done at the first session, and if you have an adjustment that’s better, everyone will agree and it will catch on.

This has always been the far right endgame. They don’t want people to rely on government, so they make government unreliable. Citizens become more exploitable, and thus more profitable.

You already did this AMA

1 hotdog a day would suggest a diet that is unbalanced and prioritizing cost and convenience. I would bet money that the comorbidities include sedentary lifestyle, poverty, limited access to fresh produce, poverty, limited education, and poverty.

To be Democrats.

Someday, that old planter will become a fountain.