Pretty sure the response has been complete refusal to step in the stupid with the orange turd.

I watched a guy test a bunch of blade designs. Trust me, the mess of a stuck blade can ruin an entire day of beheading.

Integration of corporations into government is by definition fascism. At least according to Mussolini,

Communism would be the nationalization of industries into the government, which transfers their ownership to the state.

The key difference is that under Fascism, corporations are still autonomous in that they can control their own policies, and also make those policies law. Under communism industrial units are told what they can do by the state, because the state decides the law.

It’s akin to an autocratic oligarchy vs monarchy comparison, except without the birth right succession. And technically a real communist nation would have a state controlled by extremely democratic systems, though in the real world the democratic portion of communist societies have all been a show for the people under the rule of a strong man autocrat.

That’s kind of how they get filtered to Fox. When someone tells you 3 million people were bussed around California to vote illegally, you know they’re full of shit. Because that would take the entire Greyhound bus fleet 3 months to accomplish with no one noticing. It’s an absurd claim that lets you immediately know that source is full of shit, and you move on. If you can’t comprehend scale though, it’s just something you should be angry about, and you want to know who to blame, so you keep watching.

Budgets aren’t a problem right now, because the GoP has been plying the deficits don’t matter game for 40 years. The problem being, that world is now gone. The petro dollar is dying, and our trade supremacy is broken. There will be no growth out of this deficit, we sent it all to other countries. The US is in an open state of collapse right now on every international stage. Iran would love to take the credit for it, but really they’re just the ones who will happen to be standing there as it happens.

They’re not useless, but the days when they could hang off the coast and continue to harass shore targets is gone. It’s a strike and move game now. Drones small enough to launch from the back of a civilian truck, can threaten anything on the water. And sure, you can knock them down, but it’s a numbers game. Every time you down a $20k drone with a half million in ordnance, you lose, regardless of actual damage. Plus stick around too long and you might run out of ammo, or strain your own supply lines and start crashing things like refueling planes.

The problem is that Iran is 3 times the problem of Iraq with 4 times the military. Sure, the US could roll in and lock it down. If we’re willing to get some of our own people killed, and we would, probably a few hundred, maybe a few thousand. And then we’re stuck in a hole bigger than Iraq and Afghanistan combined. But hey, the oil would flow eventually. Not that it would save our economy, that ship already sank.

The right cannot grasp the concept of scale. That why they bought the millions of illegal voters idea. A thing can happen, so it can happen a million times, seems logical to them.

Between Trump and Putin it’s been made abundantly clear, if you don’t have nukes, you’re not really a sovereign nation.

The leaded gas really did not help. You can see the crime stats drop as it was phased out.

Nixon didn’t actually get into anything in the middle East. He armed up Israel and put our troops on alert, but didn’t get into any shooting. Granted, that’s because he was busy with atrocities in the far East. So it’s more just a case that he was already busy.

How is the time stamp on that 5 hours in the future?

Buy wait, it can get worse!

Almost like the intertwined roots of a swamp flooded with filth.

So we’re back to inflatable tanks are we?

I’ve found that people who are offended by dark humor (the non racist variety) tend to be people I don’t like, and don’t trust alone with children.

Gotta keep her in the executive branch for legal protection and control.

Other countries have examined the satellite pics of the attack and all have agreed it was a precision bomb strike. Every target was intentionally hit and the entire target was destroyed. Most likely as part of trying to destroy the military compound next door that was separated from the school a decade ago. The targeting data wasn’t updated with that information.

Reagan openly committing treason by selling arms to Iran.

Asking if you trust the government is a stupid loaded question. No one trusts the government. You don’t trust a loaded gun, but it’s the best tool to have in your hand if someone’s trying to kill you. Government isn’t something you trust, it’s a tool that might be the best for some jobs.