It sucks.

And it was preventable, if we actually held legislators accountable for what they do. People, over the course of the last 40 years came to care about team color more than anything else.

They’re just not going to believe that the US can be trusted

Yup. The damage to the American brand is permanent, and that will become painfully clear when the post-tariff trade deals take effect within the next year and a half and trade routes itself around the US rather than through it.

The worst part is it won’t affect Donald in any meaningful way, because his perception of reality is wedded to his algorithm and his wealth makes him untouchable.

Kind of surprising to see this take after the 2025 elections.

It seems to me that watching a dozen or more former Trump districts lost to Democratic politicians is fairly good proof that people are dissatisfied with his leadership and governance, and the even wilder thing is that Donald’s aggression toward Venezuela has actually served to draw up some resistance in Congress. (So much so that both Donald and Hegseth are trying to establish a fall guy.)

Sadly, they will.

And Donald will too, even as the economy crashes for everyone else.

I could get on board with that.

Really wish the guy had at least shot the murderer in his hands, so he not only has to live his life out in prison, but can’t jerk off comfortably.

You’re right.

These two should have conducted their murders in a civilized way, like bombing people as they lay helpless in a hospital bed, or standing in line for food at a designated aid site.

Or, by blockading shipments of food so they just starve to death.

That’s the civilized, Israeli way to do murder.

If there’s a way to handle things incorrectly, Israel will find it.

Did they at least kick the shit out of him after disarming him?

That’s the Roy Cohn strategy for you.

I hope he ends up writing a book. His first-hand account of this period of our history would be invaluable.

This headline just struck me as wild.

It’s not enough to simply release Garcia, since Donald decided to make him the whipping boy for his entire illegal Gestapo ethnic cleansing immigration policies, but now judges have to order ICE to leave him the fuck alone.

Still, checks and balances working slowly is better than checks and balances not working at all. (And thanks for the zero checks and balances from congress, Jeffries and Schumer.)

It is insane, but that’s late-stage capitalism for you. The choice we made was to have a few hundred more billionaires in the population, even if it means millions starving.

If you aren’t an American, it may be difficult to understand.

Many cities here are very sprawled out and designed for cars, and therefore they’re necessary for economic survival, perhaps more so than a home.

With each new headline like this I hate my country just a little bit more.

Yup. Obama loved bloodying his hands almost as much as Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

No, this was in his first term.

Here’s an article on it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39598046

But yeah, every single news outlet sang his praises after this. I specifically remember being on the treadmill in the gym, watching CNN, and I’ll quote Fareed Zakaria: “In that moment, he became president of the United States.”

This country loves war to the point of absolute absurdity.

We are a nation that really has never given a crap about bombing civilians en masse. Hell, President Obama, whom many still revere, dropped 20,000 bombs just in the last year of his presidency and killed an American citizen in Iraq ordering a bombing as well.

In a year to a year-and-a-half he’s going to be begging for Europe’s attention. That’ll be when the post-tariff trade deals rerouting around the US kick in.

He’s not 100% wrong.

I’m sure he remembers fondly how every single news network praised him profusely when he dropped the MOAB on Afghanistan.

He knows very well how much the US loves a warmongering president.