Oh, I doubt even this gormless administration is willing to fly that close to the sun.

Anything else, yeah, totally. CSAM? That has the potential to backfire spectacularly.

Hence the complaining about Canada being to blame for shit air quality.

It's definitely not his "beautiful clean coal", go Coalie! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalie )

Trump ensuring that the damage he does will outlive himself by generations.

Meanwhile, Russia is selling off diamonds to stave off "economic problems".

That 3 day Special Military Operation going well then?

Because if you boil it down to the bare basics, those the country is in hock to; those that run the investment funds that own the country's debt, as well as most of it's essential services (power, water/sanitation, transport, etc.) have the entire country held hostage.

They simply threaten to melt the country down if the status quo isn't protected.

Every single person's pension/savings/entire life's worth is dependant on these people not fucking everyone over. The actual country's debt is in the same hands.

Shy of complete a meltdown and reset they have complete control over how the country is run, which is why things are the way the are.

The more I learn about how American politics doesn't function, the more I'm affirmed in my belief that Trump is doing the rest of the world a "yuge" favour by destroying the US' international advantages and alliances with his ignorant, egocentric tantrums and "quiet part out loud" corruption.

It smells like bitch in here.

The EU actually made it illegal to sell non pervert new cars, IIRC.

Exactly so. Saw a post earlier about the Russians saying that Ukraine targeting "civilian infrastructure" shows their "frustrations at their battlefield losses".

First thought was, "If that's how you think, that explains a lot." A very telling accusation, shall we say.

This accusation gives good insight into the Russian apparatus and their thought processes.

Much like how every Trump regime accusation is an admission, this comes across the same.

Musk seriously needs to be shot out of the solar system aboard one of SpaceX's heavy lift rockets.

Because they've mostly been individually convinced if they just work hard enough they too will be one of the rich few, and that everyone but them personally deserves nothing but contempt and hate for not working hard enough.

This ensures each individual vociferously defends the rich, as they too will soon be one of them, which flat out kills any collective action to better everyone's position.

I'm on the list!

I'm a literal nobody... Man, I'm so proud right now.. 😁