I mean, if unemployment is high and wages are low, there’s a certain Keynesianism theory that suggests we’re not building enough arches.

There’s a very funny juxtaposition between what they actually care about (white children) and what you seem to suggest. Sort of a reverse eugenics theory, where they need more white people because white people are naturally dumber.

“Teenage Pregnancy” was a financial problem for Boomer parents, back in the 70s/80s

Now it’s not.

Simple as

If you want population increase… Don’t do what Trump has done

Some of our highest population rates came under Presidents like Trump. The Napoleonic Wars were great for US economic expansion

If they’re pardoned they can’t hide behind the fifth

They can if they don’t fear a contempt charge. Quite a few seem happy enough to entirely ignore subpoenas

Don’t forget to bring a towel.

• Go to an alternate dimension

• Immediately look for a history book

• Find one

• It’s in French

You say this as if trump thinks things through.

He’s been at this racket for a long while.

Hows that Iran situation going?

Everyone on the inside is making a ton of money.

Generally speaking, you want to pardon your Capos because you don’t want them ratting on you.

Melanie looks like she’s being held at gunpoint.

needless bothsiderism

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

~ Julius Nyerere, a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, political theorist, and Russian botfarm

Democrats will take office on Jan 2nd and announce the need to compromise with Moderate Republicans about three days later. They’ll pass enormous bailouts for the tech industry, a marginally increased spending package for ICE and the Pentagon, a massive tax cut plan for middle class people with over $40k in auto loans, the Joe Manchin Memorial Coal Energy Independence Act, and then advance the “Act to Declare Donald Trump a Naughty Boy” which… gosh darnit… we just can’t get it out of committee because we don’t have the votes!

Nonetheless, Democrats will declare that they outsmarted Trump, by tricking him into signing the “Make Israel Great Again” Act. And we’ll hit a bipartisan consensus on adding antisemites to the concentration camps. Also, Elon Musk will be given a trillion dollars, in a bag, out the back of the Capital Building. Please don’t ask how or why.

I will be called a Russian bot for predicting this.

I don’t think Cuba has any kind of leverage that would cost the US anything.

Cubans have their own military and mid-range weapons. They aren’t nearly as fortified as the Iranians, and they don’t have a straight line to Russia or China for support, but they can absolutely put missiles all along the Gulf Coast if push comes to shove. They’re - bare minimum - as dangerous as Yemen is to Saudi Arabia.

It would be hell on earth for the island, though. Nobody actually wants a shooting war with the US. God only knows how many civilians would die as a result.

And the real second-order consequence of a US invasion of Cuba would be the flood of refugees. People would flee the island in droves. Jamaica, the Yucatan, the Bahamas, Haiti, hell Florida - they’d be inundated with people fleeing the country. As bad as US relations are with the Caribbean states, this would make things so much worse. You’re talking about and island of 10M people. It would be chaos.

Firing NATO’s biggest arms dealer is a bit like trying to kick the NFL out of football.

At some point, someone has to be out there willing to fuck with the machinery of the election. The problem Orbán has is his shrinking pool of people willing to do that. He’s running against his own PM, ffs. It’s not like we’re seeing a sea change in Hungarian politics. It’s just local plutocrats deciding they’ve had enough of Orbán’s ego and are trading him out for someone more pliable.

Same thing happened to Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine. He fucked around way too hard and galvanized the whole country against him.

• Crypto

• Oil

• Religion

All practically the same thing at this point.

Iran doing the hard pivot to become the new Singapore was not what I had on my 2026 Bingo Card.