A few months ago, I would have said that taking the island would be relatively easy, given the size and strength of the US military, but keeping it would be the hard part.

Now I don’t know if we could even take it. These fucking assholes have hollowed out our military.

I love how you guys keep declaring the war all but over, and then Ukraine keeps kicking the shit out of you because they didn’t get the memo.

You know how you guys could actually play nice? Fuck off back to your own country. Maybe then Ukraine will stop kicking the shit out of you.

Trump to manipulate the stock market again

Fixed that headline.

Understandable. He was apparently very sick that day, and obviously also very old.

Still wish he was president instead of the shit-gibbon, though.

What the actual hell happened to Labour? Who can the left turn to now? Is it worth trying to salvage?

The world will be a better place when he’s no longer in it.

Sure, but there are going to be brain injuries and other disabilities that have a limiting effect on IQ, which would lower the mean relative to the median at least a little. And it’s hard to imagine there’s an equivalent upward trend of genius outliers.

It’s not necessarily half. There could be a group that is a fair bit less than half, but are so dumb they throw the averages off.

Depends on implementation. Does it keep people sharp, focused, effective, and healthy well into their old age? Fabulous. Does it make people simply limp along like they’re half-dead already well into their old age? Fuck that.

Alleged? Grok literally made a bunch of them. Normally, I’m in favor of giving the benefit of the doubt, but there is no doubt here.

Translation: “Goddamn it, my ties to Epstein keeps showing up in the news no matter what I do!”

A bitter lesson in all of this is that the universe isn’t fundamentally fair or just. Sometimes, bastards like Bannon get away with shit and never suffer any consequences for it, and there isn’t even a hell for him to suffer in after he dies on a mountain of booze and ill-gotten gains.

And that’s why it’s up to us - always up to us - to impose fairness and justice on the universe.

It’s also why the price of freedom is vigilance. Somewhere along the way, a huge chunk of us became apathetic. We stopped voting. We stopped giving a shit. Which is exactly what the Bannons, the Trumps, and the rest of those shitheads wanted.

I think it might be the lighting and backdrop. They’re brightly lit from one side, with a very dark background, making them really pop out. It reminds me of the lighting that was popular in 1990’s formal portrait photos, which I always thought looked odd.

These fucking people… It’s literally all projection, always.

The party of “traditional family values,” everyone. If we manage to hold anything even remotely resembling free and fair elections in the future, the first order of business afterwards will need to be replacing all upholstery any of them have touched.

Time to start setting up straight conversion camps. Give these fucking bastards a taste of their own medicine.

Oh no! Now RFK will need to rely more on the brain worm for his anti-vaccine advice!

“Extermination”

Oh sure, we’re just openly using Nazi terminology now, but don’t you dare equate us with Nazis!

Fair point.

It’s fascinating (in a horrific kind of way) that literally all participants in this war are monstrous. Seriously, there are no good guys. This is turning into WWIII, but I always figured that when it happened, there would be clearly identifiable victims and aggressors.

How naive of me. Everyone involved is victim and aggressor simultaneously.

I give it two. At most.