Paul Holmes

So the compound was collateral damage in our attack on the school?

If you were wondering how someone as successful as Marc Andreessen could sound so stupid....

In a normal world, cabinet members would be doing a full court press with the media exlplaning that this is what putting Britain first looks like, and that Reform wants the UK to be Trump's vassal state.

But why would any cabinet member do that when Starmer could just change his mind tomorrow?

Unless the Times answered with an unequivocal yes and then acknowledged its own ongoing complicity, I am not interested.

I don't care what anyone says, I like this better than "Wages of Fear."

Call me a philistine (whole other topic, but philistines got a bum deal they were way more cultured than the people who use the term as an insult).

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Trumpenfraude?

Relax... Trump and Hegseth have thought through all the second order effects of their attack on Iran and have a brilliant strategy for dealing with all of it.

I totally believe the US media when they tell me the President is playing 5D chess... he's so cerebral!

Aren't these the same people insisting that we should subordinate our national interest to the US?

Reporter: "Would you call the current increase in gas prices a tax on all Americans."

Trump: "That's a stupid question and you are a bad reporter for a failing publication and you're fat and ugly."

Press corps applauds their president loudly.

Lindsay Graham appears to have completely failed to understand Israel's true objctives.

"make no mistakes" seems like it would just add more pressure, and Anthropic has already said that Claude is suffering from anxiety, and I have seen what happens when pile pressure on somebody who's already anxious and this is how schools get bombed.

If people drivng round and round in circles doesn't excite you I don't know what to say.

Dear Donald

I am delighted to hear that you have "already won" the war in Iran and no longer need to beg for our help now that the war is over.

Congratulations on your triumph,

Keir

One for those who only discovered Delroy Lindo in Sinners.

I like Wrexham and would love to see them in the Prem later this year (or soon).

But McElhenney's issue is with the rules of the game, not VAR.

Though "fuck the rules of the game" is not as catchy.

if Democrats vote against funding, Repubicans will be forced to remind voters that they sent American soldiers to die for the Epstein files.

Why do so many people act as if s can never win an argument, even (especially?) when they are right and a majority of Americans agree with them.

Look forward to seeing Wrexham in the Prem, later thisyear if all goes well, but within the next 2-3 years for sure.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his livelihood depends on his not understanding it.

It's entirely possible this was the point all along.

One of the first consequences of this war was the closure of the Straits of Hormuz, which resulted in allowing India to once again buy Russian oil -- a major boost to Putin.

It's entirely possible that the attack on Iran has already achieved its one strategic objective,

In what way is it a gamble? What exactly does he have to lose?

No jury in the US should even consider convicting a person based on the evidence of law enforcement. Any law enforcement testimony should be presumed dishonest unless there is unimpeachable corroboration.

"If we can convince people we have no core beliefs they will vote for us" is an absurd political strategy.

I think VAR before the fifth round would be expensive and impractical, especially at smaller grounds and games with limited camera angles. You couldn't do it in the qualifying rounds, for example. The fifth round seems about right to me, but it's not a hill I would die on.

So when you do something stupid and make yourself vulnerable, your rivals might take advantage?

How was anyone supposed to predict that?

And then they learned about Markwayne Mullin...

Could you at least learn your own?

So when we decide to give up and go home, we'll just declare victory?

Isn't that exactly what critics of this insane adventure said would happen?

AI is to being a writer what slinging burgers is to being a chef.

The end product is faster and cheaper but not nearly as good. You learn nothing in the preparation that is relevant to your craft.

But it doesn't require you to engage your brain, so there's that...

Imagine if we were willing to take that money to help asylum seelers integrate and become contributing members of our society?