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Umm, how much is getting through? That is the count isn’t it?

It’s worth remembering that Germany has refused to send Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine for more than a year. Europe actually needs to do stuff, not just jabber.

Not enjoying this new presidency, but there are some stinky ends on the USAID money flows. That was our tax money to aid those less well off in this world. Did much of this money leave the country and it’s top income bracket?

YouTube video by The Dor Brothers The Drill

Strong leaders is not western Europe’s forte right now. Plutocrat or otherwise. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbXZ...

Putin is correct, sadly.

It is BlueSky and the bots are in the house, like it is 1997 and it is Yahoo Chat.

Why does the US actually have borders anyway. In this wired day and age do they make any difference to anything?

Quoth the Raven …

I knew that was Australia the second I saw it.

Team Blue love distractions. It allows us not to focus on what we need to focus on in the lead up to 2026 and 2028.

Team Blue getting distracted once again. There will be mountains of this sort of thing to keep Team Blue’s eye off the ball over the next 4 years.

This is what Trump is on about. Does not want to see Europe split off one by one to China. The Spanish should speak to their Germans and see how the China relationship worked out for them.

Keep up

In a shock move, Davos are ditching ESG like a bucket of warm spit. I wonder if they still want us to eat bugs. Stay tuned.

I had an afternoon nap and woke up to see if this had in fact been part of the dream where Winona Ryder had proposed marriage to me. Alas not. And no proposal either. A Gin & Tonic calls to me.

Herr Michaelis presumably has some magic idea about how Trump is about to take power of the Senate and Congress, neither body known for surrendering powers. Not like Germany where you can do it with a doddering old figurehead.

He may have made a bit more than that. However, nothing on the scale of Trump. There was a reason that Trump appears in so many rap lyrics and Biden does not.

Twitter really only works if you curate a feed and read just that. But every now and then you want to click "For You" to widen the feed, and yea verily walk through the valley of slime.

How to make cash vis a vis future decisions without taking "bribes":
start a meme coin which donors can pump
start a foundation - take donations
have a family member create and sell art

Too hard? Then just "make trades on inside information received as a federal politician".

What Private Eye in the UK calls "arslikhan".

The story about Bernays and the suffragettes is greatly instructional.

Yes - the variety. I did like my narrowly curated feed on Twitter but got incredibly pissed at Musk sticking his dick-pic-opinions on every 20 minutes.

My kids claim they are not influenced but I can see points of view they have as articles of faith that they cannot explain in debate.

I am sure that you came to this conclusion directly. I am more thinking about the young minds on the social media apps who have not made a lifetime of study of the way of the world, unlike you. You can discern.

This is a problem ByteDance can rectify very quickly, seeing that you can now "monetarily influence decision making" by purchasing one of two recent coin issues.

That is why I am against "get all your news here" recommendations. When you vary your intake, it becomes much easier to spot the "nudge".

The above Russian examples are examples of dividing opinion. Fox News is that. Everyday retirees turn it on for a conservative voice that matches the psyche of the America they grew up in. Instead they get radicalising cant.

Yes, of course, people within America do this. David Axelrod is a famous "pupil" of Bernays. However, China and Russia are at war with the West, whether we recognise that or not. I imagine the Chinese actively push the "who cares about my data" conversation.