Chris

I have my coffee black, the number of times I have had to fight off a Seal Team because they thought it was oil.

Especially if your plate had enough olive oil.

He has overseen the largest tax and regulation cuts, this part is true. But, on a technical point, I suppose it is both true and bonkers.

I was getting tired of my coffee constantly invading my breakfast.

Some people are outliers in that the standard systems don't constrain them, and some people are outliers in that they believe the standard system constrains everyone. I guess? 😂

Lol, there's a part of me that wants to watch this to see what's left of the man to spin as heroic once you remove all the evil shit.

I wish I knew more about the process but I'm willing to bet money the primary market is billionaires and the primary audience is other billionaires.

Placate them with a FIFA peace medal or something.

An offering plate.

"offered" 😔

War criminals get the boot from the war criminal's board of barely concealed continuing war crime?

'board of peace'

Before you rush to their defense, I assure you retailers know exactly how much gets stolen, quite possibly who steals, and have judged it cheaper to be stolen from than to pay cashiers or prosecute customers.

South African media were far more honest with their wannabe despot, although not always for benevolent reasons.

On the bright side, modern politics has cured my imposter syndrome.

Variety is the only superfood.

A loaf of bread made out of croissant, uh, pastry dough?

wait, what?

You think that FIFA stuff was bad wait until the Olympic Committee builds a 4th platform above the other 3 for the Platinum Medal awarded to him for every single event

Happy birthday.

In my younger days, meritocracy seemed appealing, but the older I get, the less I trust anyone to be the judge of merit.

1. I hate to see good people wasting their time and energy. And there’s perhaps no greater waste of time and energy than seeking to change the trajectory of the human population. It’s not just futile, but also a massive distraction from things we CAN change. This thread seeks to explain why. 🧵1/12

listen

I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before

but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply

Gerrymandering is fucked up, but how funny would it be that instead of diluting the blue vote to gain a seat, it dilutes the red vote to lose five? These people are evil, but not competent.

Ha!

Man's a psychopath, but at least he is honest.

"Karp quoted a political scientist to say that the “rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion… but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.'”

This isn't even a question of modernity. If this person spent any amount of time in Rome, they would wind up dead in a ditch and the senate would likely pretend very hard that they didn't know how it happened.

Afghanistan
Myanmar (formerly Burma)
Chad
Republic of the Congo
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Haiti
Iran
Libya
Somalia
Sudan
Yemen
Burundi
Cuba
Laos
Sierra Leone
Togo
Turkmenistan
Venezuela

But not South Africa? Weird.

An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...

I assume the CT wind created that huge white patch and squished all the clouds into that purple ball of doom.

Brutality.