They do this because if they judged people by their actual moral character instead of their meaningless pandering they would have to judge themselves as the useless drains on society they actually are hth
They did, past tense. You could say that of Europe in general, for the past few decades, it has just become more and more culturally desiccated. France no longer produces Balzacs or Baudelaires, the last great German writer was probably Bernhard. As much as America has also declined culturally, at least Cormac McCarthy and Pynchon were still alive.
The only good German director is Uwe Boll
I admit it feels kind've pathetic but it was more to emphasise my point. Also he specifically request for there not to be a party and they ignored his wishes to throw one anyway, and then fired him for not enjoying it. His 'excuse' was that he was prone to panic attacks, which the party and subsequent confrontation triggered. I know it feels like snowflake behaviour, like getting triggered because XYZ weren't adhered to, but there was something fucked with his head and it'd expend zero effort on their part to not throw a party.
Showed my kids some Latvianimation movie this weekend. It was like ps2 quality machinima
Uwe Boll.
I have also noticed far fewer people driving like absolute maniacs in my area. I wonder where they all went...
This is incorrect, South Dakota and Nebraska both voted against abortion by 50%+ margins in 2024, with SD's being bigger than NB's. In general I think Trump's entirely 'leave it to the states' approach is the right one, let the state-level Republican parties figure out what the most realistic cutoff dates for abortion that can be passed at their level are - of course that's going to be different between SD and say, PA - and roll with that. No need for the federal gov't to get involved in any capacity and that includes telling states what their threshold for pass/fail should be (in FL's case the 60% threshold covers all constitutional amendments in general and not just abortion-related ones, IIRC a weed-related amendment also fell short of the 60% mark alongside the abortion one for example), in fact that would completely run counter to the 'this is strictly a state level issue with no room for federal meddling' position Trump ran on and which is broadly acceptable to all factions of the Republican coalition (including the pro-life faction, even their loudest & most hardline activists like Lila Rose ended up falling in line behind Trump by Election Day).
Majorian himself only became vulnerable enough for Ricimer & the Senate to kill him because Gaiseric, the King Nigger of the Vandals who would also defeat Anthemius/Ricimer & Basiliscus, destroyed his fleet at Cartagena after bribing many of the Roman captains to switch sides. I think the WRE would've been better off if he'd just succeeded there, while Anthemius stayed in the ERE and became Emperor there either after or even replacing Leo I (who was OK I guess, had a mixed record, probably the best thing he did was eliminate their Ricimer equivalent in Aspar before Aspar whacked him and destabilized the East).
Kathy Hochul is brave to be putting herself in the crossfire line considering all the skeletons she has. If Republicans are serious about winning 2028 they’ll begin cutting down democrat darling candidates lining themselves up to be the next Kamala. I don’t agree with James Carville on anything usually but he’s right in the sense that performative resistance without impact will crater the democrat campaign futures. Lots of bad things will come out about those stupid enough to stand up to the wrecking ball that is the deregulatory auditing republicans.
They deserve much worse than prison, I just hope they get a bit of retribution in the romanian prison.
I mean, he is pretty corrupt. They have him dead-to-rights on the Turkey thing. The Feds have like a 98% conviction rate so it's a safe bet they didn't indict the Mayor of NYC without having a slam dunk case.
Anthemius, Leo, and Ricimer had the right idea. If the WRE had any chance of every recovering, it would start in North Africa, the breadbasket and economic lynchpin of the Western Empire, and the loss of the fleet off Cape Bon meant the end of any real offensive operations, or help from the Eastern Empire
I don't disagree and neither would Majorian, as said he died because of a failed attempt to reconquer Africa right before Anthemius' ill-fated run. But the best thing overall would've been for the WRE to have never lost Africa in the first place, and for that to have changed you'd need to go all the way back to Stilicho's day, for the Crossing of the Rhine never happened. Alas, if only the ERE hadn't distracted him from the Rhenish frontier with their bullshit right when the Vandals & allies were trying to cross, or even if that still happened but the Alans were too late to save Gaiseric & his people at the Vandal-Frankish battle beyond the Rhine where the latter's father had died...
Kathy is close to China which will beat out the negative press over Turkey. My understanding of what Eric Adam’s allowed Turkroaches to do is be favored in construction contract bids, have less city restrictions on healthy/safety/fire, etc.
MAGA is a short-term immediate success but what it is doing can be undone in the future if Democrats control the government once more. Barriers that have been put up can be pulled down and agencies that have been trimmed can become fat again. Unless anything drastically changes the policy "Make America Great Again" advocates for as a movement requires a great amount of vigilance and effort to maintain. There is only so much it can do as a political "burst" in the grand scheme of things.
I wonder, how popular is Adams there now? Does NYC take kindly to the governor removing one of their own?
The governor being corrupt doesn't make it OK that the mayor is corrupt too. They don't cancel each other out.
