One is fraud, the other is tulip mania.

Venezuela changes laws to accomodate oil companies, at Trump's request https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/venezuelan-lawmakers-approve-law-opening-003619491.html Will Trump now be able to convince big oil to restart their operations? Exxon gave it a hard no the last time around. I thought the real ...

Carney deal with South Korea to bring auto manufacturing to Canada. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/world/canada/canada-south-korea-auto-deal-tariffs.html I guess that explains Ford's about-face after the China deal. I hope Trump hasn't learned anything. I'd rather Canada keep on separating from ...

My key takeaways are the illusion of choice mattering for voters as well as questioning why the fuck aid is being sent to an economic powerhouse with zero moral fabric in Israel. The revolution talk wasn't anything more than worst case foreshadowing Illusion of choice? :lol: Weren't you griping ...

A lot of vague gamblings from that guy.

"We are going to start as communities across the country in united sovereignty with each other."

What does that actually mean?

"We are going to start building dual power outside of the state."

Huh?

ICE and border patrol should be able to do their job efficiently, with or without 'local support'. Instead, they are given a daily quota (3000 detentions) that they are pressured to meet, so they are going after anyone they can. I was unaware of the quota. I'm stunned that you haven't heard of the ...

The US saw net negative migration in 2025 for the first time in 50 years. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/14/immigration-numbers-net-migration-negative-study-trump/88175499007/ The population is aging and the birth rate has already dropped below the replacement level of 2.1, so ...

If you want to maximize, calculate the Expected Value:

EV = P x B where P is the probability of outcome and B is its benefit or payoff.

Of course, quantifying P and B is where the difficulty lies.

Is the Administration going to come clean and admit this was a killing, or continue in their lie that Pretti came "to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.” The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ...

Don't get into a physical confrontation with the authorities when you are packing a weapon. I assume you mean "don't initiate a physical confrontation". And even if you do, once you are disarmed there's no reason for you to be shot. (I couldn't see as much as I expected from pink jackets video. I ...

Yeah I was going to post a video but then lost the link. Details unclear. He apparently had a gun, they say he was brandishing it but no video of that (yet). Edit: If you've seen the video, there's a lady in a pink jacket right behind them filming everything and then getting the hell out of there ...

Cornuck wrote: ↑Sat Jan 24, 2026 10:09 am

Topper wrote: ↑Sat Jan 24, 2026 8:09 am Then there is Biden's DEI appointment

...and trump's DUI appointment

I assume you mean Kegsbreath. Or is there another one?

Not watching the games but checking out the box score I see Karlsson is pacing at 0.5 PPG, which is a nice surprise. Could he be a middle-6?

But I think that’s where the Judiciary branch comes in. As Cornuck reminded us, LOTS of things that Trump (and the House and Senate) are trying to do is getting struck down by the courts. In theory, yes, but the Judiciary is a weak check on power since it's always after the fact, and many times w ...

In what regards (both not going back to and change)? Referring back to Topper's post, Scalia explained that what made the US so great was not the Bill of Rights, but rather the Constitution, which establishes three branches of government (Legislative, Executive, and Judicial). He contrasted it with ...