And there will come a time when the data centers will all simultaneously start converging on the number 42, and there will be no one to explain why.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

When you first suggested this yesterday And thought you were on to something. I still think that is the case. These guys have no sense of proportionality, and it will be their downfall.

He might as well sign an order that Ukraine has ceded territory it currently controls to Russia.

The US would say that even if all they found were rubber bands.

I don’t know. The two most immediate successors lack any popular base. So yes they are both capable of doing more damage, but likely only at considerable cost the GOP’s future and their own.

And it is all the more foolhardy when the person feeding you the inside information is themselves deluded.

It is remarkable. Businessmen make money by being well informed, and yet Witkoff and Kushner are studiously uninformed about Ukraine and Russia. Only someone used to trading on inside information would be so foolhardy.

Perhaps the best evidence that Trump’s policy is being driven by Putin is the increasing irrelevance of Trump’s policy towards Ukraine. As conditions have changed Trump’s aims have become more out of touch with the realities on the ground in ways that mirror Putin’s own misperceptions.

Sad that he thinks he’s making me and other liberals miserable. The fact that he makes decisions that are corrupt will always hurt him more than it hurts me or even the Republic.

An abdication of responsibility. Let thousands of Ukrainian drones do what the US under Trump is too weak to do.

Funny how Trump doesn’t think of himself as a peacemaker if he manages to stop the war.

As an American, I decided to study “the lands between” 40 years ago because I saw the “as superpowers the US and the USSR/Russia” tendency as a great powers realist trap.

It needs to be said again and again this blasé attitude results of 30+years of Republicans knuckling under to bully culture that promised power in exchange for fealty to radical ideologues among the Libertarian right and Social Conservatives.

Thanks for the. mention. #StrongerTogether

Everything Trump touches turns to sh*t. Republican Party. This now means you.

Hey Trump and Hegseth this could have been you if you had paid more attention the world as it actually is rather than doing Cosplay. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are going to rue tge day you set foot on the political stage.

Ah yes. We went out of our way to attack Hitler in a provocative manner without thinking through how our actions would strengthen Hitler’s hands. These guys have been swimming in hogwash for so long they cannot see they have already stepped off a cliff.

Take it from a historian who has a lot more evidence at his disposal -- it is actually entirely possible for something to be mostly one person's fault. You're not required to apportion blame for everything in equal measure. Honest!

As a very late boomer I was there, and in my comfortable suburban school district funded by property taxes hating Iran and anger at Carter was far more salient for most of my classmates. In 88 a Long Island kid told me he couldn’t live if Dukakis win.

I think it is largely their experience of the 1970s and early 1980s. Old enough to remember the sense of humiliation re the Iran Hostage Crisis and blame Carter. Reagan made them feel good.

President if he s hard

Quite a dobos torte.

In fairness to both Trump and Orbán, there is a huge difference between Magyar’s margin and Trump’s in 2020z Seems pretty clear Orbán was planning for a narrow defeat where he would declare victory and tough it out. When the results came in, that was not possible.

Just getting out of a difficult but ultimately affirming Quakerly meeting to this news. So much better than I thought possible even a week ago.

I can see that. It interrupted A&R’s ability to control product. Same with pink a couple years later. The Classic Rock format was designed to maintain predictability, reifying racial and cultural divisions that went against the eclecticism of top 40 radio.

Guy probably should visit his neighbors more. I would bet even money his neighbors’ cultural heritage is more complicated than he imagines.

By the time this is over, Trump will be saying only he could go to Tehran, while Netanyahu and MBS fume and rue the day they started working with Trump.

That’s my recollection. I remember a friend having a glass of with “Put a tiger in your tank” in multiple languages, but no looney tunes.

Indeed. Typically, Trump grossly overestimating his own credibility with Hungarian voters who know even if these promises are carried out —a big if—the person who will profit most will be corrupt Orbán.