Probably a surge in people googling “ruble to dollar exchange rate”
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Hard Power and Soft Power
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Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
Context is key - I was referring to the unilateral slashing of federal agencies that are considered examples of federal overreach. It's been done before, except by someone significantly more charismatic in front of a camera.
As for the meddling in prosecuting Eric Adams... yeah, that's puzzling and bad juju.
As for the meddling in prosecuting Eric Adams... yeah, that's puzzling and bad juju.
He would have my vote! Remember, no stand-ins allowed.
Appears to be part of a theme. Pardoning the Silk Road guy, J6ers, and cajoling Romania for leniency on the Tate brothers.
It is not a good theme.
WRT Romania, the VP went out of his way at Munich to browbeat Romania's state of their democracy bc their Supreme Court ordered a new presidential election bc the last dude went zero to hero from a Russian-funded social media campaign (TikTok).
I have zero idea why that is in any way a national security interest of ours. Also, same/same for the Tate dudes.
No, I believe Carlson was in the midst of another sycophantic interview of Orban at the time. Weird stuff.
Carlson is a fucking idiot and we should throw him into the ocean.
Rupert Murdoch can join him.
Amazing to watch Carlson state that he was radicalized by his upscale Moscow shopping experience (guaranteed first time grocery shopping)
All that to say, Murdoch can get bent for employing this dude and warping elderly American minds. He's been that way prior to getting booted from Fox.
This is an absurdly bad take, with Western Europe being far freer than any other region in the world. It has its issues but they pale in comparison to almost everywhere else. For us to severely chastise them for 'lacking in freedom of speech' is like us railing against a HOA that won't let folks paint their houses purple while we say nothing of the neighborhood next door where folks are burning each other's houses down and after trying to murder them.
A couple things to note, I don't agree with some of the restrictions many European countries have on freedom of speech but they are very minor, with those countries maintaining very strong freedoms to include speech and press (AP anyone?), the 'grooming gangs' were punished, unlike many in the Catholic Church, it was the English flag folks were advised but not banned from waving around in certain circumstances, probably good advice much like it is probably wise not to wave a Confederate flag marching across Howard U's quad, and we ourselves have boiled with tension on and off for decades.
As has already been pointed out, we aren't asking them it is the Ukrainians who are choosing to fight. Most importantly, they should have the choice of how to end it too.
When major party leaders literally spout off Nazi slogans, use their symbology and promote many of the same ideals the 'Nazi angle' is not 'near meaningless'. If they walk like Nazis, talk like Nazi ideas and look like Nazis...I'm pretty damn sure they are Nazi scum.
This is another bad take on many levels. Just because folks all the sudden found out about the federal civil service's antiquated and Kafkaesque retirement process doesn't mean it wasn't known about, publicized and profiled before.
Even worse though are some of the claims and supposed solutions to them that folks have trumpeted. The claims often range from the partially inaccurate to outright lies, not only this particular case but many other supposed discoveries like 150 year olds getting Social Security when in reality it is a likely a COBOL default database setting. The 'solutions' espoused may seem easy to outsiders or folks unused to government and its unique responsibilities but once you start digging they become much more complicated and challenging to solve.
Can things be improved in many areas? Of course, but taking a wrecking ball to it and seeing what breaks and what works after is not the way to do it especially when it can cause real harm to folks.
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I do love that people are papering over the concept that an unelected multi-billionaire with major govt contracts and conflicts are just kind of OK with it all...It's wild.
The 150 yr olds getting benefits from COBOL is <chef's kiss>