The Democrats’ “strategy” has been scolding people not even for voting for Trump, but just not voting for whichever gelatinous pig they coughed up and threw out on the debate stage. I have been seeing this for a decade now. “Vote D or you’re a literal demon nazi fascist misogynist xenophobe loser moron.” No one feels especially enthusiastic about making friends with them or heeding their instructions, so they lose elections, reinforcing these ideas in their tiny minds. It’s a hell of a feedback loop. Whatever, guys. Keep rolling over on command like a well-trained dog, vote for whoever your favorite late-night “comedian” told you to, and continue to wonder why things keep getting worse in four-year increments. They have this coming.

“I don’t need Trump’s appeal expained to me, sweaty.” Yes, you really do.

Carrot and stick

Scratch something, something something… kill me.

The thing that pisses me off about these hashtag girlboss k-hives stans is their deep-seated unseriousness. They do not mean anything they say other than “orange man bad” and “vote blue no matter who.” The MOMENT the rubber hits the road, they will sell other people’s rights for the impression of their own interests being safeguarded. They will make a bunch of noise about racial justice, no human is illegal, et cetera, but the instant they feel Mexicans aren’t useful anymore, they drop all pretense and go right to the Final Solution. What the fuck?

Literal schoolyard bully behavior on display here. “No one is above the law, and the law is what I say it is.”

“Mr Xi, the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, calls his one-party model efficient, equitable and dignified. In case foreigners miss his coded message—that competent government, equality and order matter more than freedoms—officials boast of ‘two major miracles’ that shaped China’s rise, namely ‘fast economic development and long-term social stability.’”

“Here in the liberal West we may not have such frivolities as ‘competent government, equality and order,’ but you can bet your last dollar you’ll have Freedom™ coming out of your nose. You’ll fucking drown in it!”

Thanks. What freedoms, again?

“‘It’s been surprising they’re adapting over time through trial and error,’ Justin Bronk, an airpower expert at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute, said.”

Justin Bronk, “airpower expert,” thinks a major military power with a long-established air force “adapting over time through trial and error” is “surprising.” Quite the scoop.

He misspelled “ruining.”

You gotta love that old bait-and-switch. Whose fault is the corruption again?

Not allowed to use Russian, though. Strange…

Putin “injects potential threats” into east Asia, a “region already strained by Taiwan tensions and South China Sea clashes.” Putin and Russia are cast as actively menacing the globe while all these other issues caused by the USA/NATO get to just passively exist with no discussion as to where they came from or what caused them.

“Guys sorry about trying to disenfranchise you from your native land but please stop blocking the roads it makes it harder for the stormtroopers to crush your protest.”

surprise shock

“The 36-year-old allegedly took custom orders for rare Pokémon, and sold the resulting tampered data between December 2022 to March 2023, for up to 13,000 yen ($84) a time on a website that served as a marketplace for video game assets and items. He also offered deals in which six Pokémon would be created for the equivalent of roughly $30 in yen.”

How, with GameShark?

I guess this is what lend-lease is for. Could work if it wasn’t too late. It’s a war zone now.

I’m not sure that Ukraine has the infrastructure needed to support any number of f-35s, especially not since the Russians have bombed all their runways.

I call cap. Humanoid robots? For what?

who?

“He also urged Ukrainians not to base their decisions to join the military on whether the United States continues to support them.”

That mf really just said “please die.”

Okay, that was an attempted joke. Having skimmed the article, I see they’re not catching fish in the traditional sense, but farming them. I envisioned fishing as “you catch what you catch,” so it just seemed strange to me that they would be specifically barred from catching haddock and cod, as if it was something in their direct control. Apparently it is.

Are they allowed to catch other fish there?