WatDabney

Of course.

The overall dynamic surrounding Israel's treatment of Palestinians is simple and obvious - Israel's actions are entirely indefensible, so all the efforts of the people responsible for it and of the many more people enabling it are directed not toward countering criticism, which is impossible, but toward silencing it.

This is such a bizarrely evil timeline.

The Republican party is a death cult.

Republicans want people to die.

It really is just that simple.

I was actually just thinking about that, sort of.

The childish and sort of pathetic nature of the whole thing led me to visualize a hardass middle-aged mom dragging Trump up to Canada by the ear and standing him in front of everyone and saying, "Donnie has something he wants to say to you all, don't you Donnie (pinch)"

In a way, that's exactly what that manbaby needs.

Just a reminder that Trump is by any measure profoundly mentally ill and thus unfit for office and can be and should be removed.

Actually, US senators are in a position to do something that would actually go some way toward repairing relations with Canada - they can (with the House's cooperation) remove the profoundly mentally ill, immensely dangerous and brazenly corrupt demagogue Trump from office.

Nothing short of that is going to accomplish much of anything though. As long as that psychopath is in office, incrementally turning the presidency into a dictatorship from which to pursue his literally insane agenda, nobody will or should trust the US for anything.

I'm sort of idly curious who President Manbaby is going to blame for this.

It goes without saying that it'll be someone other than himself - broadly that's who he blames for everything he fucks up. But I wonder who specifically.

As with many spoiled children, it's actually sort of perversely amusing to see just how ridiculous his lies might get.

People end up with some truly bizarre beliefs when they're determined to decree what it is that made this country great and so could make it great again, but immediately reject the things that actually did make it great - good wages, progressive taxes and social services.

I actually expect most world leaders to start treating Trump as a pariah. He's just a gross, creepy manbaby who looks and notoriously smells like a drain clog and who can't be trusted for anything ever, so there's nothing to be gained from interacting with him at sll.

Very much this.

Now it should be noted that Musk is, among other things, a desperately insecure wienie who really is crushed by the fact that basically everyone hates him and spends a great deal of time and effort cringily trying to compensate for it and pathetically failing. So at some level all of this certainly does hurt him.

But he's also toxically greedy and self-absorbed and wantonly destructive, and by those measures, his government tenure was a resounding success. And that he undoubtedly throws tantrums and goes on crying jags when he's alone, just like he's done since middle school, doesn't make any of the rest of it any less a success.

IANAL, but I don't think so, unless they managed to make a charge of fraud stick, which would require proving that he never had any intention of paying them.

Without something like that, his failure to pay up is a civil matter rather than a criminal one.

So the only question really is whether it's more the case that he's not paying because there's a chance that he could be prosecuted for buying votes or if he's not paying just because he's a lying sack of shit who doesn't keep promises.

Or both.

I'm thinking both.