Can anyone tell me the difference in effect between what happened in the Serbian Parliament and today’s announcement that Trumpigula will address a joint session of Congress this evening? There will be smoke alright. Acrid smoke spewed from a demogogue’s festering gob and up a lot of dumb people’s arses.

That was a bit of a hairy moment. I've heard that in Brazil they call it a Hitler.

@89th said in J.D. Speaks: but still we cannot be the world's police forever. Agree, but I think that forever is a long long time. I think that the US still has a role to play like this for the semi long term. It will only help us also. Pulling back from what has worked for 100+ years is not a good idea at this piont.

Thanks for sharing the article. I agree with alot of what was said. The last election was not so much a vote "for" a candidate, but more a vote "against" the other candidate. The democrat just did not realize how bad a candidate(s) they had and how alot of their message (especially on some of the social issues that got the most news) was out of touch with a large section of the middle voters.

That was in the article. It's learned helplessness... trying to solve problems they have no control over. There is a reason, whatever it is, that conservative young women are consistently 2-3x happier than liberal young women. Might just be how the brain is wired.

Cool. My weapons budget is really under strain.

As they said on SNL... Trump can't wait to release the Epstein files, for everyone with the last name A through S! Very thorough!

@Horace said in Some of y'all are in good company. 🤮: All sides are equal, and that is why Horace can take no side. For, any side Horace takes, immediately becomes superior. LOL not all heroes...

Yeah, Brody overstayed his welcome. I might not have minded if he had anything remotely interesting to say. I do want to see The Brutalist though. Oh, and according to the actress winner from Anora, the next group we need to elevate to normalcy is sex workers. FFS.

$100B... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/03/tech/tsmc-trump-meeting-chipmaking-investment

WOw! Good for him!!

@taiwan_girl said in Hay George: @Jolly said in Hay George: Maybe he's going for 30. Maybe he is doing a 30 day juice detox purge and has no strength left over to post. Perhaps.

@89th thanks for sharing those videos. I think I will try the 10 minute learning of the Morse code!!! (If I do, I will start using morse code in my writing on this forum!!! LOL)

By the way, this is the same guy that bought that $6MM “art work” that was a banana taped to a canvas. He ate the banana after the auction closed.

Remind me to not volunteer to referee for any of Finley’s leagues…

@Horace said in Religious Decline: I have mentioned several times here that the wave of conservatism among young males has carried with it some respect for religion, or at least a diminishment of the disrespect for it that characterized prior generations. I think you're right. I hope the females finally get their heads right. It shocks me how many young women are on psychotropic drugs.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Highlights: @Copper said in Highlights: @Doctor-Phibes said in Highlights: connecting him to at least a semblance of reality I hope that is what he is trying to do. This topic is the reason Mr. Trump was elected 8 years ago. This is why he was elected again. No, it's really not. The debt and government overspend bizarrely don't seem to be things that worry people nearly as much as they ought to. And Trump didn't help in the slightest in his first term. Covid notwithstanding, tax cuts and handouts didn't reduce the debt. COVID. I think until COVID, we had turned a corner. Real wages were up, disposable income was up, tax collections were up. Then it all got knocked ass-end over teakettle...