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@Horace said in Make America Globalist Again: I think the main pro-isolationism messaging boils down to empathy for people who would have died of a fentanyl overdose, but were saved by a factory job. As a country, we're really, really prioritizing that story. It's a strange thing to put at the top of the economic priority list. Agreed. I don't think it was the factory job by itself. It was the factory job along with the cultural norm of people able to get married and have a regular life if you were willing to buckle down and do an honest day's work. The culture part of the equation is completely ignored.

The Pakistan line was drawn through Punjab. Punjab was the location of the last independent Indian empire that fell to the British. About 12-20 million people were displaced and some estimate up to 2 million deaths from resulting violence and deprivation. The line was so ineptly drawn that the founding temple of the Sikh faith ended up in Pakistan. (Sikhism comes from Punjab). The apocryphal story is that Lord Mountbatten couldn't take the Indian summer heat and just drew a line through villages and cities as fast as he could.

@Doctor-Phibes Trump had better, seeing that his policy of tariffs and other assorted threats against Canadian sovereignty have single-handedly stolen the election from the Conservative Party of Canada and all but ensured a Liberal Party majority on Monday evening. @Mik Said no Canadian ever. I wish. Sadly, there are a few out here who have crawled out from under their rocks thinking the Trump path to salvation is the new and immutable gospel. I expect they will follow the lead of their MAGAt brethren and demand obedience from the majority of the country following Monday’s election. The rather inept premier of Alberta plays to their anger and keeps it stoked.

Trump is loud, but Putin has been playing in the major leagues for WAY longer.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1915162343052382454?s=46

True. The tea party movement in 2010 was (seemingly) an anti-demo/Obama reaction to his substantial 2008 victory (and executed mostly at the local level in the midterms) whereas 2016 and 2024 it seems were a similar "pendulum" reaction to the woke/BLM/America-shaming movement prior to those elections, but executed this time with the alpha dog in the oval office. One could hope eventually the pendulum will stay in the middle for longer than we've seen recently. But if McCain couldn't do it and we see folks like Bernie or Trump pulling their extremes, I'm not holding out hope.

I always think of @jon-nyc and his statement about trying to sensibly talk with someone who has conspiracies. He can relay it better than I, but basically, every time you give a logical counter argument to one of the conspiracies, the answer is yes, but......... Eventually, you are putting together table of melt points of various ANSI steels. LOL

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I thought the Bible mentioned something about respecting the elders.

If it rallies today it'll be interesting to see where it lands on Fox's homepage.

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They track a five day moving average so that smooths out the big swings.

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It’s like they just hired a bunch of maga fanbois to run all the government’s social media accounts. Next up, NASA retweets a catturd call for dissolving the Supreme Court.

https://fortune.com/article/pope-francis-vatican-finances-reform/ Even on his deathbed, Pope Francis didn’t pause from pursuing a dogged campaign that distinguished his reign: reforming the Vatican’s infamously troubled finances. On February 27, the pontiff’s 13th day at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital suffering from exhaustion and bronchitis, the pontiff unveiled the formation of a high-level commission assigned to raise donations for helping plug chronic budget deficits. Francis launched the fund-raising enterprise as a gambit aimed at blunting demands by top officials in the Curia, his vast administrative arm, that the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics halt his drive for deep spending cuts. The bureaucrats bristled at the Pope’s recent draconian moves: Since 2021, he’d slashed salaries for the Church’s 250-odd cardinals three times. In 2023, he nixed the rich housing subsidies for elite staff, and last September for the first time in decades demanded that the Vatican set a rigorous timeline for achieving a “zero deficit” regime. Quite an interesting story on the finance reforms that Pope Francis tried (and partially succeeded) with the Catholic Church

@Klaus There is no real mentioning. But they do require an adress where you're staying your first night. Maybe that was unclear? BTW, my experience with US customs and immigration never was agreeable...

@jon-nyc said in Preach the gospel at all times.: https://x.com/jonkay/status/1914352124692963330?s=46 Had to think about this for a day. Trump may be right. He has virtually everyone outside of his cult discipleship, praying to God that he drops dead as soon as heavenly possible.

Good for wound dressings, too.