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Especially for Ivanka...

I'm not saying the 2003 invasion was a great idea - I'm saying the outcome might have been better if the US had supported the popular uprising in 1991, given that there had just been a massive war and Saddam's military was in tatters anyway. Although maybe that's illusory and the outcome would...

Sure - I went off on the tangent because you mentioned squandering goodwill, and Saddam was widely hated by his own people for a lot of good reasons, outside the Sunni Arab Ba'ath loyalists. I remember the scenes of jubilation after his government fell, people smacking the toppled statue with...

Luka's bottomless sack of timeless zingers.

What's particularly galling is that the US had ample opportunity to get rid of Saddam in 1991 after they'd kicked him out of Kuwait and left his military in tatters. There was a huge popular uprising of ordinary people who were expecting US assistance for the final push on to Baghdad, which...

It's fucked that you lost so many friends. I'm sorry to hear that.

Broadly I agree, although Israel is the only country in that region with nuclear weapons, so while the 'war on Hamas'/annihilation of Gaza is horrific in its own right, it's not a nuclear flashpoint. Things could be about to get interesting between India and Pakistan on that front, although...

Or he's just got sick and tired of his colleagues leaving burning shoeboxes full of dog shit on his front doorstep?

"Good to see Israel taking a stand against the corrupt MSM. 100% based." - mixed_biscuits

Oh man, he hasn't even started to get weird.

TBC, I'm not saying Ukraine repelling the invasion will usher in an era of egalitarian socialist peace and kittens and rainbows forever more. I'm saying the Ukrainians themselves seem to think it preferable to being ground into the dust under the Russian boot yet again, and I'm inclined to...

Oh JFC, don't talk to me about fucking Blippi. 😡 My lad seems to be mostly over Blippi now, thank god. The original Blippi was played by one Stevin John, whose past career is somewhat chequered: Though I believe the title has now passed on to someone else, a bit like the Dread Pirate Roberts.

God, that's really sad. Could be that there's some inherent neurological thing going on that's made him so attracted to these things in the first place, but it sounds like they're certainly not helping, in any case. Like developing a heavy booze or weed habit as a result of depression, and then...

Why "but" and not "and"? Your choice of word here is very telling. I don't actually "support Ukraine" or "support Palestine." I support civilians who are being bombed. This means I support Western military aid to Ukraine, because it's helping them defend themselves, and they may yet pull off a...

The man. The Geezer.

And you're dead right about his weird honesty. It has to be weighed against the ludicrous lies he tells every time he opens his mouth, but he'll occasionally come out with a very serious truth that no normal politician, from either main party, would ever utter.

There's a Facebook group called "Right-wingers forgetting Trump weighs 500 pounds and doesn't exercise" where people post images they've found of Trump made to look like some absurd, ultra-ripped Rambo/Conan action hero. Most are Photoshopped or AI, although some are actual paintings, executed...

What I find funny is that a shirt/poster presenting Trump as a radical who was going to become president and then destroy the government from the inside would be A) just the kind of thing his voters would love and would spend good money on, and B) more or less accurate.

I just can't understand what it's trying to say. That Harris, who is as establishment as it's possible to be - a former AG with a rep for defending her state in wrongful conviction cases, later a senator - is black, and therefore radical? That's she's going to become president, and then destroy...