ComradeKayAdams

Keyser Soze redux?? Eeek!!

Can you elaborate, please? What part of my “leftist religion” is preventing me from seeing your truth? If this is a reference to immigration policy, I can tell you that my own personal position is fairly nuanced and “centristy” and not quite what the Democratic Party or even progressives believe. I can give you an exact day, if you’d like, on which I believe the Democratic Party broke their commitment to the American working class: December 8, 1993. This was the day that President Clinton officially signed off on NAFTA. It’s admittedly a bit arbitrary and symbolic, however, because I could have easily zeroed in on other issues. If I want to be a policy pedant, I would probably say soon after World War 2 when the United States had its best opportunity to implement socialized health care and chose to forgo it.

What happened to the Democratic Party is that they abandoned the American working class, beginning in Bill Clinton’s first presidential term. The rise of Donald Trump is the consequence of this political miscalculation. The 44-point shift among Gen Z men in two years only highlights the political volatility among this demographic. In no way does this shift provide proof of permanence to a MAGA affiliation! The Gen Z boys crave good jobs and BIG BOOBIES. Democrats can’t help with the latter, but running more anti-neoliberal candidates can certainly help with the former. I expect Gen Z MAGA’s political loyalty to be tied mostly to the fate of tariff-induced inflation and Trump’s alleged domestic manufacturing renaissance. Charlie Kirk-like charlatans can demonize Mexican immigrants, the LGBT community, black males, and sassy yuppy liberal women only up to a point. Gen Z MAGA boys will eventually figure out, I hope, that the real enemies are the people arguing that raising the marginal federal income tax on the highest bracket from 37% to 40% is akin to communism. R.I.P. to Charlie Kirk, by the way, in case that sentiment wasn’t obvious… No one should ever lose their life for voicing an opinion. A democracy can’t survive when we dehumanize those with whom we disagree.

Zohran is neither a communist nor a Hamas supporter. As one of his campaign’s many volunteer canvassers, I know his political positions extremely well and better than anyone else in this subforum. Zohran is a democratic socialist who is proposing a relatively anodyne policy platform of social democracy, with only five distinctly socialistic exceptions: a public grocery store in each borough. He also happens to believe in a one-state Israel solution (i.e. full and equal citizen rights for all Palestinians living in Gaza and in the West Bank), even though one’s foreign policy is irrelevant as mayor… The 2025 Bills season could very well be a magical one! Try following our football team instead of posting down here ~1,000,000 times per day. Too much PPP is super unhealthy…

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Why Kay wants to murder Leh-nerd this morning: 1. Political Reasons: 1-A. Leh-nerd considers martial law to be a viable long-term urban crime-fighting policy. 1-B. He ignores the obvious political intimidation purposes of employing the National Guard in certain cities, with regard to Democratic Party strongholds and ICE objectives. 1-C. He continuously downplays the general creeping fascism of the Trump 47 administration. 1-D. He pretends to not regularly consume far-right news media of dubious repute. 2. Personal Reasons: 2-A. Leh-nerd keeps calling Kay and Tiberius “moops,” yet he doesn’t have the decency to at least provide a working definition of “moop.” Leh-nerd knows that language precision is important to Kay and that sentence context alone is typically insufficient. If Leh-nerd wants to continue with the name-calling, then Kay will match Leh-nerd’s “moop” with her own ad hominem attack of “poop.” 2-B. He keeps insinuating that Kay and Tiberius are involved in an illicit romantic liaison, one so illicit as to completely upheave the PPP subforum social order were it true. 3. Popular Culture Reasons: 3-A. Leh-nerd completely missed the scientific and philosophical point of the Terminator movie series, which was that Judgment Day was inevitable. 3-B. Chris Farley was a beloved comedy icon whose weight issues made him no less valuable a human or less worthy of love than Patrick Swayze. 4. Morning Logistical Reasons: 4-A. Kay would rather spend her Friday morning reading up on the Sunday night Ravens game. 4-B. She also has an important tech report to complete by 3:30pm today, and so responding to Leh-nerd’s incessant PPP drama is an obvious time drain. 4-C. She could also be holding planks for 3+ minutes this morning or performing other similar core workouts, even though her tummy is already ridiculously flat…but no point in resting on laurels… 4-D. She should also be picking out her outfit right about now for Casual Friday, which will undoubtedly be ridiculously chic…but there is still a distinction to be made between ridiculously chic and RIDICULOUSLY chic…should Kay just say, “eff it,” and go navy blue blazer dress for Casual Friday?? Ugh…why am I asking YOU for fashion advice, Leh-nerd?! You’re my arch-nemesis who only seeks to destroy my day. Watch your back, bruh…

From an unbiased outsider’s perspective, Mr. Grumpy Gus, it appears that YOU instigated your Labor Day morning fracas with Tiberius by referring to him as a “moop.” Tibsy is a fundamentally decent forum member who only means well. I may or may not be reminded of an ancient upstate New York proverb, crudely translated from the native Haudenosaunee tongue to English as follows: “Poke rear of black bear with hickory stick end, maybe face tomahawk of pale ingenue with impossibly flat stomach.” Heed the wisdom of those who came before you, Leh-nerd. << Narrator: Kay slowly licks the crimson residue off her virtual warrior blade, sending chills down Leh-nerd’s spine like the prevailing winds off of a great lake. With Kay’s menacing mountain lion-esque eyes fixated on Leh-nerd from afar, eyes black and cold like a winter night camping in the Tug Hill region, Leh-nerd’s chasmic frigidity finds momentary respite as he pees his pants in fear. >> << Also, Narrator: Leh-nerd notes that Kay is wearing a flowery long-sleeved maxi, with a very light beige foundation, well into Labor Day because Leh-nerd knows that Kay is never one to follow stupid fashion platitudes…because there was that one time Leh-nerd recommended that Kay not wear white into September, thinking Kay would actually find that outmoded advice useful…though to be fair to Leh-nerd, he was just trying to be helpful and it’s the sincerity that counts. Whatever. Kay is still going to threaten Leh-nerd with her virtual tomahawk if Leh-nerd acts up again with his MAGA stupidity. >>

True, to a large extent, but let’s also not forget that the party establishment has been putting their thumbs on the scale for unpopular candidates throughout the Trump Era! Oh, I’m always happy to expand and expound! You know my writing style, Mr. Tsujimoto… I’m referring to the stark contrast between the voting record of Democratic Party politicians and the policy favorability polling data among registered Democrat voters. The politicians are center-right on multiple key issues (gun regulation, M4A, collective bargaining, taxing the rich, etc.) on which the voters lean solidly left. This contrast, of course, is a direct consequence of non-democratic (little “d”) campaign finance laws. The midterm primaries revolution of which I speak is my own expectation of an intra-party civil war between neoliberal centrists and far-left progressives. The two expected catalyzing issues for the conflagration are tariff-influenced stagflation by 2026 Q1 and Israel’s genocide. I’m anticipating a heavy influx of dual DSA affiliates, Greens, independents, and disenchanted male MAGA Zoomers to successfully push the Democrats further left. Any incumbent who doesn’t center their policy platform on economic populism and who accepts AIPAC donations/bribes is vulnerable to a primary challenger. It’s a long-overdue revolution, writ large in 2009 following Iraq and the Great Recession, but delayed and subdued due to internal party corruption and the effects of the Citizens United v. FEC (2010) ruling. And yes, I do realize that the concept of the Democratic Party establishment being too far to the right sounds absolutely preposterous to this particular online community! I encourage you guys to remember that there is much more in the panoply of political discourse than culture war “wokeism” and dudes wearing super cute dresses. When can we expect Trump’s domestic manufacturing renaissance to arrive?? The tomes of American history depict FDR not as the harbinger of dangerous Marxist Leninist Maoist Zohranist socialist ideology infiltrating contemporary American politics, but rather as a political compromise that kept the REAL far-left commies at bay.

Meh. It’s just more of the same “vibes-over-policy” nonsense that corporate Democrats have been peddling since the early days of Obama. The disconnect between the party’s establishment politicians and its registered voters is now so profound as to render a midterm primaries revolution inevitable. A shift in the standards for political decorum, from a recent historical perspective, usually indicates that Americans are unhappy with their politicians prioritizing the interests of campaign donors.

Human morality comes from our ability to reason, to empathize, and to work cooperatively. It’s an emergent social phenomenon in evolutionary biology. If you need supernatural threats of eternal damnation to behave like a decent person, then you may be a sociopath. If you need religious commandments to inform you that murder and theft is wrong, then you may be a dumb-dumb. You’ve quoted vague Biblical verses here to justify Israel’s war crimes of collective punishment, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Have you carefully considered the ramifications of your Biblical interpretations, in terms of Christianity’s future worldwide reputation as a moral beacon?? And just to be clear: God’s support of Israel’s existence and its right to defend itself does NOT necessarily imply that God also supports the particular MANNER in which Israel believes it is acting in self-defense. I would hope that any deity worthy of reverence would encourage Israelis to seek alternatives to mass starvation programs against innocent Gazan children, violent settler incursions throughout the West Bank, and non-democratic systems of apartheid on either side of the Green Line…

My family’s official score (Dad and two brothers) is a 78: Bills, Sabres, Yankees, Knicks, NYC FC. My personal score rises to a 93 because I really only follow the Buffalo contact sports: Bills, Sabres. Actually…I am also a major fan of the NLL’s Buffalo Bandits. Since they are in the midst of an epic lacrosse dynasty, I suppose my score should be lowered. Fun site, though! I love quantifying my misery!!

OH MY GOD. Cameron Johnston is Sean McDermott moonlighting as an NFL punter. No one will convince me otherwise until I see them both on a football field at the same time.

American democracy, in my opinion, died with the Citizens United v. FEC decision back in 2010. I’ll concede, however, that it’s neither productive nor healthy to operate in the political realm as if that’s the case. I view Donald Trump as much more a symptom than a cause. I don’t see why population size is even relevant to the question of how a society will respond under social democratic policies. You simply scale up or down all of the nationalized goods and services, depending on the market demand. The far more relevant metric to any proposed Nordic model is probably consumption as a percentage of national GDP. The U.S. economy tends to hover around 70% for private household expenditures, which helps make it a very strong candidate for far-left economic policies. Getting back to the Bolivia topic, since it’s a super interesting one…their country’s current political turmoil has practically nothing to do with the eternal philosophical debate of capitalism vs. socialism. Let’s all think about why Evo Morales and MAS (Movimiento al Socialismo) failed: 1. Widespread government corruption: not unique to socialists. Why did the far-left rise to power there in the first place?? 2. Internal strife among political factions of MAS: same argument as above. 3. Dangers of having an unbalanced national economy: EASILY the most important reason for the Bolivian far-left’s demise. Their country has long been way too dependent on the influx of U.S. dollars from raw material exports. So when extraction production declines and international market prices also drop on these exported goods, combined with general international inflation on most others goods and services, the entire national economy will inevitably tank. But again…what did the non-socialists do to help diversify the economy while they were previously in power?? 4. Various environmental crises that have harmed Bolivia’s economy: poor sustainability practices (related to point # 3), pollution, and civil infrastructure/agriculture damage from a rapidly changing climate. The Bolivian government actually has really good environmental regulations under MAS, but their government is too corrupt and ineffective to enforce them. But yet again…what makes anyone think right-wingers will be better on these issues?? Historically, they are most certainly not! It does look like Bolivia is heading in Argentina’s direction of painful austerity measures, so we’ll see how long that goes until its citizens cycle back to the left. Bolivia’s best economic hope lies with their immense lithium resources, but I have my usual doubts that far-right Bolivian capitalists can impel their nation to efficient lithium extraction without horribly exploiting labor, the land, and indigenous communities. Then again, yes I do understand that the far-left had their share of opportunities to deliver and did not. Such is politics.

Is anyone really traveling frivolously by air, aside from uber-wealthy jet-setters? You seem to be taking up the arguments now of granola Luddites! I will reiterate that making eco-friendly choices in your personal life is to always be encouraged, but these choices are rendered meaningless if not coupled with any political awareness at all four levels: local, state, national, and international. Stop voting for politicians who deny the obvious science of anthropogenic climate change, who dismantle environmental regulations, and who impede the growth of relevant emergent technologies (solar and other green tech, EV’s, artificial carbon sequestration, high-speed rails and other civil infrastructure upgrades, Gen 3/4 nuclear fission reactors, novel materials, funding for fundamental science research, etc.). I’ll give you a practical example of what I mean by “political awareness.” It’s super commendable that you are planting trees on your property, but it would be far more impactful if you were also directly involved in community reforestation efforts! Here in the beautiful state of New York, we are trying to meet our climate goals by planting 1.7 million acres of new forests by 2040. It’s ambitious and will require some degree of bipartisanship to have our state government purchase old farmland and curb excessive suburban sprawl. Won’t you help us downstate hippies out, dear Leh-nerd?? << Kay Adams innocent doe eyes >> Speaking of prominent and manipulative eyes…I see the emoji with which you chose to end your post, Leh-nerd… First of all, no I do not have a “dismemberment fetish.” It’s strictly a matter of pragmatism. How else am I to transport the absurdly heavy body of an adult male omnivore with a BMI of 24.8?? You even serial kill, bruh?? Second of all, how dare you kink shame! Third of all, your emoji eyes seem to be rudely fixed in an upward direction. Here, let me adjust them… << punches Leh-nerd in the face >> That better? No? Here, let me try again… << punches Leh-nerd in the face >> Ugh. Now I feel bad for assaulting you. Hey, how dare you make me feel bad about myself! << punches Leh-nerd in the face >> Double ugh. Perhaps we should just hit the reset button on our forum friendship? I’d love to have you for din…er, have you over for dinner sometime. If you bring with you a nice bottle of Chianti, I can make a delicious fava bean-themed vegan dish and invite some of my great big fat people friends. << menacing/chilling Howard Shore musical outro >>

All of the granola types whom I know are well aware of the impact that airplane travel has on carbon emissions. Some aspects of modern life are simply unavoidable, no matter one’s commitment to green living. If you look at carbon emissions pie charts, you’ll quickly see that transportation represents a fairly small portion. You’ll also likely surmise that direct government regulations on various industries are far more impactful than the collective individual lifestyle choices among consumers. An intrinsic value of recycling comes from its positive impact on environmental conservation, even if you’re not all that impressed with its contribution to overall carbon emissions reductions. Lesser demand for new resource extractions lessens the pressure on ecosystem integrity. Dogs are wonderful human companions. Let’s keep our furry friends and offset their carbon “pawprint” by planting more trees. A deletion in greenhouse gas emissions, sure, but what about the “paw-icity” of LOVE in our hearts?? Surely you noticed the article’s references to eating meat, right?? I’ve been telling you this for five years, Leh-nerd… What’s so frustrating with you are the fatalistic intimations in all of your climate change posts: problems are hard so why bother, people are hypocritical so why should I myself try, blah blah blah… “Menacing.” “Chilling.” “Watch your back.” “L.” “O.” “L.” Sometimes you can be such a baby, Leh-nerd. It’s time for you to become an adult and start accepting responsibility for my literary bouts of Lizzie Borden rage. Causal to my macabre idioms and nursery rhymes was a perfectly valid primal response towards the transgression of justifying/denying an ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing. FURTHERMORE, Leh-nerd…YOU chose to give my thoughtful post an eyeroll emoji response SANS any sort of follow-up written explanation. How dare you. Oh, and I didn’t even literarily assault you with an axe, dude!! All I did was spray bear mace in your rolling eyes, if you recall. Now have I figuratively punched you in the face from time to time? Sure. Figuratively kicked you in your groin? No doubt. Did I figuratively shoot you with a crossbow once upon a time? Touche! Recommended your cannibalization to a marauding gang of ne’er-do-wells? Guilty as charged. Threatened to attack you with beach chairs? Perhaps. Threatened to drown you in Muppy’s San Diego pool? No comment. Threatened to shove Impossible Burgers down your throat until your digestive system exploded? I plead the Fifth, your honor. Stabbed you repeatedly with the heels of my Portuguese imported cruelty-free vegan shoes that you once insulted, while maniacally shouting, “I drink YOUR milkshake, Leh-nerd! I drink it up! I am the Third Revelation!,” followed by a frantic disembowelment, the cutting up of your body parts, the stuffing of said body parts in a storage bin, a multiple-hour drive up north to the Adirondacks, a makeshift burial about a quarter mile off-trail, a multiple-hour drive back with plenty of time to contemplate a plausible alibi, and a brief return to the crime scene to bleach the area of any remaining DNA evidence? That was just a daydream, Leh-nerd, and last I checked this ain’t no Minority Report dystopia. This is the Politics, Polls, and Pundits forum of Two Bills Drive. That’s all it is. Anywho…my point, to which you are now well-accustomed, is to go vegan because it’s good for the environment and for the animals. Doing so will also help you become less fat and smelly. Cheers! – Kay

“Leh-nerd Skin-erd now enters the fray In a futile attempt to pacify Kay… My delicate ego you may try to assuage, But I saw your response on a previous thread page!! Duly noted were your emoji rolling eyes Which will soon lead to a fate of agonal cries. Dude…it happened back on page eleven!! Now prepare to ascend to political forum heaven… My toned tummy, Leh-nerd, yes yes I can see… Oh, I know my BMI is an impressive nineteen point three. Okay, fine…I won’t take this axe to your face, But them rolling eyes are getting sprayed with bear mace.”

What the f*ck did I just say??!! STOP. RESPONDING. TO. MY. POSTS. COMMA. YOU. FU*CKING. A**HOLE. I ain’t comin’ here to bury no metaphorical hatchet, “BUD,” unless that metaphorical hatchet is going right into your stupid dumb-dumb head. Oh, won’t you try to sing along with me, Mr. Bundy, as you struggle to take in your final gasps of oxygen?? “Commie Kay grabbed her axe And gave some Zionist forty whacks. A new skin yarmulke Mr. Bundy had won. Bloody residue signified their debate was done.” You want a piece of me too, old man?? Let’s go, bruh… “Commie Kay grabbed that axe once more And towards JDHillFan she shouted “fore!” An enlarged prostate is now the least of his concerns, As his wizened carcass reflects his debate spurns.” You want to see a winning debate strategy?? Watch this… “Comme Kay spots a third MAGA d!ck And chases ScotSHO down with her axe-shaped stick. Through his neck passes the metal blade. Her political message is now properly conveyed.”

Don’t call me a “bud,” you f*cking piece of sh!t. I cite polling facts, while you cite your Islamophobic feelings. Israel’s “earned” right to be there equates to violent force and claims from a big book of ancient religious fairy tales. And yes, I do blame England in addition to the United States and much of the West. Now stop responding to my posts, you fu*cking a**hole.

I thought my previous post was clear enough in my intention not to hijack the Ukraine thread with Palestine talk, but whatever… “Genocide” is a legal term, under international law, with a clearly articulated definition. Dating back to the New Yishuv, Palestinians have never committed genocide against Israelis or Jews. Acts of terrorism? Sure, though these have been carried out under the guise of self-defense against an illegal occupying force. Would Palestinians commit genocide against Israeli Jews if the circumstances and the power asymmetry were reversed? Maybe. Maybe not. We have polling data since 10/7/23 showing Palestinians far more receptive to a peaceful two-state solution than Israelis. There was that recent Penn State University poll, in fact, showing an overwhelming majority (82%) of Israelis in favor of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and nearly a majority (47%) in favor of outright genocide! I cannot be any more clear: Israel is an illegitimate settler colonial vassal state led by innately degenerate sociopaths, and it needs to be systematically dismantled. Among the remnants of this Jewish supremacist ethnostate should emerge a one-state solution with full and equal rights for all inhabitants, regardless of religion or ethnicity.

My latest roster prediction (morning of 8/19/25), assuming full health for everyone: QB (2): Josh Allen, Mitchell Trubisky RB (3): James Cook, Ray Davis, Ty Johnson FB (1): Reggie Gilliam WR (6): Khalil Shakir, Keon Coleman, Josh Palmer, Tyrell Shavers, Laviska Shenault, Curtis Samuel (inactive) TE (3): Dalton Kincaid, Dawson Knox, Jackson Hawes T (5): Dion Dawkins, Spencer Brown, Tylan Grable, Ryan Van Demark (inactive), Chase Lundt (inactive) G (3): David Edwards, O’Cyrus Torrence, Alec Anderson C (2): Connor McGovern, Sedrick Van Pran-Granger DT (6): Ed Oliver, DaQuan Jones, T.J. Sanders, Deone Walker, DeWayne Carter (inactive), Larry Ogunjobi (suspended) DE (6): Greg Rousseau, Joey Bosa, A.J. Epenesa, Landon Jackson, Javon Solomon, Michael Hoecht (suspended) LB (4): Matt Milano, Terrel Bernard, Dorian Williams, Joe Andreessen S (5): Taylor Rapp, Cole Bishop, Damar Hamlin, Cam Lewis, Jordan Hancock (inactive) CB (6): Christian Benford, Taron Johnson, Tre’Davious White, Max Hairston, Dorian Strong, Brandon Codrington K (1): Tyler Bass P (1): Brad Robbins LS (1): Reid Ferguson Cuts (36): QB Mike White, QB Shane Buechele, RB Darrynton Evans, RB Frank Gore Jr., WR Elijah Moore, WR Kaden Prather, WR K.J. Hamler, WR Stephen Gosnell, WR Kristian Wilkerson, WR Deon Cain, TE Zach Davidson, TE Keleki Latu, TE Matt Sokol, T Travis Clayton, T Richard Gouraige, G Mike Edwards, G Dan Feeney, C Kendrick Green, C Jacob Bayer, DT Casey Rogers, DT Zion Logue, DT Marcus Harris, DE Paris Shand, DE Nelson Ceaser, LB Jimmy Ciarlo, LB Keonta Jenkins, LB Edefuan Ulofoshio, LB Shaq Thompson, S Wande Owens, S Darrick Forrest, S Tre Herndon, CB Dane Jackson, CB Daequan Hardy, CB Te’Cory Couch, CB Ja’Marcus Ingram, K Caden Davis

Oh, well I’m definitely a pragmatist and not an idealist. But perhaps I don’t fully understand the facets of this topic because I don’t understand why certain bargaining chips have been removed from the bargaining table. We need to find diplomatic off-ramps for both Putin and Zelenskyy, and so the more options the merrier. Why are war reparations off the table? How is Ukraine otherwise going to rebuild? A failed economic and political state over there would only be a breeding ground for additional international headaches. Why is NATO membership off the table? Finland and Sweden were allowed to join. We’re still going to agree to defend Ukraine in some way, anyway, after the war. It’s not like we have to position our nuclear missiles along Ukraine’s borders if they are allowed to join. Have we completely exhausted our options with multilateral economic sanctions on Russia?? I’ve addressed this question multiple times in multiple different ways, spanning multiple threads and multiple forums (here plus BillsFans.com). Anyone who justifies or still denies Israel’s apartheid ethnostate practices, war crimes of collective punishment, genocide in Gaza, and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is a garbage human being.

Good advice! I highly recommend salsa for beginning dancers. It’s a solid workout for sure, with a pretty gentle learning curve (relative to ballet and many forms of modern dance, at least). The vast majority of women will appreciate a guy’s sincere efforts and won’t care about his dancing skills. In general, I recommend meeting people in the real world and not online if one is seeking meaningful relationships and not hookups. Getting back to the topic…inter-generational analyses tend to become reductive and tedious. In this particular instance, I think such an argument is flat out wrong. The squabbles here align more with populist versus establishment political divisions. And just to be clear: the topic is housing costs, the broader problem of high costs of living, and the related problem of declining marriage rates. Those who identify more with centrist Democrats or non-MAGA Republicans will tend to reject victim-oppressor dynamics in favor of the classical “pick-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps” mantra. Progressive populists will CORRECTLY attribute the aforementioned problems to five decades of neoliberalism, which happen to disproportionately affect working-class men (see: all my posts in the Zohran Mamdani thread). MAGA populists have apparently articulated their own list of causes (Democratic Party, COVID policies, illegal immigrants, slutty yuppy women, discrimination against white males, LGBT rights, etc.) with simple solutions (support Trump, embrace Christian nationalism, blah blah blah). Curiously enough, MAGA populists can cede some of the debate to the bootstrap lifters but still won’t embrace personal responsibility when it comes to males performing terribly in academic settings…or to all the f*ck boys and incels failing at relationships, for that matter… In the spirit of this apparent Wolfgang troll, here’s a YouTube link:

Switzerland also has gun control laws that most Second Amendment enthusiasts would find onerous, if not downright tyrannical. A multitude of factors (culture, socioeconomic mobility, accessibility of mental health resources, etc.) beyond gun regulations and police force budgets, of course, explain why violent crime levels are much lower in Europe than in the United States. Rhetorical question for MAGA: if the presence of military forces is so effective at reducing crime, why haven’t previous American presidents tried this ingenious method of combating crime?? Rhetorical answer: because the history books are filled with lessons on the dangers of allowing standing armies to preside in urban civilian settings. Much of our U.S. Bill of Rights was inspired by these historical lessons! Foucault’s imperial boomerang theory, as applied to WW2 fascism and apropos to Trump Redux, only reinforces these lessons that our Founding Fathers understood well in 1789. What I actually find most alarming among MAGA, more so than their cultish disregard for Constitutional principles, is their emergent dehumanizing language toward homeless people. Low empathy and low intelligence are dual dangerous ingredients used in the concoction of creeping fascism. So wakey-wakey, MAGA a-hole dullards!! If you normalize authoritarian tactics, that tyrannical boomerang is coming back your way. Oh, Empress AOC will make sure of it…

If Putin gets to keep Crimea and the Donbas region, then NATO+EU membership and full war reparations should be Ukraine’s BARE MINIMUM expected return! If Trump is worth his alleged “art of the deal” reputation, then he should also be able to negotiate for substantial Russian territory and/or natural resources awarded to Ukraine. What’s obviously complicating these negotiations is the fact that Russia has been so surprisingly good at shielding themselves from international economic blowback, particularly with regard to energy resources. I’ll also remind everyone that Trump and the United States hold no higher ethical ground over Putin with regard to border integrity and international human rights. Our funding of the Gaza genocide and Likud’s Greater Israel project has consequences, with compromised diplomacy being an acutely stark example.