Not to be outdone, Democratic leadership is bravely taking on Hassan Piker.

Quantum entanglement hasn’t been disproven, but the idea that it can be used for faster than light communication has.

No true Scotsman.

Maybe the US never recovered from being a slave-owning British colony. Everyone has their baggage.

What’s happening in the US was based on what had already been done in Hungary. Every single thing you mentioned happened there first.

If he retires after the Democrats (hopefully) take the Senate, the Democrats damn well better block any appointment.

Stewart has been asked the question incessantly for his entire career, and he always gave some kind of emphatic “no”. He switched it up a year ago and isn’t saying no anymore. Watching the Weekly Show, he really is acting like he plans to run.

Carlson is more of a long shot to run, but I don’t put it past him. If he runs for real, I think he gets it. I agree that he probably won’t. The Republican base isn’t as easily dominated by money as you think. Remember that in Trump’s first run all the money and establishment clout was against him. Thiel and Elison can run things because they have Trump on a leash.

I think you underestimate Pritzker, but I don’t see anyone else right now that can speak to both progressives and the establishment. It’s a really tricky lane to enter and he has it all to himself. We’ll have to see who else runs.

I see three serious contenders for the next Presidency. Pritzker, Jon Stewart, and Tucker Carlson. That’s three very different paths, and we’ll know a lot more after that election.

The Republican nomination is Carlson’s if he wants it, and he would roll right over another Zionist Democrat. Pritzker has the best chance of any traditional Democrat of satisfying (barely) both the establishment and progressive wings, and would dominate any Republican but maybe Tucker. Stewart would steamroll anyone dumb enough to debate him. He’s still way too “enlightened centrist” for my liking, but he seems to be learning.

Vance has a chance if Carlson doesn’t run and the Democrats nominate an establishment clown. Speaking of which, I think Newsom is going to flip-flop himself into oblivion early in the race.

Pax Americana is over. I expect America to stumble on. There are still a lot of capable and well educated Americans, and a lot of resources. It will take generations to heal though, and the rot that got us here will not be easily addressed.

What the rest of the world is going to have to deal with is that when America becomes less attractive to dominate, our oligarchs are going to turn their eyes elsewhere. They still have their assets, and no real loyalty to America. It already looks like the process is well underway.

The idea that the US government would fall and that the “good guys” would end up in control of what followed is ridiculous.

Why on earth would they not want death to the west? It’s not like we haven’t deserved it. Israel is way more extreme than either Hamas or Hezbollah. That’s what happens when you create an ethnostate, arm them to the teeth, and back them unconditionally for generations.

No country lasts generations in a static form. That’s not a thing.

I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic, but democracy and capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. “Equal capitalism” is an oxymoron.

Are these the same Congressional Democrats that did fuck-all to try and stop it from happening? Jeffries and Schumer should be hung alongside the entire Republican party.

Absolutely unsurprising. Iran has had literal decades to prepare for this fight. It’s a big mountainous country, and they are arguably the most experienced tunnel builders in the world. If US intelligence says they still have half of their missile launchers, I would bet they have a lot more than that. They have also been watching and learning from the war in Ukraine, something the US has apparently failed to do.

The reference is fitting.

We are the hollow men 
We are the stuffed men 
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when 
We whisper together 
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass 
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour. 
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

The culprit is “faith”". A society cannot function when everybody lives in their own version of reality. The notion that every belief is worthy of the same respect as any other will be the death of us all. Probably literally.

Obama put his thumb on the scale in both the 2016 and 2020 primaries, and that was ultimately what made the destruction of his only three major accomplishments inevitable. We’ve lost the Iran deal, advances in Cuba, and most of the ACA because Obama couldn’t stop serving Wall Street and the establishment even after leaving office.

You aren’t wrong, but the US already has all the leverage it needs with Medicare and Medicade, and chooses not to use it.

WE sure didn’t choose Kamala to run against these people. Maybe the Democratic party ought to be democratic. Anyways, I see no evidence that Kamala would have held Israel back. Biden sure as hell didn’t.

Or just mix the peanut butter up really well when you first open it before putting it in the fridge. Warm peanut butter mixes really easily, while cold peanut butter takes a long time to separate again.