With all the serious issues listed by Mark👇 (& i add a growing middle class with greater political & socio-economic aspirations/grievances), China appears more rational, more stable, more predictable, less frantic & disorganized than us, which shows you how monumentally we’ve screwed the pooch.

FYI, during the war on “terror”, this vile human being was 100% pro-torture, & even found a way to explain away Abu Ghraib. She’s always been a vile human being & will continue to be. Nothing she says now changes that. PS: as a country, we really have memory-holed the Iraq war & the war on terror

Things are moving a bit. There is a momentum, & it needs to be fed. This is where usually institutional politics—i.e., the opposition—takes the lead.

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The funny thing is that people who know domestic politics of South Korea said back then that this was 100% bs. The @nytimes.com didn’t listen to those experts & stenographed Trump’s tweet on their front page. Of course, the experts were right!

Bill Kristol is absolutely right!

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

I opened the other site to see what’s going on, and the first thing I see is this picture posted by Tony Thomas as a reply to Stephen Miller. Who is Tony Thomas? He’s retired General & former commander of the US Special Operations Command.

We are officially at 0° Celsius now. Let’s hope we don’t have a power outage in this area 🤞

If you want the protests to succeed, do *NOT* hide! Quite the opposite: protest in the open, in family, wear colors, take pictures, post them, & wave the flag. Going underground was the biggest mistake of pro-democracy mvts in MENA. Our clandestine activities scared ppl & pushed them away.

A group of Israelis visiting Morocco went to the Moroccan-Algerian border, & waved the Israeli flag & taunted the Algerian border guards & Algerian bystanders. Not only this is unnecessary & stupid, it will most likely anger most Moroccans who do not want to escalate the situation with Algeria

If you have a permitted gun with a permit to carry, and all of that is used against you, then where are your gun rights? Where is the NRA, the great defender of gun rights? Never mind, just a rhetorical question.

Reminder: we do NOT—I repeat, we do NOT have a federal domestic terrorism law or statute. Whatever she is saying here is just gibberish. Oh ffs, what do I bother? 🤷‍♂️

To those who did not vote or voted 3rd party and argued that Kamala or Biden was no better than Trump (some even argued they were worse), you have blood on your hands. You can’t escape your responsibility in the massacre of our country.

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social is very informative in this @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy on wealth inequality and taxation. Wealth inequality at the very very very top has been central to the US's slide into authoritarianism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-XU...

Add to the list of things the Right keeps getting wrong: -Songs -Movies -History -Religion -Regional cultural references -Pop culture And now, basic geography God damn morons!

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Everyone who didn’t vote or voted 3rd party has blood on their hands. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The most important speech given at the World Economic homicide Forum, Davos, was by Canada’s PM Mark Carney. I won’t go as far as calling it a paradigm shift speech, but it is very close to one. If action follows rhetoric, America would sooner or later finds itself on the outside looking in.

The very privileged Leftists who argued that Biden or Harris was no better than Trump knew very well that Trump’s policies and decisions were never going to affect their lives negatively, or upend them completely. I hope you are proud of yourselves, you god damn privileged little twats.

Biden or Kamala was no better than Trump, said some privileged fucking Leftists who are as responsible for this god damn situation we are in as every other Trump voter.

Of course, the Guardian’s is the correct and more appropriate one

Of course, it wasn’t. Only the @nytimes.com believes it was.

Watching Blazing Saddles because the world sucks right now

If i were a European prime minister or minister of defense, I’d immediately draft a bill to increase my country’s defense budget & put it on a war footing. That’s how extremely dangerous and threatening Trump was in Davos. Also, NATO members need to start thinking about invoking Article 5

Just watched Trump’s insanity in Davos, & all I can say is that I no longer fault Trump. Yes, his behavior is thuggish/belligerent towards our allies, but what caused that? No contraints/action from Congress, the media or the people. To our allies, the problem isn’t just Trump, it’s America.

We caused this. We deserve this. We will bitterly regret this.

In other words, the American people have paid 100s of billions of dollars unnecessarily

JFC, this graph!

I’m imagining @mcopelov.bsky.social or @dhnexon.bsky.social, 20 years from now—by then, both will be elderly scholars—standing before a full class of a very young students teaching them Intro to IR. Mark’s 1st slide will be 👇, & Dan will go,”you guys won’t believe what I’m about to tell you…”

What is happening now is so insane and so stupid that it is hardly believable.

I’ve seen insane shit in my life, but never like this: Trump to Norway PM: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace This is insane!!! Totally insane!!!

Congratulations to #SEN 🇸🇳. They have been the best team in this #AFCON & by far. And despite the outrageously biased and substandard refereeing we’ve seen in this AFCON, they managed to pull it off. Senegal 🇸🇳 you are champions!

Refereeing has been scandalous during this #AFCON, & it’s favored Morocco in several games. What we are looking at right now is that frustration that most nations have felt boiling over. There is way too much corruption in the CAF, & Senegal’s 🇸🇳 protest might just trigger a cleanup.

IR folks can argue this type of tariffs could be seen as an act of war (considering the timing and the cause for those tariffs).

Also, apparently the US has stopped sharing serious intel with the Ukrainians. What we are sharing with them now is pretty much chicken shit.

My wife has been in Poland for 2 days now. She has yet to meet one Polish person who has something positive to say about the US. One guy told her electing Trump a 2nd time was like the abused wife who remarried her abusive husband just so he’d beat her up again. Can’t say I disagree with him

OMG, what an outrage! Shoot the damn protesters

A journalist asked Trump if he was considering or not ruling out using military force to take over Greenland (can’t recall the exact phrasing), and Trump said he’s not ruling out anything. This is the US using its military against an ally & a founding member of NATO. Can the insanity fucking STOP?

With the job market this bad, it’s truly a good opportunity to get “highly paid” to just stand on a street corner for a couple of hours 🤷‍♂️ Where should we apply?

Funny how this is almost the same calculus German business elites made in the late 1920s, early 30s.

What we did with Canada is probably the biggest and stupidest own-goal in modern history.

This is taking place just when we have one of the biggest moron to ever occupy the Oval Office

I have no time for these morons who stayed home or voted 3rd party on Election Day. As far as I’m concerned, they can jump off of a cliff for all I care. They have no credibility left whatsoever. None.

It will get worse, way worse, & that’s what he’s looking for. And if you think he’ll back down, rather than double down, you haven’t been paying attention. The protests have to lower the barrier of entry/participation for the middle class to be successful. They have to reclaim patriotism.

All of this was foreseeable way before election, yet some on the Left chose not to vote or vote 3rd party. The death of this man is on their hands. You can’t escape the consequences of your choice. The ME “is listing the preliminary cause of death as asphyxia due to neck & chest compression”

You guys remember the de-Ba'athification, don’t you? Well, seizing Venezuela’s oil revenues might very well be worse than that. It’s a rallying cry that almost every Venezuelan insurgency group can rally around. Just watch 🍿 🥤 🍦

Why is this asshole always wearing a beanie?

Machado gave our Todller-In-Chief a pacifier