imagine if a year ago biden said he would decimate russia’s army with a rounding error of the defense budget and decapitate china’s microchips industry with a single piece of export control regulation
— Seva (@SevaUT) October 14, 2022
Senile old man goes full Mad Max somehow. What the hell is going on.
another classic in the genre of "do not under any circumstances install explosive reactive armor on this vehicle" https://t.co/iXAJsZN7TN
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) October 14, 2022
Haha. Hmm. I don’t think the person who installed that armor really understands how it works.
the books about this are going to be fascinating if we don’t get blown up:
biden: i will defend taiwan
WH: he didn’t mean that
biden: i will defend taiwan
WH: we swear he didn’t mean that
biden: *shoots the chinese semiconductor industry in the head*
— Starfish In Charge Of WB Tax Evasion Dept. (@IRHotTakes) October 15, 2022
Yeah, not sure what is going on with Biden but he’s making some tough decisions. Some of which might not be wise, but damn if they aren’t gutsy at least.
So I got this note on my car, see second picture for my daily parking situation.
If I were the OP, I’d get another grille for her truck and replace it in the middle of the night. That grille would say “Impertinent Sausage.”
Am I legally allowed to leave earth?
Who cares? If you have the power to do it, “legal” ain’t even in your vocabulary.
The first stanza of the 10,000 Maniac’s song “Stockton Gala Days” might be the most poetic six opening lines of any rock song ever written:
That summer fields grew high
With foxglove stalks and ivy
Wild apple blossoms everywhere
Emerald green like none I have seen
Apart from dreams that escape me
There was no girl as warm as you
That whole song feels like a fever dream — which it should, as it’s about childhood memories and nostalgia therefrom. Natalie Merchant et al. were certainly channeling Yeats very well when they wrote those lines. Great writing.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
China’s Markets Can’t Survive Covid Zero.
B-b-but I was told Covid Zero was the only thing that would allow for economnic growth. THAT WASN”T TRUE????!?!?!?! HOW COULD THIS BE???!?!?!?!?
I jest. Covid Zero is moronic, though.
For use the next time a tankie claims that the majority of the world is with Russia. https://t.co/o19I1ePhU4
— Tuga Fella ✙ 🇵🇹🇪🇺🇺🇸 (@Fella_Tuga) October 12, 2022
Tankies gonna tank. It won’t matter.
How many people know that they shit on the floors of the Capitol? In fact, I didn't know until now… https://t.co/qRE6WKUHOZ
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) October 14, 2022
I knew. Saw the photos.
But sure, they were just regular ol’ tourists, doing what tourists do…you know, shitting on the floors, beating people, stealing things. The usual. A tour group, definitely not an attempted coup.
I suspect if Russia does use a nuke in Ukraine that NATO (really mostly the US) will use conventional forces to wipe the Russian army off the map there. Anyway, that’s what I’d do. Retaliating with nuclear weapons would mean the end of the world but breaking the nuclear taboo cannot be allowed to stand either.
No matter what clowns like Ian Welsh believe, the Russian army is not great and a war to destroy it on the ground in Ukraine would be over in 1-2 months. Note I do fucking not mean invading Russia, which would be an insane and foolish thing to do. All I mean is annihilating the Russian forces on the ground where they’ve invaded.
I give Russian nuke use in Ukraine about 5% odds, but if that does occur, a conventional NATO/US response an 80% chance of happening.
Let’s hope none of these things transpire. But the risk is high, too high.
Anyone who believed or who told you that inflation would be transitory should never be allowed to share an opinion on anything again.
There are some things that are hard to know and difficult to reason about; that inflation was gonna get bad and be persistent was not one of those things. Told you so.
what's notable here too is that we're seeing people who in normal circumstances would easily have the pull to be excluded from the draft. but the mobilization was so desperate, rushed and botched that even the connected are dying. https://t.co/Kbrwht2JLL
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) October 13, 2022
WINNING!
Classic pic.twitter.com/CKD1DpuQKA
— Paul Massaro (@apmassaro3) October 13, 2022
Tankies all over…and Ian Welsh. But then I repeat myself.
Many Canadians Can’t Afford Homes Despite Cooling Real Estate Market.
Canada has made tons of mistakes in the housing area (most of the same ones as the US), but not surprisingly it turns out that most people — some weird liberals aside — actually don’t want to live in tiny cramped pods right on top of their neighbors.
A Bank of Canada study released this year found that a preference among buyers for larger spaces increasingly now only available in suburbs has narrowed the housing price between city and suburban real estate in areas like Toronto.
Canada would be a great place to live if their housing market weren’t so absurd. And no, most people don’t want to be crammed into damn pods, no matter what you read on Twitter.