It’s always going to be less effort to repeat something than to reason about it.

Satan is the father of lies.

Scams are never job-producing schemes. The scammers want to extract the maximum amount of cash from the rubes with the minimum of overheads.

Why is it so hard to get rid of that knobhead?

The Pope really needs to force the retirement of some of the more reactionary cardinals and archbishops in the US, who openly defied Francis in some cases.

If it prevents progressive ideas from ever being implemented, they’ll think it’s worth it.

Having a debt ceiling isn’t really the worst idea to an extent.

Well yes, it is a very bad idea, since it’s redundant. When a funding bill is passed, the government is committing to funding that bill. If new revenue doesn’t cover it, they’ve incurred debt. The analysis is available before they vote. Having a separate vote on the debt is just another way that legislative rules enable inaction. It gives legislators a way to say they’ve voted for something even when they didn’t vote to raise the debt ceiling to pay for it. It’s irrational. Private-sector budgeting doesn’t operate this way, neither does public-sector funding in other developed countries.

Non-renewable energy companies should all be expropriated.

Yeah, we’re all aware of the wonders of Qatari technology, such as their mad-rape-scheduling iPhone app.

Even better, it’s a Boeing.

He doesn’t have the authority to do this via executive order

Or anything else, really. Show me where executive orders are mentioned in the Constitution. They were being used by previous presidents as guidance on how to comply with legislation. Trump is using them as decrees.

Proposing a shit solution to a well-known problem is not a “great point.” It’s just more bullshit.

You already have things like Visual Basic and Tcl to replace routine.

Are you a time traveller from the 1990s?

VB is obsolete, unmaintainable shite, and Tcl is well-defined but so minimal as to barely be a language at all, and if anyone’s using it for greenfield projects, they should have their heads examined.

So he’s caved to China’s demands.

Ah, so the actual reason for the loss is that they can’t expand capacity without squandering vast amounts of money. That’s much better.

That’s part of the story. Does the Mayo Clinic also have a little article on “Asshole”?

Obama and Kissinger are not even close to being the same. Kissinger deserved life in prison. Obama was just doing the same old shit every American president has done in the past century.

If you think drones are somehow more murderous and indiscriminate than artillery shells or mortar rounds, you’re delusional. Also, Trump in his first term massively escalated the use of drones and also changed the rules of engagement to no longer require planners to attempt to minimize civilian casualties.

And yet he’s in the highest political office in the US.

Russia, Israel and the Gulf despots, plus tinpot dictators like Orban and Bukele.