Here are two ways of thinking about how to remedy this situation since it is clear that the city government is corrupt beyond remediation:
“Let’s return to only those who pay property taxes being allowed to vote as it was during the nation’s founding.”
“Let’s stop paying property taxes to government and instead just send it to men of draft age that live here.”
Is #2 infeasible because the Feds would step in when the young men start beating the shit out of shoplifters? Or would the Feds step in because it was “sexist” (after, of course, an emergency session to change the law to make women register for the draft).
Brought to you by the organization that responded to my approaching one of its circle about underwriting a macrosocial data compression prize (so that Charles Murray wouldn’t have to keep doing his Sysiphus thing with “The National Conversation”) with a comment “You can always vote.”:
The AEI asks “Can Biden deter a Russia nuclear attack on [the] Ukraine?”
Presumably, the AEI does not mean “Biden”; they mean whoever is controlling that sad old man. However, the more pertinent question is whether “Biden” could deter a Russian nuclear attack on the DC Swamp. Everyone (including the Russians) knows that the tragedy in the Ukraine is the US Establishment’s proxy war against Russia. The obvious way for Russia to stop the proxy war would be to cut off the head of the snake.
It seems like a long time ago, but we were once the Good Guys. It is really depressing that Our Betters have brought the US down to this.
Since you cannot sort through the propaganda from both sides, I try to determine how it is going based on more factual information. The ever increasing level of weapons that need to be provided to the Ukraine is one such example. It started with longer range artillery and then even longer range artillery. Leopard/Abrams tanks, advanced air defense missile systems and more advanced fighters when the previous equipment didn’t get them over the hump. Must not be great when next up are nukes.
I can just imagine the discussion. “How did the tanks work out?” “Turns out General, the tanks required skilled crews for operation and maintenance.” “What can we give them that doesn’t take trained people?” “Nukes, General, nukes!” “How do we sell that?”
As of next week, travellers will no longer be able to travel on bus 666 to the popular Polish seaside resort of Hel, after the local public transport operator changed the number of the service.
They didn’t do it just for the Hel of it, but following criticism from conservative religious groups, who have called the association of the Biblical “number of the beast” with the place name referring to Paradise’s warmer counterpart as a “satanic stupidity.”
