we all should we very aware of the current reality, meaning understanding the world of today…
I love the way the go-to response is to accuse anyone with whom you disagree of being a Russian shill. Try something more original. That playbook is getting a bit worn.
Maybe Vicky Nuland and the other neocons should not be instigating regime change wherever they feel like it, most notably in Ukraine a decade ago. The sleazy and cynical Minsk Accords were merely another shameful example of the duplicity of that lot.
What goes around, comes around.
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I unfortunately have to suspend @drlorentz 's humor permit due to humor malpractice.
He failed to note that at 0:13 the voiceover said “Karen Nuland”.
He will return to posting after listening to six hours of Mark Steyn.
Let this be a warning to the rest of you.
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Sardinia as a TDS sanctuary:
France should do likewise in Corsica to cater to people with TDS and Napoleon complexes.
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I’ve always appreciated Mark, though my admiration for him has faded over time (he got the whole Iraq war/war on terror thing completely wrong, but then again, so did I). However, listening to that British/not-British accent for six hours borders on cruel and unusual punishment.
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I did miss that, possibly because being a Karen is so on-brand for Vicky. It seems that the Euros have a sense of humor after all — or at least, the Euronews. Likewise, it really should be Karen Whitmer instead of whatever name she was assigned at birth.
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https://www.axios.com/2024/11/19/undocumented-workers-immigration-deportation-trump
Illegal immigrant employment by sector:
About 13 percent in construction. About 12 percent in agriculture
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Start by emptying hotels with people just sponging off of the United States.
Get rid of the alien criminals in jails and prisons.
Then look at people that are working
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The same loser GOP senators that confirmed Merrick Garland, Lloyd Austin, Rachel Levine, and Ketanji Jackson want you to know Trump’s cabinet picks are just unacceptable.
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You are too kind. I can think of better descriptors than loser.
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Oh, so, can I, Doc, but none suitable for a family-friendly, civll-language site. 
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We are all adults. This isn’t R> lol
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It isn’t R>, but we are in public. Yes, family friendly. Read the FAQ.
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Besides, there are plenty of colorful words one can use that are neither obscene nor profane. In this context, one could have written “backstabbing” or “reptilian” GOP senators. There’s always the old reliables such as “mendacious” but that lacks specificity, even though it’s applicable here.
One of my high school English teachers used to refer to the kind of language we’re avoiding here as “barnyard language.” His main objection to it was that using such language was lazy since English is so rich in insulting terms that are far more specific than the generic offensive words. He exhorted us to be creative.
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Well said. I do generally attempt to be creative and even entertaining, stimulate thought. That said, I find so-called ‘barnyard language’ visceral and occasionally cathartic.
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Fair enough. Don’t get me wrong, I use that kind of language often, especially when angry.
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Peter Berkowitz
In January, Republicans will gain undivided control of the federal government’s political branches. Yet President-elect Donald Trump’s comfortable 312-226 electoral-college victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and his narrow margin in the popular vote – 49.9% to 48.4% – do not constitute a landslide. Considering also Republicans’ razor-thin House majority and several vulnerable seats the 53-47 Republican Senate majority must defend in 2026, it is early to speak of a national political realignment. Whether the GOP expands and establishes firmly the impressive multi-racial and multi-ethnic working-class coalition that Trump built over the last nine years turns on the coalition’s composition and the forces that unified it around the most unlikely of two-term presidents.
The NCRI findings reinforce common sense. If, in the spirit of woke progressivism, elite universities teach that American institutions are hateful, students will learn to despise their country and scorn the patriots among their fellow citizens. If elite universities teach that Americans are either oppressors or oppressed, the best and the brightest will view politics as war and education as propaganda. If elite universities teach that group identity takes precedence over the dignity of the person, graduates will regard themselves as duty bound to trample over individual rights in pursuit of social justice.
And if our elite universities – and the graduates they annually launch into the world – keep it up, they will increase the Trump coalition’s chances of landslide election victories and enhance the prospects of a national political realignment built around working-class men and women joined by individuals of all colors and classes who cherish freedom and democracy in America.
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