"1,776" million dollars eh?
if the US does nothing else it makes its hideously evil ******** cartoonish and darkly amusing...this is my favorite themed trampling of civilian rights since the *U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act.
*Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing (the) Appropriate...
zero jokes, this "predictions market" stuff might be the most dangerous concept in history.
truly dystopian **** that you can bet on whether people get bombed off the face of the planet.
it WILL cause a Complete Disaster, there is now financial incentive to create them.
like, remember when...
in a better world it would be the social equivalent of doing 140 on a motorcycle in the rain with no helmet, something happens and it's like "...well obviously."
when have we ever gotten this much information about FUTURE military plans it wasn't like "the potential raid on Bin Laden's compound may be a daring nighttime operation involving 2 of the most advanced variants of Blackhawk helicopter and highly trained secret personnel"
these mfs really gonna...
for me the point of these is not to sing little songs and march in a circle, it's to meet in person the only people that will possibly stand beside you when the time comes.
...so I totally get if you can't if you had to sell your hours today or something, but if you can do it you should...if...
"everybody is ******* 12 now" theory undefeated.
and the thing is Germany/Germans STILL GET JOKES AND SIDE EYE about All That damn near a century hence...bad news, this stain ain't coming clean and you're gonna hear Trump voices in random places for the rest of your days.
...wait, and also...
meanwhile, not TMZ putting the fascist regime's feet to the fire:
https://www.tmz.com/2026/03/26/send-photos-of-politicians-on-vacation-during-shutdown/
always found it helpful to imagine how much food you can buy with an hour of work...as recently as ~10 years ago, you could make like 3 sandwiches an hour with the lowest paid work in the country.
life in general has gotten SO MUCH WORSE in recent years, people are starting to see that.
noooooo he did not do the best he could, everybody forgets that Vance was also burning money in a fire pit trying to compete with the NFL back in 2001, maybe if he had bought out some top WCW contracts instead of printing up He Hate Me and Birmingham Blast jerseys he could have not fumbled the...
ain't no argument about it...they have always openly declared that if threatened existentially that official policy is to pull the whole-*** temple down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option
hey, so something I picked up along the way is France's official nuclear doctrine, which is basically to break the seal if it's that serious...if credibly threatened they launch a "warning shot nuke," which is a wild wild phrase.
they are not ******* around.