Recent content by ShiftyRider

The world is in immense danger as is. Military deterrence is a necessity. At all times, the goal is security. And then you have events like Iraq Invasion. Was revenge the goal instead? Events like Signal. Was playing with new toys the goal instead? 🙏🙏👊🇺🇲🇺🇲

Does the forum have an ALL CAPS rule? Cuz on Signal, they tend to "punctuate" like so...

Prolly the most famous magazine article of all time... https://archive.is/F9FSe

Did the article say that? In the Big Picture, left/right looks silly cuz normal people have principles. Things like demagogery, aggression, and insurrection are counterproductive. The silly left/right scorekeepers wanna just call it...slightly counterproductive I guess. Lies might become...just...

Can we circle back to... Lectures his ESL houseguests on manners Isn't quite sure how to order donuts? The world is way more dangerous with the ascent of unprincipled con men.

Those many Americans' cluelessness is evident to me and sbooker... To reward aggression against a non-proliferator is the exact same thing (but with more duplicity) as to welcome infinite proliferation.

When you disrupt your allies you look like a fool. If you wanna make policy transactional, make sure the costs of loss of intelligence gathering are accounted for. Hindsight 20/20 and all, how much would America have been willing to pay to have a spy network that woulda prevented 911...

My Big Picture thought is that it's a comeuppance that Crimea's value to the Russian Navy led to risk to their Tartus Syria naval base. Another is that election/political hand-wringing seemed to be blind to how Mideast conflict surrounding Israel has made US more "powerful". For example...

So like I wrote upthread LOL, high turnout favors Trump. I think everybody working his 2020 campaign tried their hardest to get him to stop sabotaging that. Foremost Mike Pence. FWIW last month I advised the NY judge via Twitter that he needed to mail himself what the Trump sentence would be...

The truth is stranger than fiction...

Trump dearly misses his wellness and nutrition coach Herman Cain, and infers that the MyPillow guy will head the 2028 GOP ticket...

Me neither, but we're sensible people. Sometimes we forget there are idiots out there who elected Arnold I'll Be Back Schwarzenegger, Jesse the Body Ventura, and Donald You're Fired Trump... #TVfriends

I disagree. Remember we get a secret ballot, but our friends and neighbors who wanna advocate for Trump, well, some of them are either humiliated or angry and weak. Small. Freud would have a field day, see... ...is pure projection. Trump's saying he thinks he appeals to the aggrieved. He can't...

Today a petition drive has been launched to recall South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem. "We're eating the dogs! We're eating the cats! We're eating the pets of the people that live here. Shotgun pellets do not belong in our beef stew!" said the Haitian-American gentleman who accosted me on the...