I definitely understood their comment as “Israel claims everyone in Gaza as Hamas, so they’re more likely to die from a random airstrike than they are at sea”

I think the point is he doesn’t want to endorse someone before a primary happens. Presumably he will endorse whoever is the winner of the primary.

I’d respond that the parable of the Good Samaritan is specifically showing a “foreigner” (eh, nuance is hard) as the only person who helped the injured man, but that requires critical thinking and some historical context, so basically useless…

A Wild Mimic’s info is what you asked for, but for what it’s worth, you can just look at the election that happened earlier this year to see if it passes the smell test (and it does):

The AFD won 20% of the vote in the election earlier this year and then the incoming chancello passed a policy with the old parliament (as leader of the opposition still) that would change a financial rule that would have no chance to pass once the new parliament was seated (because the AFD and most of his own party opposed the change), so a lot of the people who voted CDU/CSU (his party) felt betrayed and said “fuck it, I’ll vote AFD next time”

To be fair…

It was about 12 years, but that is a relatively short time. It’s about the same time we have to deal with Trump from the beginning of his first term to the end of his second, which is also an eternity (assuming that doesn’t become a literal eternity). And the First Republic kinda sucked for a ton of reasons, but it was at least technically a Republic.

But also one of those reasons is that the Republic itself was at war with basically the entirety of Europe already, which is why Napoleon was able to rise to power in the first place: he wasn’t just a dude that waltzed in and said “make me emperor”, he was the hero of the army of Italy and basically was the major (unexpected) reason that France was able to defeat Austria.

Anyway, the point is that we don’t have a Napoleon waiting in the wings to just snatch up power if it came to, say, Jacobin actions, but Napoleon took time to emerge, so we’d have at least a few years of guillotines first…

price of eggs

Scott was confirmed on a party-line vote, with 51 Republicans in favor and 46 Democrats opposed, along with three absences.

Literally no Democrats voted for him…

It’s ambiguous but I did not interpret it as Trump posting the newsletter.

They’re not allowed to drive on regular roads

He’s literally not allowed to. Becoming president means you’re not allowed to drive (on regular roads) ever again, even after you leave office.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/why-u-s-presidents-arent-allowed-to-drive

“The highest quality oil there is on the planet, and they only gave me a drop of it…so I’m not thrilled,” Trump joked.

This headline is such bad clickbait it’s basically misinformation.

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So they’re all getting like a 50 million dollar package, right?

…right?

A truly towering achievement.

(ex-WoW) vet, not ex-(WoW vet)

You know he was playing a character, right? That wasn’t “conservative comedy”, it was just satire.

Man the Kissinger bottle must have aged really well

Props for finding the answer and sharing it!

Literally Paradox’s entire business model…

This! Manufacturers were trying to lock people into their systems, just by different means. Reverse engineering a piece of low-level software (BIOS) so that you could run high-level software written for that machine architecture on different hardware was the main battle of the day.