Pope: “Who is this Madonna?”

Advisor: “Has-been musician popular in 80s gay clubs… or, um, so I’ve been told, your Holiness.”

Tariffs have been cut in the past. Nothing Trump does or can do, short of killing or maiming people, is permanent.

He bobs his head like a chicken too, and then of course there’s the aspirational rooster hairstyle.

Look at interviews in the 80s and then look at him speaking now. He was always a lying asshole, but back then, he could at least complete a simple sentence. Now it’s all confabulation.

The Supremes nullified the Emoluments Clause by making it impossible for anyone to have standing to enforce it.

Putin has expressed an interest in Alaska.

Syphilitic rapist pedophile

Syphilis is treatable with antibiotics and Trump has always had access to good healthcare. Even then, he doesn’t really show any non-neurological symptoms of tertiary siff.

Instead, my money’s on some form of dementia.

The policy of rape and sexual abuse has been going on at least since the government of Ariel Sharon, if not to the time of the Nakba. The victims include women, men and children.

Abbott is such a slimy racist turd.

Almost as if you can’t look for morality or amorality in broad categories

Some broad categories are beyond the pale. For example, there’s no moral way to implement an apartheid state.

because the language means one thing to him, but a very different thing to some people who are reading it, and so they objected

Or they’re acting in bad faith.

And as long as they treat minorities fairly, it’s not inherently bad.

They don’t. So it is.

The one-ethnicity, one-state idea is intellectually and morally bankrupt. It only works if all out-group members are either oppressed, expelled or exterminated.

And Putin’s flunky Trump should fuck off too.

Ethno-states were all the rage in 19th-century Europe. Everywhere they got into power, they oppressed religious and ethnic minorities and in some cases resorted to ethnic cleansing. The usual result is a deracinated one-size-fits-all national identity based on some self-serving myths about the dominant group, with resultant loss of diversity in the face of coerced conformity.

And now you have Castilians putting the boot to Catalans, Basques and Galicians, Serbs shitting on Bosnian Muslims, Croats and anyone else who’s not Serbian, everyone fucking with Roma people, Germans in the 20th century murdering Jews, Turks murdering Armenians and expelling ethnic Greeks, and so forth ad nauseam.

The Zionists are no different in this regard, except perhaps that more effort went into constructing a Jewish national identity after than wide cultural divergences that occurred in the Diaspora-- for example, reviving the Hebrew language, which hadn’t been in household use among Jewish people for over two millennia (for example, people in Roman-occupied Palestine spoke Aramaic or koine Greek).

And if it hasn’t been made abundantly clear: I despite ethno-nationalism and regard it as a proto-fascist ideology that has caused untold harm. Only the few countries that decoupled ethnicity from national identity (such as Scotland and some of the Northern Tier countries) have avoided becoming brainless dystopic hellholes.

Translation: UK is not forcing media to provide a platform for fascists.

Putin barks out orders, Trump listens (to the extent he’s capable).

But as for “exercise,” well, Trump doesn’t believe in that.

FTA: “Officers worked with the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) last weekend to issue tickets for a range of offences including driving with no insurance, no licence, disqualification, false documentation and fraudulent number plates.”

No no, there’s no “antisocial driving” charge that leads to vehicles being confiscated. It was based on actual crimes.

Also a convicted felon, and an insurrectionist unconstitutionally occupying the White House.

I’m sure his barely-passing BA in business from Penn would qualify him to second-guess Krugman, if Trump weren’t also dumb as a bag of hammers.

Do the conches like being blown? There’s a question of consent here.