Any trade deal they strike with Trump is illusory and not worth the paper it’s written on. See, e.g., what happened to the NAFTA deal Trump signed during his first administration. The EU should refuse to play his games and quietly start dumping their substantial holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds.

You and me both.

First thing I thought of when I saw this post!

The Shark is a really cool light sport aircraft, and it’s awesome that they’ve adapted it for missions in Ukraine.

50% on Brazil, same as China. What is so stupid is that it is completely obvious that Trump doesn’t have a cohesive strategy for his tariffs. Rather, they’re just a convenient weapon he can wield as a bully. Why should any American not want a country to criminally prosecutes their corrupt former leader, let alone pay higher taxes on goods as a result? Eventually, this raising of taxes on Americans with tariffs on foreign goods will have a bigly negative impact on the U.S. economy.

You make a good point. I see it as the U.S. being in a Cold War type situation, but as you note, there are already regional conflicts. However, even during the Cold War the U.S. was involved in conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, where it saw itself as trying to stem the growth of Communism being spread by the Soviet Union.

Well, we are currently teeing it up.

I wonder if they’ll still get these heat waves if the AMOC shuts down?

He knows, but he also knows that his base is too dumb to recognize it, so he lies because raising taxes on Americans is unpopular.

When I say ‘OK now you have 12 hours’, you don’t go out in the first hour and drop everything you have on them.

What did he expect? They had 12 hours left to bomb the shit out of Iran before the cease fire applied to them. Of course they were going to bomb Iran, and naturally Iran would retaliate. Why didn’t the cease fire apply to everyone at the same time?

Only psychiatrists who have been involved in psilocybin clinical trials will be allowed to prescribe it, and they must strictly report its use and keep detailed records.

Unfortunately, there’s only one such psychiatrist:

The psychiatrist, Cameron Lacey, who was behind the first clinical trials of psilocybin, has been identified as the only medical practitioner to prescribe the drug.

I honestly think that he’s trying to get Iran to blockade the Strait of Hormuz to drive up the price of oil, to the benefit of Russia and also U.S. oil producers.

I saw some reporting saying that he somehow jumped out of the plane just before it crashed, but that makes no sense, and he’s quoted as saying that he has no idea how he survived.

Not to diminish the other grave consequences of this strike, but because of Trump’s tariffs and other erratic behavior, the U.S. economy is teetering on the edge of recession. This strike has already caused oil prices to jump significantly, which will almost certainly speed the onset and deepen the depth of the coming recession.

Collect $5 million, deport, rinse, repeat.

Yay, he raised taxes on the stuff we buy by 55%. Surely that will make prices go down.

They’re also very costly and take a long time to build.

When calcium carbide is exposed to water it causes a reaction producing acetylene gas, which is highly explosive.

I think Trump will eventually be shown to be more unhinged than all of them.

Protip: Invest in a cheap bidet attachment for your toilet. You’ll be cleaner, suffer less irritation to your sensitive regions, and use much less toilet paper.