If there was a way to exchange Trump Sr. for literally anything it would be a good deal. Given the success record of his picks in the midterms -

Now before we all start pointing fingers, remember; if it wasn’t for Sinema there’d have been a Republican in that seat instead. Same goes for Manchin.

It’s interesting how relatively few movies have ever been made about the Iraq war, much less actively critical ones along the lines of some of the famous movies made about Vietnam for example. Three Kings is the only critical one I can think of, and that’s about Desert Storm, the justified invasion. So the odds of a…

Viktor Bout was also paid $60 million by the GOP to fly over a thousand supply trips in and out of Iraq between 2003 and 2005, with the USAF also providing his pilots with 500,000 gallons of fuel on the house.

Pandemic’s seen a big rise in overall road deaths

Well to be fully correct, he inherited two, (Afghanistan, Iraq), started one, (Libya) and provided military support for another (Yemen).

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/civilian-deaths-drone-strikes_n_561fafe2e4b028dd7ea6c4ff

His mother through the decades (seven of them as Queen, I think longer than even Victoria) was always there, from accession in a World where Britain had only lost India five years before, to dying about five weeks before Britain saw its first leader of Indian ancestry come to office.

Exactly. And something tells me that thread will hopefully become less sturdy still under Charles who after all, can’t be his own mother. In the meantime it’s been funny so far watching how his early reign has given succour both to Northern Ireland’s Irish nationalists (he seems to like their leader more than the…

Royalty’s always been pretty popular with a lot of Americans because it isn’t taken so seriously when it’s just another type of celebrity. In this exact case, it’s interesting to see how after the Oprah interview last year, the couple’s approval rating in the US (54% for Harry, 48% for Meghan) compared to the same…

That’s your interpretation of the point I’m making. I never quibbled the sentencing, I queried your contention that conditions are the same and I was right, even with a skipped zero.

These are mortality rates though, the per capita is already assumed.

Go ahead. While you’re doing that I’ll pull up the mortality rate of Russian prisons -

Go ahead. While you’re doing that I’ll pull up the mortality rate of Russian prisons -

That one will need a citation

Badly.

Yes that’s my point. Think about the ethnic makeup of the oblasts vs the republics. Really this is just a different version of the map I gave you to prove my point. Again, if your hope is to free Russian minorities from under Moscow, then doesn’t it make more sense to propose to partition Russia along the lines of…

Then wouldn’t it be better to hope for the republics where the non-Slavic Russians live rather than the oblasts (overwhelmingly located in European Russia, overwhelmingly white) to secede? What you’re proposing is for white Russia to break into 47 different countries, so there’s an independent Novgorod, an independent…

The mortality figures are the ones you keep arguing with, so what’s the other figure from Saddam’s own regime that I’m happily posting? I genuinely don’t know, aaaaaand that means I’m not sidestepping anything. Are you sure you haven’t confused me with someone else?

How can mortality studies carried out by ten years after the regime fell be based on figures made up by that same regime? Think before you write. Unless you’re about to claim that the PSR or the ORB or the Lancet are pro-Saddam fifth columns masquerading as doctor’s groups or Britain’s biggest medical journal. …