“hoping that they can just wait out and weather Donald J. Trump and his 63 million followers for two more years.”

The rationale over leaving because IS have been defeated is a cheap ploy to hide the truth here which is that once again the West, the US and British in particular, are doing what we’ve always done which is to abandon the Kurdish people to oppression and violence after relying on them for key material support against…

Defense Secretary Mattis has, in his time, been guilty of some shit—but the thing about the military is that if you’re in it for long enough, and get promoted high enough, you’ve not only done some shit, but you’ve seen enough shit to know when shit’s getting to thick to bother with.

We can comb through Mattis’ past…

The primary reason why rich people in the US will relentlessly keep squeezing poor citizens is that they’ve never had to contest with a revolution.

I dunno. I wrote about the appeasement payment several days ago on this site, and a lot of people jumped on me for suggesting that 1)  1.6 Billion dollars is not chump change,a dn should not be tossed around lightly, and 2) Appeasing Trump right now, when he’s on the skids and won’t even be in town after the 20th, is…

When I was a kid I really liked her. For some reason, the Bronco Billy movie made me laugh. (I was 9-10ish. I’m not sure if youth is an excuse for bad taste, but I’ll try.) I partially understood the palimony case. I remember an uncle saying she should keep her mouth shut and be happy anyone put her in a movie. I felt…

Literally the only person that sticks out as “not like the others” is the dude with the eye patch, but he’s an asshole, Major Asshole in his own right, so he fits right in with the rest of them in spirit, if not in optics.

if not in optics.

The Israelis are their first-line cannon-fodder for the Repubs final showdown with Islam.

Their preacher tells them that Jews have to take back Palestine before Jeepers will come back and start smiting people. They only “like Israel” in a transactional sense, sort of the way they think they treated blacks nicely by giving them homes and jobs in the Confederacy.

He was also too much of a (genuine) outsider for them. The author below, Ira Shapiro, talked about this a lot in his book--Carter never liked Washington schmoozing. He also changed his goals too quickly for Congress to keep up, but they definitely didn't get a warm, welcoming vibe from him.

Damn.

None of them have the balls for that.

But, for all it’s worth, Black Panther didn’t bring anything new from a story perspective.

Fundamentally, it was a mix between Iron Man and Thor. It combines the technological aspects of Iron Man (along with the antagonism for a foreign entity), with the prodigal son/family drama of Thor (with Killmonger functioning as…

“Stochastic terrorism” is the term you were looking for.

I think the words you’re looking for are “stochastic terrorism”. (I could be wrong, though)

It’s kind of like King Henry VIII asking “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” 

Stochastic terrorism?

But! You’ve left off the best part!!!

Well said, the “they” that trump was talking about was the people who are meant to hold these men to account, not the women. I’m not giving trump credit for saying something smart though because it wasn’t deliberate.

They’ve been constantly told for the last 25 years or so that said someone is everything wrong with liberalism, politics, the Democratic party, and America in general. Many of them believed it.