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https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4512697-russian-missile-nearly-hits-zelenskys-motorcade/

In a sensible, normal political system? Yeah. But Johnson isn't afraid of President Biden, or Chuck Schumer. He is deathly afraid of Donald Trump.

They really are just taking the piss. And it is monstrous. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/17/alexei-navalny-death-confirmed-official-cause-of-death-disputed?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other Lot it going about in Russia

I would suspect that too. But you never know when some ambitious dipshit might think that they could move up quickly if they show some "initiative" and do what they think the boss wants, but can't say.

I've read some speculation that Putin might not have ordered it and that somebody further down the line of command might have done it on their own initiative. The idea being that Putin was working on his "not such a bad guy" PR campaign with that Tucker Carlson interview and this would seem to...

Doubtful. Maybe if the whores in questions were Democrats? Maybe? [Edit: actually, thinking about this more, I do think that maybe Trump gaying it up with somebody might actually hurt him. His whole persona is built around his fake machismo. If video emerged of him playing castanets with...

As hilarious as that might be. And as embarrassing to would be to literally 99% of the population of the Earth. I have a hard time believing that this is it, or if this was it, that it continues to hold any sway. I mean who, after all Trump has done (banging a porn star, paying off a porn star...

I thought this was a nice piece https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/13/sport/ukraine-shakhtar-donetsk-palkin-ceo-spt-intl/index.html

Senators only face election once every six years and they represent the entire state. House representatives face reelection every two years and many are from heavily gerrymandered districts. That's the difference. Reps are much more vulnerable to a primary challenge from somebody more Trumpy...

The speaker generally gets to set the agenda in the house, yes.

Because the senate isn't the house. We have a bicameral legislature.

It won't. Donald Trump doesn't want Biden to get "a win" and he especially doesn't want it at the expense of his master best bud Putin. He will pressure Speaker Mike Johnson not to bring it up for a vote. If Johnson does bring it up for a vote, that'll be the end of him as speaker. Marjorie...

It's pretty simple really, the GOP is in Trump's pocket and Trump is in Putin's pocket. It's a fascist turducken.

We have a local lawyer that uses that same pose in all his ads: There's currently a huge billboard just around the corner from me with this guys face reminding people to "DRIVE SAFE" (else he'll MAKE YOU PAY, presumably)

Agreed. If only because it robs us of the chance to use the word "defenestration". We get so few chances...

Not falling out a window? Maybe he fell out the window into the plane's engine?

For the tank nerds, a little something about the tanks heading to Ukraine:

I suspect those training times are ideal peace-time training. In the case of a war, I'm pretty sure they'll push them though quicker than that. The rest will be made up with "on-the-job" training. On a job that may get you killed. But I do wonder if all these different weapons systems coming...

Comparing killed or injured, to just killed. But even if you take into account somewhere around 54k wounded in Afghanistan, it's still pretty shocking.