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Shades of "I'll be damned if my regiment becomes a laundry unit on my watch"?

It would be a neat inversion if the people making Nazi and fascist comparisons - "see, this could one day become that if it goes on longer and becomes much, much bigger" - could make their own excesses a "strawman". Everyone from "this is starting to look like fascism" to "it's Hitler!" is part...

The subsidies in question are temporary subsidies, passed as a pandemic mitigation measure, which by definition were planned to expire. If there's a problem with this, the fault lies with the Biden administration and Congress of that time for not passing permanent subsidy increases. It is...

I lived through the 1980s when Reagan's supposed televangelist buddies were going to persuade him to bring about Armageddon. I'm well-insulated from overwrought panic which is really just politics dialed up to 11 by the factions out of power.

Squirrel. Trump doesn't have a very long attention span.

True. This will be at least the second time he has pressed Republican senators to remove the legislative filibuster. When they decline (and they will), it will firm up the evidence that they are not Trump's lackeys.

Well, someone pay the Bishnoi gang to target people in Burnaby and Langley for a while and we'll find out.

Oh, that's a heckuva comfort. We're in bad shape, but the US is in worse shape.

I'd prefer to see them walk back, too. But US invasion/intervention events in Caribbean countries are practically an American sport, and an invasion of Venezuela would put this administration right squarely in the (mostly) Republican tradition.

That significant step has been taken by many past administrations, and authoritarianism is still circling around looking for a place to land.

Either way it tends to deprecate that particular point about "engine up front".

Aka "misallocation of capital".

If the federal government is spending about $10,500 or so per capita on Canadians as a whole but about $17,500 (rough calculations) on indigenous citizens, change in spending patterns is overdue.

The greater the borrowing, the greater the cost of servicing the borrowing. How does that end?

What kind of kill happens if the engine is not in the penetrated forward compartment?

So people ought to treat particular illiberal acts as such instead of inciting weak-minded fools to contemplating assassination or mere hooliganism.

So what is the percentage likelihood that in the next three-and-a-bit years the administration is going to designate one or more classes of individuals as undesirables, confiscate their property, round them up and put them into camps (for indefinite detention), and start executing them? I claim...

"Tank" is just something in the firepower-mobility-protection triangle that tends to skew higher on all measures than non-tanks (bigger guns, more armour, inevitably tracked). The real point of not "penny packeting" is to mass mechanized formations where you can embarrass the enemy greatly...

"Conservatives are fascists." "Progressives are communists." Those are both equally ridiculous statements, and neither is helpful to public discourse and the general political mood. Who decides what the threshold is for "legitimately comparable"? I find that fascism and communism (as it...

Again, my point is against over-borne rhetoric and attempts to draw a line from Nazi Germany to USA 2025.