Recent content by Ddseddse

Maybe wishcasting, but that gap could be explained by sample bias of people who answer polls vs. who shows up to actually vote.

Is this related to the Bannon Supream Court ruling? You get to willfully ignore subpoenas now?

Iran also wants de facto or de jure rules about deciding what traffic transits the straight, because, after all, China needs oil too.

Iran in no way shape or form wants a "cease fire" becuse they are winning the oil supply war, so why would they agree to open the Straight? You don't. But what Iran would like is a slower operational tempo. Retain more of thier force structure while waiting for the oil disruption to bite. And...

I htink we need to be careful not to take statemenets by either the Iranian's or The Trump Administration at the face value of what one might assume the words convey. If reason still prevailed, one could take both side's staements as "Here are two different plans (US 15 point, Irainian 10...

I think the short answer is the more media savvy influencers are reading the room and heading for the exits, while the less savvy ones are sticking too thier guns. Won't matter anyway, they will all be back at it soon enough, they just can't grift as profitably from the left as they can the...

I see Trumps tanking of the TPP from back in his first term is bearing fruit. It was never a trade deal as much as it was a security alliance.

No way in hell it's been six years since John Prine died. Stop trying to gaslight me.

So... we're back to Kiplings "worn-out tools" again, I see.... If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the...

Didn't "give". Unfroze. It was Iran's money in the first place which had been frozen under some sanction regiem or another.

My daughter is into making those rubber band braclets and inherited from her older neice a large compatmentalized container with about 3 dozen differnt compartments with each compartment containing a thousand or so carefully sorted by color rubber bands. Several weeks ago, in a moment of...

Imagine still supporting a face eating leopard that is actively engaded in eating your face solely becuse somewhere in it's past it bragged about wanting to eat the faces of people you hate.

Hopefully y'all can see this in it's full glory (It's a bluesky search on the term "Call me ill-informed, I was an English major, but -- what is the light source here?")... https://bsky.app/search?q=Call+me+ill-informed%2C+I+was+an+English+major%2C+but+--+what+is+the+light+source+here%3F