Which part of the USA’s enormous debt makes it the richest country? They’re paying $2b per day just on interest repayments and have a national debt of over $30 trillion. At present the debt far exceeds GDP so I would say the USA is broke.

You sank my battleship!

I see… So the American companies like Apple, Nike, all major clothing brands etc that make use of the very same somehow aren’t able to bring their prices down? I fail to believe “quality control” is enough to justify it.

Riiiiiigghht. Are you going to break that news to the people of Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Missouri and North Carolina?

A country where voting districts, governers and court positions are all politically motivated, you do not have a democracy.

Good. Fuck off Trump.

I trust it would be pretty hard to secure funding for what would ultimately be a $1.5b loss, since barely anyone would use the stupid hotel.

I’m so confused. I thought the foundation of Capitalism was free market pressure. Doesn’t restricting what people can buy and where from kind of undermine the entire ideal?

It’s man-cow-pig!

Meanwhile the right owns the supreme court and a lot of lower court judges, so good luck with that prosecution. It will drag out for years and result in nothing.

The lasting side effect is going to be the rest of the world continuing to think of the US as a joke and all the trade relations they are building now. When the US settles back down they will never again weild the power they once had.

Bet it can still set itself on fire though.

Looser regulations.

But loser regulations on quite a lot of things too.

Carry on.

There’s a great episode of The Crown that sums it up for me. Prince Phillip is overly excited to meet the astronauts from Apollo 11 during their royal visit and prepares a lot of deep and philosophical questions for them to discuss. However upon meeting them he is bitterly disappointed to find they are just normal humans that find fart jokes funny.

Never meet your heroes means exactly this: you will come to realise the person you look up to and hold in high esteem is just another person with typical person problems, if not have other character traits you despise. They’ve done something you find admirable, that’s great! But leave the relationship there.

Trump says “I have no idea what I’m doing.”

Ahhhhh! My epilepsy!

You don’t serve the food before people are seated you uncouth lout!

Who has two thumbs and didn’t go to finishing school? This guy!

I would surprised and dismayed if Italy accepted such an offer. They didn’t make qualification, just like a lot of other countries, so they should not even consider such an offer. If the host country finds itself unable to fulfil their hosting duties then they should hang their heads in shame and never be selected to host again.

It would be pretty shit of FIFA not to simply put all of Iran’s games in Mexico or Canada. Why should a qualified team miss out just because one of the host countries is run by a bunch of useless cunts?

Ahhh, the irony of doing things the Israeli way.

Prediction: they reach the discovery phase and Kash drops the whole thing when he realises how much of his life and character will be exposed.

Not even a prediction really, more like a certainty.

“Their goal is to be able to track submarines so that in wartime, they’re better placed to be able to attack and sink [them].”

Joke’s on them, we don’t have any viable submarines. And they’ll be waiting a LONG time for our Yankee stupid-boats to arrive, if they ever do.

So the data centre can go ahead but the fluff on top can’t? Doesn’t sound like too much of a win, but we’ll see.

It’s almost like the US needs some sort of underlying principle like, just spitballing here, “separation of religion and government”, or “separation of church and stateliness” or something. Nah, that’ll never catch on.