It was a brilliant bit of theater, just like their mass drone response to Israel's last provocation.
In both cases now, Iran has managed to make Israel, and now the US, look both antagonistic and foolish. Their precisely measured responses really highlight the fact that they didn't provoke either of these fights, that they have no intention of engaging in pointless bloodshed, but that, if pressed, they can and will respond in kind.
It makes them look like the only adults in the room.
Then next up is to finish criminalizing homelessness so that those people (and many more) can be converted into slaves to the new generation of robber barons.
This illustrates one of the many oddities about Trump.
With any other president, we had policy debates and stated goals and decisions made and implemented.
With Trump, we just have this string of essentially arbitrary threats, promises and rhetoric, and alongside that is a string of essentially arbitrary policies arbitrarily enacted and rescinded and followed and ignored, and there's no necessary correlations between any of it.
It's another of the things that I think Trump does simply because he's a delusional toxic narcissist, a genuinely stupid person, and emotionally a toddler, and another of the things that the would-be autocrats - the billionaires and the CEOs and the religious right and the Republicans and the rest of the greedy and power-hungry scum - take advantage of him doing.
I don't see how they can even pretend that it will do anything other than steal website traffic, since the exact point is to provide you with the information you would have gotten if you had gone to the website, leaving no reason to actually go to the website.
So painfully obviously, Google intends to steal the websites' content in order to steal the websites' traffic.
Which would seem to me to be grounds for class action lawsuits on behalf of the entire internet, which, if judged fairly, should bankrupt even that foul beast of a corporation.
And ironically enough, that would almost certainly "rejuvenate the internet." As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single thing that would do more to "rejuvenate the internet" than killing Google.
There are a number of conservatives who straddle a line such that I can't be sure if they're genuinely stupid or if they're just cultivating that image.
But the Trump administration is refusing to reassure them they won’t be subject to retaliation.
That would be because they will be subject to retaliation.
Trump is nothing if not petty and vindictive, and as with all the rest of his many and profound flaws and failures, he's molding the rest of the government into his gross and detestable image.
And as with the rest of his brazen assaults on legal and ethical standards, nobody with any authority will do a single fucking thing about it.
He's already an idiot, a delusional narcissist, and a compulsive liar, so it's not as if he could become even more detached from realitybthan he already is. And his supporters don't care (and likely don't even notice), since they're even dumber than he is.
And it's not like he"s going to forget his platform, since it's pretty much just hating immigrants and LGBTQ, dicking over poor people, singing his own praises and scamming as much money as possible, and that's all as natural and automatic to him as breathing..
Really, there's just not much cognition going on there in the first place - it's more in the nature of infantile immediacy and animal instincts - so I can't see how any loss of it would matter much.
As the proud owner of a Santa Claus beard (though in color and texture, it's more of a Grizzly Adams beard) I would say that the most important thing is to turn the care over to a professional. Just like your hair, don't attempt to manage it yourself (beyond washing, combing and the like). Find a stylist who also does beards and go on a regular schedule and have them trim it and maintain it. And they'll also be able to tell you if you need to do something special to care for it.
Context was the idea of a government banning certain popular foods
This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?
It's entirely possible to be in favor of food safety regulations and opposed to the government banning foods outright. In fact, I think one could safely presume that those are the positions most commonly held by most people.
And yet again, while lying assholes pretend that criticism of Israeli government policy is antisemitism, the real antisemites on the right get a free pass.
It was a brilliant bit of theater, just like their mass drone response to Israel's last provocation.
In both cases now, Iran has managed to make Israel, and now the US, look both antagonistic and foolish. Their precisely measured responses really highlight the fact that they didn't provoke either of these fights, that they have no intention of engaging in pointless bloodshed, but that, if pressed, they can and will respond in kind.
It makes them look like the only adults in the room.