I think those robes, the crown, the Sceptre, they were all the Crown’s stuff - aka the Firm, the organization that is the English monarchy - and not his. They existed before him, they will exist after him, and his wearing them lays little claim of ownership past “work clothes” than a pilot can claim to own the plane he’s flying.

Yes, it’s a bad look. The guy at the bank denying loans wears a fancy suit. The lawyers in America fighting to deny healthcare wear amazing suits.

Would you have him sell the crown he doesn’t effectively own to throw money at a problem? Never go to the Louvre, or they’ll toss you out for yelling about how they should sell the art to pay for the French homeless.

In all this you forget: if the pilot sells his plane, if the Louvre sells some pricy paintings, if the Crown’s representative sells the work clothes he’s issued, who’s buying it? That guy, those people buying them, they’ve truly amassed a personal fortune to be able to buy something like that. It’s not work for them; it’s obscene decadence and greed.

THOSE are your villains. Taxation is how we get them to pay their share from here on in, like we did in the '40s through the '70s. And I think the max tax rate above 1mil gross takings every year should be a 101% tax rate: you’re paying everything you took and just a little bit more. Maybe take less. Maybe launch fewer rockets and buy a few less elections and pay to fix hunger and healthcare and all that instead.

She’s not allowed opinions of her own? Are you secretly a supreme Court justice with that nullification?

The backdoor they slid the racism in through, based on the process used to disenfranchise voters.

I’m not sure they used an actual eraser, so the “literally” part seems weird.

Thailand’s age of consent is 15. Colombia’s is 14.

That’s insane.

medias

That’s already plural. It’s like a hat on a hat.

they will need to be constantly replaced.

This is the funniest part. Can you imagine completely rebuilding the average datacenter every half-decade?

source the materials out there

That’s 5 words and trillions of dollars worth of start-up cost.

If we’re so dead-set on flying servers out to LEO so they can be micro-meteor target practice, maybe we could leverage the no-water, solar powered setup we’d have to do there to get better DCs on earth here, first. We’d have gravity and thus convection on our side as we look at cooling, not to mention the vastly better proximity to supply chains during the proof-of-concept phase.

Is there something in print? I get that Ms Psaki needs to read this super-slow for some of the audience, but I read way faster and I am dyin’ when they all do the slow and measured reading.

hardworking

I love it when even boomers can’t hyphenate.

Yay! Someone tell the Canucks?

Free buses means no mess with fare collection. Hop on, hop off. That’s a maaassive savings in hassle and accounting.

maxxing

Faxing, taxing, relaxing. Why the exxxxxtreme x?

This is a great way to ask “did you grow up outside America, or as an American?”

Point: potential security risks identified

Counterpoint: cheaper

You see how these things don’t really intersect, right?

Psst. Dental work needs several visits for serious stuff, and are often spread out.

That, and Haiti, both of which are now self-perpetuating disasters for their people.

This is gonna be the way. PR too, America’s second-least-favourite protectorate after Samoa (you forgot it existed, didn’t ya?). PR can shore up a bunch with solar power – and whatever one does for things like storm damage mitigation, the other can also.

And let’s do haiti next, although that’ll need to be a whole new secure endeavour out of like an embassy basement or something that can’t be stolen or blown up.

Probably violates sanctions. With your DHS being super racist and paranoid, best not upset them and get sent to the thunder dome.

There needs to be an absolute fuckton of lawyers involved now.

They were told aggressive genocide was far better than the mild genocide apologism that they can protest effectively. And they believed it. It’s like math is hard.