It’s always going to be less effort to repeat something than to reason about it.

Satan is the father of lies.

Capitalism often operates in regulated markets, including those with price controls.

The pricing mechanism in (nominally) communist countries is generally not based on price caps, but instead a mix of political expedience and an attempt to implement the labor theory of value (which is fallacious and therefore unworkable).

Something that Mussolini actually didn’t do.

Handwavey bullshit is not a solution. Trump is not a broken clock, he’s an anti-clock. If he’s doing it, you have 100% assurance that it’s wrong.

Why would they tell him anything unless he’s done something for them?

Scams are never job-producing schemes. The scammers want to extract the maximum amount of cash from the rubes with the minimum of overheads.

Why is it so hard to get rid of that knobhead?

I suspect picking a non-MAGA American was a deliberate choice.

The Pope really needs to force the retirement of some of the more reactionary cardinals and archbishops in the US, who openly defied Francis in some cases.

That may be true for a different reason. The Vatican may have selected Prevost because he’s anti-MAGA, but blocking some of Trump’s bleating by having chosen an American.

If it prevents progressive ideas from ever being implemented, they’ll think it’s worth it.

And his limited vocabulary keeps shrinking even more. But don’t call it dementia or the MAGAts get all sensitive.

One of the reasons Putin put him into office was to sabotage the EU. The others were to destroy NATO and cripple the US economy.

Translation: the EU still retains some elements of democracy.

Having a debt ceiling isn’t really the worst idea to an extent.

Well yes, it is a very bad idea, since it’s redundant. When a funding bill is passed, the government is committing to funding that bill. If new revenue doesn’t cover it, they’ve incurred debt. The analysis is available before they vote. Having a separate vote on the debt is just another way that legislative rules enable inaction. It gives legislators a way to say they’ve voted for something even when they didn’t vote to raise the debt ceiling to pay for it. It’s irrational. Private-sector budgeting doesn’t operate this way, neither does public-sector funding in other developed countries.

Corrections should be submitted to Google naming it “The Gulf of Trump Can Lick My Taint.”

Google should never have grovelled, and instead should have gone to one of the official geographic societies for correct nomenclature.

not some effete New York dandy who has probably never even gone fishing

There is no chance that Trump could outwit a fish.

If you want to see how insane people can be driven by nationalism, look at how bent out of shape the Greeks got over a country in the former Yugoslavia daring to call itself Macedonia. People think names have magic powers, even some nitwits here in Baja Scotland.

Non-renewable energy companies should all be expropriated.