PowerCrazy

Cynical Identity politics has been a campaign strategy since at least LBJ.

Yea it's a great way for a congress member to protest. It's visible, you can control the narrative, and it's way more active the boycotting or going to the alternative state of the union put on by notable Pro-Clinton PAC MoveOn.org

Just FYI this was 100% planned on both his part as well house leadership. He was kicked out last year under similar circumstances. He wasn't kicked out for what the sign said.

There is A LOT context missing here. The "speedboat" apparently had at least 10 people in it (4 killed 6 wounded, possibly some unwounded?) The people in the speedboat apparently had some fairly serious armaments. I doubt it was just some pistols as those aren't very effective at the ranges that boats are engaging on the open water. Additionally there do exist rich Americans that will make trips to Cuba by boat and they are normally allowed even if they are intercepted by Cuban inter-coastal forces. So the fact that this time they fired at the Cuban forces, tells me there was certainly something else happening.

I fully believe that a bunch of dumbass Floridian boaters would just pop off and fire on another boat after crossing territorial boundaries, 100%.

These dumb bastards are lucky that other countries aren’t going full Hegseth.

This kind of take is brain dead though.

I've heard this postulated since Bush Jr. but no. Christian fundamentalist are a useful voting bloc, they have influence on cultural issues that don't matter if you are trying to make money. (LBGT/Abortion etc) but war in Central America, Africa, South East Asia, all happen without them.

we should instead ban advertising

This is the solution. If companies cannot profit off of their platforms, they will not have them any longer. Literally just ban all advertising. Amend all free-speech laws in all countries to define speech as rights of individual citizens, with corporations explicitly excluded.

I would support a third party normally,

"normally" like what year? What year in your entire voting life have you actually voted third-party on a national level?

I guess if you don't see any difference between a government supported telecom company and a company that exists in different nation that has a necessarily hostile relationship to the local government, then sure they are comparable.

Well the destruction of Israel would be a net positive, and forcing the world to have less oil is also good for humanity. Is this the optimal outcome for humanity as a whole? No. But assuming the Mad King executes his plan to attack Iran, if the outcome described by the article comes true it's a net-good. Also consider that Trump will not do anything that is good intentionally, so we just have to look at the silver-lining, and if the destruction of Israel is part of that silver-lining then it's the best case scenario and unintentionally the best thing Trump has ever done.

Well obviously the sub contractor has friend who was sub contracting for the shell company that manages government contracts for their buddy 5star General who worked at the pentagon and died shortly after they green-lit the construction of the carrier, didn't do a good job. But what can you do? There is money to be made, and at the end of the day the functionality of what the contract specified isn't a requirement for getting paid.

So what I'm hearing is that the absolute best thing Trump can do is attack Iran? All those consequences sound fucking great to me. Especially cutting off 20% of the world supply of oil. Completely obliterating Israel sounds great too. Where is the downside?