The Secretary of State implements foreign policy but doesn't decide it.
Honestly, if I were Rubio I would have declined the Secretary of State spot. At the moment, I doubt it does much to help any Presidential ambitions he might have and he probably had more actual power in the Senate rather than at State.
Europe really needs to beef up its defense industries and whatnot. America's unreliability is becoming an existential threat and it's clear that Trump and Co will be extremely opportunistic and quick to align with Russia.
We all know Vance was fondling that sofa when attention was turned elsewhere.
yeah I agree with you there. The risk tho is if Vance becomes President he could probably mess up a whole lot of things quickly in line with their dark enlightenment insanity.
Seems like a wise idea. I kinda always assumed that air ports had systems in place to flip over to war-mode relatively easily, but that was just an unsubstantiated assumption.
Vance is a bigger threat IMO than Trump tbh. The weird stuff with him, Thiel, Yarvin, and the Dark Enlightment stuff is all terrifying.
"Musk could literally solve every problem in the US"
Musk and his billions couldn't fund Medicaid for a year. He'd make a sizable dent, but only a dent, in our overall student loan debt. Public debit, which is becoming a major issue with interest now consuming a huge part of our budget, would barely be dented.
He could fund US Aid for a few years. This in large part comes down to the fact that it's minuscule spending.
Musk could do very little with "every" problem in the USA. If he decided to, he could address some of the smaller specific issues but that's it. I'd applaud him for it but we need to be realistic about the numbers here.
Most of the planes I've been on had at least some crew seats tucked into the back and out of the way of the primary exits if I am remembering correctly. There probably is a good reason, such as tripping hazards for the crew doing their work or the seats not really being effective for long term seating and keeping the body in place (I'm thinking of the fold down crew seats).
I imagine any solution they come up with will be out of sight until it's needed and you could equip multiple bathrooms or whatever space. Although two people dying like this is probably astronomically rare.
That's a good point. Wonder why they didn't just do that?
Welcome to the world of evolving languages! There's notta problem here.
Yeah the only thing I could think of was that maybe the couple didn't want to split up and there was only 1 other free seat.
But I think we'll just learn that the airline was being incompetent.
Gotcha. I see better where you're coming from now. Yeah, Zelenskyy needs to be very very careful.
edit: mixed up commenters but the comment above is insightful and turn out right.
Trump doesn't have to bluff anything. I've seen a few comments now suggesting that Zelenskyy somehow has the upper hand and is negotiating from a position of strength while Trump is weak.
Ukraine and Zelenskyy have absolutely no leverage over Trump. Zip, notta.
I hope Ukraine wins this war. I hope Putin pisses off Trump and Trump resumes full support for Ukraine. I hope Putin is destabilized and better leadership replaces him.
But Zelenskyy is no position to "call" anything and Trump has no reason to bluff.
If it's a fair deal for Ukraine and Trump sticks to it, who knows maybe this will turn out for the better. Yeah I'm skeptical but I want to see peace in Ukraine.
It's a Plague Inc. joke. In this game, you're the virus/bacteria, or whatever other disease. You guide the virus's evolution with the aim to destroy humanity.
The virus slowly spreads across the earth through planes, boats, etc.
There are a few really isolated spots, including New Zealand, that are hard to get to and they often seal their borders very quickly. When that happens you lose.
So the smart first step is to start the virus in one of the hard to reach places.
Oh shit bro delete this. We don't need to be giving Trump any ideas.
It's a bit of a toss up for me between staying in virus plagued USA or locating to Trump's new monarchy in Greenland.
there have been legitimate concerns that the ongoing violence in the DRC could result in lab leaks and whatnot. I believe there are or at least once were some small lab outputs in DRC bush set up to help with monitoring for diseases.