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I can’t remember the last time I heard a car backfire.

It’s not like they would care.

Oh no. We must stop this threat to democracy that hasn’t already happened yet.

Thank God democracy hasn’t already been undermined for years.

Well, on the increasingly unlikely possibility that they are not increasing the budget to target American citizens, I hope other nations in the world know they have to dramatically increase their own defense spending.

What chance is there that this means the US defense budget can be cut?

I once played tuba.

My gift to music was deciding to stop and never play again.

Ok, this is interesting because this question just came up with my wife.

I started playing the original Civilization game in college.

I shifted to freeciv when it became available.

If you consider them the same game, I’ve been playing that game about 34 years.

… bottled water, canned food, fuel, underground bunkers…

But the thing about that kind of concentration of power is it’s not a matter of if that power will be abused, it’s only a matter of when.

I’m thinking it’s more about how much of the abuse you can tolerate. It’s not like the US has been all that hesitant to abuse our allies in the past. It’s more like our allies have previously been able to convince themselves that the benefits outweighed the costs.

Like the friend who’s an asshole, but he’s got a 120" TV and is happy to share his booze. When he gets drunk and makes an inappropriate joke, you might ignore it. You tell your wife that he’s not that bad and you owe him for all he did for you in college.

The US has reached the point of whipping it’s dick out and waving it around at everyone at the party. It’s time to leave.

No one mentioned it, so I’ll throw it out here:

Popcorn.

I’m not particularly concerned about avoiding fat or salt, so I drown it in butter, but you do you.

After one of my kids killed our microwave by putting a package of popcorn in it and turning it on for way too long and forgetting it, I banned microwave popcorn from the house and got an air-popper. The thing is awesome. I never liked the microwave popcorn, but the air-popped popcorn became my snack of choice.

Are the posts false?

I’m not going to suggest that they’d be better off with Maduro, but surely they could come up with someone better than Trump’s asshole licker.