Yes. Cuba is lovely. But you’re moving goalposts again. When you decided to weirdly include Iran in all this, you included them due a massacre of 30k people. That’s a far cry from your complaints about Cuba. So why are you conflating them as though they were the same place?

Wasn’t this supposed to be about Cuba? Why are you bringing Iran into it?

Yes it is. And we’re hardly limiting ourselves to trading with only China.

Yeah, well, I’m boycotting American groundhogs.

She’s trying to pretend she’s governor of a US state.

They didn’t win in Vietnam.

I despise this fucking guy.

Yeah, you really shouldn’t need a park ranger lecturing you to understand that throwing garbage wherever in a national park is bad. That said, apparently you do so maybe give those rangers their jobs back.

Not a fan of this guy’s domestic policy but at least he’s pragmatic enough to see the writing on the wall.

What do you mean. Who doesn’t love pirates?

For anyone wondering what this commenter is referring to:

Spavor blames fellow prisoner Kovrig for Chinese detention, alleges he was used for intelligence gathering

Michael Spavor reaches settlement with federal government over detention in China

Do you recall on 9/11 when Trump bragged that he now had the tallest building in New York?

I have this sneaking suspicion that what makes this all so “psychologically important” to him is that he wants to make the US the largest country by area on Earth. Stupid, I know, but that’s par for the course for this fucking guy.

Then you just don’t want your guy being questioned. You’ll have to forgive me if I don’t agree.

Would you give this same grace to Pierre Poilievre were he Prime Minister?

Also France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Estonia, Latvia, Sweden, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and others.

Yeah, obviously. When you hit me with this obsequious bullshit, though?

He’s literally playing a game of Diplomacy, against a mad man backed by demons. Give him some space to cook.

I’m going to tell you to stuff it.

No. This is a democracy and I reserve the right to criticize leadership, thanks.

Don’t look at the sun is advice that applies more broadly than just the celestial object.

It sure feels like our military leadership is not equipped to meet the moment.

The network effect seems to be the strong nuclear force of online interaction.