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I think Trump genuinely wants to be peacemaker

Trump’s never given a flying fuck about anything other than Trump, and never will.

He is enough of a narcissistic idiot to believe he could achieve peace in the middle east by bombing Iran, though, not because he cares about peace but because he genuinely believed it would get him the Nobel peace price, which he needs because Obama of all people got one, and extremely narcissistic Trump’s never gotten over Obama making fun of him at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ dinner.

When both Israel and Iran immediately violated his unilateral ceasefire (to the surprise of no one but Trump) he saw his prospects for said Nobel price, which he already considered in his pocket, evaporate, which explains his tantrum.

I think you’re joking a out how Ukrainians are the real people who got the USSR into space?

I’m not. It was mostly paperclipped Nazis on one side, mostly Ukrainians on the other. 🤷‍♂️

Russia might have ended up with the USSR’s rockets, but they certainly didn’t make and much less design them. The only thing Russia has ever produced is a worse future for Russia. They’re extremely efficient at that. It’s their whole history: “… and then it got worse.”

Most of Europe is at war with the only European country who’s gotten people into space

Sure, but they’re on the same side.

(Unless you mean the USSR, but that hasn’t existed for more than 30 years, and it was mostly Ukrainian scientists and engineers doing the job during the space race anyway.)

Might not be Satan, but it’s J.K.Rowling, which is way worse…

Do they have an Octavian, though…?

No need to get fancy, a properly stored clay tablet will do.

He does look like a particularly misshapen bug wearing a second hand Edgar suit.

who’s the moralists?

“For a moment, there was hope.”

Moralists don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change – not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

The way he looks I wouldn’t entirely discard the possibility of Musk having two left feet, but it seems somewhat unlikely.

Flag it as phishing, which is what it is.

President Camacho was supposed to be a caricature of how bad it could get

Turns out it could get much, much, worse.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
‘Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she
With silent lips. 'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Intentionally slamming your face into the ground with enough force to lose a significant amount of brain matter isn’t falling.

Half a million is within reach for people who didn’t start out dirt poor, got an education, and a professional gig.

No, it’s not.

To have that kind of money you have to have been born with it, be corrupt, have won a lottery¹, and / or have been born back when the world wasn’t yet as FUBARed as it is now.

1.— By winning a lottery I don’t necessarily mean a literal one. I mean that out of the million people with your exact same abilities, opportunities, and circumstances you’re the one lucky bastard who made it out without being chewed up and spat out by the world.

Canada can into nordic?

Anyone whose country suffered through a period of fascist dictatorship will tell you that that making children swear the pledge of allegiance thing was fascist as fuck, and that’s just the tip of the shitberg.

That alleged veneer was gossamer thin at its thickest.

You weren’t fooling anyone outside your borders.

Yeah. Take someone else’s.

Damn, now I’m going to have What’s Up stuck in my head all day…

Wait, I thought this was already the national bird: 🖕