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Giuliani trying chirp at Zohran , and the mayors office responding by releasing all the files on Giuliani hiding how toxic New York’s air was in the aftermath, was honestly amazing.

Canada breaks with US trade policy on Friday, and on Saturday they announce this.

It really is amazing how China can do nothing and still win like this.

This is sad. NASA is basically begging for funding to keep the lights on, is redlining most of the ISS modules past the end of their lifespans , and is wondering if the Orion program is even going to exist next year now that Trump cut everything.

Meanwhile, China is on track for a crewed moon landing in two years, and to double the size of its space station by 2030.

if you look at the data from the elections earlier this month, it seems like the real danger is that many labor voters have simply stopped voting

They’re not voting for other parties. They’ve simply stopped showing up to polls at all.

It’s deeply funny that Trump managed to sabotage these conservative parties that would have done whatever he wanted , just because Canadian and Australian politicians still have the political instincts to say “fuck you” when a US president tells them to hand over their lunch money and then kiss his ass.

Somehow, European politicians still haven’t figured out that one neat trick.

The Japanese government is currently trying to deal with food shortages from a stupid agricultural policy that has sent the price up rice up 300%. Meanwhile, the US is busy blowing up its own economy while China dog walks Trump over tariffs, and on the military side, the US inventory is so depleted from Israel and Ukraine that they would run out of munitions within the first week of any actual shooting war.

China really is living in the future. Building new space stations, high speed rail and ever cheaper, cleaner energy.

Meanwhile , a single US state is approaching its third decade of trying to build a single line of high speed rail, and our federal politics consist of watching our most ancient boomers build a Gestapo while they are actively dying of old age.

The most disgusting part about this whole episode is that all it took was Trump threatening to cut off the money and weapons.

Biden could have done that at any time over the past year and instead just kept sending tens of billions of dollars, without conditions.