These scum belong in prison for the rest of their lives. Or worse.

Fuck the Vox fascists and the PP scumbags.

That’s a Shi’a practice. The Saudi royals aren’t Shi’a; they belong to a rabidly anti-Shi’a Sunni sect, the Wahhabis. The Saudis routinely murder and terrorize members of the Shi’a minority in the Eastern Province.

The reason for temporary marriage is generally “try before you buy” during marriage negotiations. It’s a loathsome practice but not relevant to the slimy deeds described here.

only has wealth because of oil

And that’s why they fund troll farms and fascist politicians to oppose renewable energy and to lie about the climate crisis. Their economy is far from diversified, and without oil, they’ll be back in tents within a decade, if the TCNs don’t organize and overthrow the reactionary parasitic bastards first.

The have a common interest in crushing Arab democracy.

Someone with an IDF T-shirt and hat walked past a pub I was in yesterday and one of the staffers shouted “Try that in Belgium, ya scum.”

Now that makes better sense.

Mmmm, tacos…

seem unable to connect the dots

They’re going to great effort not to connect those dots.

Yeah, starving people is bad.

But apparently only if it’s Israelis.

That never gets old.

What if the tariffs do balance that a bit better?

That would require a process of analysis a lot more sophisticated than the imbecilic back-of-an-envelope calculation that was loosely based on bilateral trade flows. And even then, selective quotas and a trade adjudication process would be more likely to succeed.

He’s compelled to brag about it. It’s a flex because he thinks there’s no way he’ll ever be held accountable, and his dimwitted followers all wish they were like the Beloved Leader and could rape trafficked teenage girls too.

Time to exercise the citizens’ veto, then.

Israel is still killing starving people seeking aid. It’s a lie to say they eased their blockade. The state-sponsored genocide continues.

The Gulf despots (and the ones in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait) are shit-scared of Arab democracy and have never actually done anything meaningful to help the Palestinians, besides setting up some refugee camps and treating the inhabitants as a source of contagion.

The last thing the Gulfies want to see is any Arab government with any legitimacy. It would make their own people, and the vast underclass of TCNs, start asking awkward questions.

Yeah, and that sneer largely went unchallenged. The UK media is almost as shit as the US’s is.

It’s an engineered genocide, that’s how.

But blither on about irreleancies without facing what’s right in front of your eyes. It’s the NYT way.

Yeah. Talk is cheap. Watch what he actually does, ignore the firehose of bullshit.

It’s bravado.

The reality is that Putin and his oligarchs hate sanctions. They’re not making that pronouncement for our benefit. Nothing they do is for our benefit.

It’s not a theft problem, it’s a problem with owners meting out collective retribution on their staff members for things they cannot control. A law stating that restaurant workers cannot be punished for dine-and-dash would solve this problem.