Wrong, check https://www.nga.org/former-gov..., they flipped Republican in 1992, and briefly flipped back Democrat for one term in 2000. They've been Republican ever since. The current governor has been serving since 2020 and is Republican. Telling lies is generally not a path to credibility.

Before 1992, Mississippi governors were Democrat but that was the old Democrat remnant of the Jim Crow south. All of them whiny little good ol' boys have flipped Republican since that party centered itself around racism.

"How did we end up aligned with with Russia on such political issues?" Putin owns la Presidenta, that's how.

You mean the Epstein-Iran Crisis.

" funny a few million dollars" I am guess you meant " funnel a few million dollars", but your locution is spot on.

I thought it would be good to keep a running list of the Benefits to the Epstein-Iran War:

1. Iran gets control of the Strait of Hormuz
2. Iran gets its oil restrictions lifted by the U.S.
3. Russia gets its oil restrictions lifted by the U.S.
4. The Iranian regime gets stronger and can now spend more on the Basiji to keep control
5. The Iranian regime now gets to tax tankers going through the Strait.
6. American and world consumers get higher gas prices
7. American and world consumers get higher prices for everything as the higher oil prices filter through
8. NATO has been weakened due to la Presidenta’s hissy fits
9. The world has learned ways of disentangling themselves from the U.S. and its economy
10. Congress is even more diminished since they failed to step up and stop that dementia patient
11. Other nations no longer look to the U.S. for inspiration thus leaving the world at the mercy of China and Russia
12. Other nations can no longer trust the U.S. political system which has been show to be brittle and susceptible to authoritarian takeover
13. Other nations can no longer trust the American people who could just as easily elect another lunatic

"El presidente"? Please get the gender correct, it is "la Presidenta".

As much as I agree with your post, the JCPOA would be ending about now regardless because of it's sunset provisions, so we'd still have la Presidenta (known around the WH as Mr. Pee) destroying any chance for a new agreement.

Inflation is going to increase even without the increase in energy prices. It seems the American West and Mid-American West is desiccating due to lack of snow and rain this past winter. Farmers in Nebraska are out of water. The following U.S. Drought Map show just how bad, I like choose the menu item to compare two weeks: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu...

It is almost as though we have climate crisis. Too bad we couldn't switch to something that would help with the desiccation and the lack of oil. Maybe if we could have big projects on renewables. But where would we get such technology? Where?

One small way to go forward is to take all those useless golf courses and cover them with solar panels. Maybe put a giant beautiful windmill on every green. For golf courses on coastal regions, we could have large windmill farms just off-shore so the vapid golfers can go and watch the blades spinning. Should keep them occupied for hours.

Reputedly, but not by reputable sources, the model has been trained on Zuck's posts.

Yes, it should be. Although even with a law, RICO enforcement (for anything outside of political retribution) will have to wait until the U.S. gets a real Justice Dept. reconstituted to replace the current rump JD.

It is not clear that the CIA wanted to advertise this. At least from the blurb, all we know is that la Presidenta and his goon Ratcliffe could not keep their mouths shut. Having his goon as head of the CIA is a security problem from the get-go.

No we aren't. There wasn't any.

And who does Bessent work for? Do you really believe el Bunko didn't sign off on it. I doubt it was his idea since he never has any original ideas of his own. Stop white washing el Bunko, everything he touches has the taint of corruption.

To borrow money you must have someone willing to lend you money. That is what the bond yields are all about. As the U.S. has become less a safe haven, the bond yields have been rising. You can think of the yield as the return the U.S. must promise you for you lending your money or better. The lenders are rating your country.

If the Fed "prints" money, that causes an inflation which means that borrowers will demand more in yield because now any bond they are holding is going to lose value faster.

Put quaintly, there is no free lunch. You cannot print your way out of economic stupidity. To put it in Ron White's terms: there's no fixing stupid.

I think they want to keep datacenters out of their backyard because they are worried about their electricity rates and they become one of the few targets at which the ordinary citizen can shoot.

I think the main reason is that it makes the PHBs feel like they know something technical.

You conveniently did not mention the real obstacles to get to Mars: radiation and human physiology and human psychology. They are killers. The radiation from here to Mars is not the milk-toast we get around Earth which has the Van Allen belts. Mars has none. But that is not the biggest radiation problem, that is the radiation from the rest of the Universe which hates us. That's the real industrial strength radiation and we have no way to stop. Sure you can encase your vehicle in lead or water but then you have to accelerate and decelerate all that mass. And it won't stop the really nasty stuff. This assumes you won't meet any solar flares on your three years away. One of those and you'll feel like a well-done pop-tart.

There is human physiology. We were fed, watered, and grown to live in the Earth's gravitational well. Our organs and blood vessels require that nice 1 g to be happy, and that includes our brains. Spend a lot of time without it and bad things happen when you return. Spend three years without it and there's no returning, you'd be a jellyfish out of water if you tried.

Humans do not really like each other. Put them in a box for three years and they will hate each other, even if you change the box periodically. Maybe they will insist on sending "real" Americans who will insist on bringing their guns with them.