Up until the Newt Gingrich's rise to power, the Libertarians were, fairly or unfairly, deemed Conservative's useful idiots.

The Republicans know full well what a destructive force he is, and they know to one extent or another he's going to do them damage. But the core desire of the Libertarian wing of the party is the decimation of the Federal Government, so they'll accept a few body blows in service of the cause.

They have core beliefs. Those beliefs are orthogonal to what we would deem to be normative politics.

Or being one of the companies with so much cash that, as of yet, Trump doesn't have sufficient levers of state in his hand to bring to bear.

The difference between statism and regulatory capture approaches 0 as you increase authoritarianism. The difference between capitalist oligarchy and party apparatchik is a distinction without a difference. They just spout the same sermon with different adjectives.

For crying out loud, don't fall for Trump's BS.

Other countries don't pay the tariffs. Americans do. It's a surcharge that the importer i.e. Americans have to pay.

Foreign countries just don't like tariffs because they make their products less competitive. But in essence a tariff is nothing but a tax on foreign goods. And as with all taxes you have to pay them.

The founders incidentally were quite clear on this. Hence they reserved this power for Congress and did not vest it in the presidency.

Heat is Brownian motion. The news here is that this was accomplished with laser cooling rather than cryogenically.

To quote from the abstract:

Here we use coherent scattering into a Fabry-Perot cavity to cool the megahertz-frequency librational mode of an optically levitated silica nanoparticle from room temperature to its quantum ground state.

This kind of cooling is much less energy intensive and opens up these kind of systems for further experiments and compact technological integration (hence the reference to sensors).

You can certainly write a lot of verbiage to mask the bigotry, that is for certain. You seem to think you can win debates by typing endlessly and using ChatGPT to increase the number of words.

Plenty of couples cannot have children, and are allowed to marry. Unless you want to ban infertile heterosexual couples from marrying, this is a bizarre point.

The twisted logic bigots have to apply.

I'm sure many liberals, communists and moderates thought the same thing of the Brown Shirts in late Weimar Germany.

There was a very nasty surprise waiting for them. Once you gain the levers of power, and you are sufficiently motivated and unhinged from any kind of sense of obligation, decorum or constraint, you don't have to be a majority. You just have to be willing to use raw applications of power. Illegal immigrants are not the only people that are going to end up getting sent to Alligator Alcatraz. They're just the test subjects for the inevitable liquidation of all political opposition.

And even if he does, or doesn't make it until the end, do you actually think his allies and backers, and the Republican Party itself, is ever going to give the Democrats a chance to hold any kind of power again?

And this AC, even if trolling, exemplifies the kind of people that cheer on tyrants, always believing that only the people they hate will be targets.

Don't be silly. It will be a well known medical expert; Robert F Kennedy Jr.

Since I fully transitioned from Windows for personal use, and moved to MacOS and Gnome, every time I have to work with Windows 11, I just find myself swamped in UI garbage. It's not even the intrusiveness, it's literally just how messy and confusing everything is. I suppose with some effort I could learn to navigate around more efficiently, but why the hell would I?

The Romans exiled most of the Jews from Palestine after the failed Jewish uprisings between 64 and 132 CE (encompassing multiple revolts). After that, even before the Edict of Milan in 313CE, the region became a major Christian center, but after the Christianization of the Roman Empire it was overwhelmingly Christian. When the Muslims invaded the region in the 7th century CE, there weren't a lot of Jews in the region, and it was majority Christian.

And just to tell you who the real enemies of the Jews were, when the First Crusade made its way to the Holy Land, the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 led to the savage butchery of Jews and Muslims in the city. After the loss of the Crusader kingdoms in the region, it was Turkish territory, and while the Ottomans weren't always terribly nice to Jews, they were a helluva lot better than the Christians, and there was a steady flow of Jews back into the area during the Ottoman period.

And there were most certainly people living in Palestine, as there was resistance to Jews who began building settlements. It was not, as later claims would have it, an empty land. Most of the owners of the land were absentee landlords, but that is not the same thing at all.

But no, the Muslims did not displace the Jews, that was the Romans, some 1700 or 1800 years before Jews began returning in significant numbers.