For sure. It is clear that none in the Republican top likes each other, and they all loathe Trump and hate having to kiss his ass all the time. But they can’t make a move as long as he has the Republican voterbase in his pocket.
For a short while it did seriously look like it caused a dent between Trump and his voters, but now it seems like they have already moved on, when they found out that the Epstein case didn’t so much implicate Democrats as it did Trump.
Never trust anything they say, it was pure posturing. Judge them for their actions, or lack of them. So when one of those inbred sycophants says they are going against Trump, don’t believe them until they actually do (which will be never).
More like “which country do you dislike slightly less”. None of them are in the positives, it is just a choice between two evils.
Ricotta/tomato is not a necessity for a lasagne (in fact for a real lasagna bolognese you would need bechamel and meat ragu, but that is besides the point). Have you never had salmon lasagne with spinach?
I think Americans ought to realise that the role of president in most countries is not similar to the US presidential role. In many countries they are inconsequential figureheads, heck, a lot of countries don’t even have presidents.
As soon as they kept supporting him after the “grab them by the pussy” tape, they revealed what hateful bigots they all were. Just because they get dissatisfied with their cult leader doesn’t mean they stop being hateful bigots.
Also the dissent has already been stopped. They have fallen back into line, like the goosestepping nazis they are.
Indeed. With our current system it was only a matter of time. As soon as the internet became a default thing which everyone needed to access just to function in their daily lives, it would of course be subjected to the exact same exploitative mechanisms that the non-internet part of our lives have suffered from since the dawn of history.
This is not about “society as we know it”, this is about a particular way of designing your political system. The American way of doing things in this regard is not terribly widespread.
So no, this is not about lofty and universal concepts like “social contract” or anything like that, it is about specific constitutional designs, which are not the same everywhere. Especially the “checks and balances” system.
Caring about corruption impartially. They may care about it if it is the opposing team doing it, but are perfectly willing to ignore it if it is their own team. And with “they” I mean the Republicans.
Yeah, more like infamous. Basically all other Western democracies have looked at the US system and thought “yeah, we are going to do something else”, except for the ones who were militarily pressed into adopting something akin to the US constitution.
There are no “independent branches of government”. They are all governed by people of the same party. Your assumption copies the beliefs of the original founders that some imaginary “civic duty” would overrule all partisanship, when all recorded political history going back to the earliest civilisations show us that partisanship is an inevitable phenomenon in human societies.
Grifting and sheer spite.
The reporter obviously doesn’t know how maga cultists functions. There is no revolt against Trump, they are just waiting for the official Trump propaganda excuse, and in the meanwhile are left to their own moronic devices.
Dying from a perfectly preventable disease by not taking a vaccination, to own the libs. Dying from a natural disaster from which you could have escaped to own the libs. Dying from all sorts of reasons, just to own the libs.
It is a shame that there seemingly is an endless supply of these hateful morons, because even with all the dying they still manage to control the US politically.
As expensive as any other good weighing the same. They would have transported it mainly on ships, where weight wasn’t really a problem. Salt wasn’t particularly expensive, that is my point. You seem to be suggesting the opposite, ignoring basically everything I just wrote in my comment.
The “fuck you I got mine” mentality which drives every conservative.
Why so many native English speakers use “would of” and similar, while it is much less common for people who have learnt it as a secondary language.
Of course such quirks are not exclusive to English, but is shared among all of the less literal phonetic languages.
You have fallen for the myth that salt was rare and expensive in ancient times. Medieval people did know how to make salt out of seawater. There were salt works all over the coasts of Britanny and Normandy during medieval times. Salt was not rare or expensive, except that they did need a lot of it because it was one of their prime preservation ingredients, so they needed barrels and barrels of the stuff, and that could drive prices up. But it was not because they didn’t know how to produce salt in enormous quantities.
Same goes for Roman times. The myth that salt was so rare and precious that it constituted part of the pay for a Roman soldier is wrong. It was because salt was such an important part of the diet and for preservation that it was given this way. They got grain and oil as well.
That is not “falling apart” in the minds of Republicans, that is “working as designed”.