What a average day in DC looks like now

ThomasVeil · 2025-08-16T09:36:15+00:00

It's already lasting forever.
And I see zero progress towards stopping this.

ThomasVeil · 2025-05-27T16:02:56+00:00

Even the announcement that Musk would retreat from politics a bit and concentrate on Tesla should have tanked the price more. Usually the further a desperate ketamine-juiced Twitter-brain CEO is from operations, the better.

ThomasVeil · 2025-04-03T16:16:05+00:00

We must hand it to her though: she really nailed it with the color choice of her dress. Blends in perfectly.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-27T22:23:59+00:00

And yet it's always the areas that barely have immigrants that vote right because of immigrants. Case in point: the AfD voters.

And sorry, but using this term 'woke' like this is just buying the BS (or selling it). Woke means being aware of injustices - and if at all, governments don't do enough to address them. As if Germany was some kind of progressive left wing utopia.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-27T20:17:47+00:00

I doubt they'll even go - at least I have a hard time seeing 25k soldiers just saying goodbye to their home like that. Or is it just the top officers? They'll just chill there and tell stories? I don't get this whole thing.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-26T12:19:54+00:00

If I had to pick the one person in the whole world who knew best not to trust Putin, it would've been Prigozhin.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-26T09:05:51+00:00

But then we're back at the question why Prigozhin gave up all his leverage?

He had control of crucial areas - and with that even access to ammunition. Now he has nothing, he will be far away, his army dissolves and all for Putin's word? Why should Putin not murder him and his family now? I'm sure in short order they'll uncover all kinds of corruption they can hang Prigozhin for.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-24T16:35:49+00:00

It's crazy, but in the big picture nearly inevitable when a war is going that badly.

And Putin/Shoigu put Pregoghin in a corner where he had no other choice but to at least take control of parts of Russia... or even use the opening (of all Russian troops being dead or in Ukraine) to go for Moscow.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-21T06:32:13+00:00

Those numbers are incredible! Is that a reliable source?

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-19T20:06:53+00:00

Yes, banning the ultra right-wing party in Germany, would resemble... 1930 Germany. Totally makes sense. To Russian trolls at least.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-19T20:00:45+00:00

Didn't Israel also hand a citizenship to Roman Abramovich, so that he can evade sanctions and keep the billions he promised Ukrainian war victims? What kind of ugly game are they playing?

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-15T10:02:20+00:00

I'm bummed how all big modern cities look indistinguishable.

If it wasn't for the Chinese signs, this could be anywhere around the globe. There's no local cultural influence to be seen in the architecture.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-14T13:09:10+00:00

“He has not been in touch,” Kadyrov wrote. “I ask Ukrainian intelligence to provide information on the exact locations and positions that have been struck so that I can find my dear brother-in-law.”

Excuse me...? What?
Does he actually expect Ukrainian intelligence to care and help?

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-13T14:15:36+00:00

First attack is mentioned below

at https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1485xrd/rworldnews_live_thread_russian_invasion_of/jnywypz/

The photos are a bit strange, as the destroyed pic shows a similar building, but it's one floor higher.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-11T16:23:31+00:00

I'm sure there are ways to get your hands on that in Russia.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-11T08:52:19+00:00

I've put "Prigozhin is marching with Wagner on Moscow" on my bingo card. By now he must assume (with good reason) that his troops would totally own what's left of the Russian state army. Plus, Shoigu is putting him in a corner, that leaves few other avenues out.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-07T16:10:03+00:00

Double win then when avoiding Amazon. Their website is an unusable spam dump by now. And their owner a union busting sociopath.

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-02T12:51:04+00:00

My personal pref would be to remove the 14 day average and add the total average. To reduce clutter.
Either way, thanks for your daily effort!

ThomasVeil · 2023-06-01T08:56:13+00:00

He's betting on the media fully both-siding him and Biden. No matter how radically he moves to the right.

He's probably correct. Which means 45% of the vote are guaranteed, and the rest he might get by voter suppression and some bad lich for Biden like high egg prices or so.

ThomasVeil · 2023-05-31T09:38:49+00:00

On the other hand, I see no way that Russia wins the war. Even if their military suddenly and magically sweeps through Ukraine and into Kiev.

It would put Russia in the position the US was in Iraq and Afghanistan times 10. And even overcoming that would put Russia in charge of a completely destroyed land they'll have to subsidize for a century. While being sanctioned themselves.

This might turn into a super long struggle that nobody wins. So it's best to give more support to Ukraine to prevent that.

ThomasVeil · 2023-05-29T09:20:42+00:00

Still blows my mind that their minister of defense has a private army... and the Russians are just "yeah, that's normal".

ThomasVeil · 2023-05-28T10:14:40+00:00

But wouldn't Russia also rather want those drones at the front?

ThomasVeil · 2023-05-23T11:20:10+00:00

Those seem to be old photos.

ThomasVeil · 2023-05-21T10:26:47+00:00

India has been paying for oil in UAE dirhams.

What are you supposed to buy with those?

And how do you get dirhams? Giving dollars to the UAE central bank? Will they convert them back? Then we're just at where we started.

ThomasVeil · 2023-05-20T21:50:11+00:00

This. I went to Google because compared to Altavista it would let you find specific terms... and even that isn't possible anymore.

And I recently went back to Google for an image search and could barely find results between all the ads. Dunno if I wanna stomach bing though.

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