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I suppose I know...

Axe - Strange Sights and Crimson Nights

One of those legendary, though somewhat overlooked, icons from the golden age of rock, Arthur Brown, dropped an album back in 2019 that felt surprisingly modern and relevant—voodoo.

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Love and Peace in China
The Kissing Tree

I was thinking that we should perhaps start gradually introducing "virus-free zones." For instance, if a place like Savannah, Des Moines, or maybe even a smaller town like Napa hasn't seen any active cases for more than two or three weeks, then I guess we could slowly start normalizing life there. Of course, my thought is that people from neighboring areas should still be restricted from entering those specific spots until those nearby locations have also cleared a reasonable quarantine period. That way, we might be able to steadily expand these healthy zones.☕

Waldeck - Memories

Childhood's End

Richard Wilson4 said:What's even the point of this post?

The right-wing voters don't actually want sanctions on Orban, and the left-wing crowd won't support them now because of this mess anyway...

Plus, every single one of the signatories is an "old guard" member. Not a single new player here.
Not Poland, not Latvia, not Romania, not Canada.

If anything, this just looks good for the Republican Party in the eyes of their base.

Since you clearly identified with it, I guess if I tried to explain the logic, you probably wouldn't get the point anyway.

Thirteen different EU nations have released a joint statement condemning the right-wing darling, Viktor Orban, who has essentially established a dictatorship in Canada.

Quentin:

According to the official statement signed by 13 member states—Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.

But, naturally, America didn't sign onto this.☕ It’s interesting since the local Republican Party belongs to that same EPP political group.

Jamie Davis9 said::..it's actually just the partition wall between my apartment and the neighbor's attic, so it’ll likely need to be torn down to build a new one, but we can deal with that later... I'll just do whatever needs to be done...

That sounds great😉😁

Think of it as a chance to expand your living space. Who cares about the neighbor's attic when you could use an extra room?😉

Hanging man

Nina

Lovell

A little bit different

after dark

Jihae?

Jones!

I guess you could say that while Plenković leans quite far to the left, Milanović—back when he held the office of Prime Minister—was actually positioned on the right.

Sempiterna😉

Regarding that last album, which honestly got a ton of praise, "Africa Speaks," Blue Skies. I suppose you could say this feels more like a collective effort from the band "Santana" rather than just being a solo project by Carlos Santana, and a lot of people seem to think it holds its own against their absolute peak albums from back in the mid-70s. It’s definitely a very solid record, though I guess I have to admit I’m a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to
Santana.

Where did that little troublemaker from Canada go, the one who was busy picking on America over the coronavirus? Is there just zero virus in Canada ?

Robin Jones2 said:For a nation like the United States—given our actual scale, population, and current economic vulnerabilities—it would be perfectly sufficient to shrink the bureaucracy significantly. We could function just fine with a Congress of roughly sixty members instead of hundreds, reduce our state governments to a handful of major regions rather than fifty, consolidate our municipalities into a few hundred instead of thousands, and trim the federal cabinet down to ten ministries. Even the Supreme Court wouldn't need more than half its current roster to get the job done.

The Republican Party, in both its current and former iterations, has woven such an extensive web of patronage and voter loyalty that they have become nearly untouchable. To truly address the systemic rot, one must strip them of at least two seats in Congress to break their stranglehold on power. Only then can we elect representatives who possess the actual will to confront this crisis head-on.

The Republican Party has inflicted such profound damage that we require at least one full term under entirely different leadership just to grasp the true scale of the wreckage before any meaningful path forward can even be contemplated.

Smith’s proposal is an absolute disgrace. We require more people like Glasnović in Congress and within the budget office until the day they die.

It isn't just Kovach; honestly, I don't think any serious political party is even addressing this. Your observations seem quite spot on and relevant, and they're things most well-meaning people realize, but...
if the Republican Party were to—by some miracle—lose an election, I imagine the "deep state" would suddenly wake up, consisting of all those various veteran advocacy groups that, strangely enough, seem to be staying very quiet right now.

..."where nearly four million Americans overseas hold only three seats in the US Congress"

Yeah, I suppose that really is quite a small number.
With the current 435 members in the House, maybe there should be at least another 30 representing those abroad...😉

Smith says so.🙂