Trump isn’t spurning Israel. He’s just talking shit in a low-effort attempt to cover up his complicity in the genocide.

It’s genocide. Call it by its right name.

He’s also apparently getting mad at putin for whatever reason.

Yeah, that’s about as credible as a WWE beef. Trump is just sore about being called out as Putin’s bitch and is trying to pretend he’s not, without actually changing anything that would upset Putin.

The cycle of abuse at national level.

Meanwhile, no change to arms sales, no sanctions, nothing but talk. And talk (especially from Trump) is dirt-cheap.

What good will that do?

Trump can’t go long without a celebrity beef. What an attention-hungry sack of shit.

He’s using the same approach he used as mayor of SF. In that case, the promised funding for alternative housing never materialized (at least never near the scale needed), but the cruelty and abuse still happened.

Translation: Putin has videos of things being shoved up Trump’s ass.

Prior to Trump and his saboteurs getting into office, US grid operators were pretty good at planning for these events.

the Faraday is enough for any solar flare

Faraday cages are useful. But CMEs are not solar flares. They are very different (though sometimes loosely correlated) phenomena.

Along with tripping breakers, induced currents can also fry some of the massive capacitors that are attached to high-voltage transmission lines. Those are expensive and not quick to replace.

If you want to renounce your US citizenship to get away from that onerous requirement, you have to pay a fee (about $2k) and also get screwed on a lot of US taxes on investments (forcing you to treat all capital gains as realized, for example). Part of my definition of freedom is that you don’t have to pay someone money for permission to leave.

If the country has a bilateral tax agreement with the US and your income is not high by middle-class standards, you can deduct the foreign tax from the US tax. Foreign tax is typically higher if you’re anywhere in Europe of the developed world (leaving out the Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia). You still have to file in the US, which is an inconvenience and an expense, but you’re unlikely to be double-taxed.

CMEs are not solar flares.

So he wants to attack more junior members of the Biden administration because he’s afraid of the pushback if he goes after a former president. Got it.

He sees an old man with advanced cancer and just can’t stop himself from putting the boot in.

Or, it terms I understand:

"Your shit's fucked up."
I said "Doctor, how"
He said "The shit that used to work?
Well, it don't work now."

I’m not a Democrat.

And don’t be patronizing while victim-blaming.

That belief is either pantheism or panentheism.

No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.

That’s a 400-year-old take. There are pre-Socratic philosophers and Taoist and Buddhist scriptures with similar messages that are far older (500 BCE or so), and Hindu ones a couple millennia older than those.