Time to look through the exit polls and find out which demographics have been insufficiently loyal to the party.

The lack of investment in the types of oil refineries to refine US oil domestically isn’t as much for optics purposes. But that relative to the amount of investment required to build new refineries to compete with the current foreign ones isn’t a good return on investment relative to the up front cost and the existing profits of the current arrangement.

No, it is true. It is not the quantity of oil infrastructure, but the grades and types they are. The US crude is mostly light sweet crude after the shift to oil shale. The refinery infrastructure was originally built for heavy crude with high sulfur content. Thus the US imports the type of oil our refineries were built to handle, and exports the portion of the oil that is domestically produced, but the wrong type.

That was the narrative when, in the first week there was an attack from Belarus directly south that stopped in the outskirts of Kyiv suburbs. The troops were pulled back after a few days and redeployed to the Donbass front line. Russia claimed that it was a feint, while the West claimed that Russia were so inept and overconfident that they thought they could take Kyiv in a day.

kerning is bourgeois

They let Trump be a fry cook for one day…

But Tien and Chiaotzu are domestic partners, that is canon, in case anyone thought that was just part of the joke.

Oh, yeah, this is a democracy. But your vote doesn’t mater for most issues. You have to have genocide and war mongering, no sufficient action on climate change, etc. Your vote is only deciding between Republicans and polite Republicans. You stupid child, how dare you think your vote should have input in terms of what the government does.

And gun turrets on the walls. If they don’t think the existence of Gaza itself was a great injustice the Israelis perpetrated on Palestinians, they can’t object to this.

Humble servant of the people.

Though I should say, though those same things could apply to pant suits, ties are usually more important for more male/masculine presenting people. “Traditionally”, women don’t wear ties much.

If you are trying to dress fancy, wearing the same outfit with a tie will be perceived as more fancy/professional, and slightly more casual without. I would say maybe get only one or two for weddings, funerals, etc. if you aren’t in a job requiring you to dress professionally every day.

Also, don’t buy new. Ties are one of those things were thrift shops always have an overabundance of. So you can usually find one or two that look good fairly cheaply there.

It’d be great if all the ethnic white neighborhoods in Chicago were named this way. “Don’t cross over into Potato Zone, unless you want to get in a fight with a drunken Mick”, “I hate Pirogi Zone, not a single lightbulb screwed in correctly”, “All the stores in Paella Zone close for a two hour siesta, it is extremely inconvenient”, etc.

Did the C 2024 standard include a specific ChatGPT specification? Seems like an easy opening for unspecified behavior.

He is still relitigating the 2020 primaries, just like the Bernie bros. True horseshoe theory.

We might actually get a president more demented and incoherent than either Biden or Reagan. I love imperial decline. It’s amazing the US tried to own the USSR over their measly and pathetic attempts at gerontocracy.

Well, as a depressed alcoholic, I am pretty sure it is established canon that Kim would be my friend. Yayyy!

TBF, it is always stupid to give up your nukes.

Same, one depressing but also funny part of going to STEM exclusive job fairs is that I have a lot of swag from military and weapons contractors I try to use ironically.

I see the potential. We should definitely have the smoking… Racoon? as an emoji.