It's the Italy under the Borgias vs. Switzerland for 500 years thing. Every society has a proportion of sharp, nasty thugs. Correctly used, some of them can achieve remarkable things. Lots of hu… (View Post)

That's would everyone would expect. Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... Ruthless efficiency has been left for Elon t… (View Post)

There is the pious story (which may be tosh) that Pontius Pilate really really wanted to be remembered, to go down in history. So God gave him what he really really wanted. Whatever happens, Trump wi… (View Post)

Not really- after all, she lost. My impression is that the American system is set up to try and avoid having unitary party leaders as we understand them. In part, to avoid the sort of thing we'r… (View Post)

And consistent with RFK's attitude to vaccinatable diseases. (View Post)