If you were where Poland is, so would you.

That looks wonky in English. Nobbling your translations for the sake of people incapable of understanding that words work differently in other languages is like putting “REMOVE FROM BOX BEFORE EATING” on pizza cartons.

Ladies and gentlemen, the art of the deal.

Sure is. At this stage of development, the baby pilots its mum like Krang.

Keep it in the horse trailer for next time

Praise the Lord, but pass the ammunition

We can have a revolution, and move to an economy that caters to the frivolous desires of the Party nomenklatura.

Surely the law would have a religious exemption which would apply in this case

Rationalists and/or Randroids?

If the goal is to support Russia while looking like supporting Ukraine, bombing Iran is a good way to go about it

Which is great news if you’re a Mossad agent tasked with figuring out a target’s life patterns

The fact that one of them is a guest at Nigel Farage’s birthday party is the cherry on the shit sundae. They’re basically Hipster Spoons

Will the Android Signal client work on it, or does getting one involve forfeiting any means of communication with people who don’t know what a XMPP server is?

There’s always Mikkeller. The Shoreditch one’s co-owner is by all accounts a lot nicer than Watt. Indeed, he’s on record as promising to never let you down.

mallard: … 2. (archaic) a shopaholic

“-ard” would mean not so much “excessively” as “by their/its nature”; i.e. a seed/condiment whose very nature is mustiness, a person conceived out of wedlock (which was considered a black mark on one’s character back then), one who is habitually drunk, and so on

His sentence will be a position in the Trump administration

Siri, what is the American Dream?

The US famously has a clear line of succession that goes down a long way, all the way to the Washington DC Municipal Dogcatcher or someone, and nominally is run by impartial institutions. Trump and his Supreme Court have weakened these somewhat, but they theoretically still stand, so that if a succession was triggered, there’d be considerable institutional inertia pushing to return to some form of equilibrium.

Xi’s personal power over the CCP, and in turn, the Chinese state, seems to be a lot greater. There are no judges or delegates who would push back against him, and the principles of rule are what he says they are. It was similar with Mao, whose death precipitated conflict and instability.

In Rome, Caligula made his horse a senator. In America, this happened.