trump's reaction that bin salman is just draining the swamp is so outrageous that it can't be ignorance: this is calculated.

the arguments that bin salman are using are the same arguments that every dictator uses to purge power. they're the arguments that mussolini used, that stalin used, that hitler used - and that countless strong men before them used. and, there's a reason that they all used the same arguments: because they all took them out of the same books, from the renaissance, and largely italian.

listen: this isn't some kind of surprise. why do you think that people have been freaking out over saudi arms sales for so long? because it's been obvious for years that saudi arabia is on the brink of collapse into fascism.

so, it finally happened. and, the media, so much of it bought, will feign denials, and ignorance, and surprise.

the serious analysis is that you should have seen this coming from the 90s.

and, now we're going to have to sleep in this bed.

world war three, here we come: and history will record it as a struggle to stop the saudis, with the victors being on the side that succeeds.

america may very well be on the side that loses.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.