I don't want to minimize anyone's death, and I was an infant at the time, but I seem to recall that Kent State was what it finally took to strip the glamour off of protesting on campus. Things quieted down pretty quickly after that.

Updooted just to counteract the inexplicable downvote.

I guess "gloating" and "abuse" may not be called for.

OTOH, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

And let's not forget what those of us who were skeptical had to endure during the Covid Clownpocalypse...

When you start being banned from public spaces, being censored, and losing your job for being vaxxed, then we can talk.

TBF, you can't just put hardware-store parts on an aircraft, and especially not a military aircraft.

There's the cost of writing, maintaining, approving and revising the specifications.

The parts have to be inspected and tested throughout the manufacturing process, and the materials and machining records maintained for full traceability in case there's a problem. The materials themselves are very specific, and even if inexpensive, the cost of certifying that the materials comply adds significant cost.

Now, $90k seems excessive, to be sure, but the difference between realistic and corruption/grift/incompetence is likely something less than the $89,900 implied in this comparison.

Sounds like Mad Mo' got some of his Koran inspiration from this.

Mother Earth Magazine? Haven't heard that title in awhile...

Is it too much to hope that this is anew Leftard trend?

Unfortunately, he'll still be voting blue for decades to come.

To a large extent, the opposite is happening. Salvadorans are returning to their home country now that it's finally safe.

"Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti"....

I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.

Let's hope she hasn't bred yet.

If I understand right, the WNBA is subsidized by the NBA. So they're not even bringing in enough revenue in the WNBA to justify the salaries they get now.

Maybe all the men in the NBA should just identify as women, making the WNBA moot.

I'm going to use that stripper/windmill comparison everywhere...

DJT's manner of speaking used to annoy me just a bit back in 2015/2016.

Nowadays, it's music to my ears.

I'm starting to think it's not pseudo-scientific, but pedo-scientific.

Was this before or after he drove the big rigs?

Lucky for him, Brazil is a big country with lots of jungle.

But states have a lot of resources, and I suspect the Clowns In America are only too happy to help root this guy out using their asset.

Well, I give credit to the guy for opening his eyes halfway.

He's still partially blind though:" But what began as tough, straightforward coverage of a belligerent, truth-impaired president veered toward efforts to damage or topple Trump’s presidency. "

Really? Truth-impaired? Based on what - your "news" coverage that you admit is radically biased, self-censoring and politically motivated?

I hope that someday he'll open his eyes the rest of the way, but then he won't be a progressive liberal anymore if he has a brain.

Admire the cojones on this dude. Especially as a foreigner. It's likely already grounds for deportation if he's on a visa in most countries.

I don't think this story is going to end well.

I clicked on the Reddit link. Now I feel like I need a shower and maybe a fifth of JD.

If the end is near, boob shaking's not the worst way to go.

Well played British cousins!

I guess it's all relative.

Generally speaking, I would think Mexico's sphere of influence would be limited to the central American area - from Panama at the furthest point South to the US border at the other end. TBH, I don't know the geopolitics that far South. I'd think Brazil or perhaps Columbia would be more of an influence on Ecuador than Mexico but maybe something is going on that I don't realize.

TBF, we don't get much in the way of news in the US from that part of the world - even Central America is barely covered even though it's pretty darned close. South America hardly gets mentioned.

What's interesting is that even though there is a contiguous land mass connecting the two continents, there are no roads linking them. The PanAmerican Highway ends south of the canal and then gets picked back up on the other side of the Darian Gap in Columbia. I think the plan was to eventually cross the gap but the terrain and topography made it an expensive endeavor and for whatever reason, it's never been done. So South America has been comparatively isolated from the North American continent, where there's all sorts of interaction (good and bad) historically between the Central American countries and between them and Mexico (and the US, and Spain, and Britain if you go far enough back)

I probably should have picked a different example than Canada and Switzerland,

Ecuador is at the NW side of South America - at the equator which is where it's name originates. About half a dozen countries and the Panama Canal in between them.

My phone's mostly locked because it's required for MFA for work. Not sure I'd bother locking it otherwise.

Since chances of Antifatards having jobs is nearly nil, this doesn't surprise me too much.

This seems odd - like there's a lot more info that isn't presented here.

Ecuador and Mexico are literally on different continents. It's almost like Canada decided to raid the Swiss embassy - there would have to be a lot more background to understand the situation.