I’m willing.

That works too

That’s so fucked up. Sorry, don’t know how else to describe it.

They busted out of the hospital and took what wasn’t nailed down. Turns out, that was the only thing not nailed down. Twas an odd hospital

Not that we should have the contracts and control a country like that, but I’d like to think there could have been a win/win. Would have been nice to have a friendly and supported Iraq, on its way to healing some, at the end of the day.

Overall, a failure of US leadership on all fronts. Any positive results may have just been a bridge too far in the minds of politicians and rallying the public just not worth it for them. Silly.

Or the wonky intertwinement is the peace mechanism? How much more bloody would the world have been without it?

Lord. The irony. Could have had a little US in Iraq after us essentially living there forever. Now it’s Chinatown

Hey, chin up. If the batshit nuts right wing of the GOP keep going the way they are maybe we’ll get a brand spanking new fascist third party. Lol, third party achieved!

Tangent for a moment: I’m kind of curious, if we could somehow encourage more stupidity on the right. Perhaps, the GOP would fracture into two parties.

In the short term, it could give Dems a large say in everything. Bolstered by the fact that the hard right is very performative and not really interested in doing any real work. In the more medium term, maybe that would finally give some freedom to open the door for more Dems and voters to peel off into yet another party.

I guess at that point, the danger is the right would then realize the situation. Rally their fractured party and completely ice out Dems and whatever left party that came out of the above. Multipolar politics at the party level could get really freaking scary too.

Got help from a wonderful user on another thread.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/6152785

Did the trick after entering the above and a reboot. Got some much desired additional utility out of the pinetab2 now.