Meh, po-TAY-to, pomme de terre. If you wish, Joe is first in line, Kamala's second, and Pelosi's third.
But seeing as how Joe's IN the chair, how can he be "in line?"
So, the second-in-line to the Big Chair shows the flag to underline Taiwanese independence, and all you can do is get pissy and snark?
Never had you pegged as a big fan of the PRC.
If not before, certainly after. One pile of cooked meat looks pretty much like another.
Bet they run out of terrorist masterminds before we run out of Hellfire missiles.
True, but pretending the lives of hoi polloi were wonderful before the big bad whatevers came isn't very useful either.
I don't really get your point. Are the Hague and Geneva Conventions somehow worth less because they weren't agreed in the early Middle Ages?
Justin Trudeau sucks the chrome off a ball hitch.
Justin Trudeau sucks a golf ball through a garden hose.
Justin Trudeau sucks peanut butter through a (reusable, environmentally-friendly (and filthy)) straw.
Justin Trudeau suck-starts Harleys.
So. . . the conquerors treated them basically the same way their own governments did, or even better?
Big shock there.
A number of historians have pointed out that if your city surrendered to the Mongols, life for the vast majority of its people improved with administration by Chinese...
The armies of many parts of the world have practiced "keep civilians out of it" for centuries or longer. The code of chivalry. The Bushido of the samurai. The customs of American Natives. Many anthropologists believe the fall of the Maya civilization occurred when one local prince, in...
"Everything in moderation" necessarily includes moderation in moderation. If ya don't get a good high or piss-up once in a while, you're just a moderation junkie.
Just try to arrange a backstop or two when you decide it's your time to howl.
The original version of that is the Pope and the Queen. The Queen says "Watch, I can make every Englishperson in the crowd go mad with joy with one little movement of my hand." She waves, and half the crowd goes nuts. The Pope says "I can make every Irishperson in the world go mad with joy...