Pug-dog

The frumentarii were another layer of spies in the Roman Empire for ferreting out the secrets of prominent citizens for the imperial apparatus to use against them, if needed.

I SAVE THE ROMAN EMPIRE

GO BIG OR GO HOME

They’re such adorable little genetic dead-ends!

[Pug noise]

It is a bit disturbing that we bred a dog variant with the ability to scream.

Don’t believe I’ve, personally, received those either.

Uh, I’ve never recieved gore or child porn on here at all

For the record, I’ve never received gore, child porn, or, for that matter, PMs at all from Drag.

Beautiful

Explanation: It’s a common historical counterfactual for amateur history enthusiasts to ask “What if Nazi Germany had [insert technology here]?” as a means of creating alternate timelines where Nazi Germany won the war.

In reality, considering that the US was deeply concerned that the Nazis may have been getting close to nuclear weapons themselves (they were actually far behind the US project), any serious reversal of Allied fortunes in Germany probably would’ve ended up with the nukes being used on the Nazis instead of Imperial Japan.

My dog tried a grapefruit once. It’s hard to describe just how cute and hilarious it was when he’d take a little lick, shiver from the bitterness and shy away, and then go in for another lick.

We also brought home a mineral ball once, a big one, and he found it something eminently attackable. He’d move to grab it with his mouth, realize it was too large or too hard to bite or carry, stop, paw at it, and repeat, like he was attacking a giant bug. (He also used to body slam stinkbugs into the carpet - less cute)

Oh, when he was young, my grandmother encouraged him to be a lapdog. Unfortunately, he was a bit too big for that. So as he grew up, he was big enough that he’d sit on my grandmother’s lap, but slowly slip off, and then jump back up to try again.

Oh, he’d also carry his food in his mouth out to the living room and drop it on the floor so he could eat ‘with’ us.

My grandparents’ dog used to sleep sandwiched between the pillows. If you walked by in the middle of the night, you’d see her little head poking out, eyes glistening and watching you as you made your way through the hallway. Never seemed to bother my grandmother’s sleep at all, having a little Pomeranian beneath her head all night.

She would also hop up on the back of the couch to get high enough to perch on my grandfather’s bald head. And he would let her.

What?

I also think he could have closed Guantanamo.

Apparently you don’t remember how that went either.

And I even think he could have bailed out the people that lost their houses and not the people that owned the houses.

Oh, sure, just pass an executive order for it, right?

I still think he should have nationalized the banks that failed and renamed them to “Bank A” and “Bank B.”

Jesus Christ man.

Crazy huh.

In desire, no; in perceptions of what the president has the power to do, yes.

If Obama had wanted it, he could have done it.

Lord.

California and New York have GDP’s above most other countries in the world.

But Cali and New York do not reap the tax revenue of a country with the GDP of their size; they can only reap part of it, both because Federal taxes remove a portion of that taxable income, and because states are necessarily more limited in their options for taxation than national governments.

It’s possible, don’t get me wrong, but significantly more difficult.

Tell me why I shouldn’t blame the democrats for:

Doing Obama care half assed, when something like 80% people wanted a public option.

Bruh, do you not remember how Obamacare was passed?

Will the political will to start an actual shooting war with the US be there?

Theoretically yes. This is an issue that has been considered before, though admittedly not with regards to fucking Greenland. Turkiye and Greece have long been enemies as well as members of NATO, and it’s been considered that the invocation of Article 5 by the aggressed-upon party against the aggressing party in case of a serious war would, theoretically, be binding on the other members of NATO.

In practice, NATO is a gentleman’s agreement with no means of enforcement. Everything comes down to political will - NATO is just an organizational structure to facilitate a response. It cannot replace the will (or lack thereof) of national governments.

Stress helped me lose 20 pounds in three months last year ^.^

I wouldn’t recommend it.

You need different antidepressants. I’m on prozac, and it only makes me feel better.