u/logicbomb

At the time of the meeting, Khan was facing investigation over sexual misconduct claims. Two weeks later Khan stepped down on indefinite leave following the publication by the Wall Street Journal of new and more serious sexual assault allegations.

I obviously don't know anything about the veracity of the sexual misconduct or sexual assault allegations, but the timing of this stuff makes it seem like Israel is at least involved in raising these allegations. And it's exactly the sort of tactics that would likely be used to carry out such a threat.

“I go home, I tell the first lady: I spoke with Vladimir today. We had a wonderful conversation. She said: Really? Another city was just hit.”

Why does she know about this before the President of the United States? Why is the President of the United States having discussions with Putin without knowing this information?

Trump is openly admitting that he's completely incompetent as President.

The review said it had seen no evidence "to support the suggestion that the narrator's father or family influenced the content of the programme in any way".

It's not surprising that Modi is doing this in the same year that Trump issued an executive order making English the official language of America.

It's like they're competing for the _Fascist of the Year_ award.

Agreed. The salary increase, all else staying the same, is a good thing.

If anything, I'm disturbed by the previous government that actually reduced the salary. You can only do that if you can afford to do it. Meaning that they are almost certainly getting more money out of the government through other, corrupt, avenues.

This is not a defense or attack on any particular politician. But you need to pay politicians a competitive salary or corruption is completely inevitable.

That's "an eye for an eye," which is already horrible, but is not an escalation. Israel is escalating, "a genocide for a single attack."

The message is obvious. "If somebody hurts you, then any revenge is permissible, even against people whose only sin is living near them. Even if children are starving to death, it's okay if it's revenge."

The lack of humanity in Israel's actions is simply hard to comprehend.

"The more people I kill, the fewer who will be alive to resent me."

I wouldn't be surprised if he did this primarily to make the news.

Serial killers often have this desire to be remembered. The same desire that Trump has.

Trump and serial killers have a hell of a lot in common, right down to their pathologies.

Probably the most significant difference between Trump and your garden variety serial killer is that Trump is responsible for countless more deaths.

Well, that, and when you hear their neighbors talk about serial killers, they always say, "I never would have believed it was him." But if you opened a closet at Trump's home, and found it stacked with dead bodies, you'd say, "I always suspected he had a closet like this."

It's easy to assume that Witkoff is, to quote the article, "a bumbling fucking idiot," but it's not outside of the realms of possibility that this is a deliberate act of a Russian asset.

If you assume that Witkoff is a Russian asset, then he'd want fewer intelligent Americans in the room when he speaks with Russians. It would be silly to think that he'd be getting orders or giving a report in a meeting with Putin, as there would be other less high profile opportunities, but assuming he's heavily compromised, there's a good chance he'd give something away to his American team. Fewer people means a smaller chance of being exposed.

I'm not saying that it's off the table that he's "a bumbling fucking idiot." Just pointing out that there are other possibilities. Witkoff is described as a real estate tycoon and a cryptocurrency trader, so there would have been plenty of chances for him to be targeted by Russia in the past, similar to how they targeted Trump long ago.

In the last election, the LDP lost 68 seats for a total of 191 seats where 233 seats are needed for a majority, meaning it at least needs to make a coalition.

The CDP, which is described as center-left gained 52 seats for a total of 148 seats, and is the second largest party.

I think the two things that negatively surprised me the most about Japan when I moved there and started talking to people:

First are that the press has less freedom than you'd expect for a democracy. I learned this after becoming friends with a local member of the Communist party.

Second, that although the police on the street are incredibly kind and helpful, often going out of their way for people, if you do get arrested, the treatment of prisoners is pretty bad. They are very good at getting confessions, even out of innocent people.

Nothing brings people together like a common enemy.

You're right, but I suspect most people wouldn't see it that way with regards to Tesla. Depending on the terms of his current compensation package, I suspect it would be better for him financially if he just stepped down and held onto the stock.

But he's such a narcissist that he'd never do that.

Tesla could solve most of their problems by firing Musk. Any other public company whose CEO makes a very public Nazi salute would fire that CEO.

Yes, he'd still be a large shareholder, but I think simply getting him out of the company would give a lot of people the sense that he faced some personal consequences for his actions, and that any companies who deal with Musk will also face consequences.