Only in the US. The rest of the world buys them. It still is a major market lose, but China still makes Huawei phones.

*Land of the free!

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Only if you are insanely literal. You are most definitely the product.

I’ve been watching the big powers veto sensible UN measures for decades. The US does it, Russia and China does it, it’s a game to them. Waste of time finger-pointing, veto power is bullshit. It sez the rules don’t apply to anyone in the nuke club.

To me, making political appointments for the judiciary always made this a possibility. It happened in the old days, and it might happen again. And it did.

I was there at the birth of the interwebs, also a very early adopter. Still, I never considered it to be a force multiplier for stupidity in the way things worked out. I went the other way, believing that it would harness humanity’s genius.

I tend to be wrong a lot.

The Tea Party was the prototype of what the GOP would become. The party believed that they could control the radicals for their own purposes. They should have stomped them down. Instead they ended up in a hostile takeover situation. Now the GOP politicians are terrified of being deselected in their own electorates so they must engage in theatrical MAGA performances.

The Tea Party never went away, they evolved like a successful virus.