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The Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes were all tribes from what we'd call Germany. The Romans paved the first roads of London, and taught the Pagans about Jesus. And Rome was cosmopolitan, so it was a lot more than Italians in that army. England has also suffered under Danish/Scandinavian conquests small and large. The King Cnut was not a misspelling. His nephew, William is a Scandinavian settled in France.

So... as far as "blood and soil" goes, Britain, and her people, were always more of a group project.

I remember these "Trump won't be so bad" think-pieces from 2015. They did not age well.

Offenders entered a farm building and made off with a black Isuzu pickup and a red quad bike

Somehow I doubt that the royals get chauffeured in the Isuzu much.

You're right. Using Twitter quotes as a source of news is journalistic malpractice. They're just lazily pushing out dumb articles that are only popular because they confirm your priors.

The Germans did have hand grenades without a stick. Their doctrine was the stick type was for offensive operations, and the little one was favored for defense.

I assume this has something to do with the distance you can throw them.

The short answer is you don't. Even in philosophy, a leading model of "truth" is something like "a statement is true if it's true". We humans are doomed to be confused and unsure.

I keep waiting for Taylor-Greene to be appointed Secretary of the hurricane machine.

Well, don't be hasty. How much in grants does he pull in?

The whole toilet seat thing is as misunderstood. If the Air force needs a new toilet seat for one of it's jets, and that jet isn't in production anymore, and you can't just go to homedepot for aircraft parts, then you have to order a bespoke seat.

Now setting up the tooling for an injection molded plastic seat, only to produce a limited run, maybe in the dozens, $10,000 per seat is a reasonable price.

I'm sure the Pentagon buys toilet seats at the regular price. The interesting thing about Pentagon bathrooms is that it has double the number it needs because of segregation.

Every election cycle, the Democrats and media start to fret about the black vote. Will black women turn out? Will black men vote correctly? And this cycle culminated in the Obamas going on a "pull your pants up and vote" tour to boost turnout.

Now I'm not black, but I recognize double standards and condescension. I wouldn't want to be treated that way.

After the election, Latinos have been targeted by progressive rage and lashing out. I've seen people that I used to respect say that they deserve to be deported because of their vote.

Say what you want about the Mormons, but at least they knock on your door during the day.

Ted is a forum for reassuring rich liberals that they're good and smart.