He would declare himself new Pope of the True Catholic Church.

There’s a precedent to that: for a short while, there were 1 Pope in France (actually some of them are now called anti-popes) and 1 Pope in Rome. That said, I’m not sure how many catholics would get on Vance’s side…

Look, they already decided they knew science better than scientists, they knew war better than military generals, they knew economy better than economists.

Why did aynone think they would stop at theology?

Are you asking why the US democracy is flawed? -elected representative only care about what their donors want, not their voters -corporate owned medias decide what’s the “big” questions will be during a campaign and just forget about this until after the election

Et voilà: “this was not one of the major concern for this election!”

Penicillin was invented in a public university lab. We used to have a strong public research in the health sector worldwide.
Then neo-liberalism managed to convince politic leaders to progressively shut down public research and subsidize more and more the private sector.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/us-tax-dollars-funded-every-new-pharmaceutical-in-the-last-decade

This is not unique to the US. Your taxes pay for R&D, then your insurance (or your wallet…) pays to get the drugs you subsidized. And the private sector does not need ginormous margins to stimulate private R&D spendings.

When your interest are fundamentally opposite to facts, science is your enemy. Destroy it, and there is no rational argument to oppose any of your action.

I didn’t know that! Sad for Calibre, but thank you for the info!

Because like absolutely all public companies, they need to grow their revenues every year without ever a pause, and once you have reached the maximum number of subscribers you think you can get, the only path left to increase your revenues is to increase the revenues per subscriber.

Besides, these companies have been enshittifying their services so badly over the years that there is no one left among managers who can imagine they wouldn’t get away with it.

I don’t give them 5 years before they resolve to shady tactics like phone calls during which they trick you in agreeing to upgrade to a higher grade subscription, or make the cancellation so difficult that you end up paying a few more months, etc.

Just jailbreak your kindle and turn off wifi for good. It’s probably vulnerable to a ridiculous number of remote exploits anyway.

Additional benefits: support for more formats. Then a computer with Calibre as mentioned in another comment will help you convert all the books you want.

Nice to meet you! I’m a dude, and I absolutely love horseriding! A passion passed on to me by my father, who himself got from my grandfather, and that I passed on to my daughter! As for girls, in the stables we (daughter and myself) go to, there are many girls, but not many princesses and/or spoiled children.

I would have guessed a “horse girl” is a girl who likes horses and probably horse-riding. Wouldn’t have been surprised: when I was a teen, we had 50% boys/girls horse riders, and today it seems most teen horse-riders are girls.
But this is beyond anything I would have imagined. I guess I’m reaching that age where I can’t comprehend the young’s trends.

No, he won’t try to “cancel” the elections. First he’s trying to rig them through gerrymandering and voters suppression.
If that’s not enough, he’ll make crazy claims of frauds at different places, and will try to reverse some results.

But I can guarantee you that if none of that work, you’ll have a showdown. He knows well what awaits him would the GOP lose and he’s getting impeached. He won’t accept the results.

Just note that he’s currently using the war to kick out generals he deems not loyal enough.

To win elections, you need a candidate who brings voters from their side. Trump brought the MAGA, an inconsistent alliance of all kind of deplorables. But they were all enthusiastic about him. Neither Clinton nor Harris had that, neither did Biden by the way. Their main platform was to be not Trump, and the rest was the status quo.

At some point, the Dems need a candidate that voters actually support rather than pick as the least bad choice. So what will it be this time? Yet another meh-candidate backed by the “good” oligarchs or a candidate people actually want in power?

Why not. I mean: they’re all suddenly cool about raping children, so who knows if there’s any limit.

That idea will certainly work well with all these “stores” accepting 3rd party vendors on their online sites!

There were laws about IPs and copyright, the kind that would prevent any corp from parsing basically the whole internet and use it without any restriction or consideration for the content creators. Do you remember what happened to those?

Based on the terms and conditions, my expectation is it will randomly order a bunch of expensive items you didn’t want on your behalf whenever a quarter in on track to miss the target numbers.

Maybe less traffic so with comparable reserves, you last longer?

Tesla sales in Quebec dropped by 85% in 2025 vs 2024, vs a drop of 67% for the whole Canada.

The whole EV market dropped by half. Tesla took the biggest hit by far.

https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/03/12/palmares-des-ventes-les-ve-et-tesla-en-chute-libre-au-quebec-en-2025

In one word: neoliberalism. It inevitably and inexorably leads to this.

Decades of defunding education, maximizing corporate profit at the expense of the workers at the bottom, making life worse and worse for commoners.

You end up with a large group of poorly educated, humiliated angry voters. And they’ll get fooled easy by the most populist guy who “say it like it is” and offe simplistic solutions and scapegoats.

That’s why it’s happening. And US is not a single case. They just have a much higher power of nuisance.

The core will praise him for being tough and say it like what it is!