Credit rating measures your profitability to the credit industry, if you pay off your loan early, they make in interest, thus less profit.

Except he’s not a dictator any more than Roosevelt was.

You can either turn the generator on or leave it off.

The problem being solved is usually “how do I maintain my money and power”.

just cut to a train entering a tunnel and fade to black

It’s not that it wasn’t successful, it’s that it wasn’t within their capability. So getting upset about something that’s impossible in order to justify mass slaughter is an exercise in excuse making.

What are Israel’s borders? It seems like it conveniently places its borders in one place when it wants to selectively disenfranchise 5 of the 7 millions Arabs, and another when it wants to place settlements.

…and the USS Maddox was struck by the north Vietnamese…

800 people are going to commit genocide against a country of 7 million? Try to have some sense of the scale of things here.

Not wanting to see a heavily populated civilian area carpet bombed to supposedly target a faction that makes up 1% of the population doesn’t make you pro-terrorism; quite the opposite.