This used to drive me nuts, but Jim has always been of the mindset that however a thread meandered, it just did. What isn't ok, is just interjecting 'globalism'; 'you suck, you know it's true!'; those type of diversions if you will.
"The government is a child that has found their parents credit card, and spends knowing that they never have to reconcile the bill with their own money"-Shannon Churchill