This is even worse. I have no idea why they are not arrested, in Norway they likely would recieve a very large fine, and we have far less draconic laws than the US. This behavior clearly endangers the plane and other passengers, building up an aggressive momentum in the crowd; such things can easily lead to someone using violence. Had it been a black or Arab-looking male, or worse, many males. Then they would probably have made an emergency landing.
Yeah, every political scientist worth their salt will point to Trump taking a massive dump on the legitimacy of the election and questioning the mere point of voting, as one of the major factors leading to this, actually surprising, result. Along with other factors (others mentions Abrams for instance) of course, but turn out was way down with Trump’s base, with an obvious factors being the president shooting himself in the head with his conspiracy theories. And if conspiracy theories gets punished, that’s a major positive for sure.
I’m actually just amazed at the drama that’s going on there now. Is this really happening? It’s so ridiculous and embarrassing for all Republicans, don’t they notice anything anymore? They now live in a parallel universe imo. If that was a movie I would have turned it off long ago, it’s that bad.
Could tell you many, many tales of travels in the US associated with different people’s concept of the outside world. However doubt we’ll ever beat the 3 dudes in a hotel bar who flatly refused to believe we were English and started to get hostile about us making up the accent. Till I showed them our passports. Thy really struggled with the concept of us being from a different country and in their town.
A journalist specialising on US politics. The guy I was using as a source. Probably an American Jew due to his name, I don’t know more than that about him, other than him appearing to know what he is writing about.
Mass psychosis of the common people via very narrow media channels that tells them what they want to hear, extreme resentful elitist cynicism by the educated ones, who are using them for reasons of pure power and wealth. Very similar to National Socialism, except the usual systemic explanations of why people became nazis does not apply to the US; so hard to defend them.
I cannot muster even a bit of respect for Republicans who still side with Trump. I guess the most foolish of them can be saved by getting informed, but the cynical enablers know all too well what they are doing and can not be forgiven politically or socially.
This is so sad imo. But it is what it is now. I’m a bit torn whether to feel a bit sorry for VP Pence now or not. I don’t understand at all what they’re hoping to achieve with this “staging” in congress yet?
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A journalist specialising on US politics. The guy I was using as a source. Probably an American Jew due to his name, I don’t know more than that about him, other than him appearing to know what he is writing about.
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Erm, he has a German sounding name and huge numbers of non-Jewish Germans migrated to the United states in the 19th century. He may be Jewish, but it’s really not relevant to the discussion.
Don’t feel sorry for Mike Pence. He deserves this more than anyone. He has placidly and most revoltingly adhered to every single wish of that tin-pot emperor, and now he suddenly finds himself in a pickle of his very own making.
I thought that Trump might still need Pence to pardon him and his family? To put now that much pressure on him by demanding him “to do the right thing” etc might even backfire.
I strongly doubt he has the masculine qualities a soldier needs to commit suicide in the face of overwhelming defeat. He is in my view a pathetic individual. He is no fanatic believer in the cause, he belongs to the worst category of Trumpists, the elitist resentful cynical enablers.
