Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 2)

Didn’t Musk recently say that Farage didn’t have what it takes? Interesting that they are together then, if the pic is recent.

On an unrelated note, nice to see Trump behind them, posing after a knock with Ian Botham and Bob Willis :rofl:

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Optic terrible, damaging for Trump?
I doubt such a thing is possible.

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You are probably right, as he gets away with so much that would sink any normal politician.

Still, I think going after a frail old man is a risky move… especially if you don’t have solid evidence of crimes being committed.

New USDA senior level appointments announced including the CEO of the Seed Oil lobbying group as department Chief of Staff.

Maga America Healthy Again!

For the record, this is totally fine as seed oil concerns are not remotely supported by the literature or any reasonable understanding of pathophysiology, but the bait and switch is marvelous.

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Biden was a frail old man in 2019 when they started the “Biden Crime Family” trope and got caught up in a criminal plot to strong arm the Ukraine government to go public in support of their concerns. If this goes anywhere it is important to acknowledge it as a continuation of a 6 year old project, not something new.

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A big theme of the election cycle was the claims that violent crime is out of control. Yet…

https://x.com/CouncilonCJ/status/1882435371889516546?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

Biden leaves office with violent crime below that seen before the Covid era surge that started on Trump’s watch.

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This sort of stuff is SOOO stupid

This is “promises made, promises kept”. This IS what you endorsed.

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The artist didnt quite get the scale of his head right there.

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Frail old man? I thought Biden said he would have won the election if he ran. I think there’s very little sympathy left for him and some of that he has brought on himself.

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Who could possibly have foreseen a convicted felon would be soft on crime?

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So, before it was “that’s fake news” and now…

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Wild time. I know I am old, but I was alive and definitely remember those times when Republicans were screaming about Dems not doing enough to get FEMA into help red states affected by natural disasters. Of course they were lying, but they were very firmly in the belief that FEMA had a critical role to play in the recovery.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1882249757193609615

…hang on, someone is telling those olden times were autumn 2024.

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I, for one, am looking forward to my US manufactured Cumberland sausages.

There are often short period in the early days of a new administration where certain white house pages dont work. This is possibly that, but so far we have seen the following pages disappear - the basic spanish language versions of pages, the page displaying the US constitution, and now this

https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1882424169117495647

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Trump is now calling on OPEC to increase production in order to lower the price of oil…while simultaneously asking American oil producers to increase their investment. One small problem, the price signal…if the price of oil goes down, North American production is among the most price responsive.

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Leaving states to deal with natural disasters is surely an own goal for the Reps. Apart from Fla, most red states are poorer than blue states, aren’t they?

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not just that, does he actually have the mental capacity to defend himself?

Yes, and heavily concentrated in regions commonly affected by them.

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Ok, so we’re going to have situations where poor people in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama etc are abandoned to their fate like Katrina times fifty.

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For al those questioning his mental capacity, I think it’s amply clear that he still has more mental capacity than the incumbent president ever had.

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