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

Prepostrious to post these, of course. But on the other hand, empirical data shows that his rants become policy.

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https://x.com/Faytuks/status/1892654922350428618

Something seems to be happening in some US cities.

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Amazing logic around DOGE. Proposal is to pay out 20% of ‘DOGE savings’ to the public, leaving aside the facts that a) the savings so far have been layoffs, not actually finding fraud, and b) the US government is already piling on debt in order to fund tax cuts.

Basically, a direct attempt to bribe US voters with their own money, and labelling it as success.

Good thing that won’t be inflationary…

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Tbh, that sounds like it will totally work. ‘Trump gave me money, yeah’

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https://x.com/DemocraticWins/status/1892667572035748177

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1892697159767564611

Edit
https://x.com/ObsoleteDogma/status/1892723811214069807

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Even the BBC in the report I just heard has no mention of it.

This too doesn’t mention anything about the Ukrainian constitution.

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https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1892722329681084416

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It is the US pushing for illegal elections, not the Kremlin. It is far from the top of their list of what “Ukraine needs to do”
https://x.com/jimsciutto/status/1892724013568340470

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Trump says he’ll let Canada keep its anthem if it joins the US. “I like ‘O Canada.’ It’s a beautiful thing. I think we’ll have to keep it for the 51st state.”

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If ever the story about the lunatics being in charge of the asylum was true it is now.
They says whatever crap turns them on and the media,and it seems a lot of voters swallow it whole,like the utter unadulterated BS about Ukraine,Trump starts it and his tame monkeys,Vance Etcal parrot it.

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Canadians may have a view on that,not that Trump gives a fuck what anyone thinks.

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This is the last time I want to hear any American bitch about other nationalities bitching about their elections. The motherfucker you elected is out to screw the entire world!!!
Instead of electoral colleges, there should be electoral countries. You know, grown up, mature populations that get to choose “the leader of the free world” (whatever the fuck that means).
UK is excluded. We fucking voted for Brexit. Automatic fail.

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Oh, they will never stop. They, particularly on the right, have this knee-jerk tendency (because they are convinced it is fact) to discard any European criticism of US policy as “Self Righteous”, and therefore provocative and unseemly. In reality, they are a billion times more self righteous themselves (see reactions to Canadians merely booing their national anthem, after the US is threatening the annihilation of Canada as a sovreign state, as an example of this ludicrous and highly absurd form of entitlement and self righteousness), but they are culturally completely blind to this fact, which is undeniable to everyone not American.
They will not change, at least not as long as they live in a Superpower.

I generalise of course. One must.

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https://x.com/ABarbashin/status/1892874271484977375

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WTF Obiwan?

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Riddle Russia is very good, actually. Very educated people behind it with relevant expertise. I read it often.
It is people from the reknowned Meduza (the reknowned investigative team hunted by the Kremlin, previously responsible for some abslutely fantastic research) and other experts on Russian society. Kreml has sought to eliminate them the last few years and now many of the journalists sadly have to live in exile abroad.

You’ll note the article contains an array of links that you can follow to better inform yourself on the subjects written about.

In essence, it’s very high quality Meduza blog, and well sourced at that.

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https://x.com/michaeldweiss/status/1892899472708960612

He has faced first, Spetsnaz recce and sabotage teams coming to kill him in Kyiv on the first two days. People died in the Presidential office in Kyiv in the first days. People were shot and killed there. Then he refused to evacuate the country despite the RU army entering Kyiv in mechanised columns. continues to stay despite the bombing, despite the fact that Kreml could have decided to target the Kyiv parliament with ballistic missiles (in those days, they did not have air defence to stop these at all). “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo”, he famously said. And he stayed put. He regularly visits troops at the front line, where a mortar or artillery shell can kill anyone (as well as FVPs obviously).

Not a single American president has ever had those balls, excepting perhaps Washington. Biden was the last western leader to dare to visit Kyiv. Trump is literally running the United States as it was a Japanese Game Show. And the American craven officials, in their insufferable arrogance, to call him a “theatre kid”.

Like Weiss, I have heard countless Ukrainians criticise Zelensky. I am critical of him myself when it comes to several matters. But no one with half a brain cell doubts his bravery or that he is trying his absolute best to ensure Ukraine survives the war as unschated as possible. Zelinsky is a deeply serious man.

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