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

That piece of tripe will go down with most who can remember or read like a lead balloon.
Interested in them winning WW1? Took them till 1917 to even get involved.
Would be surprised he hasn’t claimed any of the more recent arguments,but of course they got involved and won none.

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They’re doing a wonderful job of proving that they were the scum we knew they were all along.

Fuck everyone that suggested they wouldn’t cause real harm. Fuck the “centrists” that hand-waved away every red flag. Keep hiding after supporting these evil pieces of shit.

@dalglish is right. Anyone supporting this should be nuked off the site.

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Kind of a ‘minor’ story compared to everything going on, but I find it so telling, as a symptom.
ColognePride (the CSD in Cologne, one of the biggest in Europe) is reporting that their US based company sponsors are withdrawing their support, often after many years of engagement. Not cool for them, but they’ll survive without them- but more importantly it just shows the level of cowardness and boot licking mentality in US corporate world.

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Yeah he knows nothing about history and doesn’t care either. When I was in high school we did a field trip to Ypres, at one point we stopped at the first American battlefield. The tour guide explained that the Americans had no clue how to navigate the trench system and didn’t even know that they were not in the assault trench. They heard the whistles to attack and jumped up out of the trenches - they were actually about 50yards behind the frontline. Not a single man even made it to the assault trench.

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“it´s Mayday, everybody. It’s time to fight.”

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Illegally blocking funds for something the article 1 branch of government has already funded, for an organization he has illegally fired the leaders of in violation of a law passed by the same article 1 branch.

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Amazing how little connection to reality there is - with the de minimus exemption gone. there will be consumers seeing higher inflation than the US has observed since 1970s, quite possibly higher.

Trump can rage at the Fed and maybe they will buckle in the end. but USD is the telltale.

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I didnt support Trump. But both sides had equally bad things about them so I was forced to vote for him.

What is infuriating about this is how predictable this path is. And it didnt require savvy tea leaf reading with a couple of big jumps or assumptions. It just required not having your head up your arse. The Chief Justice of the SC, the man who is often positioned as the reasonable conservative holding shit together, has had a decades long crusade to eliminate the voting rights act. In 2013 he stuck a knife in its back with his ruling in Shelby County vs Holder claiming “racism over” and therefore these sorts of protections are not needed. While voting rights and education are not technically the same thing, once you realize the the Dept of Education is not in fact an education department, but one whose mission is ensuring educational opportunities exist for those who otherwise might not have them unless the Federal Government mandated it, then you see that the same arguments that were made in Holder are enough to justify killing the DoE and end forcible desegregation.

This is where we are now. And it’s all because the median voter has the current events literacy of a slug.

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Thank you, neoliberalism.

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May 8th is also just VE day. Hostilities in Africa did not end for another couple of weeks and of course fighting in the Pacific continued for months. That latter piece specifically is a phase of war Trump appears to be completely ignoring.

Interestingly, the country who probably celebrates the May date the most as an explicit “we won world war 2” celebration is Russia :neutral_face:

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Wild who this guy turned out to be while Connor Lamb, the maligned “centrist” he beat in the Dem primary has turned out to be a very effective voice in leading the attacks on the Trump adminstration

https://x.com/dwallacewells/status/1918273875571347617

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For all the criticism of the Hillary 2016 campaign, it’s entirely likely she gets over the line without this fucking guy being on the edges of her orbit through his wife

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I’ve read quite a fair bit of talk, although I obviously can’t corroborate it, that the difference is pre- and post-stroke.

It’s possible. But it’s interesting for me to think back to a conversation Ezra Klein did about factional infighting in the Democratic party. A focus was on how Fetterman was assumed to be a progressive but turned out to be a bog standard lefty puncher. One of the explanations given was he has never really had much of an idea of his own - during the campaign he was raised up by progressive groups so followed their lead, and once he got to congress AIPAC got their hooks into him.

This was all before the 2023 escalation, but given the subsequent developments its a conversation that seems a lot darker and more meaningful

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Berlin as well, I read.

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https://x.com/axios/status/1918329689044910311

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Just when some might have thought things couldn’t get any worst.

I wonder who would be worst out of Miller and Bondi?

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As horrifying as it seems, I dont think it really would change much. He already appears to be acting like a consigliere, dictating what gets to Trump and what he can make decisions on without Trump having to know about it.

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