Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 3)

One interesting and telling element of this race is that every other candidate is far more focused on Israel-Palestine than he is yet it is him who is being accused of practicing identity politics over the issue. What we’re seeing is he has little interest in talking about anything other than affordability yet other people are ascribing to him the worst assumptions of what brown muslims think about the issue and are making him answer for those over and over and over again, and then as soon as he does its “god, these muslims have such a bee in their bonnet about Israel.” They criticize him for identity politics despite its them demanding he answer a very specific set of questions that they feel are appropriate to ask simply because because he’s muslim

So to the degree he has no clear position on Ukraine, its because no one is demanding he answer questions about it the way they do over Israel.

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I actually cancelled my subscription because of that. Editorially, it’s gone to shit. It’s not about reporting the truth anymore, it’s about “covering all sides”, even if it means giving airtime to absolute bullshit (see Bari Weiss).

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You are probably correct. I just googled, found nothing, but found lots of Gaza statements. Not that it’s important.

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American oligarchs now rival their Russian counterparts in obsequiousness … and that’s without having to worry about being thrown from a window !

The lawsuit cites recent announcements from the Trump administration in arguing the drug is allegedly unsafe.

:man_facepalming:

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This is embarrassing the number of supposedly serious people discussing the supposed VP loop hole. No such loop hole exists. To be eligible for VP you have to be eligible to be president, because that is the fucking point of the position. So he is not eligible to be on a ticket as Vance’s VP

https://x.com/BlueATLGeorgia/status/1983001710269206861

These people are desperate to normalize this disgrace. There is one way to cover that story and it is to unequivocally state that there is no legal basis for Trump seeking a 3rd term and it is a disgrace to even float the idea and his interest in it is itself grounds for impeachment. That’s it

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Yeah but Lincoln was a Republican and Democrats formed the KKK.

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You forgot the mindblowing 'National Socialists argument. :exploding_head:

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It’s true. They don’t like to talk about it though…

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I’m confused sometimes whether it’s the we ain’t Nazis, the lefties are the real Nazis or the Nazi is the new edgy cool, we’re claiming that stuff. Probably doesn’t matter.

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Both of course

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Depends on the day and the argument being made :wink:

Jamie, have we got that video of the bear teaching other bears about the radical lefty Nazis?

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Little over a week after the No Kings protests and subsequent remarks from Trump insisting ; I’m not a king at all." , South Korea gifts him a giant gold crown. lol

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I think it’s on a specialist porn site.

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Just so impressed by these clowns. There are two reasons why he is not persona non grata now. First, the US would be compelled to retaliate, and Canada’s ambassador in DC has been quietly effective. Second, he effectively is already.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ambassador-hoekstra-rant-9.6957854

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A term of endearment. That kind of unserious babble, sigh.
No surprise regarding the tirade. Trump sends these chauvinistic clowns around to be ambassadour to allied and friendly states. And they almost all, do an absolutely terrible job at building good relations. In Norway now, I suppose we are relatively lucky with the one they have sent there.

But since it’s Canada, and the US is at “war” with Canada, I suppose they need to bitch loudly just so the discourse can remain caustic.

If you are here legally this crack down should have no impact on you

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Except profiling…

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