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

Do I need to be on X to play the clips?

For a while now when I click it doesn’t do anything.

Terrible comments from Lindsey Graham there, too. If taken seriously in the Muslim world, this could escalate more and more. Hopefully they will see these loons in America for what they are, and there will be restraint.

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I dont think so ?

Did you try clicking on where it says Pic.x?

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What, the governing class? A US Senator with close ties is de facto the government

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I have a new pc, so I don’t have a video downloader right now. I should install it, I guess.

Exactly . He is seen as one of the closest to the goverment too, irrespective if it is factual or not.

It works on my phone. I don’t have twitter.

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WARNING: I have been conned.

My apologies.

The video is not recent, but from January 2026
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PQ_xaqfXMUk

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But of course, he still said this. But now this clip is being widely circulated in the recent context of the latest Big War.

Gah, this happens very seldom to me. I am pissed off at myself, for missing the dating of this. I got it from a professor who normally only posts quality. Dating is wrong and I did not corroborate source.
Ah, well. Internet can be tricky.

In any case, still note worthy that it circulates around Islamic twitter, I suppose. It’s not like it sounds good and it is, after all, not ancient. From January the 16th, 2026.

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If you use Firefox, try the extension “XCancel”. Once installed, whenever you click on X/Twitter link, It will filter out all the crap from X/Twitter, and even let you read the thread. However, sometimes it does not work with pictures posted directly from X/Twitter.

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Yep, I get that.

But the amount of shit they all come out with, every single day, with no consistent message, just variable crap flooding the zone day after day after day …

Should it all be taken equally seriously, like we would have in a former day, as though it is joined up policy?

Lindsey Graham is a charlatan. The only thought he has in his drunken head is what he needs to do to stay in power and close to power.

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Apologies for being a divvy! I was just clicking the play button and the clip wasn’t playing, but when I click on pic.x it plays. My mistake. (I use Safari).

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Lol, you were just a bit slow, I was the one who made a dating error!
Hugs all around! We all need it. Bad times…

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I want to comment on just this specifically.

The problem is that you americans are so used to the rethoric, the bullshit. You must not think that the rest of the world is equally used to it, they take Trump and gang very seriously! Cannot afford not to.
So you should not just consider what Americans think of Trump admin and their nonsense and crazyness, but consider what those who are not submerged in it think.

That is my argument anyway. I mean, I don’t care what Americans think of it personally, I care about what Jihad-inclined angry Muslims may think (because there is a lot of anger now).

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Fair enough, and on a personal note, maybe I’m so jaded with Trump and MAGA that my ability to be outraged by what they say has waned, given the sheer quantity. I don’t ignore it, but I definitely view it as more shit they are flooding the zone with.

I hate that they are making many Muslims angry. I love the Muslims we have in here. I love the Muslims at LFC. To my eyes, the leaders of America are the ones who are looking like the religious extremists.

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Btw, this is where I got the video clip from. Dr. Krieg, I don’t always agree with him, but he is a very serious person and probably fucked up the dating himself. Not the person to post misinformation normally. That’s the issue, I trust authoritative sources sometimes without corroborating. Every source that isn’t authoritative, I double check. But you know, doctors at King’s College, this can make me slip up…

Clearly the GOP is packed to the rafters with mindless idiots…long may it continue.

Too much info!

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I want to press like on your post, because in a way I agree emotionally. However, i do in fact strongly disagree. In a Two Party System, both parties must be sane for the state to function. A party will not win an endless number of elections and so on. The fact that GOP is bat shit insane is an absolute catastrophe for the US and why I have long argued that it hardly matter (much) if Democrats win the next election. What truly matters is if GOP becomes sane and moves closer to Dems.
Either GOP must find its way back to Conservatism, US gets another party to replace it, or there is no end to this nightmare.

Remember this: The Biden years didn’t help. At all. Everything continued to get worse in terms of polarisation and now we have Trump 2.0 and it is way worse than Trump 1.0.

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Admission (second embarrasment for me in just 1 day :laughing: ) :

I didn’t get it. I read his comment, not really understanding what he meant by “starkers”. I read a hell of a lot of English literature, but I needed your comment to go “oh, he means stark naked”. I don’t think I have heard “Starkers” before in that context :smiley:

This is the day I am delighting everyone with my slowness and stupidity.