The Trump Presidency - Part 2

i have a twitter account and use it regularly and get a lot of news from it. i was scared for a moment that i was about to get the right-wing algorithm that everyone was complaining about, but so far there's been no change apart from an annoying number of blue-check centrists.

i found this particular thing quite funny.

i don't pay for twitter, its ad revenue is awful, and the company is overall loss-making, so i don't see any ethical issue with using/linking to it.

Most of this makes sense but hundreds of thousands still using it to this extent still benefits twitter for the advertisers that are still there like big players like the NFL, Walmart and insurance companies. It would take a general migration to really kill off their ad revenue completely and with even people that hate Musk still using it so much, that does end up benefitting him.
 
Seriously? Seriously?

China, the adult in the room?


I would rather have my entire lifetime of MAGA candidates winning every presidential election from here until 2074 than China gaining more geopolitical relevance.

If you were just looking at the people in his first term, I could understand your point but 50 years of Gaetz, RFK Jr, Gorka and Tulsi the Russian Asset types running the US and the type of Western hegemony you prefer would collapse completely. It's a nonsenical comparison to begin with but you aren't choosing a world you think you might be choosing with that statement.
 
If you were just looking at the people in his first term, I could understand your point but 50 years of Gaetz, RFK Jr, Gorka and Tulsi the Russian Asset types running the US and the type of Western hegemony you prefer would collapse completely. It's a nonsenical comparison to begin with but you aren't choosing a world you think you might be choosing with that statement.
Not to mention Ukraine probably ceases to exist sooner in MAGA dominated US
 
That applies as much in Europe as well with Russia and Putin

Ukraine is screwed. And so is Taiwan. Japan , S Korea, Poland, Germany, Australia all need to go the nuclear weapons route. And Europe needs to start working on a defense alliance that doesn't include US.
 
Who put this idea in this head? Also who put the idea that it could ever happen in his head?

They'd have to conquer it if they wanted Greenland.
The rumor is that Trump watched the movie Greenland and he thinks there is a bunker there that can be used to survive the end of days. Now he wants it to call it Trump Bunker.
 
I really don't understand the US some times. It's the most incredible nation on the planet and yet somehow the most insane at the same time. You're a spectrum. You could literally control the planet but Billy Bob from Tampa has been drinking paint thinner again and now he's wrestling gators and shouting about the Vietnamese being liberals.
 
I really don't understand the US some times. It's the most incredible nation on the planet and yet somehow the most insane at the same time. You're a spectrum. You could literally control the planet but Billy Bob from Tampa has been drinking paint thinner again and now he's wrestling gators and shouting about the Vietnamese being liberals.
It's not paint thinner they're drinking, although it could be used that way , if you don't mind the yellowish tint.
 
Isn't obvious he's one of the best midfielders in this time?
I would love to have him at United. But probably not gonna happen...
 
Is this the guy The Rest is Politics had on during their US election live stream?

no idea. he is a democrat congressman from the bronx who spends most of his time on- and off-line talking supporting israel and attacking the inherent anti-semitism of its critics. he, liz cheney, and bill clinton were sent by the harris campaign to hold rallies in muslim-heavy michigan in the final month of her campaign.
 
Isn't obvious he's one of the best midfielders in this time?
I would love to have him at United. But probably not gonna happen...
He's a right winger. Always has been. But for some reason people keep thinking he'll transition to the midfield.
 
Yup. Their closing the Department of Education is by design. It’s to ensure a permanent demographic of dumbed down people who won’t question the fecked up policies of the GOP.
Or the Democrats could try addressing the issues of people without college education again. Only a few decades ago, the majority of that demographic voted for Dems. They didn't completely change during that period; it's more a turn the Democrats made.

Or the Democrats could just continue considering them hopeless deplorables that are out of touch with modernity and need an education. I wonder what would work better for the next elections.
 
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He's a right winger. Always has been. But for some reason people keep thinking he'll transition to the midfield.

successful part of the double pivot...
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AIPAC caucus seems to have got the bipartisan unity call today


Good grief. Israel's number one supporter, defending arguably the world's most prolific antisemite.

Support for Israel and hatred towards Jews continues to be the most curious of bedfellows. To such a degree that it is now to be expected that anyone on the far reaches of the far-right, or anyone aligned with nazis, will be in full support of Israel and its actions.