The majority, looking at the last election
The Trump Presidency - Part 2
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss Amad saving our blushes in a win against Southampton as well as our now annual loss at home to Brighton. They discuss Amorim's post-match comments, revisit how mid-table we may or may not be, and discuss some transfer news.
The EO for ending birthright citizenship targets legally valid temporary and work visa holders as well. That's insane.
I think we’ve seen Americans last ‘free and fair’ election for quite some time. These guys aren’t going anywhere unless they’re on the losing side of a war.
Can that be fought in court?
Good luck with SCOTUS being nothing more than Trump's puppet.
Better? He just gave Israel permission to go full steam ahead making sure the West Bank is wall to wall Israelis ASAP? Please don't tell me you believe the ceasefire was primarily Trump's doing?
Trump just fired the guy (Hook) that was leading his State Department transition
https://bsky.app/profile/gideonrachman.bsky.social/post/3lgabvrwryk2u
https://bsky.app/profile/gideonrachman.bsky.social/post/3lgabvrwryk2u
How is it better so far exactly?
Firing people on Social Media too.
What a classy piece of shit.
What a classy piece of shit.
It will be, and under any other presidency you would be sure that a potential constitutional amendment of such partisan nature would not go through, but under Trump - his policymakers who came prepared for the loopholes, his lap dog SC willing to overlook them, and his rabid but powerful supporters who will cheer and back his every move - you never know, it might as well go through.
Is this how Gilead started?
What happened today was both incredible and bad...
I guess if we want to hold onto some optimism, there are already lawsuits against him. So it's not just being taken lying down. People are still willing to fight and it's only been hours after being sworn in the fight has begun.
But it’s all gravy because him coming to power coincided with a ceasefire in Palestine (that probably would have happened anyway and didn’t involve any sanctions on the country actually committing genocide) I don’t think I’ve ever seen single issue politics taken to such ludicrous extremes as some of the stuff I’ve read on here over the last week.
I can't even joke about this. I just feel sick.
The United States of America can no longer call itself a functioning democracy. The executive power owns the Supreme Court and the media. The checks and balances are eroding in real time.
It's going to be some bad years before it gets better.
It's going to be some bad years before it gets better.
This is what a lot of Americans voted for. Trump is giving them what they want. Isn't that how a democracy should function?
Spot on. fecking hell.
Guy who organized coup d'etat is again a president and has pardoned all those involved in that. Surreal isnt even the beginning of it.
This is the thing. The Supreme Court appointees were all legitimate from his last term, as well as all the lower court judges. Obviously with a huge helping hand from Mitch McConnell, but legitimate all the same.
Now he’s president with control over the House and Senate and on day 1, doing exactly what he promised voters he would do. They voted for him in their millions.
I would echo the worry about the future of democracy, as I can only imagine the Gerrymandering that will occur and obstacles placed in the way of opposition voting.
But right now, this is democracy at work. And as such, America deserves whatever it gets. The problem for the rest of us is, the impact will likely be world wide. And that is a problem, as we didn’t vote for this lunatic.
Yes, in a minimalistic view of democracy.
Modern democracies also have to guarantee civil liberties, observance of human rights and set up proper checks and balances. Trump and the Republicans have dismantled that bit by bit. And the monumental ineptitude of the Democratic Party has to be named here too.
European leaders have to get their act together quick. The sooner we realize that the US is more adversary than ally, the better. There is no functional difference between the US and China in that sense.
Why arnt the millions of non Trumpists that actually like democracy at the very least get the fk off X and all other platforms that are run by ze RW Nazis. And anything they sell like Teslas. If they get hold of TikTok its even more fkd. The least they can do is try to un platform them.
would appreciate you addressing me or the others making this claim when you posted this. especially given your cries for civility for musk, and after i defended you on the musk thing
prick.anyway, you've hardly been posting about it in the thread, so i don't know how much you've read. but any reading from israeli media about this ceasefire, and any knowledge at all about what biden has been telling them in the year prior, will tell you why the bolded isn't true.
and as for "single issue politics" - it tends to become that when the issue is genocide.
The posts about Arab Americans on here . You just can’t help yourselves.
From a purely international perspective, the defunding of the WHO and leaving the Paris accords is very sad. A lot of very vulnerable people depend on the formers work in particular.
. You just can’t help yourselves.From a purely international perspective, the defunding of the WHO and leaving the Paris accords is very sad. A lot of very vulnerable people depend on the formers work in particular.
America does have checks and balances, but we’re seeing what happens when one side is willing to push those rules to breaking point and beyond to get with it wants, while the other side is just happy to be there.
My own feeling is that what few checks and balances remain, together with the incompetence and infighting of the far right, will limit the damage Trump will be able to do, but it will be a rough four years to be sure.
A big Democratic victory in the mid-terms would certainly help, and I have a feeling that the back half of Trump’s reign will see the Republicans preoccupied with their war of succession anyway.
But as bad as Trump and his friends are, they’re only doing what they said they’d do, and (mostly) what the constitution allows them to do. Most of my anger right now is directed at Biden and his Democrat enablers, who allowed this to happen.
He doesn’t want other countries to up their military spending, he’s just setting the stage and giving himself excuses to bring the US out of NATO.
Thanks for the updates using BlueSky!Trump just fired the guy (Hook) that was leading his State Department transition
https://bsky.app/profile/gideonrachman.bsky.social/post/3lgabvrwryk2u
As simplistic as it sounds, this is what the majority of those that bothered to get up of their asses to a polling station voted for, so this is what they will get... if it affects them directly then more fool them. I just feel bad for the ones that didn't vote for this.
I'm honestly not sure if I would call the abomination that is the American election system democratic at this point. Too many opportunities for voter suppression and the lack of regulation in many areas like media, campaign sponsoring, etc. pretty much makes it an oligarchy pretending to be a republic. I mean, you can hardly argue that voters can vote according to their free will when they're constantly brainwashed by a gigantic infotainment industry and can hardly tell facts from fiction. Any other country and the UN would send election observers.
deleted twitter a couple weeks back (was holding onto to for Australian fantasy football), but i'll only be posting BlueSky links now. Sucks that it seems like it will be hard to integrate into the forum for embedding, but I think we should just make it a habit now of using bluesky links and people just have to open them to read.Thanks for the updates using BlueSky!
fully agree.
I agree. Hopefully Xenforo offers integration soon.
That’s some flip flop.
Why would he want that
Let's see if he can end the war in ukraine in 24h hours like he said...
The timing of the ceasefire is directly related to the incoming Trump presidency. You don’t have to have some special political insight to come to that conclusion.
Any idea when?