Political Roundtable Part XXXIV

[dobrojim]

True confessions- sometimes I watch YouTube videos
although I do try to be skeptical of the claims made.
What I find strange, ironic or simply not very
effective are the Trump ads in the middle of a
clearly anti-Trump video as if someone watching that
video is going to say, you know, this ad is right on.
Like a visual of him looking strong and thoughtful
is going to change the watcher's mind. They're wasting
Eloon's money paying for such an ad. Billionaires
must not care.

[Zonkerbl]

Economists: Well, the tariffs are bad, but at least they are only on goods and the US economy is largely services based
Trump: Hold my beer

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr7e2z1rxyo

[Wizardspride]

Read on Twitter

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[Fairview4Life]

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[dobrojim]

Stable genius

[pancakes3]

Read on Twitter

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https://history.wsu.edu/rci/sample-research-project/

this, except the US government is Chiquita

[Fairview4Life]

Read on Twitter

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https://history.wsu.edu/rci/sample-research-project/

this, except the US government is Chiquita

But, like, why spy on Greenland? What secrets are there to learn?

[AFM]

https://history.wsu.edu/rci/sample-research-project/

this, except the US government is Chiquita

But, like, why spy on Greenland? What secrets are there to learn?

How would we know the answer to that if we don't spy on them. #4dChess #MAGA

[Wizardspride]

Read on Twitter

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[Wizardspride]

https://history.wsu.edu/rci/sample-research-project/

this, except the US government is Chiquita

But, like, why spy on Greenland? What secrets are there to learn?

Makes sense if you're considering taking the country by force.

[Zonkerbl]

If you want to seize Greenland's mineral resources, you need to collect intelligence on whether you can just talk people into giving it to you for free, like they talked GOP voters into betraying democracy

[dobrojim]

It’s mourning in America.

[Wizardspride]

If you want to seize Greenland's mineral resources, you need to collect intelligence on whether you can just talk people into giving it to you for free, like they talked GOP voters into betraying democracy

Good point...

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Watching that disgusting piece of scum dress himself up as the Pope made me physically ill.

That got me as well.

He just might be the Antichrist.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Trump crashing the economy is actually the opening the Ds need to right this ship. But they have to take advantage. Let's wait and see what the midterms are like.

I think the disaster of Trump cannibalizing Social Security and Medicare to feed red meat to billionaires is what could flip this country to a social democracy. Didn't Karl Marx say capitalism has to fail before socialism could actually take root? At the point where you have trillionaires ripping apart our safety net to siphon tax dollars to their own pockets and schemes, we have reached complete failure. I heard stories 3rd hand about folks who worked in the revenue dept where the Department of Grift and Extortion removed all oversight or enforcement over crapto-currency. It has become a two way valve to funnel untraceable grift directly into the pockets of the foxes in the henhouse, or out into the ether where it disappears. Some very bad people have to be paying for very bad things to happen for their direct benefit.

This administration has two goals:
1. Completely destroy as-much government as they can (very successful)
2. Get that permanent tax cut for millionaires/Billionaires

Once this ^ has been accomplished, they won’t GAF. Why? Because there will be no money or votes to put everything back as it was, perhaps bits and pieces here and there, but they can walk-away from it all after they get that tax cut.

The sad part is they're so above it all. They're isolated on high and impervious to the suffering and the wrath of the masses.

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

Well you can get a lot of savings cutting military expenditures by 90%

I don't necessarily agree with cutting the number of military generals by 20%

I do think all expenditures in support of Israel's genocide in Gaza should cease at once.

[AFM]

Trump as the pope is the biggest joke of them all. How republicans can even think this guy is remotely Christian I won’t ever understand.

Mark 10:25 my favorite bible verse

[Chocolate City Jordanaire]

The question is did the the democrats in DC learn anything or will they appoint the worst possible candidate to run in 2028 ?
If they have any intelligence at all (they haven't shown any yet) then they'll get someone somewhat decent,they sure didn't in 2024

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That's the excuse for voting for a vile, lying, corrupt, evil, wannabe Mussolini piece of ----, and his even more evil, and more cynical dip---- cabinet? Really?

I always find this take really depressing and a fundamental indictment of the country, rather than Kamala, or Hillary for that matter.

Republican's have rolled out an incompetent, addled, wannabe Mussolini 3 times in a row.

It's not the Dem's fault, this piece of ---- won 2 of 3, it's America's fault, the entire countries.

That this idiot can win even 30% of a national election, let alone 47-50%, is a total indictment of the country full stop.

Kamala was a perfectly gray, vanilla, candidate, a centrist prosecutor (no self-respecting far left anything would have run for the prosecutors office at any level back in the eighties and nineties, the idea that's she a far left communist was always idiotic) went to a prestigious university, yes to law school, passed the Bar, won multiple elections in California including DA, and Senator Elections. Not a great or even good candidate, just a bang average politician on her best day, who also obliterated Trump (who smashed the Republicans) in their one head to head debate.

The country chose a monster instead, TWICE, in 3 cycles, and rolled out their biggest ever vote in 2020 in a defeat against Biden, to boot.

It's an indictment of the country, especially of Republicans and the supposedly Christian Moral Majority (farcical joke), its an indictment of the Dems and DNC too, and it's an indictment of us, fundamentally, that we couldn't come together, everyone, and recognize this joke and his supporters for what they are. Corrupt, vile, swindlers, low rent pieces of ----. But enough people hate the country, hate each other, and prefer to punish their enemies to lifting one another up, that this pathetic joke did what he did the past 8 years+/3 election cycles. At least Germany in 1932 had the excuse of WWI and it's horrors+the treaty of Versailles viciousness, plus the Spanish Flu, plus hyperinflation, maybe the worst the modern world has ever seen, and the onset of the Great Depression. What excuse do we have? None. American Exceptionalism my ---.

The truth is MAGA is full of racist, redneck, and so-called Christians. They're a White Nationalists cult. They worship idols in Trump and Musk.

Their god is money, and their main ideology is xenophobic white superiority.

[verbal8]

Agree, and BTW, there are PLENTY of white illegals in the U.S. from Europe and elsewhere, Visa overstayers etc. As-far as I know, there has been zero effort to find and deport white folks who are here "illegally"

The biggest giveaway that it is not about actual legality of the immigration is there is barely a peep about significant penalties for employers. If there was a true desire to lower undocumented immigration, you would have to start there.

[dobrojim]

And yet the talk after the election was how much
better the GOP did among the population they are
now targeting. FAFO.