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Musk could just dismiss any concerns as fake news. The bigger problem is the fat orange rapist does connect with a lot of people who fall for his bluster, it's not readily apparent Musk could do the same
Trump is not a nice person, all in all. I think his value is in steamrolling people who themselves are pieces of shit and who have profited off of the misery of others. There will never be any real accountability for the people who orchestrated the war on terror swindle so Trump getting a few digs in is as good as it gets.Slick wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 7:59 amIt’s quite difficult to square this with his spite in trying to ruin anyone who disagrees with himHugo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 5:55 amHe's definitely a blowhard that is for sure. Foreign policy wise I think Trumps primary thinking is to avoid getting the US involved in unnecessary wars where there is no benefit for the average American in doing so. It's why he has trashed the Bush family, Liz Cheney etc any chance he gets. In fact he explicitly called out Liz prior to the election when he was saying something along the lines of "it's easy for you to advocate for war when you sit in a nice office in Washington DC and it's someone elses kid who is going to do the fighting". That was the jist of it anyway.Guy Smiley wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 12:53 am
I think the situation in Ukraine has had something of a galvanising effect on military spending within Europe and by extension, NATO. Spain and Finland have been sending gear to Ukraine, for instance along with the big hitters like Germany and France.
Trump his just going to rattle the same cages he has before and will shout much of the same sort of bullshit. He's already had a go at Mexico and Canada over immigration and drugs, for instance. His bluster will wear thin, everyone has seen it before and knows how he operates. Europe is pretty defiant about the threat Putin presents... if Donnie gets too blustery AND shows support for Putin he's going to be offside with Europe very quickly and he'll lose leverage. I don't think he'd understand that, he's too much invested in the greatest country on earth bullshit.
The US spent $30 million a DAY in Afghanistan and after 20 years walked away with pretty much nothing to show for it. That's the type of stuff that influences his foreign policy outlook and why people like Bill Kristol and John Bolton hate him.
Trump has lots of flaws of course but I think he gets that this provides little value for money to the average US taxpayer and that at the end of the day it's the average American kids who are the ones doing the fighting and the dying.
What Air Force/Navy/Army bases stayed open post Cold War was almost entirely based on which GOP District they were in !Niegs wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 10:14 pm
Defence industry jobs and knock-on economic effects? Gas as cheap as bottled water? Using their 'We protect your ass!' to get preferential prices / shipping on foreign goods? (Really have no clue, but there must be some economic benefits that indeed do trickle down to many average people?)
Haha, yes it is so transparent. Musk is always tweeting about declining birthrates in the West because he is of course making the case for an open borders approach to legal immigration. He tries to frame it as wanting to promote meritocratic values but what it's really about is accessing cheap labour. The robber barons want their class of compliant serfs.Niegs wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 11:47 pm It's funny how they can't just keep their mouths shut and spring news on people as they're doing it. Pretty shit super villains ... or maybe they watch too many fictional ones who tell the protagonist their plan while there's still time to do something about it?
'tis a disturbing notion that Ann Coulter isn't considered a fringe lunaticsockwithaticket wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 11:37 pm Some other right wing accounts are having their paid for check marks removed as well which is basically a step to quash their visibility.
Essentially, Musk has gone mask off about wanting to use H1B visas to bring in cheaper workers from abroad. Funnily enough the 'America first' types that make up so much of the MAGA sphere aren't really down with that. Even Ann Coulter's weighing in against Muskrat, not just the fringe loons like Loomer. I saw a couple of the tweets MAGA's hag in chief posted before getting suspended, basically called out his past bank rolling of Dems and said he's a Johnny-come lately Repub who bought his way in. Elmo can't help but make people despise him wherever he goes despite how desperate he is to be liked.
She ought to be, but she is entrenched in the Republican media establishment, she's not an outsider like Loomer who largely exists in the realm of social media and self-produced Youtube shows.Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:19 am'tis a disturbing notion that Ann Coulter isn't considered a fringe lunaticsockwithaticket wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 11:37 pm Some other right wing accounts are having their paid for check marks removed as well which is basically a step to quash their visibility.
Essentially, Musk has gone mask off about wanting to use H1B visas to bring in cheaper workers from abroad. Funnily enough the 'America first' types that make up so much of the MAGA sphere aren't really down with that. Even Ann Coulter's weighing in against Muskrat, not just the fringe loons like Loomer. I saw a couple of the tweets MAGA's hag in chief posted before getting suspended, basically called out his past bank rolling of Dems and said he's a Johnny-come lately Repub who bought his way in. Elmo can't help but make people despise him wherever he goes despite how desperate he is to be liked.
Ann Coulter is a whore; she'll do, or say anything to advance her career one millimeter.Rhubarb & Custard wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:19 am'tis a disturbing notion that Ann Coulter isn't considered a fringe lunaticsockwithaticket wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 11:37 pm Some other right wing accounts are having their paid for check marks removed as well which is basically a step to quash their visibility.
Essentially, Musk has gone mask off about wanting to use H1B visas to bring in cheaper workers from abroad. Funnily enough the 'America first' types that make up so much of the MAGA sphere aren't really down with that. Even Ann Coulter's weighing in against Muskrat, not just the fringe loons like Loomer. I saw a couple of the tweets MAGA's hag in chief posted before getting suspended, basically called out his past bank rolling of Dems and said he's a Johnny-come lately Repub who bought his way in. Elmo can't help but make people despise him wherever he goes despite how desperate he is to be liked.
Trump? More like his own party members said it's time and many Canadians, even those who supported him, say it's time to read the room and step aside for someone better... especially because the sane ones don't want that slimeball on the other end of the call as PM. It's a small sample size, but the conservatives in my family can't stand PP and are looking for alternatives.convoluted wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 7:09 pm So much winning!
Trump's public humiliation of Trudeau helps push that lefty slimeball over the cliff.
Herr Klaus seethes as another corrupt pillar of his World Economic Forum crumbles:
I guess I'm not in the 'right' spaces to be familiar with his schtick, but after watching it I was like 'Who is this guy?'
Rabid anti-Trudeau people are bad enough, but ones outside of Canada are particularly ... interesting.He also refused to rule out force if Denmark doesn’t give him Greenland.
Trump will get right on it after he collects the last payment from Mexico for the wall.
This is the correct answer. Trump is just using word salad as misdirection.Uncle fester wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2025 8:55 pm Americans: “can we have affordable healthcare and higher wages?”
Trump: “How about we rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America!? Huh? Huh? How ‘bout it? Oh it will be so beautiful!”
Always impressed that Teen Vogue does good journalism. (But that paragraph on recidivism I found confusing... unsure if it was meant to be positive or negative?)Uncle fester wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2025 7:40 pm More general USA stuff but risk your life for less than half of minimum wage and no chance of gainful employment at the end of it?
Where do I sign up?
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/wildfir ... ated-teens
“There is no such document as the water restoration declaration – that is pure fiction,” Newsom communications director Izzy Gardon said in a written statement. “The Governor is focused on protecting people, not playing politics, and making sure firefighters have all the resources they need.”
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“Tying Bay-Delta management into devastating wildfires that have cost people’s lives and homes is nothing short of irresponsible, and it’s happening at a time when the Metropolitan Water District has the most water stored in its system in the history of the agency,” he said. “It’s not a matter of having enough water coming from Northern California to put out a fire. It’s about the continued devastating impacts of a changing climate.”
Trump appeared to be referring to water imported south from the Bay-Delta, fed by Northern California rivers and snowmelt. But most Los Angeles water does not come from Northern California. It comes via the city’s 112-year-old aqueduct that runs from the Owens Valley east of the Sierra Nevada, not the Delta, as well as groundwater. The city also imports water from the Metropolitan Water District, which relays water from the Colorado River and Delta to numerous local agencies. The city was the main motivating force for the building of the Colorado River Aqueduct in the 1930s.
In December, the Biden administration and state officials agreed to a new long-term operating plan for the Delta water projects that effectively replaced rules produced by the first Trump administration in 2019 — an action that may have sparked Trump’s latest social media post.
The new rules adjust water allocations for cities and farms and attempt to restore depleted populations of salmon and other fish, including the endangered Delta smelt. Some Central Valley farmers and Southern California cities will see more water and have endorsed the plan, while some farmers will get less. Water exports from the Delta to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California via the State Water Project increase under the new plan.
Can you explain why the "black female" descriptor is relevant please?convoluted wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:16 am
The insurance companies too were so certain of looming disaster that, fearing bankruptcy, they recently cancelled fire insurance for homes in that LA area.
At about the same time, the black female mayor of Los Angeles cut the firefighting budget by $17.5 million to divert multi-millions to woke causes instead.
Meanwhile, California had donated its 'surplus' fire fighting equipment to Ukraine.
Racist gonna racistUncle fester wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:07 amCan you explain why the "black female" descriptor is relevant please?convoluted wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:16 am
The insurance companies too were so certain of looming disaster that, fearing bankruptcy, they recently cancelled fire insurance for homes in that LA area.
At about the same time, the black female mayor of Los Angeles cut the firefighting budget by $17.5 million to divert multi-millions to woke causes instead.
Meanwhile, California had donated its 'surplus' fire fighting equipment to Ukraine.
Something something something trump.Uncle fester wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 8:07 amCan you explain why the "black female" descriptor is relevant please?convoluted wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:16 am
The insurance companies too were so certain of looming disaster that, fearing bankruptcy, they recently cancelled fire insurance for homes in that LA area.
At about the same time, the black female mayor of Los Angeles cut the firefighting budget by $17.5 million to divert multi-millions to woke causes instead.
Meanwhile, California had donated its 'surplus' fire fighting equipment to Ukraine.