Wow, you guys uave moved on fron the usual tropes about eating babies and the other shit from the 1930's . Must have new millenial writers/editors.
USA Political Thread 2024
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If you saw some of the people that I met with in that place, and you knew what they did you'd probably shit yourself.
Think Selous Scouts, SAS, JTF2..etc. All retired of course....but. In the 70's and 80's Vancouver probably had more retired Special Ops types living here then any other Commonwealth country.
the markets are betting on Harris.
The stock market’s surprising bet on who will win the presidency
" the S&P 500’s performance in the run-up to Election Day has historically been a strong indicator of whether the incumbent party’s candidate will retain control of the White House — correctly forecasting all but four presidential races over the last 96 years "
Arnold throws it behind Harris!
Arnold Schwarzenegger says he’s voting for Harris
The stock market’s surprising bet on who will win the presidency
" the S&P 500’s performance in the run-up to Election Day has historically been a strong indicator of whether the incumbent party’s candidate will retain control of the White House — correctly forecasting all but four presidential races over the last 96 years "
Arnold throws it behind Harris!
Arnold Schwarzenegger says he’s voting for Harris
this has got to be the most hilarious political ad i've ever seen...
Julia Roberts Reminds Us - Your Vote, Your Choice
Jesse Watters and Charlie Kirk go ballistic about it. Suggesting women should vote the way their husband demands!
Conservatives in furor over Julia Roberts ad
Julia Roberts Reminds Us - Your Vote, Your Choice
Jesse Watters and Charlie Kirk go ballistic about it. Suggesting women should vote the way their husband demands!
Conservatives in furor over Julia Roberts ad
The Economist endorses Harris... total right wing magazine.
The Economist announces support for Harris
The Economist announces support for Harris
Thank God. When they supported George W. Bush, I cancelled my sub for 8 years. I think the choice this time was much better. And yes, it is total free market right wing who are almost always pushing the Conservative/Republican agenda. Apart from that 8 years, I have had a sub for 30 years. Apart from their pushing to the right some of the other content is very good.
Jesus Christ, the old coot looks like he has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
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And here I was just fucking my brains out as a young dude thinking everyone was doing what I was doing. Oh and enjoying late night Fresgos!! Didn't think all these 'colourful' folks were anything but.
Its funny because I find the Economist palatable for not being over the top like other magazines. They frequently have pieces raosing issues with inequality and unfair trade practices for example.
My issue is that they feel that the free market is the solution for everything not understanding how corrupt and ineffective business can be. Everyone always see on TV and in the written opinion pieces on how stupid government is. I have worked in private industry all my life and the screw ups that I see or have had to fix are just as excessive. Just getting old, tired and cranky. Looking forward to the end of the election. I hope Harris wins. But i fear that SCOTUS and the various Republican efforts to steal the election may prevent that.
Back to the Economist. In the past, they have celebrated people like Elon Musk and give them the benefit of the doubt, etc. But you are right, they are not as biased as the WSJ or many of the right wing business press.
It is a cold & cynical calculation on the part of the DNC - it always is.
Yes, a lot of activists & Arab Americans would like to walk away from the Dems for their moral cowardice on the war crimes & genocide issue.
There is some small chance they'll sit out the vote, as a "fuck you, you're no better than the GOP" statement, but if they have been paying attention to the issue at all, they also know that might trigger something even worse.
Trump will happily green-light Israel openly committing genocide & conquest, without even the pantomime of pretending to ask for ceasefires which they know will never happen. Netanyahu gets literally everything he wants if Trump wins. Free bombs & missiles, total diplomatic cover. US military waging war on their behalf to keep other powers from interfering. And when Trump talks about using the US military & police to strike down political "enemies within" the US, those campaigning for Palestinians' right to exist will be the first ones on that list.
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Not a phone call, but refusing to sell them any bombs - limit their aid to only air-defense missiles. It takes away their capacity for airstrikes, but defends them from drone & rocket strikes.
Yes, he could cut off aid entirely, and they are certainly wealthy enough to pay for armaments rather than be handed them as gifts, but this is how it would be done.
Not phone calls and strongly-worded letters to an Israeli PM that basically gives zero fucks what the US president says, knowing there is a coin-flip chance of the next one doing anything he wants.
The death of diplomacy preceded it. Countries used to make deals that recognized each others interests, allowing for the fact that other nations were allowed to have their own interests.
But that whole notion was strangled to death in the "peace" that followed the end of the cold war, by those who wanted to dictate a unipolar world order. "It turned into We get everything we want, and anyone who wants something else should just get out of our way before they get hurt."
The result was not the acceptance of that world order, but instead a world of escalating connivance and aggression. The public basically just ignored this, believing only different flavours of what they were told to believe, accepting things that in the past they would have questioned or even rejected as going too far.
Compromise died out there in the world of international politics, and domestic politics in "democracies" (and increasingly hollow term) got ever creepier because at the behest of powerful oligarchs, the techniques of tradecraft & war-fighting got applied to the domestic political scene. That led to a public who have bought into the idea that aggressive ignorance can just be substituted for facts, and which has dismissed the possibility that they might be getting manipulated into acting as a weapon for the very people who swindle & harm them.
Yeah, compromise, RIP. Along with so many other principles, rotting in some mass grave which society dug for itself.
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Few people seem to pay that much attention. It's like they think events just happen out of the blue, which of course is never the case. Agendas are more constant than people realize, and there is logic operating behind all the seeming chaos.
The Economist is a solidly neocon/neolib publication (and those two things are very close together politically).
They are the voice of the moneyed elite, and staunchy anti-populist, because whether it is real or fake, they dislike anything that's disruptive to the global market system. (Not "disrupt" like the trendy business term either.)
So if they are un-endorsing Trump despite his solidly pro-rich-people economic policies, perhaps they have calculated that if he does half the things he has promised socially, it might tip the USA into openly violent conflict. In other words they see him as a problem-creator, not a problem-solver, even for their elite class.
I liked the video of trump trying to get into the garbage truck for his goofy stunt. The old feeb almost feel down when he was grabbing for the door handle.
There was a comedian who posted a video on line and claimed he was driving the garbage truck, he was making fun of trump and his dumb maga supporters. Lots of them got sucked in, too dumb to figure out it was satire.
There was a comedian who posted a video on line and claimed he was driving the garbage truck, he was making fun of trump and his dumb maga supporters. Lots of them got sucked in, too dumb to figure out it was satire.
"I’m gonna protect women whether the women like it or not." - convicted rapist Donald Trump
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