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Gramsci

Re: Politics

4491 by Gramsci

Having lived with adversarial Westminster systems all my life I find the US parliamentary system anemic.

The weekly Prime Minister’s Questions can be incredible. If you have a decent leader of the Opposition then the country’s leader has a weekly public battering. At the moment the UK’s LotO is beyond incompetent but with a decent leader it’s a great system.

The idea the president never gets his ass handed to him on a weekly basis sucks.

clocker bob may 30, 2006 wrote:I think the possibility of interbreeding between an earthly species and an extraterrestrial species is as believable as any other explanation for the existence of George W. Bush.

emmanuelle cunt

Re: Politics

4492 by emmanuelle cunt

cakes wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:16 pm
losthighway wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:00 pm
cakes wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 10:41 am I am really digging Canada's response to all this. Targeting red states, 100% tariffs on Teslas. I have to look into it, but our governor was trying to make a deal with Canada to not fuck Illinois over.
After Trump made so much noise but then backed off in the last trade skirmish, a month ago, I started thinking maybe he actually isn't this stupid. Like he just talks about tariffs to see if he can get other things. Sort of like in a press conference last week where he said other countries pay the tariffs we put on their goods. Is he really actually that stupid, or is he just that big of a liar?

But he's doing it. Shooting himself, and the economy right in the foot with no clear goal stated. It's remarkable really.
At first, I thought maybe it was just bluster, because that's how he does "negotiations". But since he just went with it, I think he literally wants to crash the economy so the oligarchs can scoop up more wealth and transform our economy to forced slavery with monopolies and low-wage jobs. If this sounds conspiratorial, consider what he said recently, where the best years of the US were the gilded age.

I tend to think he has no masterplan at all and just goes with whatever comes to his power-oriented bullish and extremely limited intelectually mind like "tarrifs? as in countries paying us money? good!" which then gets filtered through his staff.

Krev

Re: Politics

4493 by Krev

I have to think someone is putting these ideas in his head. The guy doesn't seem very lucid, and his cabinet is a who's who in lizard people.

I'd rather be throwing darts.

cakes

Re: Politics

4494 by cakes

I agree, what I'm saying is that he'll do whatever to have power. Its the lizard people behind him that use him as their vessel for a libertarian hellscape.

zorg

Re: Politics

4495 by zorg

cakes wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 11:20 am I agree, what I'm saying is that he'll do whatever to have power. Its the lizard people behind him that use him as their vessel for a libertarian hellscape.

The Tariffs thing has been kicking around since before his first administration. Biden one-upped him and raised things like the EV tax on Chinese cars to 100% for our friend Musk. So I think it's more the sudden and arbitrary nature of the Tariffs this time around that makes the head spin.

janeway wrote: Fri Jul 18, 2025 4:52 am i do want to apologize if i offended anybody with my posts lately .. i was in denial of my impulses going wild

Krev

Re: Politics

4496 by Krev

If you saw him signing these executive orders, it was like he was autographing Denny's menus at ConCon. Stephen Miller or whichever shitbag could have written "Trump to undergo hourly enemas" and he would have signed it.

I'd rather be throwing darts.

Dovira

Re: Politics

4497 by Dovira

Soon we can all start wearing "I hated the United States before it was cool" shirts.

born to give

jirbling rake

Re: Politics

4498 by jirbling rake

Dovira wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 2:01 pm Soon we can all start wearing "I hated the United States before it was cool" shirts.

United States? They're ok, but I liked their first president better

"I got to tell you, if I went to a show and an opening band I never heard of lugged a Super Six on stage, I am paying attention." - Owen

TylerDeadPine

Re: Politics

4499 by TylerDeadPine

Gramsci wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 2:09 am Having lived with adversarial Westminster systems all my life I find the US parliamentary system anemic.

The weekly Prime Minister’s Questions can be incredible. If you have a decent leader of the Opposition then the country’s leader has a weekly public battering. At the moment the UK’s LotO is beyond incompetent but with a decent leader it’s a great system.

The idea the president never gets his ass handed to him on a weekly basis sucks.

Agreed - I love the mud slinging

Krev

Re: Politics

4500 by Krev

Gramsci wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 2:09 am Having lived with adversarial Westminster systems all my life I find the US parliamentary system anemic.

The weekly Prime Minister’s Questions can be incredible. If you have a decent leader of the Opposition then the country’s leader has a weekly public battering. At the moment the UK’s LotO is beyond incompetent but with a decent leader it’s a great system.

The idea the president never gets his ass handed to him on a weekly basis sucks.

Moribund Chuck Schumer ain't up to that.

I'd rather be throwing darts.

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