In the UK a few years back, Boris Johnson refused to show up to a debate on climate change, so Channel 4 replaced him with a slowly melting block of ice.

It annoyed him so much he tried to privatise the entire TV station lol.

As a person from the UK, it really does feel sometimes like the UK is just the place where America tests out all of its most dystopian ideas before it rolls them out at home.

Yeah I’m glad I nuked mine right after Musk bought it. I already hadn’t used it in a couple of years by that point but that was the final straw.

I think in theory the police are meant to. But the ‘theory’ part of that sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Well now they have that supreme court ruling that the president can’t commit a crime if it’s an “official act” so genuinely who knows. But I could absolutely see someone like Trump using it to squash a protest and then jamming the whole thing up while the courts argue about it for the next 15 years or so.

Yeah at first I thought maybe he wants out but his ego won’t let him just step away from it like Biden did, so he’s trying to ramp up the crazy shit to force the party to kick him out, that way he doesn’t have to run but he can keep the grift going by saying he was betrayed etc.

Then I thought, he’s not that smart. All he has is saying crazy shit, which seemed to befuddle Clinton and Biden but doesn’t work on Harris, so all he can do is panic and say even crazier shit.

I kind of think we’ve essentially been in a recession since 2008 and they’ve just kept kicking the can down the road to keep the bare essentials running, albeit at an increasingly worse rate.

But it has to all blow up eventually, because on our current trajectory it seems like the end state is to have everything owned by like 3 guys while everyone else presumably digs turnips out of the mud like a medieval peasant until the air catches fire. Which doesn’t seem very sustainable.

In the rant, slammed by the Harris campaign as “unintelligible,”

Okay, that part got me.

Yeah I think McCain would be a likely candidate, he was the runner-up in the primaries in 2000 against Bush II so he was definitely thinking about it back then.

You could make the argument that if it was solely down to the popular vote, the last Republican president would have been George Bush in 1988.

The only Republican since then to win the popular vote was Bush II for his second term in 2004, but it’s arguable that since Gore would have been the incumbent he might not have won that one. Plus there are a lot of hypotheticals like whether 9/11 could have been prevented under Gore, or if it had happened if the response was less aggressive, or if Bush II would have even run again after losing the first time etc. So it’s impossible to say but certainly conceivable that Gore would have gone for two terms IMO.

Yeah it’s a bit like dealing with the school bully I think. They want to make people flustered and upset because it makes them feel big and gets them attention. But if you give them even a little bit of their own medicine they can’t handle it at all.

I think it’s because for so long they’ve relied on Democrats/people on the left (I say that because it’s not just in the US, it’s become the right-wing tactic all over the place) being serious and arguing in good faith, IE: they’ll just say the wildest shit that’s blatantly untrue, and people on the left tend to bust out the facts and links to long explanations of why that’s false, and they just counter it with more nonsense until their opponents get tired and quit, then they proclaim victory. But if you just go “you’re weird, fuck you” and then refuse to follow up on it they kind of don’t know what to do with it.

Also, the amount it’s pissing them off means it’s working, everyone keep doing it!

Also more recently when Boris Johnson didn’t want to show up for a climate change debate, Channel 4 replaced him with a slowly melting ice sculpture instead. This pissed him off so much he tried to privatise and sell off the whole station lol.

Or, as Trump himself put it:

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible

She’s also from a very gifted family in general. Both her parents had PhDs, her mother was a researcher who’s credited with making significant advancements in understanding breast cancer, her father was a professor of economics at Stanford and her sister is a lawyer and political analyst.

Yeah he went from being a senile old grandpa who could barely string a sentence together to the mastermind behind a presidential assasination and back again within the space of a week lol.

Knowing the Democrats, they’ll probably run an even older ticket somehow lol.

Jimmy Carter/Bernie Sanders 2024!

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

• Karl Marx

If you go far enough left, you get your guns back!

TBH I feel like there needs to be a general look at ways to prevent ‘spamming’ for want of a better word in government. Like the filibuster, and also that thing where after Obamacare was passed and the Republicans tried to repeal it over 70 times in the first few years. I get that situations change and you might need to change a law, but at a certain point you’re just being belligerent and wasting everyone’s time IMO.

Also it should be illegal to tack on irrelevant laws to popular bills to try and get them passed, but that’s a whole other thing.

I started reading up on him and apparently he said this:

I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful), or that he’s America’s Hitler.

That fact that he thinks Trump could be Hitler and is still prepared to get behind him for his own gain tells me all I need to know about the principles of the man.