Is there any historical parallel to something as large and complex as the United States trying to run on its own momentum while all the essential bureaucrats and government funding are being purged on a whim? Because that’s the position we were in even before Trump decided to blow up the economy.
…is the JDPON Don meme real?
Like half of congress is 70+ at this point. I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
How long until most of congress is required to go around in wheelchairs, accompanied by nurses, because the house and senate majorities are so thin that it just takes one or two dinosaurs falling over to reshuffle US politics.
Tesla spent 2 billion dollars to develop an $80,000 car that can’t function in anything but perfect summer weather, and even then has a chance of locking itself for reasons that no one can figure out.
Meanwhile, a high end electric car in China has all the same features at less than half the price, and with the bonus of everything working properly.
Will Trump actually be allowed to destroy NAFTA?
I know the people around him just want to do a smash and grab for themselves, but that’s a small circle of people, and the USA is a very large country.
Well, Biden had only a tiny 5% margin in the popular vote , he had to listen to the parliamentarian and couldn’t change anything. Trump, on the other hand, got a massive 1% margin in the popular vote. It’s a Reagan style mandate, they can’t fight that.
more than a decade of the US trying to “pivot to Asia” to contain China , and it all ends with the US disembowling itself while China watches and wonders why the fuck they did that.
Well, that’s NVIDIA fucked, since they get their chips from Taiwan.
I’m sure Intel will take up the slack… you know, the company that completely abandoned working on the leading node , and has a massive, mutli billion dollar judgement hanging over them from selling chips that they knew were shitty and busted. Of course they already got 8 billion or so from Biden to improve production a few years ago, and did fuck all with it.
That means an immediate price increases on oil, coffee and fruit, and anything made with oil, coffee or fruit.
This is amazing. I thought US hegemony was going to drag on for another twenty years, but we’re really fucking blowing it all up.
This has been the official US and Israeli policy for Palestinians since the creation of Israel , they’re just not supposed to say it out loud like that.
no healthcare, no housing , just more tech scams
The plan for the war makes less sense every year.
The US navy doesn’t have the capacity to close the Taiwan straight anymore, so the idea now is to blockade the Singapore straight, 3000 kilometers to the south, and cut off Chinese shipping from the world markets… that is to say, the nation that doesn’t produce anything but excel spreadsheets thinks it can win a war by blocking the source of all the cheap goods that keep their consumer economies running.
This feels like a serious fuck up for the western media. They handwave the existence of their billionaire owners by saying that they don’t determine what gets printed , even though that’s an obvious lie , but now they’re on record with the billionaire owner putting his foot down for Trump.
They can’t get him off the ballot at this point, the election is 45 days away.
It’s a twitter brained NAFO guy. Funnily enough, the libs own this one.
Although it’s still kind of funny that political violence is just becoming a thing now.
The funny thing is that Russia has kept moving into the Donbas this entire time, blasting through lines that have been fortified since 2014, because the Ukrainian reserves that might have held on there are currently getting blasted to shit trying to hold the salient in Kursk.
Someone high up must have really believed all the propaganda about Russian casualties, because the whole thing makes no sense otherwise.
Did Kamala’s crowd sizes really put the fear in Trump or what? His only rally this week is in fucking Montana tomorrow, with none scheduled for the rest of the month. He’s just doing unhinged press conferences.
Imagine if the Democrats had brought this kind of competence and energy to 2016 by running LITERALLY ANY OTHER CANDIDATE!
pre-covid, It used to be a fairly chill place for people who had reached the “acceptance” stage of grief to look at graphs of ice sheet coverage and talk about maybe learning to grow potatoes.
I hadn’t checked it in years, but it looks like the depressed climate scientists have been replaced by full blown survivalists and scared normies who think that collapse will be something fast, like a disaster movie, instead of the ongoing grind of people watching prices going up as wages stay the same, needing to hang on to clothing longer, no longer being able to see a doctor, or knowing their children will probably be unable to buy homes and start their own families.
We were saying 6 months ago that there would be a crackdown, simply because the US can’t support a genocidal colonial project if the victims can livestream their suffering to the world.
But what’s really weird here, and I think no one could have predicted, is the mass suppression and arrest of Ivy League student protestors. They’re protesting peacefully, which they’ve been told is the only moral and acceptable way. They’re not making any material demands, and they’re not tied into a workers movement that could strike and threaten capital. Anyone with knowledge of previous college protests and the academic year could have told them that this is harmless, and that it would fizzle out as summer started, but instead they’ve violently cracked down in a way that’s causing the protests to spread, while also radicalizing and blackballing the children of privilege , the people that are supposed to carry on the ideological future of liberalism and sign up to be the next generation of the imperial bureaucracy and the NGOs.
Whatever happened to people asking their parents to record a few messages so they can hear their voice after they’ve died, or maybe asking for a lock of hair. Our culture is so terrified to talk about or acknowledge death.