US Politics Thread

[the AntiPusher]

You just keep misreading me, and I can only believe it’s because you never virus scan your own political affiliation. The bolded part above shows that you can’t read another poster and understand them, if they in any sense criticise the democrats - something you’re totally incapable of doing yourself.

The democrats are so good they got Trump elected. Well done, you.

Try this again - CNN complimenting Romney because he was right.

Stay on topic.

Read my posts twice so you understand what I’m saying.

Don’t lie about what I said.

When you become capable of critiquing your own side, then this shows you have a healthily functioning political radar…

Keep living the dream from Ireland with your MAGA political allies here in the US. Good for them. To be colonized by Russia. Its what you wanted them to vote for. Remember the road to the US for Putin's colonization project goes through Europe. Be Happy.

 

[Kieran]

It’s kind of a relief that the OSCARS weren’t marred by posh Hollywood “activist” squealing. But at the same time, it was all a bit too low-key. It came and went. Usually we have some pampered princesses to laugh at, crying about things they think of only monochromatically. Like George Clooney or Sean Penn.

Hopefully we’re entering a new era where we’re not bombarded by spoilt people intruding on our lives with phoney politics…

 

[Kieran]

You have no clue the mentality of an American citizen who is 3rd generation military veteran. Have ever held a political office in the US? Have you served as civil servant? Have you ever taught school at the university level? That's living life to its fullest. Sir you have no clue what you are talking about. When its all said and done, there's not gonna be a left or right but can you live with the life you chose to live and if you were able to be blessing to others. Otherwise you have been a spectator clinging to some hope that life is gonna reward you because of your political preference. There's nothing that Trump offers to you.

It’s impressive how you ignore everything that’s said - then lose your self control over it. Calm down. You are not replying to the person you think you’re replying to…

 

[Kieran]

A pretty significant difference between Trump’s first term and his second is the intensity of his fascination with territorial expansion now……..




Fareed Zakaria, thank you very much.


Good to be here, Ezra.

I’m still wading though these posts because they’re massive but also they’re not as straightforward as the usual. It’s a great discussion, trying to understand what Trump really means when he says things, and why there’s a change in the world order politically. Russia and China are both evil regimes (far as I’m concerned) but both might also say that the Western “liberalism” is evil.

Although it will be dismissed by some as “just some Nazi saying stuff”, but when Viktor Orban says “We want to be an illiberal democracy because we don’t believe in the tenets of Western liberalism”, we could interpret this also as somebody pointing out that, in real life, Western liberalism is actually poisonously illiberal. I know, he’s saying something else - but when we see a so-called liberal like Trudeau freezing the bank accounts of people who disagree with him, and the cancellations, harassments, and violent protests against people who disagree with whatever fashionable cause is on display, the manipulations of social media to support only one side, we know that we don’t live in a liberal society that believes in freedom.

Or as Ice T once put it, “freedom of speech, just watch what you say.” I can’t help but feel that Liberalism might be a fantastic idea, if anyone would ever think to try it. It might even work. Maybe it did, for a while.

I know your posts deserve a deeper dive - and I’ll certainly give them a good grilling - but it’s a really powerful discussion about what’s happening, and what’s changed in Trump.

The expansionism of super powers is well argued. Greenland can actually be seen in the context of the seas around it and controlling any potentially hostile traffic there. It’s not the most wild suggestion, if you think about it. I’m not sure Greenland was ever happily Danish. But of course there’s a dark side to this too. An Olde Worlde quality that has to make us pause, and think, and shiver a little..