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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I might be more receptive to the idea that Trump is smarter than he seems if it weren't for the fact that people are constantly trying to interpret acts of flagrant idiocy on his part as some kind of brilliant secret strategy. Like, a friend of mine tried a few months back to convince me that Trump's "Covfefe" tweet was secretly a smart move intended to stoke fear of foreign influence using a vaguely foreign-sounding word. As opposed to being the obvious misspelling of "coverage" that it was.
What does this even mean? The UK won't extradite if the US doesn't promise to not execute or torture him, beyond not convicting Assange at all I don't see how they could be more merciful.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangOn a scale of 1 to 10, how bad on the national level is the Democrats' loss of that state Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.It’s about the impact that the state level has on the national level, because it seriously hurts any attempt to end gerrymandering in the state. That means that the state’s house districts are going to send more republicans than they should to Congress and that the state legislator won’t be part of progressive reforms (like raising the minimum wage, rebuilding unions, the interstate voter compact, possibly some kind of healthcare expansion, ect...).
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranWa Po is reporting that the White House tried to get ICE to dump arrested asylum seekers into sanctuary cities to overwhelm the systems there as a means of getting back at them for opposing Trump.
Edited by tclittle on Apr 11th 2019 at 8:00:17 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Wow, talk about biting the hand that is literally protecting you from other countries prosecuting you. That was pants on heads stupid.
Anyway, I'm watching The Rachel Maddow show and it appears that Wikileaks was actively communicating/conspiring with the Trump campaign, so yeah. Wikileaks was definitely out to screw America in some way. And now Trump is actively denying anything involving them, in blatant contradiction to his frequently mentioned admiration of them during said campaign.
Well after 8 years of confinement in one building, you can go a little crazy.
But I'm not worried about Assange getting any help from Trump.
Trump wouldn't piss on his son if they were on fire.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Apr 11th 2019 at 6:28:41 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Edited by speedyboris on Apr 11th 2019 at 8:43:57 AM
Probably because it would be a PR disaster in a way other things wouldn't be. Like, putting kids in cages is terrible and morally abhorrent, but at the end of the day, it's out of sight and out of mind for a lot of people.
Putting people in a city would have a lot more obvious exposure.
At least that's why I wouldn't do it, if I was a bastard ICE manager.
Read my stories!Yeah, I can't see that not backfiring one way or another. ICE will take any blame, but further, there's a non-negligible chance that California will respond with "bring it, bitch" and actually get people functionally housed, working and paying taxes.
The latter would actually piss off Trump's base, so it's not going to be allowed.
The weird thing is I can see them getting work and paying taxes, but good luck getting them housed. Our governor is practically twisting arms to get the cities to build more houses.
Not even the marble-headed immortal we called Jerry Brown could get a lot done on that, and I'm convinced he only could herd the cats we call the California Democrats solely because he'd been around for the past 1000 freakin' years.
(We do have a thread for California, just for the record)
Also, a a well condensed argument as to why a Green New Deal is a better policy than Medicare for All
.
One thing I love about Mitch is how sometimes his plans backfire in a kind of comic book supervillain way.
His attempts to promote the Green New Deal to kill it has resulted in people actually knowing about it, discussing it, and incorporating elements of it into their campaigns.
When before it would have been the pet project of a new, not necessarily well-liked (by Democratic leadership) junior representative.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Speaking of Nancy Pelosi:
This is from a few days back, so if someone already posted this and I just didn't notice, I apologize.
From USA Today: How Nancy Pelosi is leading divided Democrats through political turmoil, Trump's administration
The only woman to become speaker of the House – not once but twice – is plowing forward with her agenda, despite demands from her left flank to act more boldly and her right flank to move with caution.
It appears to be working. Pelosi is quick to point out she has never lost a major vote on the House floor. She has gotten unanimous or near-unanimous Democratic support this year on most major House legislation – although the measures are largely messaging vehicles because they stand little chance of passing the GOP-controlled Senate.
Pelosi was hammered on the campaign trail last year for being a San Francisco liberal, but in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY, she embraced the label as a way of showing her party’s left wing she is one of them, before asking them to move toward the center.
“I’m a progressive from San Francisco. I think I can have some credentials on the left, as a person who has represented a very liberal city,” Pelosi said last month in Ferguson.
“But you have to govern mainstream,” she added.
She comes across as something of a Cool Old Lady who can still keep up with younger politicians and navigate through the realities of politics.
We could certainly do worse than her as the leader of House Democratic Reps.
Edited by M84 on Apr 12th 2019 at 6:09:39 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedThis article
about how Warren switched from a registered republican to a progressive democrat is really interesting.
Any official word from Democratic leaders on the loss in Wisconsin?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.![]()
I can definitely relate - I was a high school Republican, looking back I probably sounded like some kind of proto-TPUSA Turd. I really feel sorry for anyone who had to deal with that. I would punch past me in the face!
Also apparently the religious right is in a frenzy over the fact a gay guy is running for office. They're going as far as saying Episcopalian Christians aren't real Christians.
I had Republican leanings too in my youth. Also some casual bigotry in the form of freely using certain insults that I don't use anymore.
I can't really pinpoint any one moment in my life when I started to change, though I think it happened during college.
I don't consider myself particularly progressive or leftwing — I'm still very much a free market capitalist if not to lolbertarian extremes. But I cannot support the GOP.
Disgusted, but not surprised

Going back to the Assange thing, the way I'm hearing it on the news is he's being indicted/prosecuted/I don't know the actual word here not for putting the dangerous/damaging information out, which journalists are legally allowed to do, but for actively helping Manning steal said information. Like, Assange might not be in as much trouble as he is if he'd simply received the information from Manning, but that he, a non American citizen, went looking for and actively pursued this is a different ballgame. And yeah, the targets he goes after does in fact make me suspicious of his motives.
I mean, you can say how good it is that this information got out, but it is extremely dangerous to any country that a foreign agent can get into their military's database. That is straight up a security issue.
Edit: Australia probably tried/did issue a passport because he's an Australian citizen (or at least was born there, I don't know if they do dual citizenship) and thus feel some responsibility to issue some kind of protection to this very famous citizen of theirs. Although it's funny to remember back when this first went down and SO MANY PEOPLE were shouting that he ought to be tried for treason without realizing that he WASN'T an American citizen and thus couldn't be charged with treason.
Edited by AceofSpades on Apr 11th 2019 at 6:51:19 AM