Labour doesn’t win, the Tories just lose

Thinks Batista was democratically elected

Okay that’s not true, the typical anti-communist lib doesn’t even know who Batista is.

One item I’d to that list: billionaires aren’t just shelling out on campaign donations, they’re also shelling out millions on lobbyists.

This was made by a person who has never interacted with a non-voter outside of the internet.

State-driven spending offsets factors that would otherwise cause economic depression? What a novel concept!

He didn’t pay to get legroom, he paid to not be around people who fly standard.

I think it’s that Trump exposes that the type of people they think ought to run the world don’t conform to their vision of them. Like if this rhetoric was coming out of some used car salesman turned politician out of Iowa they’d just be “that’s the bumpkins for you.” But Trump is urban, private school and Ivy League educated, well to do businessman. It’s like a monarchist being confronted with the reality of their system of superior blood right breeding being a drooling Hapsburg jawed buffoon.

supreme court fash speedrun any% begins in earnest

Begins? That shit goes back to at least them installing Dubya by decree.

biden does his best cryptkeeper impression in the debate, the lyin’ lamestream media balks hard, swing state polls start leaking badly

Just the latest symptom of how decayed and impotent the DNC have become.

reads from post Trump calls for jailing and “televised military tribunals” of “Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, Mr. Pence, Mr. Schumer, Mr. McConnell and Nancy Pelosi”

And he said he was gonna lock up Hillary, we saw where that went.

xi presses the rare earth resources socialism button, presumably (or at least hopefully) in prep for pressing the ALL earth resources socialism button

This is the one with the most “weeks where decades happen” potential, America desperately flailing its antiquated economic empire weight around to get that sweet battery tech/materials they didn’t bother to develop themselves and China just goes “lol nope.” And the associated treat fallout would splinter the U.S.

heritage foundation president does a public threat of violence at the left, increasing his chances of being roadkilled by a significant factor (fingers crossed)

Ehh these types are always saying shit like that.

the west sez: zelensky your country is three embodied forms of corruption in a trenchcoat, yea we are gonna need you to take off that “i fought a losing war of attrition and all i got was a spot in NATO” tshirt you keep wearing on tv

Americans are great at memory holing shit like that (see: Afghanistan in the 80’s), I fully expect libs to be “Zelensky who?” once the dust has settled.

Beijing’s Global Times mouthpiece quoted an anonymous American voter saying, “There must be something wrong with the system,” and another claiming that the U.S. democracy was failing.

So the Global Times does a better job of reporting the state of mind of the American voter than the NYT.

They have tried to plant the idea among their own people and their sympathizers in the West and developing nations that the United States is not a democracy at all but a dysfunctional oligarchy in terminal decline.

So if Trump wins, will they accuse anyone saying he’s destroying democracy and turning America into a fascist oligarchy of being a Putin stooge?

What matters is to demonstrate that the American elections in November will be a farce, in which voters are being duped into choosing between two equally unpalatable options.

So reflecting reality, got it.

Mr. Xi’s disastrous Covid policies that sapped business confidence and lengthened China’s recovery

Shall we compare the death tolls?

America, by contrast, has so far managed to bounce back from its deepest crises.

Line on chart went up!

Hitting that perfect balancing act where one half of the country looks at this and thinks she’s trying too hard to keep up with the kids, while the other half looks at it and thinks it means she’s part of the Black Panthers

Probably got the terms mixed up

A lot of Amerikkkans think “democracy” and “electoral politics” are synonymous with the Congress/Senate/President model of the U.S. So they have no way to process how a minority party leader can end up being prime minister/chancellor. Thus, “Hitler must have won the election if he was leading Germany.”

I’ve even heard the “explanation” that the Nazis won a majority but not a plurality because Germany had so many parties, and that’s why third parties are a bad idea.

They smell blood in the water

It’s also this weird thing where they constantly think the electoral systems are frail and on the verge of collapse. There was a lot of that in 2000, pundits freaking out that if Gore didn’t concede the election quick enough it was going to mean the end of the Constitution. And I’m not talking the partisan Republican press, like normie press.

Man so many layers: the racism, the patronizing assumption of how shallow voters concerns are, how fucking horny she is, the perpetual inability to think more than one election ahead, the boomer-brained writing style. It’s a dunk tank artichoke!

This is according to former KGB spy Yuri Shvets who defected to the US in 1993.

What this says to me is, former spy whose knowledge of the Russian security state became outdated decades ago is desperately spewing bullshit in order to create the illusion they’re still useful.

That’s pretty much how it works now. Their base pay isn’t huge but they get massive overtime opportunities. Plus their workday starts early so they have time to do things like doctors appointments after work.

DSNY got hit hard by COVID in the early days of the pandemic. Absolute front line of essential workers

Imagine using the handle Mueller, She Wrote in 2024 and not dying of cringe