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I wish I could stop opening this thread. It’s just endless, massive horrible headlines but I don’t think anyone actually has anything to discuss anymore.

Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:34 pm I wish I could stop opening this thread. It’s just endless, massive horrible headlines but I don’t think anyone actually has anything to discuss anymore.

Yeah, indeed. It's all just normalised...which is painful. And the democrats in the US are just spineless sycophants, too, so it's not as if they have a functioning democracy to fall back on.

Stom wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:53 pm

Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:34 pm I wish I could stop opening this thread. It’s just endless, massive horrible headlines but I don’t think anyone actually has anything to discuss anymore.

Yeah, indeed. It's all just normalised...which is painful. And the democrats in the US are just spineless sycophants, too, so it's not as if they have a functioning democracy to fall back on.

The Democrats' cave-in on the shutdown was staggering. Have to say this can't be mere spinelessness. This looks like corruption. The shutdown was hurting the Reps, it killed them in the recent elections, and it was the only way to get what the Dems wanted. The promise of a vote, in a house where they're the minority (and that's just the first hurdle) is obviously worthless. They sold out ordinary people and it would be fascinating to know what they got for this betrayal.

Maybe THIS will move the dial...
It's the hope that kills you

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.

Which Tyler wrote: ↑Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:34 pm Maybe THIS will move the dial...
It's the hope that kills you

Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct

In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.

It will just result in more gormless punitive knee jerk. Every Pearl clutching response is backed by the vast resources of the Federal government, which is itself unraveling at an alarming rate. No SNAP food program, public employees not getting paid, science surrounding acute public health issues triaged with callous indifference and the cancer of free market dogma about to go metastatic. Totally FUBAR. The Cherry on the top is the spineless caving into bullying by the opposition.

https://bsky.app/profile/rpsagainsttrum ... 5qgqwnbs2x

Sorry, I thought Bluesky embedded now.

The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
An amendment to said bill to also condemn fascism was voted down

Which Tyler wrote: ↑Fri Nov 21, 2025 10:01 pm https://bsky.app/profile/rpsagainsttrum ... 5qgqwnbs2x

Sorry, I thought Bluesky embedded now.

The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
An amendment to said bill to also condemn fascism was voted down

On the day Mamdani's due to meet Trump for the first time. Absolutely baffling that Hakeem Jefferies and the Democratic leadership are willing to engage with blatant Republican shitposting against what is ostensibly a member of their own party, even though he had the gall to win an election even when they told him he wasn't electable. Just abstain en masse and treat this kind of comedy politics with the respect that it deserves!

They're just absolutely desperate to make sure that everyone's aware they're sensible, reasonable, electable centrists with no intentions of doing anything upsetting like improving people's lives, which I'm sure will save the country. After all, "We have no beliefs except Not Donald Trump" worked out just splendidly for them last election, so I'm sure it'll be fine going forwards.

Puja

Puja wrote: ↑Fri Nov 21, 2025 10:31 pm

Which Tyler wrote: ↑Fri Nov 21, 2025 10:01 pm https://bsky.app/profile/rpsagainsttrum ... 5qgqwnbs2x

Sorry, I thought Bluesky embedded now.

The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
An amendment to said bill to also condemn fascism was voted down

On the day Mamdani's due to meet Trump for the first time. Absolutely baffling that Hakeem Jefferies and the Democratic leadership are willing to engage with blatant Republican shitposting against what is ostensibly a member of their own party, even though he had the gall to win an election even when they told him he wasn't electable. Just abstain en masse and treat this kind of comedy politics with the respect that it deserves!

They're just absolutely desperate to make sure that everyone's aware they're sensible, reasonable, electable centrists with no intentions of doing anything upsetting like improving people's lives, which I'm sure will save the country. After all, "We have no beliefs except Not Donald Trump" worked out just splendidly for them last election, so I'm sure it'll be fine going forwards.

Puja

I assume the 86 Democrats who condemned socialism will be voting to shut down medicaid, medicare, the US Postal Service and all other examples of socialism in the US.

Son of Mathonwy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 22, 2025 9:35 am

Puja wrote: ↑Fri Nov 21, 2025 10:31 pm

Which Tyler wrote: ↑Fri Nov 21, 2025 10:01 pm https://bsky.app/profile/rpsagainsttrum ... 5qgqwnbs2x

Sorry, I thought Bluesky embedded now.

The House of Representatives voted 285–98 in favor of a resolution condemning socialism.
An amendment to said bill to also condemn fascism was voted down

On the day Mamdani's due to meet Trump for the first time. Absolutely baffling that Hakeem Jefferies and the Democratic leadership are willing to engage with blatant Republican shitposting against what is ostensibly a member of their own party, even though he had the gall to win an election even when they told him he wasn't electable. Just abstain en masse and treat this kind of comedy politics with the respect that it deserves!

They're just absolutely desperate to make sure that everyone's aware they're sensible, reasonable, electable centrists with no intentions of doing anything upsetting like improving people's lives, which I'm sure will save the country. After all, "We have no beliefs except Not Donald Trump" worked out just splendidly for them last election, so I'm sure it'll be fine going forwards.

Puja

I assume the 86 Democrats who condemned socialism will be voting to shut down medicaid, medicare, the US Postal Service and all other examples of socialism in the US.

Don’t forget the NIH, FDA, and CDC.

morepork wrote: ↑Mon Nov 24, 2025 3:25 pm Don’t forget the NIH, FDA, and CDC.

Do they still exist in a meaningful way?

Which Tyler wrote: ↑Mon Nov 24, 2025 4:29 pm

morepork wrote: ↑Mon Nov 24, 2025 3:25 pm Don’t forget the NIH, FDA, and CDC.

Do they still exist in a meaningful way?

Credibility shredded. A generation of expertise gone to the detriment of public health. The safest public health watchdog on the planet has been shot in the head.

Setting off for three months back home. First step in the repatriation of the Porkster.

morepork wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 4:04 pm Setting off for three months back home. First step in the repatriation of the Porkster.

Is that a real consideration long term due to the state of things?

Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 4:30 pm

morepork wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 4:04 pm Setting off for three months back home. First step in the repatriation of the Porkster.

Is that a real consideration long term due to the state of things?

All Blacks haven't been that bad.

Mikey Brown wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 4:30 pm

morepork wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 4:04 pm Setting off for three months back home. First step in the repatriation of the Porkster.

Is that a real consideration long term due to the state of things?

Always a vague plan, but definitely more motivated now.

Orwell is often misused and abused on ther internet by people who read his Wikiquotes page instead of any of his books, but there is one that keeps cropping up on social media today, over and over again. "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

There are several videos from different angles showing an ICE agent, in little to no danger, making the decision to shoot a woman dead while she drove away from him. These videos also show ICE preventing that woman from receiving any medical aid that might've saved her and show him walking away, entirely unharmed, and it is a proven fact that he then drove away from the scene and fled across state lines.

Donald Trump then stated that the woman was a domestic terrorist who deliberately ran over the ICE agent, who.managed to shoot her in self-defence, but who is now in hospital in critical condition and is lucky to be alive. The US Attorney General has also stated this, without equivocation, and decried anybody arguing as part of a left win conspiracy to pervert the truth, and a dozen apparatchiks of the regime have also faithfully parrotted these lines.

It's not true. It's not even an interpretation that could be argued. There are multiple videos, all showing the same thing - she was driving away from him, the ICE agent was unhurt and in no danger and walked away without any injury, he drew his gun and shot an innocent person who was fleeing. And yet, they confidently state the opposite, somehow sanguine that no amount of evidence, no amount of physical reality can overturn them brazenly stating the sky is green.

I don't even know. What even is this timeline.

Puja