US Politics, March 2024: The house of illuminati will NOT be holding any other event in the foreseeable future.

exactly. Trump matched their tone and general whininess but - surprise, surprise - had no actual plan or intent to help any of these people. even the people who go to his rallies and buy his shit he just leaves stranded in a parking lot.

And they love him for it! Trump is the abusive dad of their dreams, they’re masochists in the cycle of abuse.

Fassbinder’s Martha comes to mind, which Fassbinder described as a “masochist finding her sadist.”

without even a cafecito to-go

I am at present a mile from that restaurant

There's a great Cuban restaurant in Los Angeles also called Versailles but apparently they are not co-owned

lol I missed that story. I actually think this masochism theory has legs. I'm reminded of the first response to this thread: have you ever heard the fable of the scorpion & the frog?

its genuinely weird that Trump kept bringing that fable up. one because in this metaphor he is so obviously the scorpion. two because he so rarely tells any stories about anything or anyone when it didn't directly involve him. and yet he loved to tell this one. if a movie had a Trump-like figure and he told that fable during a big speech it would feel so hamfisted that it would ruin the whole film.

They might as well be voting for who will make the sun come back faster every spring.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, March 13, 2024 2:53 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait but the president could actually sign a bill that does this

ha ha!

(I'm in favor of splitting the year up between standard time and daylight savings, though)

My brother-in-law has been a lifelong republican and has serious OCD (which I think affects his choices), and he's always going to vote republican no matter what, but in the past few years I've seen that he's increasingly bought in to the Fox News propaganda, and that it's influenced my sister. They know what I think. We agree to not talk politics, and I still like them, but there's a slight element of distrust. Still, my sister has always been my closest sibling and I don't think she or my brother-in-law or I want to disrupt that bond, so there's a kind-of truce

My situation exactly.

"This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner. A winner."

-- Rep. Pelosi pic.twitter.com/ExkX6bxz0O

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) March 13, 2024

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/politics/chuck-schumer-israel-election-comments/index.html

It… begins?

It would be pretty amazing if the next CIA-sponsored coup was in Israel.

They'd have to find someone further right than Netanyahu to support

In a victory for the extremist wing of the Republican Party, it looks like Donald Trump’s hand-picked leadership team at the Republican National Committee has officially scrapped the GOP’s plan to encourage early voting this election cycle. Instead, the party is taking steps to prioritize legal challenges to voting systems ahead of November.

You miss 100% of the shots you take while aiming anywhere but the goal.

It's never too early to yell "Rigged!"

The hype is so contagious that even Katie Porter got in on the "Rigged!" train early!

They'd have to find someone further right than Netanyahu to support

if that's their position I'd say they have a point

Deep state

No War Deep State

Where have these guys been for the last 75+ years?

convinced Israel’s war/genocide will bring nothing but disaster to the larger Middle East

I'll sign on to this.. if Israel thought they were in danger before, they have no idea what's coming down the pike

"Israel has a right to defend itself!" but where were they on Oct. 7th?

Maybe those woke CIA recruiting ads worked

Chaos in the Middle East?

Oh noes

we can't have that

(Actually I do know CIA folks who opposed the Iraq war because they reasoned that Saddam was the glue holding things together.)

More free advice for the Biden re-election team: a series of “teens react to Trump” TV ads, highlighting the kinds of things the former guy says pretty much every day

The Warnock campaign pulled this maneuver on Herschel Walker

Yeah, iirc it got a great response! Clips of kids mocking Trump I think would be pretty effective in our dumb social media age. Hell, clips of dogs reacting to Trump would probably work, too.

Willis ordered to step aside or dump the prosecutor

or, more explicitly, told she can stay, if she dumps the prosecutor, which I assume she will do

"Dump the Prosecutor" is my favorite Joan Armatrading song.

She will 100% dump Wade.

not the worst possible outcome but no one came out of this looking particularly good

like how are they going to enforce that? show up at her house each night and take DNA samples from clothing?

Enforce what? Taking him off the case?

when you all said "dump" I assumed you meant like....relationship wise.

I woke up 2 minutes ago...lol

“no one came out of this looking good”

i am just going to call this what it is: a capitulation to a right-wing effort to discredit a Black woman based on her private sexual life. that’s what this has been about the entire time, and any other read of it can be safely relegated to the aforementioned capitulation

tabes otm.

ultimately the result is fine in that the case will continue and Wade will just be removed but even the attempt at removing her was fucking gross.

absolutely, the entire defense team was horrific throughout this thing and it should never have happened in the first place

ts, John the Revelator vs Dump the Prosecutor.

Well, here we are 235 days from the election and all the cases against Trump are barely creaking forward, so this served its purpose.

What, this thread?

Come on, it's barely been four years since the alleged crimes (that took place in real time for everybody to see and document).

Don't worry, they'll whip up a way to make sure to delay every single trial until after Election Day. That's the entire goal of the GOP at this point, it's why he took over the national committee, to try and make sure little else interferes. The party doesn't care about the long term damage to "the brand", it all exists to serve Trump and get him in office again. And the useless media will fall for their invented frenzies every. fucking. time.

Relying on the justice system to stop Trump from winning in November has always been dicey at best. He needs to be beaten at the ballot (which I hope and guess I think he will).

The criminal case that will eventually get him* is the documents case.

*get him = found guilty, doubt the consequences will be severe, but absolutely would love for him to spend even minimal time in jail.

the thing is obviously the prosecutors know this too. any reason why they can't speed things up?

Jack Smith tried, but the Supreme Court said no.

He needs to be beaten at the ballot (which I hope and guess I think he will).

The RNC abandoning mail-in voting because Trump hates it is...unwise, but welcome.