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A summary of just how bad our American friends have it:

All just SO un-American... /s

Anyway, by the time King Donald has finished bringing about 'The Rapture' via the Middle East (much to the delight of the Evangelical Hard Right, no doubt) I doubt any of that will matter anyway. Maybe that's what he meant by "you'll never have to vote again"...

Well, there'd be no Democrats or Republicans. After all, the USA would no longer be a democracy nor a republic.

Boiler wrote: ↑Sun Jun 22, 2025 2:03 pm All just SO un-American... /s

Anyway, by the time King Donald has finished bringing about 'The Rapture' via the Middle East (much to the delight of the Evangelical Hard Right, no doubt) I doubt any of that will matter anyway. Maybe that's what he meant by "you'll never have to vote again"...

Just in case you've missed this never ending source of jaw dropping lunacy.

And for context

I see we’re back to the same number of wars we were having a fortnight ago. Hooray?

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Tue Jun 24, 2025 9:08 am I see we’re back to the same number of wars we were having a fortnight ago. Hooray?

The fact this post is out of date again the same morning is thoroughly depressing

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:53 pm

And for context

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/20/ ... biden-epa/

I'm pleased this guy beat Andrew Cuomo, but I think the reaction that the result "shakes MAGA world" may be a bit of an overreaction.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/liv ... itics-news

A progressive won a mayoral primary in NYC? Get back to me when one wins a senate election in North Carolina.

They have their very own Sadiq Khan.

Mamdani is proposing to run a chain of city-owned grocery stores to reduce costs to consumers. Food prices in the US are surprisingly high, but I can anticipate that eating up a lot of money he doesn't have before he gets to free kindergarten and free buses. Seems like he needs the New York State Government to fund some of this. That sounds like the best card the Republicans in the state could have. The Democrat State Governor is already not a fan.

Sadiq isn't out on a limb like this, and UK local government doesn't allow him to be. Aside from school meals (where the boroughs have had to chip in) he doesn't make big promises like this. He accepts that he doesn't have enough money to make buses free- why doesn't Mandani just make them cheap, why free? That would still be positive and more affordable.

I can foresee a crashing and burning, or perhaps a Mitterrand like shift away from the original platform.

But I am still very pleased he beat Andrew Cuomo, even if I fear we haven't heard the last from him.

Sounds like the famed piss-dungeon.

But I am still very pleased he beat Andrew Cuomo, even if I fear we haven't heard the last from him.

Haven't followed his career but he does reek of fat, smug, entitled Tammany Hall politician.

Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 3:05 pm

But I am still very pleased he beat Andrew Cuomo, even if I fear we haven't heard the last from him.

Haven't followed his career but he does reek of fat, smug, entitled Tammany Hall politician.

That hardly makes him stand out in the modern Democratic party.

Meanwhile in the "land of the free"...



... Like Xitter's tracking cookies, the US can go screw itself in terms of me visiting it any time in the near future (even just ESTAs - you know they're next).

Adjust my social media settings.

Whilst in The Court Of The Crimson-tied King:

US Supreme Court curbs judges' power to block Trump orders

Justice Brett Kavanaugh writes a concurring opinion.
He says that "district courts can no longer award preliminary nationwide or classwide relief except when such relief is legally authorized".
He goes on to say that the Supreme Court, "not the district courts or courts of appeals, will often still be the ultimate decisionmaker as to the interim legal status of major new federal statutes and executive actions."

How convenient.