Big Bad Politics!

@Zaknel
no shit cause its all bs. They claimed to have “cut” things but those “cuts” have to be approved by congress and sending out any money has to once again be approved by congress. You think the administration that has so far done nothing but hurt the poor give money to the poor instead of just pocketing that money? Cause guess what they are just gonna pocket the money, elon already got another 38mil dollar contract. The money cut isnt 100% cause elon likes to exaggerate the amount of money.

Purging the civil service was absolutely necessary and USAIDS can go to hell, but the DOGE/Project 2025/whateverthefuck stuff is retarded and will likely fail at some point.

Eventually the DOGE purge is going to run out of steam, and if they aren’t careful they will cross some kind of red line (or multiple red lines) then Congress and/or the courts and/or the states will step in. In fact, the left is already gearing up for a bunch of lawfare, so the courts will have to weigh in eventually. If DOGE doesn’t have watertight legal defenses for everything it’s doing, then the courts will start blocking things, and the administration will stumble, allowing the left to retake the initiative and narrative control.

But Musky boi is an unsubtle retard with a reverse Midas touch who’s never faced consequences for any of his mistakes and thinks he can get away with anything because he’s obscenely rich and best friends with the President, so he’s bound to fuck up eventually, and all the twattertards simping for him are going to eat crow.

Also, I have yet to hear a convincing explanation of why re-enacting ‘Heilgate’ wasn’t an unforced error on his part.

@Twiface
I find what DOGE is doing currently to be highly amusing. The illegalities that are being revealed–like, for example, USAID using the Tides Foundation to launder money for Antifa, violating the Hatch Act and the Dobbs Act simultaneously–are blackly hilarious, but until I see some Senators, former Presidents, and NGO board members doing the perp walk in the shiny bracelets on CNN, it’s just entertainment.

I am more concerned with the direction Trump is taking with foreign policy. I will preface this by saying that our European “allies” in NATO have needed a callout for 50+ years now, and it was well past time for the US to rip off that particular band-aid. If anything I don’t think Vance called them out for imprisoning political dissidents nearly enough times–it’s the sort of thing Russia and the CCP do, and I thought the whole thing about the US is that if we were in the business of propping up dictators and despots we’d be no better than our enemies. As for the EU, it was founded with the intent that its international currency would supplant and replace the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency and the currency in which crude oil is sold. In other words its purpose from the very beginning was to wage economic warfare against the US. The US government should have treated it as an enemy from its inception instead of ignoring it until it started cancelling elections in member nations when bureaucrats in Brussels didn’t like the outcome, which is CCP level fuckery.

But I am deeply alarmed by his open hostility towards the Ukrainians, who have so far as I know done nothing to deserve it. You’d think they’d started a war by invading a neighboring country–oh, wait, that was Putin. Worse still are his extortionate demands for mineral rights in Ukraine, for which he appears to be offering nothing whatsoever in exchange, just a gleeful “stick ‘em up, gimme ya wallet, or else.” It recalls the Molotov-von Ribbentrop Pact. This sudden 180 degree turn against a nation to which a succession of Presidents had made grave and solemn promises makes the US look fickle, weak, and stupid. It makes it clear that no leader anywhere on Earth can trust one word a US President says about anything. If that was his intent he succeeded. If it was not, it was the biggest unforced error in US foreign policy in the past century and I have no idea what motivated it. Okay, I know, Tucker Carlson is telling the world that Volodomyr Zelynskyy is wearing a Hamburgler costume and backing a U-Haul truck up to Fort Knox and ordering cartoon Minions to load it up with gold bars, but that’s straight up Kremlin propaganda. No one takes it, or Tucker Carlson, seriously, and only a tiny number of lunatics even pretend to.

The morality of the conflict in Ukraine is very clear-cut, that Putin is the aggressor is very clear-cut, and in the US, at least, support for the Ukrainians was one of very few issues to enjoy almost universal public support from almost everyone across the entire political spectrum. The only ones who object are Code Pink and neo-Nazis. And no, Russia doesn’t get veto power over the foreign policies of its neighbors–the USSR attempted to conquer and enslave the entire world, they lost, and the Russian rump state got off so lightly that they feel up for a second try.

Trump was inaugurated with widespread acclaim and came into office with more political capital than any President since Reagan, maybe even since Eisenhower. Spitting in the Ukrainians’ faces, when a few short years ago he was happy to begin arming them in the first place, with things like Javelin missiles before the war, and having the Navy help train Ukrainian combat pilots, amounts to piling up that political capital and setting it on fire.

If Trump cuts off aid, and Russia gobbles up Ukraine, the reprisals against the Ukrainian people are going to be Biblical. The Russian newsmedia, all of which is state-owned and state-controlled, all of which is state propaganda, has called for genocide. There have already been discoveries of enormous mass graves, whenever the Ukrainians manage to retake ground. The human cost has already been horrific, and it’s going to get much worse. And Putin is not going to stop. Putin is a psychopath and a war criminal. He has been invading and annexing neighboring nations, and/or setting up complaint puppet governments that conscript their own people by the hundreds of thousands and send them to Russia, where they are handed a rusty hundred-and-twenty-year-old Mosin-Nagant rifle, five rounds of corroded ammunition, and a tattered mismatched set of Soviet surplus fatigues, then cattle-prodded into a frozen ditch in Luhansk to die. Putin has been saying ever since he took power that the collapse of the Soviet Empire was “the greatest tragedy of modern times” and made clear his intent to recreate it. The Baltic States are next on the menu, and then Poland and Finland. And Trump is already telling Europe that they’re on their own.

Every nation in Europe that shares a common border with Russia is certain to start up a nuclear weapons program of its own, if they haven’t already. If they don’t, they’re fools. I don’t think that makes the world safer, or America safer, but Trump did not ask my opinion. This isn’t what I voted for. What the fuck, man?

DOGE is illegal in every sense of the word being the friends of the president instead of proper Governmental department ratified by Congress with the powers to access any of this protected information. Trump’s whole administration is unconstitutional in concept and practice, Its mostly supported by retards that don’t understand the reason for the separation of powers and think the Fedralist papers are government issue lavatory paper.

The government is slow to move and change by design to safeguard its function and stability unlike other populist governments that are continually buffeted by the changing political fashions of the now.

Government Funded Black Transexual Line Dancing Classes were in vogue a decade ago and it took half a decade to implement them, it’s supposed to take another half decade to remove them due to the sheer inertia of the institution behind it, but low IQ fuckwads don’t understand that the President can’t just switch off a government program like a light when it’s not fashionable any more.

The ‘America pays for everything’ is a bold face lie because Trump gets his figures from Twitter, not his own department heads. Most European countries are investing a lot more either in raw amounts or per-capita contributions to the Russian front with America squarely in the center of the pack (bare in mind this includes retard countries like Greece that are broke and have no money to spend).

Frankly the sooner you guys crumble into a civil war and stop poisoning the world with your culture war bullshit the better but unfortunately we really need you guys with your heads out your asses to fight Russia so it you could convince Trump that Putin said he a small dick or something that would be great.

@RavenandWritingDesk
wow you think the word illegal will make me to side with you ?

Please re-read what I said. At no point did I claim that the US is the only one giving support to the Ukrainians. But I have noticed that, for example, the UK’s military is not even the tiniest shadow of what it was in 1975, and they weren’t contributing enough to the defense of NATO then either. What I am talking about is articles like this one in the UK’s press. And when I look for counterarguments, or debunking, I can’t find any articles anywhere saying “this claim that the UK’s entire military today has fewer than 25 operational tanks is false, the actual figure is nine hundred and eighty-three.” I do see a lot of “well acktchewally there is more to it than counting chassis, numbers don’t tell the whole story” cope etc., which makes me think it must be true.

The US was carrying almost all the weight of defending Europe back when Nixon was in the White House. West of the Oder River all of Europe put together doesn’t have enough troops to make a decent parade. Western European governments have spent the past three years wringing their hands and grimacing and weeping for the TV cameras, saying, as usual, “America, help us! America, save us! We’re the only ones who share your values of liberty and dignity! Oh, wait a minute, that guy doesn’t have a loicense for that meme, we have to arrest him! Put him in the cell with Tommy Robinson! Oh, wait, we don’t like the guy the Romanians elected, quick, cancel their elections and tell them they’re not allowed to elect people we don’t approve of. What were we talking about again?” The Finns and the Poles are more serious about the matter but they appear to be on their own.

France, Germany, and the UK, if we sum their GDPs together, have something like fifteen times the total GDP of Russia. If they wanted to, they could just bump the VAT up by another five percentage points, and with those funds buy up every unclaimed jet fighter, armored vehicle, and round of ammunition on the planet to donate to the Ukrainians. They could crush the Russian invasion. But they have made it plain that they don’t want to–and why would they? Putin might cut off the cheap gas. So France, Germany, the UK, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Belgium, and Spain would rather use every last bit of public funds they can print up or borrow from the Chinese to hand out gibsmedats to Muhammad, Pajeet, and Mbogo.

I believe the Ukrainians’ cause is just. I believe that they are suffering because American Presidents have time and again made false promises to them. Clinton promised them American troops to protect their borders if they’d hand their rightful share of the Soviet nuclear arsenal over to the Russians, then walked away, laughing in his sleeve. Obama threatened them with sanctions and promised them military aid if they’d hand over 95% of their Soviet-era stockpiles of aircraft, armored vehicles, and artillery pieces to the Russians, then changed his mind. Biden spent four years stumbling around with springs popping out of his forehead on camera and his administration was run by a cabal of spiteful pink-haired theater kids who spent four years making an enormous spectacle of putting creepy mentally ill queers in dresses in charge of important things. Putin, who is psychotic but not stupid, having taken their measure, decided he had nothing to worry about from this side of the planet for his plans of Anschluß. I had hoped that Trump would see an opportunity to restore respect for the US around the world, and to deal firmly with America’s enemies, instead of playing Neville Chamberlain and telling the Ukrainians, who have never been anything but friendly to the US, to get fucked.

I wonder if anyone in the Five-Sided Funny Farm on the Potomac is making contingency plans for the likelihood that other nations in Europe, who remember the Russian jackboot on their necks, and have just seen that they have no real allies, have started up nuclear weapons programs. The Baltic States are tiny, with tiny populations and tiny economies. Maybe not them. The Bulgarians and Romanians have a lot of high tech heavy industry, very educated populations, and bigger economies. The Finns and Poles, I think, are the ones to watch. I think they’re the ones most likely to be able to do this in a short time frame. The Taiwanese and South Koreans are surely watching Trump with great dismay right now also. I don’t think it’d take them long at all to put a few warheads together. They may already be doing so.

Also,

What if I told you that was all astroturf, all phony? What if everybody in the country viewed all of this with horror and disgust, but Twitter chatbots run by a handful of spiteful pink-haired theater kids, funded by grants from USAID via the Open Society Foundation, created the illusion of public support?

@Anonymous #7EC6
LA is an inferno because the mayor sent their fire fighting equipment to Ukraine. Taxpayers have been footing the bill for a war the U.S. should have no part of. Everything has gone up over the last four years because of this wars and most people want to complain about it but since they are dogmatic they cannot attack the democrats bitch about people showing how much money the Taxpayer has been spending on things that are not for them.

@Anonymous #0847
LA is an inferno because in the People’s Democratik Republik of Soviet Kalifornjistan it is more important to have sassy obese black lesbian DEI hire fire chiefs than it is to have water pressure at the fire hydrants.

Look, everybody! It’s George Washington! We tried avoiding foreign entanglements but that doesn’t work so well in the age of the ICBM. gg no re

Someone put this video on all the TVs in the HUD office in DC. No one knew how to shut it off so people had to go around the whole building unplugging all the TVs.