a real friend of epstein would never recognize that he did something wrong. no pardons for his ghost

i half expect trump to play 10D chess and posthumously appoint jeffrey epstein to cabinet. you know, to give the pedophiles a false sense of security.

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You joke but the principle of 'things are fucked, if only we could get the monarch's ear' is quite important historically.

He's the only politician left.

Politics is not about policy wonkery or party loyalty. That's for weirdoes and people in denial. Politics is about passion. It's about wether you'd conceivably sit down with some govnah for a few drinks. It's about wether you trust this person to be your elected monarch. Once you do, you can also trust them to have done their best in your name.

That's the game. Only the vast majority of politicians play towards the lords, whereas people like Bernie and Trump build trust towards the commons. The Dems and the Republicans both have donor classes they are held to, in fact its the exact same class. But the Dems being the party of the upper 10% cannot even pretend to like the commons. The Republicans otoh also hate their base, but Trump is capable of bringing a muslim to the podium to pretend he likes Palestine. Kamala and the Dem operatives wouldn't even hide their disgust.

Since Bernie was disciplined into irrelevance that means Trump is the only politician left in the US.

As expected, the transphobic Moon of Alabama is the first 'right wing but anti war' website to make the beautiful argument that just because Trump is gonna appoint even bigger warmongerers and neocons than last time, that doesn't mean he'll listen to them. Looking forward to even more copium along the way.

all elon has to do is appoint employees as proxies/trustees. same thing with trump

you terminally online leftists don't understand democracy. kamala ran on a 'save democracy platform'. she lost. therefore the only democratic action the party can take is to do what the people want and support president biden in his bid to implement trump's agenda.

its also a harder argument to make. we all know the chinese communist party is responsive to people's concerns, that they 'have constituents'.

and we are also not naive enough to think that its a monolithic hivemind, that there's no politicking or factioneering within it.

if we are to say that the incumbents were rewarded in china's national government, we have to make a much more complicated analysis than just pointing to mexico and saying - yo, this government keeps getting rewarded like they actually are more progressive than FDR.

i thought that ukrainian ultras turning against europe and doing terrorism there was a bit of a silly, far fetched scenario but trump's second? dumbest son seems be manifesting this shit before our eyes. this isn't salting the wound its pure acid

and this is what i call proper journalism

you could always just rephrase it as a news headline

do you think the researchers were like, yeah we gotta publish this the world must know. or did they have even more insane examples in the pipeline.

the actual struggle is recurve shortbows vs crossbows

losing all the branches of government to discipline the left and to be racist is a flawless DNC campaign

I think that the biggest spanner in the works is that Zionists are just like that. Besides chanting about dead children and attacking people in the streets, they will always, at all times, turn around and claim that they are under attack. If this was a false flag operation then it just means that every day of the year is a false flag opportunity for Zionists.

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The difference is that Ukraine is waging conventional warfare in the defense while Hezbollah is a guerrilla force. Ukraine won't even retreat to more defensible locations, it will throw reserves into poorly fortified areas and even go on the offensive. Hezbollah fights from mountains, holds back platoons with only a few fighters and then fires rockets at Israeli troop concentrations. Hezbollah has been a partner in resisting the Gaza Genocide for a year now, but never committed to something like the Kursk Offensive.

This is not to say the Israelis will necessarily lose and Hezbollah will necessarily win. It's just that the actual war isn't about Israel creating a cauldron around all of Hezbollah. It's about how much genocide the Israelis can inflict on the lebanese while being attritioned by Hezbollah, and how many casualties the risk averse settlers are willing to take.

just a slight correction: it appears that the total vote count puts Trump at roughly the same place as in 2020. Trump gained 40k votes like Kamala lost 11 million instead of 15.

but the heart of what you said is true. twitter helped keep the trump base mobilized, but it's not like it turned people fascist. it was the dem voters who stayed home after kamala and the dems kept courting trump voters instead of their own base.

That second half of the interview amounts to John Mearsheimer saying 'The US can no longer stop what I consider to be China's clearest path towards regional hegemony'. It is not just throwaway futurism. It's not something he says lightly. It's his entire worldview and theory coming into place.

He continues to assert that it is in the USA's interest to slowdown Chinese economic growth as much as possible, but even then he would bet that such measures would not slow China down and would likely hurt the US more in the process.

NGL, I want to believe.