The Many Faces of US Politics...

[Harold Disgracey]

The orange fool is incapable of stringing a coherent sentence together.

[theskull1]

What's all this 'hopefully if/when it swings back' rubbish.

This is all a stage to make you think democracy is at work. NO western democracy is 'swinging away' from Israel. They will always have the Wests support. You need to start asking why even committing a genocide in plain sight isn't  enough for our great leaders to hold these bastards to account. They have it all under control

[Milltown Row2]

That was as bizarre set up I've ever seen, thought I was watching paddy power at Cheltenham

[Eamonnca1]

Corey Booker just did something remarkable. Should raise his profile among Dems who are longing for an Obama-like figure.

What did he achieve apart from raising his profile?

The Democrats need new leadership. There's a deep field to choose from, and Booker has always been a strong candidate. Raising his profile has value. It's not like he's going to single-handedly block everything Trump is trying to do, the Dems just don't have the numbers. The people whining about how he dIdN't dO eNoUgH are the same people who stayed at home when they had a chance to go out and vote for a Democratic President and a Democratic majority in the Senate, so I'm not terribly interested in what they have to say at this point.

That said, meeting with Gallant is not a good look considering how Democratic opinion is turning against Israel.

Speaking of new leadership, there are growing calls for AOC to primary Chuck Schumer and get into the Senate. It'd be a turn-up for the books if she pulled that off. Plenty of Sanderistas would row in behind her if she did.

[Eamonnca1]

End of the day, long after Trump is gone nobody gonna trust the US again, once bitten twice shy. Americans find that out in the long run. Nxt Iraq type war, they be going it alone.

Yep, even if things swing back towards sanity in the next couple of elections, who's to say the MAGAts won't be back again after that to throw the whole thing into turmoil again. Other nations will simply not be able to rely on the US going forward.

The following needs to happen:

• Texas needs to turn blue in 2028, followed by the end of voter suppression there so that it can stay blue
• DC statehood
• Puerto Rico statehood
• Supreme Court expanded to compensate for the illegitimate justices put there on Mitch McConnell's watch
• National Popular Vote Interstate Compact enacted to scrap the electoral college (much easier to do after Texas swings blue)
• Voting Rights Act restored

The NPVIC is currently at 209 of the 270 required electoral votes, with legislation pending in 119 EVs' worth of states. Texas would get it to 249.

[LC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiCFdWeQfA

Even Ferris B and company were being taught about tariffs....

[Pub Bore]

Funny to see how many Unionists think a 10% tariff is a win.

[J70]

End of the day, long after Trump is gone nobody gonna trust the US again, once bitten twice shy. Americans find that out in the long run. Nxt Iraq type war, they be going it alone.

Yep, even if things swing back towards sanity in the next couple of elections, who's to say the MAGAts won't be back again after that to throw the whole thing into turmoil again. Other nations will simply not be able to rely on the US going forward.

The following needs to happen:

• Texas needs to turn blue in 2028, followed by the end of voter suppression there so that it can stay blue
• DC statehood
• Puerto Rico statehood
• Supreme Court expanded to compensate for the illegitimate justices put there on Mitch McConnell's watch
• National Popular Vote Interstate Compact enacted to scrap the electoral college (much easier to do after Texas swings blue)
• Voting Rights Act restored

The NPVIC is currently at 209 of the 270 required electoral votes, with legislation pending in 119 EVs' worth of states. Texas would get it to 249.

Eamonn, do you think there's a remote chance of ANY of that happening?

[Eamonnca1]

A lot of it would be predicated on Texas going blue, which could be a toss-up. Refugees from California's housing crisis keep moving to Austin, a city that has much more liberal building policies than anything you'd find in CA, so they can afford to go there. It just ended a 12-year streak as the country's fastest growing metro area, adding 50,000 residents from 2022 to 2023.

The NPVIC could be at least ten years away from getting done, so I'm not holding my breath for that one.

[RedHand88]

Texas is never going to go blue. Ever. The Hispanic vote has been going more and more red in the last few cycles.

[gallsman]

So apparently the "tariffs" on Trump's chart that all the countries impose on US goods were simply trade deficits (where they're taking the figures from I'm not sure) expressed as a %.

Remember Whitey claimed this time he had a load of really smart people guiding him.

[Mourne Red]

Trump doesn't care about trade deals to stop tariffs.. All he cares about is lower interest rates with the Fed.

Best way of doing this is tanking the economy. Going to be a lot of pain economically for the foreseeable.

[Blowitupref]

So apparently the "tariffs" on Trump's chart that all the countries impose on US goods were simply trade deficits (where they're taking the figures from I'm not sure) expressed as a %.

Remember Whitey claimed this time he had a load of really smart people guiding him.

Those so called real smart people have also imposed tariffs on dozens of tiny territories some of which don't even have human inhabitants.

One of those was the Heard and McDonald Islands, an external territory of Australia in the Antarctic that is inhabited only by penguins and seals.

[Jell 0 Biafra]

Investment account down 6.5K today alone.

I thought the upside for letting fascists...sorry, Republicans run the country was all the economic winning we'd be doing?

[Wildweasel74]

Somebody the day said the UK tariff to the US was 6% or sthing, though showing at 39% (sorry 39 is the EU) so not sure where he's getting those % out off.