The Many Faces of US Politics...

[seafoid]

The GOP is going to get hammered in the midterms.

[imtommygunn]

There are conspiracy theories that they are in the process of discrediting elections with a view to cancelling them... I suspect like the story Trump will resign and Vance will pardon him it is probably bollocks.

They should get wiped out but who knows. Some of the canada stuff you start to see is ludicrous. You're not dealing with adult human beings here. People vote for this. The mind boggles.

[DaleCooper]

DC foreign policy establishment magazine coming out with this is a sign of the times

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/maximum-pressure-iran-will-fail

[J70]

There are conspiracy theories that they are in the process of discrediting elections with a view to cancelling them... I suspect like the story Trump will resign and Vance will pardon him it is probably bollocks.

They should get wiped out but who knows. Some of the canada stuff you start to see is ludicrous. You're not dealing with adult human beings here. People vote for this. The mind boggles.

It will hopefully end up as bollocks, but they are still going to try their damnedest to steal the election.

And unlike in 2020, there is no guarantee that the courts and rule-of-law Republicans will block them this time out.

It's going to be "heads I win, tails you cheated" on steroids.

The question is whether it will work.

Because in an election in ordinary times, Trump's and his administration's conduct and corruption would amount to a midterm defeat of historic proportions.

[Tony Baloney]

CIA honcho landing in Moscow unlikely to be for the benefit of mankind.

[seafoid]

https://www.ft.com/content/6cb399fa-9fba-4806-98a3-9572fe319622?syn-25a6b1a6=1

 The president's fulminations and his administration's efforts to intervene in currency and bond markets have an air of desperation, which is only making matters worse and turning market sentiment in an even more unfavourable direction," said Eswar Prasad, economics professor at Cornell University.

[Armagh18]

He's gonna change Lake Ontario to Lake America now apparently

[J70]

He's gonna change Lake Ontario to Lake America now apparently

The Canadians should call his bluff, tell them they'll change the name to Lake Trump, watch him drop all tarriffs and threats, and thus expose him (again!) for being the self-interested, self-dealing, treasonous grifter that he is.

[DaleCooper]

Bessent morphing into Donald. Google his name and second image of him removing glasses...zoom in and observe the orange makeup.

[seafoid]

https://www.ft.com/content/21dcbd96-ee57-445c-a9ba-0938c49b91c0?syn-25a6b1a6=1

 Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.68bn to settle its blockbuster legal battle with more than two dozen US states over alleged failures of child protection and social media addiction, just as the case was getting under way in a California courtroom.

[Look-Up!]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/trump-iran-war-navy-budget

Hard to know how much of that article is actually true but if the Dems get control of Congress after the mid-terms the current administration won't be able to railroad their way out of the mess they've currently made. Could see the Dems f**king them over big time no matter the collateral damage to the military. Things could get very ugly.

[seafoid]

If the Dems get in during the midterms they will have to deal with a debt crisis.
The US has 40tn in debt and interest rates are going up and they have a deficit of 5%.

[Look-Up!]

If the Dems get in during the midterms they will have to deal with a debt crisis.
The US has 40tn in debt and interest rates are going up and they have a deficit of 5%.

Maybe Trump wasn't lying when he said he'd run the country like a business. Unfortunately for the Yanks, it might very well be like one of his casinos.

[DaleCooper]

Top military men are said to be very worried about the use of a nuke on Iran. Likely a "tactical" one to try and claim victory.

The US is an absolute enemy of the peoples of Europe at this stage.

[Milltown Row2]

Iran is twice the size of Texas, will they one or two nukes?