US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[he who has thus come/gone]

I don't get the appeal of John Oliver because the guy just looks retarded.

Americans have been brainwashed into thinking that British accent = smart. The constant laugh track helps hypnotize the bugmen who watch.

John Oliver would be nothing if he weren't from a posh part of the UK. It would be fascinating to run his script through an AI of a bland American voice and see how people react to it. Ultimately, John Oliver is merely a smug upjumped retard who came to another country to shit all over it.

 

[Dr J]

I don't get the appeal of John Oliver because the guy just looks retarded.

As @MirrorNoir suggested, the Yanks are suckers for a British accent. They seem to have this thing where they believe anyone with a British accent is automatically smart, even if they say the most retarded shit imaginable, as is the case with John Oliver

John Oliver would be nothing if he weren't from a posh part of the UK

He isn't though. He's from fucking Birmingham. Not London, not Home Counties, fucking Birmingham. It'd be like if someone from fucking Pittsburgh came to the UK to talk shit to us

 

[Chuckwagon]

I heard Retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson talk about the Christian Nationalism in the U.S. military and what that might mean for the Constitution; high ranking officials who flop around on the ground and claim to speak in tongues. He noted Trump's propensity to exploit these types of people. He also claimed Israel is a strategic liability.

I don't buy that sort of retarded scaremongering for a second but assuming for a second that that's the case and that Trump (who has notably broken with the evangelical social-conservative faction on several of their pet issues already) would trust their ilk with any significant power, it still can't possibly be worse than this shit.



Fuck it, if America absolutely must insist on having lunatics occupying the higher ranks of its military, better they be some fanatical New Model Grandee-esque hardasses looking to pulverize the Palestinians or whoever than the absolutely (and in some cases literally) pussified fags Biden's been letting rise to the top. At least the former can fight without being hobbled by the need to dilate their axe-wounds or melting down over their pronouns not being respected all the time, and the guys in the combat arms might actually want to follow them into battle out of their own volition rather than consider mutiny or necking themselves out of sheer disgust upon seeing their new 'leader' - the military's purpose is to kill people, violent insanity and religious zeal which can lend itself to the former fits in there way better than the rainbow-tinged kind.

 

[UncleAdolf]

So the new spin on X seems to be "after California spent days printing, oops we mean counting ballots, Kamala has won the popular vote! Most of America hates orange man!"

God I hope the rumors are true that project 2025 makes it legal to beat these retards to death with hammers

They can cope all they want; there's not enough material to spin. Only 1m California votes left.

She could "win" every vote left on the West Coast and Jersey and she would still lose. It's hoever.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

Fuck it, if America absolutely must insist on having lunatics occupying the higher ranks of its military, better they be some fanatical New Model Grandee-esque hardasses looking to pulverize the Palestinians or whoever than the absolutely (and in some cases literally) pussified fags Biden's been letting rise to the top. At least the former can fight without being hobbled by the need to dilate their axe-wounds or melting down over their pronouns not being respected constantly, and the guys in the combat arms might actually want to follow them out of their own volition rather than consider mutiny or necking themselves out of sheer disgust upon seeing their new 'leader'.

I think it's safe to say all the guys like Patton were filtered out before any of us were even born. Even during Trump's presidency, you had U.S. generals shamelessly disobeying orders and providing information to the Chinese in what amounts to treason. Current Year generals are not military leaders, they are policy hawks and their job is to do PR with other, foreign generals (and do whatever best benefits Israel.)

 

[Mark Goldbridge]

Some of the shit I've seen this week:
Credit cards should have the right to indenture poor people or else it's "unfair" and "the economy will take a hit"
Rich companies need slave workers from South America because nobody else wants to work for nothing

The horseshoe effect is real, the Republicans are wrapping around to the Bernie Sanders types while the Left are becoming the super Capitalist ruthless free market neo-liberal types.

 

[Dread First]

I have an old email address from my college days that I recently regained access to. The spam from the Democrats is still ongoing, and Thunderbird is actively marking all of them as junk. What a time to be alive.

 

[Derka Derka]

In a bit of better news
View attachment 6652084

I wonder if AP are waiting for "missing" votes

 

[Not Really Here]

The horseshoe effect is real, the Republicans are wrapping around to the Bernie Sanders types while the Left are becoming the super Capitalist ruthless free market neo-liberal types.

You know how the political compass is formatted as a square, with ideologies scattered about?
Its actual form IMO is a cone shape, with policy differences drastically narrowing as you move up from anarchy, to authoritarianism.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Would figures like Napoleon count as a lolcow? I mean he did let his (admittedly mostly deserved) ego get to him in the latter half of his time as Emperor, and he did like his women to not bath for a few days, so maybe?

Napoleon was an incredible historical figure and a legendary general. There is a reason why, when he returned from exile, people lined up to fight for him. However, a cursory reading of his attitude and behavior strongly suggests that he was a huge lolcow. One professor I had described him as a "diva" and that is an apt descriptor. Napoleon literally kidnapped Pope Pius VII because Pius had the gall to excommunicate Napoleon for invading the Papal States.

 

[whoishomermynameis]

so what is/was the Dems message anyway?

 

[draggs]

Napoleon was an incredible historical figure and a legendary general. There is a reason why, when he returned from exile, people lined up to fight for him. However, a cursory reading of his attitude and behavior strongly suggests that he was a huge lolcow. One professor I had described him as a "diva" and that is an apt descriptor. Napoleon literally kidnapped Pope Pius VII because Pius had the gall to excommunicate Napoleon for invading the Papal States.

That was pretty standard behavior for both French and German rulers in the middle ages, and byzantine emperors and barbarian Arians before that lol

It was shocking when napoleon did it precisely because Europe thought it had moved past that kind of thing habbening after the thirty years' war

 

[CaddestSlown]

To be fair, a ton of 2024 posters are insanely bad.

Like clockwork!

 

[teriyakiburns]

He isn't though. He's from fucking Birmingham. Not London, not Home Counties, fucking Birmingham.

Worse still, he tried to hide it with voice training, but his brum and yam yaow still shines out like teeth in a collier's smile. I bet he'd have been less insufferable if he'd just accepted his roots, like Jasper Carrot, but he couldn't stand the thought of being common.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Worse still, he tried to hide it with voice training, but his brum and yam yaow still shines out like teeth in a collier's smile. I bet he'd have been less insufferable if he'd just accepted his roots, like Jasper Carrot, but he couldn't stand the thought of being common.

Br*tish obsession with class is alien to us Americans. It's hard to grasp and explain because, even though the US does have its own upper crust, it's not as petty and tedious as the UK because we never had legalized aristocracy.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

View attachment 6652536View attachment 6652537

Like clockwork!

I'm just glad there's FINALLY somebody from Florida here to correct the record

 

[Not Really Here]

I'm just glad there's FINALLY somebody from Florida here to correct the record

A homosexual in the Sunshine State? Well, I never.
Catch me CFL bro, I have the vapors.

 

[Derka Derka]

Br*tish obsession with class is alien to us Americans. It's hard to grasp and explain because, even though the US does have its own upper crust, it's not as petty and tedious as the UK because we never had legalized aristocracy.

The working class is now called MAGA. And the middle class is all those entitled liberals and RINOs, with their social justice causes.

 

[The Gene Genie]

Br*tish obsession with class is alien to us Americans. It's hard to grasp and explain because, even though the US does have its own upper crust, it's not as petty and tedious as the UK because we never had legalized aristocracy.

It's also because in Britain the class system is concreted with Eton->Oxbridge system whereupon these elite schools are fed the sons and daughters of the elite and then subsequently feed into the journalistic and political systems. The same happens here, but it's far less pronounced and obvious.

 

[Sammich]

The Logan Act is a load of bullshit and should be repealed

Has anyone ever even been charged with it?