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What can the Democrats actually do at the moment to stop all the shit that Trump is perpetuating?
They can fucking TRY to do something. Stop sitting around with their thumb up their ass.
Use whatever laws and processes they have. Impeachment, 25th Amendment, whatever. Even if it fails, it shows they are doing something. And if one thing doesn’t work, do something else. Keep trying.
Fucking fight, even if you know it won’t work. That’s how you rally support. People will give you a lot of leeway if you are making the effort. And every effort chips away a little bit.
Great statues are made from small hits.
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What can the Democrats actually do at the moment to stop all the shit that Trump is perpetuating?
Like Arjan says, they can use their pulpit to speak out against the excessive abuses of ICE; they can repeatedly use their powers to remind the nation that Trump’s administration has ignored a COURT ORDER to release all the Epstein files; they can go on all the national news channels and raise questions about his sanity and ability to perform his Presidential duties in the face of all the fucked-up shit he’s been pulling lately from his witch-hunting of any politician who dares to speak out against him, to his punishing of primarily-Democrat states by withholding funding of programs in those states, to his attempts to control Venezuela and Greenland despite the questionable legality and ethics of such actions… the list goes on.
Honestly, lately there seems to be more Republicans than Dems willing to go on camera to censure Trump for his maniacal behavior. IF the Democratic Party chiefs think their current strategy is making the party stronger, they are sadly mistaken.
They should also question his mental and physical health every time they are in front of a camera. The media took Biden to task over his flubs but are quiet on Trump. Drill it into the public he is unfit for office.
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What can the Democrats actually do at the moment to stop all the shit that Trump is perpetuating?
They could not vote for ICE to get budget increases, or to confirm Trump’s choices for leadership positions. They could be out on the street like, say Kat Abughalazeh, a former podcaster who’s running for office in Chicago and has been accosted by ICE while protesting with her neighbours. They could be calling for the abolition of ICE at every turn like Zohran Mamdani has.
Instead they’re funding a Zionist to go up against Abughalazeh in the primary, and they barely acknowledge that Mamdani exists despite a landslide victory. Part of this is because the Dem leadership doesn’t have a problem with ICE, they have a problem with them being deployed indiscriminately and visibly.
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How is this meant to show solidarity with the people in the street?
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Liberal: The system is broken and must be fixed.
Leftist: The system is working exactly as intended and must be destroyed.
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So a lot of the stuff you guys are saying should be happening is actually happening. Democrats are speaking out against ICE and urging the removal of Trump for being mentally ill and putting pressure on him over Epstein, and guess what? Nobody gives a shit, no-one is listening and none of it sticks.
Because the Democrats are currently politically irrelevant and have no real power to do anything, largely because they suffered such a heavy loss in the election. (With an election period that I remember being characterised by certain progressive people spending more time criticising the Democrats than they did speaking out against Trump, and suggesting that somehow a Harris presidency would be just as bad as a Trump presidency. I wonder how they feel about those claims now?)
In the small pockets where progressive politicians have achieved tangible victories – such as Mamdani’s win in New York – there has been a sense of them becoming relevant and listened-to again, and using that as a platform to push back against the Trump administration. That has been to some extent effective.
But until there’s a significant change that allows Democrats to occupy a position of political relevance and power again (midterms?) it’s no surprise that they’re going to be unable to do anything to meaningfully push back against what Trump is doing, and largely ignored when they complain about it.
I don’t really have a horse in this race – I’m not a particular supporter of the Democrats, but I think that Trump is clearly a disaster as president and everything possible should be done to stop him. But I don’t think there is actually a huge amount that can be done as things stand. The current system of checks and balances has been proven to be wholly inadequate for dealing with someone like Trump.
So I don’t think that complaining about the Democrats’ response is particularly meaningful at the moment when they’re not in a position to do anything about it. Trump and his administration have to carry the can for what they’re doing – and to a certain extent the people responsible for letting him become president for a second time have to bear some responsibility for all the shit that’s happening at the moment – and my hope is that when Trump’s term is over that one consolation prize will be that the Republican party is tainted for a long time afterwards to the point of his supporters in the party being unelectable.
But then I thought that about his first term.
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The problem is the Democrats don’t even do the minimum that you would expect of an opposition party. They wave through Trump’s cabinet picks when they should be rejecting all of them. They vote to express appreciation to ICE while it is rampaging across the country. And then there’s the support of Israel’s daily murder sprees.
There’s no way any of that looks good. At the very least they should be slating the Republicans, and a handful of Democrats are, but too many have the delusion they can work with the Trump model of politics.
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Honestly a lot of the democrats problems would be solved if they just found a charismatic candidate.
(Of course you can argue Trump isn’t charismatic either but I think that to his voter base, he is very charismatic)
That “charismatic leader” is California governor Gavin Newsom.
He has been trolling Trump and standing up to him. He got a redistricting proposition passed that will make California lean even more blue. He has been stepping up on the international stage. Unfortunately, he’s not the progressive leader the country needs. He’s the typical center-right Democrat we always get.
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That “charismatic leader” is California governor Gavin Newsom.
The last time we elected a California governor to the White House, ketchup became a vegetable and trickle-down economics became a thing.
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So I don’t think that complaining about the Democrats’ response is particularly meaningful at the moment when they’re not in a position to do anything about it. Trump and his administration have to carry the can for what they’re doing – and to a certain extent the people responsible for letting him become president for a second time have to bear some responsibility for all the shit that’s happening at the moment – and my hope is that when Trump’s term is over that one consolation prize will be that the Republican party is tainted for a long time afterwards to the point of his supporters in the party being unelectable.
No, they really could be doing more. I say this as someone who’s here and seeing things in real time.
As I said upthread, they really should be making far more noise than they are. They should be trying to push legislation and actions against him. Yeah, we know it will fail. But if they keep pushing, they may build more support. Hell, some Republicans are already turning on him.
Every time a camera is in their face, they should be screaming “Epstein files!” and questioning his mental and physical health. They should be in front of the press daily.
Show the people the Democrats are fighting for them. Show them you are trying. That’s how you build support. They need to do something, because right now the silence is deafening.
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have been saying since 2016 that the democrats don’t seem to stand for anything,
Only since 2016?
It’s time for my favourite West Wing quote, isn’t it?
CROUCH
You ran great guns in the campaign. It was an insurgency, boy, a sight to
see. And then you drove to the middle of the road the moment after you took the oath. Just the middle of the road. Nothing but a long line painted yellow.
BARTLET
Excuse me, sir…CROUCH
I wanted to retire five years ago. But I waited for a Democrat. I wanted a
Democrat. Hmm! And instead I got you.[…]
BARTLET
In three years, I would hope to be running for reel…CROUCH
You’re gonna get beat in three years.BARTLET
That’s a little pessimistic, Joseph.CROUCH
American voters like guts. And Republicans have got ‘em. In the three years,
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Honestly a lot of the democrats problems would be solved if they just found a charismatic candidate.
(Of course you can argue Trump isn’t charismatic either but I think that to his voter base, he is very charismatic)
That “charismatic leader” is California governor Gavin Newsom.
He has been trolling Trump and standing up to him. He got a redistricting proposition passed that will make California lean even more blue. He has been stepping up on the international stage. Unfortunately, he’s not the progressive leader the country needs. He’s the typical center-right Democrat we always get.
Newsome was willing to have a ton of awful, awful people like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk on his podcast and agreed with them on a bunch of social issues, such as trans rights. That right there will cost him enough voters. The Dems have been skewing right for decades and assuming that the left will vote for them because who else can they vote for? The problem is that to a lot of people, you can only vote for the lesser evil so many times before you decide that the only moral decision is to not participate in evil.
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Honestly a lot of the democrats problems would be solved if they just found a charismatic candidate.
(Of course you can argue Trump isn’t charismatic either but I think that to his voter base, he is very charismatic)
That “charismatic leader” is California governor Gavin Newsom.
He has been trolling Trump and standing up to him. He got a redistricting proposition passed that will make California lean even more blue. He has been stepping up on the international stage. Unfortunately, he’s not the progressive leader the country needs. He’s the typical center-right Democrat we always get.
Newsome was willing to have a ton of awful, awful people like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk on his podcast and agreed with them on a bunch of social issues, such as trans rights. That right there will cost him enough voters. The Dems have been skewing right for decades and assuming that the left will vote for them because who else can they vote for? The problem is that to a lot of people, you can only vote for the lesser evil so many times before you decide that the only moral decision is to not participate in evil.
Being in Texas, I get to see the campaign ads.
There’s this one guy who in his ad that “with the election of Mamdani, the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party is complete.” He says he’s a “capitalist”.
Dude, shut the fuck up. Saying you’re a capitalist is not the flex you think it is.
And Jesus Fucking Christ, I WISH the socialists would take over the Democratic Party. They might actually be worth something at that point.
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Fucking Mamdani, who won in spite of the national Democrat party, not because of any support they gave him!
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Fucking Mamdani, who won in spite of the national Democrat party, not because of any support they gave him!
And the Dems did NOT learn the lesson from that.
I truly hope more people further down the left side run and get these dinosaurs out.
That said, I do like James Talarico. He is actually level-headed and well-spoken. He is also a real Christian, not one of the Republican/MAGA variety. I think he has a good shot of winning.
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Kash Patel is coming to the UK for a meet-up of Five Eyes (the joint intelligence sharing association of the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand). But instead of going to offices (in secure buildings) for his meetings, he wants to do them while off having jollies. He’s demanding that he (and his girlfriend/secretary) be taken out jetskiing and to Premier League matches for these meetings. Yes, this genius wants to have classified intelligence sharing meetings in football stadiums and on open water. I despair.
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I have been saying since 2016 that the democrats don’t seem to stand for anything, the Clinton campaign in that year was basically “vote for us because we’re not Trump”. The voters in that year just wanted change, and they didn’t care about “grab em by the pussy”. The dems need to get their act together and set some clear agenda points, something the people want, something to work towards. I think Obama was really good at that.
That year. The Dems never “lined up” a successor candidate to Obama. Looking back, it’s like there was some back room agreement “now it is Hilary’s turn” and the Dems boxed out Sanders. Those Presidency years had 4 SCOTUS seats opened up and had there been a viable Dem President, the SC would have been so different now and things like Roe v Wade would still be here. It’s a mess.
Reading these posts, I understand the ineptitude of the Dem party. But I would add voter mentality and mindset. I said before and I read this book “The Sum of Us” last year about how there is a lot of voting to spite others, voting out of ignorance, voting for just a single issue, and so on. It’s the Dem party and voters in general.
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A 14 year old girl in Molenbeek, Belgium, was burned in the face and splattered with acid after going through hell from her bullies.
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Things are grim in the US.
I feel this is an understatement.
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The Dems never “lined up” a successor candidate to Obama.
Hell, the Dems didn’t even line up a candidate successor to Biden. Once Biden showed his age in that debate, they scrambled and rushed Kamala Harris to the forefront. But there was so much going against the Dems. They were embarrassed and rushed things, and a lot of voters got turned off as she was a black woman too.
But that’s the Dem party. As for voters: In the debates, she gave fair warning about the Project plan being in the works, sending troops to cities, Musk, and how the cuts would affect them too, but the voters just went “yeah yeah” and ignored her. (It is a lot like that picture of the guy on the ladder cutting the branch and talking to the lady).
Now, some of them are so shocked and crying at all this happening to them and in their community as if it never happened before. The truth is, they thought none of this would come their way. Worse, they are taking out their frustrations on a few retired Dems saying “Where are you? Why aren’t you out in front leading the resistance?” when they actually did their part, are private citizens now and no longer in office.
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Hell, the Dems didn’t even line up a candidate successor to Biden. Once Biden showed his age in that debate, they scrambled and rushed Kamala Harris to the forefront. But there was so much going against the Dems. They were embarrassed and rushed things, and a lot of voters got turned off as she was a black woman too.
Harris was probably the worst possible candidate. The left wing of the Dems didn’t like her because she’s pretty far to the right for the Democrats, and too many middle-of-the-road swing voters didn’t care for her because of her being a black woman.
I am pretty sure that if the Dems had let Warren run, she’d still be President now.
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Hell, the Dems didn’t even line up a candidate successor to Biden. Once Biden showed his age in that debate, they scrambled and rushed Kamala Harris to the forefront. But there was so much going against the Dems. They were embarrassed and rushed things, and a lot of voters got turned off as she was a black woman too.
Harris was probably the worst possible candidate. The left wing of the Dems didn’t like her because she’s pretty far to the right for the Democrats, and too many middle-of-the-road swing voters didn’t care for her because of her being a black woman.
I am pretty sure that if the Dems had let Warren run, she’d still be President now.
Nah, if the Dems hadn’t forced Hillary on the ticket, we’d have had two terms of Bernie.
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Oh? You going to vote for the aging Commie? He’ll sell America out, you need the strength of Trump to protect you against the commies.
Sure, it’s political bollocks, but US voters are really susceptible to that. Add a chaser of Bern being a failed insider, he can’t deliver.
I don’t think this being solved with old politicians, it’s younger, attack dogs whose first move in any debate is busting Vance in the nuts and then keep kicking.
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Socialism is not defined all that well in the States. Ask 4-5 different Americans on the street “What is socialism?” and you might get more than 3-4 answers. They would think it’s “commie” etc.
Bernie talks about these cool benefits programs that some European countries have that give them good coverage, less worry and it sounds nice. Years ago, I asked on MW “Why can’t some of those nice things at the very least be implemented in the States?” and there are a ho1st of reasons. Mostly it is part of why some vote against their own interests and it is to spite and try to deprive others. They don’t mind it if it was exclusive to them, but when it benefits everyone (including those they hate), it becomes a problem and the “free handouts”, ACA, Obamacare propaganda, and the GOP promote this narrative that the blacks, minorities, and liberals will get ahead of you etc.
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Depending on how well Governor Tim Walz responds to the current shitstorm in Minnesota, he could be a viable candidate for the White House in 2028. He handled himself well on the campaign trail as Kamala’s running mate, and he’s been pushing back against Trump’s Gestapo tactics in Minnesota; if he ends up getting credit for making Trump and ICE back down, that would make him look strong.
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The US still runs in the way Johnson defined:
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
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Hell, the Dems didn’t even line up a candidate successor to Biden. Once Biden showed his age in that debate, they scrambled and rushed Kamala Harris to the forefront. But there was so much going against the Dems. They were embarrassed and rushed things, and a lot of voters got turned off as she was a black woman too.
Harris was probably the worst possible candidate. The left wing of the Dems didn’t like her because she’s pretty far to the right for the Democrats, and too many middle-of-the-road swing voters didn’t care for her because of her being a black woman.
I am pretty sure that if the Dems had let Warren run, she’d still be President now.
Nah, if the Dems hadn’t forced Hillary on the ticket, we’d have had two terms of Bernie.
I disagree. The Democrats would have sabotaged his run just like Labour did for Corbyn in 2017
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85 seconds to midnight just doesn’t have the same ring to it as Iron Maiden’s “Two Minutes to Midnight”…
Doomsday Clock 2026: Scientists set new time – CNN
At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the clock was set at 85 seconds to midnight — the closest the timepiece has ever been to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which established the clock in 1947.
Midnight represents the moment at which people will have made Earth uninhabitable.
Last year, the Bulletin set the clock at 89 seconds to midnight, which was, at that point, the closest the world had ever been to that hour. After setting the clock at 90 seconds to midnight in 2023 and 2024, the scientists made the 2025 change due to insufficient progress in combatting or regulating global challenges including nuclear risk, the climate crisis, biological threats, and advances in “disruptive technologies” such as artificial intelligence. Bulletin scientists also cited the spread of misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories as other existential threats to humanity.
“Humanity has not made sufficient progress on the existential risks that endanger us all,” said Bulletin President and CEO Alexandra Bell of the reasoning for this year’s change. “The Doomsday Clock is a tool for communicating how close we are to destroying the world with technologies of our own making. The risks we face from nuclear weapons, climate change and disruptive technologies are all growing. Every second counts and we are running out of time.
“It is a hard truth, but this is our reality,” Bell said.
Last year, the Bulletin scientists warned that countries needed to change course toward international cooperation and action on the most critical existential risks, said Dr. Daniel Holz, chair of the Bulletin’s science and security board, in a news briefing Tuesday.
“Rather than heed this warning, major countries became even more aggressive, adversarial and nationalistic,” added Holz, also a professor in the department of physics, astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. “Conflicts intensified in 2025 with multiple military operations involving nuclear-armed states. The last remaining treaty governing nuclear weapons stockpiles between the US and Russia will soon expire on February 4. For the first time in over half a century, there will be nothing preventing a runaway nuclear arms race.”
Additionally, “grave dangers persist in the life sciences, particularly in emerging areas such as the development of synthetic mirror life, despite repeated warnings from scientists worldwide,” Holz added. “The international community has no coordinated plan, and the world remains unprepared for potentially devastating biological threats.”
The rapid growth and use of AI tools, coupled with the lack of regulation, supercharges mis- and disinformation and greatly impacts efforts to address all these threats and exacerbates every other impending disaster, Holz said.
What is the Doomsday Clock?
A group of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, the code name for the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, established the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as a nonprofit in 1945.
The organization’s original purpose was to measure nuclear threats, but in 2007, the Bulletin decided to also include the climate crisis in its calculations.
Annually over the past 79 years, Bulletin scientists have changed the clock’s time according to how close they believe the human race is to total annihilation. Some years the time changes, and some years it doesn’t. The time is set by experts on the Bulletin’s science and security board in consultation with its board of sponsors — which was formed by Albert Einstein in December 1948, with J. Robert Oppenheimer as its first chair. The board currently includes eight Nobel laureates, many of them in physics or chemistry.
Is the Doomsday Clock real?
The clock isn’t designed to definitively measure existential threats but rather to spark conversations about difficult scientific topics and crises the planet is facing, according to the Bulletin. Some experts who haven’t been involved in the clock’s designation have questioned its usefulness.
“It’s an imperfect metaphor,” Dr. Michael Mann, Presidential Distinguished Professor in the department of Earth and environmental science at the University of Pennsylvania, told CNN in 2022, highlighting that the clock’s framing combines various types of risk that have different characteristics and occur in different timescales. Still, he added that it “remains an important rhetorical device that reminds us, year after year, of the tenuousness of our current existence on this planet.”
The Bulletin has made thoughtful decisions each year on how to get people’s attention about existential threats and the required action, Eryn MacDonald, senior analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Global Security Program, told CNN in 2022. “While I wish we could go back to talking about minutes to midnight instead of seconds, unfortunately that no longer reflects reality.”
At the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2021, then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson cited the Doomsday Clock when talking about the climate crisis the world is facing.
What happens when the clock hits midnight?
The Doomsday Clock has never reached midnight, and former Bulletin president and CEO Rachel Bronson, who now serves as a senior adviser, has said she hopes it never will.
“When the clock is at midnight, that means there’s been some sort of nuclear exchange or catastrophic climate change that’s wiped out humanity,” she said. “We never really want to get there, and we won’t know it when we do.”
What can we do to turn back time on the clock?
Moving the Doomsday Clock back with bold, substantial actions is still possible. In fact, the hand moved its farthest away from midnight — 17 minutes to the hour — in 1991, when then-President George H.W. Bush’s administration signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the Soviet Union.
“We at the Bulletin believe that because humans created these threats, we can reduce them,” Bronson said. “But doing so is not easy, nor has it ever been. And it requires serious work and global engagement at all levels of society.”
Regarding what individuals can do, don’t underestimate the power of discussing these important issues with your peers, Bulletin scientists said. Sparking conversations can help combat misinformation, and public engagement can urge leaders to act.
“Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust,” Maria Ressa, cofounder and CEO of Rappler, a Filipino news outlet, said in the Bulletin news briefing. “Without these three, we have no shared reality. We can’t have journalism. We can’t have democracy. The radical collaboration this moment demands becomes impossible. Think of shared facts as the operating system of collective action.”
Other personal actions can also make a difference. To potentially help mitigate the climate crisis, for one, consider whether there are small changes you can make in your daily life, such as how often you walk versus drive and how you heat your home.
Eating seasonally and locally, reducing food waste, conserving water, reducing plastic use and recycling properly are other ways to help mitigate, or deal with the effects of, the climate crisis.
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Eh I doubt it. I never liked Warren. And she has very bad judgment, as shown with the whole DNA affair.
I believe that in order to win the dems need someone who can talk well, and who comes across as a sympathetic person you connect with. Obama v 2.0. And besides that, they just need to be normal. Focus on some basic popular left wing stuff, more equality, better wages for workers, better access to housing and healthcare etc. and no crazy shit.
That pretty much is a description of Elizabeth Warren and her policies.
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47 is a “real estate mogul” who went bankrupt 3 times (not counting his casinos) and the former star of a reality TV show. His Secretary of Defense is the former weekend co-host of Fox and Friends. His Secretary of Health is RFK Jr. who had brainworm issues, fought heroin addiction, and has no formal medical credentials, and his secretary of education is the former CEO of professional wrestling. So no need to worry about economic repercussions from the Venezuela situation or a Euro backlash from wanting to take over Greenland. Don’t even worry about starting WW3, with nuke codes. The US is in experienced hands.
Getting back to this: I recently heard the term “failing upwards”. Usually at work, school, etc. if you f up a lot, you get fired, demoted, put in the proverbial doghouse, set out to pasture. But these people, they fail and later on because of either nepotism, clout, connections, they make a come back at an even higher position. We know about 47’s record and RFK Jr’s addiction issues, brainworm, and his crazy NYC story in Central Park. McMahon is from professional wrestling, the entertainment business. Hesgeth replaced a 4 star general as Secretary of Defense, and seeing him at an assembly addressing and schooling all those generals about patriotism. Steve Duffy the Transportation Secretary or so was on MTV The Real World. And all this rhetoric about DEI (didn’t earn it) etc. and this is the cabinet. Wow.
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That thing with the DNA test was a bad mistake though.
It was.
I think she comes across quite well when she’s debating. She should’ve stayed off social media, I’ll go with that.
Either way, she was definitely the candidate with the best policies. I think she could’ve been a transformative, positive President. And I do think she’d have gotten elected and re-elected.
There’s a bit of a gap in the progressives right now, isn’t there? Warren and Sanders are too old, AOC is too young… there’s Cory Booker, but it feels like his time has also come and gone.
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There’s a bit of a gap in the progressives right now, isn’t there? Warren and Sanders are too old, AOC is too young… there’s Cory Booker, but it feels like his time has also come and gone.
I would love to see Cory Booker’s fellow New Jersey Senator ANDY KIM get party support for a Presidential run. As a reminder, while everyone else was pointing fingers and wringing their hands the morning after the January 6 insurrection, Kim showed up to work at the US Capitol, took off his suit jacket, and began cleaning up the mess. Literally; he picked up trash, straightened out overturned chairs, and did it without fanfare or self-publicity.
READ MORE HEREThis is a man who has the right values, who does the right thing when it needs to be done, and does it with his own hands rather than leave it to a subordinate. Having him in the White House would make me proud of the USA again.
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For the record I would gladly vote for Warren if I were an American. Buut I have my doubts about wether she could generate the enthusiasm among the public to win.
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Was it Cory Booker who did that filibuster last year for no particular reason and then still voted to confirm Trump’s nominees?
Yeah, but it was the longest Filibuster ever
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Was it Cory Booker who did that filibuster last year for no particular reason and then still voted to confirm Trump’s nominees?
Not for most of them, apparently?
So when it comes to the big positions, he voted for four of Trump’s nominees and against 15 (which you can see in the image above, taken from a New Jersey newspaper). Which is better than most democrats and worse than some. Why he would vote to make Kushner’s dad ambassador to France is anyone’s guess, but it’s probably a New Jersey thing.
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Minneapolis Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize After Anti-ICE Protests
And unlike Trump, Minneapolis will have earned it.
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Unbelievable:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-penn-station-dulles-airport-named-after-funding/story?id=129910999
He doesn’t realize what happens to everything when is name is added to it.🤣
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Unbelievable:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-penn-station-dulles-airport-named-after-funding/story?id=129910999
He doesn’t realize what happens to everything when is name is added to it.🤣
This is the behavior of a spoiled child, not a grown man. Someone needs to send him to his room without supper.
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Superb stuff.
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“Bad Bunny’s halftime show drew an estimated 135 million viewers, making it the most-watched NFL halftime show in history. Kid Rock’s event attracted roughly 5 million.”
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The Lucy Letby case in the UK is eerily reminiscent of the case of Lucia de Berk in the Netherlands, even the name is similar. She was convicted of murder of seven patients, to life in prison. With the same rationale: it is such an odd coincidence that she was present during these deaths. Later the sentence was overturned when it all turned out to be nonsense.
The Letby case is more complicated than that, there is lots of other evidence that points towards her guilt too (including handwritten notes suggesting her culpability), but there are also doubts in the medical evidence that deserve to be examined.
I’m a regular reader of Private Eye and their medical expert writer has done a good job picking through the various claims and counter-claims of the case.
It’s a hugely complicated subject and like most people I’m not anywhere near qualified enough to know what the medical evidence indicates one way or the other – and a further complicating factor is that both the prosecution and defence have numerous medical experts on their side who are being used to brief media in their reporting of the case.
The best you can hope for is that the evidence is examined by experts and that they ensure that the required standard has been met to establish her guilt.
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“Bad Bunny’s halftime show drew an estimated 135 million viewers, making it the most-watched NFL halftime show in history. Kid Rock’s event attracted roughly 5 million.”
I saw a meme all over that said “The same people who want an alternative half time show are the same people who wanted their own drinking fountain”. I remember Kid Rock from his brief marriage to Pamela Anderson. His whole act was a combo of rock and rap. The thing is both rock and rap have a black origin. Can’t completely separate yourself.
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Upthread, he froze the 16M towards the Hudson Tunnel Project because he wanted it all named after him. (That suspends almost 10K jobs on the project btw). And now this US-Canada bridge:
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And now this US-Canada bridge
He probably thinks it’s grossly unfair that Gordie Howe has a bridge named after him but there is no Trump Bridge anywhere.
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Meanwhile, in the Trum – ahem, White House….
Now, Donny, why don’t you want to open a new bridge you liked years ago?
You don’t like Canada now?
But you’re the President, you need to get on with people…
You’re firing me as your nanny?
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Minneapolis Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize After Anti-ICE Protests
And unlike Trump, Minneapolis will have earned it.
That would be so fucking funny. Just watching him steam with rage would be worth it.
I mean, it’d probably be very bad for Minneapolis, but still.
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I remember Kid Rock from his brief marriage to Pamela Anderson. His whole act was a combo of rock and rap. The thing is both rock and rap have a black origin. Can’t completely separate yourself.
The thing to remember about Kid Rock is that his whole white trash look is an act. He came from money. From his Wikipedia page:
Robert James Ritchie was born in Romeo, Michigan, on January 17, 1971, the son of Susan (née Brabbs) and William “Bill” Ritchie (1941–2024), who owned multiple car dealerships. He was raised in his father’s large home on extensive property, which included an apple orchard and barnyard for their horses.
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Woman, 23, Was Killed by Father After ‘Big’ Argument About Donald Trump, Inquest Hears
The old saying is true: Every child deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a child.
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I’m honestly starting to think the whole liberal experiment is a failure and the world is going to return to a more tribal, authoritarian mode of being.
It really comes down to the wealthy using fear to obtain and maintain power. They pit the lower classes against each other, so they don’t go after the rich people.
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Exactly, it ain’t the liberals you have to worry about, it’s the rich.
As the kids are noticing – they got you fighting a culture war to avoid a class war.
Plus, despite lots of media claims of success and boosting Farage every chance they get, I’m sceptical that many buy his toxins. Look at the swift kicking Jim Ratcliffe got after claiming Britain was being “colonised”, reeling off entirely wrong numbers too.
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It really comes down to the wealthy using fear to obtain and maintain power. They pit the lower classes against each other, so they don’t go after the rich people.
they got you fighting a culture war to avoid a class war.
I would add that in the States, it runs across racial lines. And it’s one of the main reasons why the US doesn’t have universal healthcare and other programs and why the GOP was so angry about the Affordable Healthcare Act calling it Obamacare:
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Rough news about the skiers:
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Now this is an interesting development.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/19/world/uk-prince-andrew-arrest-epstein
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Now this is an interesting development.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/19/world/uk-prince-andrew-arrest-epstein
Add to the fact that KCIII has pretty much said, “You’re on your own, bro!”
Hell of a birthday present for Andy, though!
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South Korea. Would you look at that:
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Business wise:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jack-dorsey-block-slashes-nearly-041816081.html
Imagine getting into a STEM major like coding/comp.sci and working for this tech company and they lay off almost half of the staff. No one is safe. 20 week severance though…
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FWIW, there is video and pictures online of Middle Eastern countries and areas back in the 50s to the early 70s. Countries like Iran, Iraq, Beirut, Afghanistan, and Palestine before these extreme destabilizations. Incredible how modernized they all were before and seeing them all now in the news the past decades.
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This verdict just might set a tone for these gun culture families.
He bought his son an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas present.https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/us/colin-gray-murder-trial-verdict
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Prison abolition lefties when there’s a school shooting: we have to jail his family!
I’ve never seen a “prison abolitionist leftie” say that after a school shooting.
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